scholarly journals Ordinary Man / Common Man: Conceptual Subject’ Projections of Everyday Discourse

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (32) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Helena Kardashova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
National Corpus

This paper seeks to formalize the structures of everyday discourse. The search for factors ensuring the unity and autonomy of everyday discourse is based on the assumption that the integrity of the discourse as such is guaranteed by the instance of discursive subject. The article deals with the common notion of collective subject/common subject popular in lingua-cultural approach in the Russian discourse analysis. The article on the material of the Russian National Corpus analysed the statements containing an identifier “common / ordinary man”, specified the values in this model, and reconstructed the paradigm of conceptual meanings significant to the speaker as the subject of ordinary discourse. Two aspects of the concept are considered: one model focuses on semantic structures of a subject positioned as a member of a community; another model is related to the subject projecting one in opposition to the other. The author of this article argues that the constitutive force of each discursive practice lies in its provision of subject positions. While the everyday discourse makes available to take up both positions for subjects, the discourse analysis reveals the synergistic nature of everyday communication.

scholarly journals “Pedagogical” Agression in Russian Everyday Communication

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 975-993
Author(s):  
Natalia Georgievna Bragina ◽  
Igor Alekseevich Sharonov
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Politeness Theory ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
National Corpus

The article is devoted to speakers’ responses to inappropriate communicative behavior in Russian everyday communication. The analytic part of the article presents a short review of both classical and modern works on (im)politeness theories, which show that communicative strategies in response to the wrong communicative behavior in a particular context have not been investigated and described sufficiently in modern Politeness theories, investigating face-aggravating communication. The aim of this work is to describe a strategy that we define as “pedagogical aggression”, which manifests itself in a variation of impolite answers whose purpose is to “punish” the interlocutor for a communicative error. This strategy is in contrast to what we call “empathy” strategy since - instead of trying to neutralize the interlocutor’s error - “pedagogical aggression” emphasizes it by “teaching” the addressee to be more considerate in adhering to norms. The material for the research was collected in the Russian National Corpus and analysed by drawing on discourse analysis, pragmatics and (im)politeness theories. The study showed that “pedagogical aggression” is realized in three face-aggravating communicative tactics: (1) a pseudo-question (rhetorical question or a question to the assumptions of an interlocutor), 2) mocking citations from interlocutor’s speech, 3) rhymed pseudo-answers. The last tactic was given special attention in the study. We grouped the pseudo-answers in four types corresponding to typical discourse situation. This tactic is based on an unspoken rule, according to which it is permissible to point out in a playful way a communicative error made by the interlocutor. In response to an inappropriate question with this or that interrogative pronoun (where, who, why, etc.), the speaker can allow himself or herself to “punish” the interlocutor with a pseudo-answer, so that he or she will be more careful, more attentive and will not repeat such mistakes. The considered tactic of rhymed pseudo-response is rooted in language with the help of formulaic phrases. The research contributes to (im)politeness theory and the study of communicative interaction.

Discursive construction and negotiation of laity on an online health forum

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-216
Author(s):  
Antoinette Fage-Butler ◽  
Patrizia Anesa
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Language Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Medical Conditions ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Medical Expertise ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
The Subject

E-patients are increasingly using the Internet to gain knowledge about medical conditions, thereby problematizing the biomedical assumption that patients are ‘lay’. The present paper addresses this development by investigating the epistemic identities of patients participating on an online health forum. Using poststructuralist discourse analysis to analyze a corpus of cardiology-related threads on an ‘Ask a Doctor’ forum, we compare how patients are discursively constructed by online professionals as ‘knowing’ or ‘not knowing’ with the online knowledge identities patients choose for themselves. Analysis reveals a complex picture, with patients positioning themselves and being constructed as biomedical novices, as well as claiming the subject positions of (semi-)experts challenging medical expertise. This paper provides a snapshot of an important social identity in transition, illustrates a procedure for comparing language use around imposed and self-appropriated identities, and considers discursive choice in relation to the metapragmatic matter of “sayability” (Mey 2001: 176).

scholarly journals Colonization and Decolonization of the Indian Subcontinent: A Colonial Discourse Analysis of 'A God in Every Stone'

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 282-292
Author(s):  
Inam Ullah ◽  
Gul Andama ◽  
Abid Nawaz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political System ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
British Raj ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Military ◽  
Common Perception

The British Raj in the Indian subcontinent has been an area of academic and scholarly inquiries. The period has deeply impacted the indigenous culture and political system. Studies have highlighted a plethora of political, military and economic reasons accounting for the establishment and collapse of the Empire. However, Kamila Shamie’s novel A God in Every Stone (2014) adds another dimension to the subject, which is not power rather the colonial discourses which settled and unsettled the Empire in India. The study examines that how the colonial discourses helped the colonizers in the establishment of Empire in the subcontinent. The study contends that it is not the military might but the colonial discourses which helped the Empire take its roots. Ironically the same discourses also resulted into anticolonial resistance and the final collapse of the Empire due to its being endlessly split and anxiously repetitive in nature. The study is based on Shamsie’s novel. The analysis is developed round Homi K. Bhaba’s theory of "Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse”. The study, unlike the common perception, concludes that it was not military might alone, but the colonial discourses which settled and unsettled the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent.

scholarly journals Discourse and Functional Style: the Problem of the Correlation

2018 ◽  
pp. 106-122
Author(s):  
O. Kovalova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Discursive Formation ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Comparison ◽  
Joint Application ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

The article is devoted to the problem of the correlation of the categories of discourse and functional style in modern specialists` interpretations. Attention to this problem is caused, on the one hand, by the growing popularity of the discursive analysis and the very term discourse, and, on the other hand, by the fact, that functional style remains one of the important categories in Eastern Europe linguistics. The key theories of discourse and functional style; the common features of discourse and functional style; the criteria for their separation have been singled out. The concepts of M. Foucault’s discourse, French and German-Austrian discourse analysis, schools of N. Arutyunova, T. van Dijk, as well as the understanding of the style of V. V. Vinogradov and M. N. Kozhina have been involved for the theoretical comparison of the above-mentioned categories. According to modern researchers, discourse and functional style relate to the neighbouring linguistic disciplines and have common features. One of them is extralinguistic factor, which directly determine the specificity of discourse and functional style. At the same time, researchers put borders for discourse and functional style, recognizing the complexity of the problem of their separation. The differentiation of the categories is carried out by means of the ontological criterion: the discourse is interpreted via the concept of “discursive formation”, while style is interpreted via “the form of public consciousness”. Accordingly, scholars come to the conclusion about the diversity of structure and nature of the discourse and functional style. The importance of each concept is stated and the neccessity of their joint application for a deeper linguistic analysis of the text is emphasized. The correlation of the discourse and functional style is also considered on the basis of the textocentric model of discourse. The thesis about a certain hierarchical subordination of the methods of stylistics and discourse-analysis is argued. It is said about the “embedding” of the stylistics into the subject of discourse analysis, which promotes interdisciplinary enrichment: in this case, the discourse analysis acquires the proper “linguostylistic” content, and stylistics is realized in the frames of functional parameters of the discourse.

scholarly journals Why the Internet is Good for Music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Michael Malone
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
Good Music ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Detrimental Impact ◽  
Intellectual Disciplines ◽  
The Web

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to challenge the common notion that the internet has had a detrimental impact on the music industry, and on musicians’ ability to generate a viable income while still producing good music. Note, that the following arguments do not automatically extend to the effect that the web has had on books, patents, films, journalism or any other medium. The reason for this is because these different disciplines have individual characteristics that make them respond differently to the same socio-economic pressures. However, on the same token, it does not necessarily follow that the conclusions reached here are inapplicable to other activities: perhaps what is true for music in the following pages is also true for e.g. photography. Furthermore, I am not advocating for a free-for-all internet where behemoths like Google, Amazon and Facebook get to do whatever they wish. Although I am intrigued by such matters, the constraints of both time and space allow me only the possibility to focus on the subject that I am most familiar and passionate about. Furthermore, because I am painting a broad picture which encompasses many intellectual disciplines, many of which I am not an expert in, this work is to be considered more on the consistency of the overall argument rather than the minutia of its individual parts.</p>

Get That S.O.B. Off the Field: A Critical Discourse Analysis of NFL Team Owners’ Responses to President Trump’s Comments About Athlete Protests

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-300
Author(s):  
Kerry R. McGannon ◽  
Ted M. Butryn
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Language Use ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Media Spectacle ◽  
The Subject

In this study, scholarship was extended on the cultural meanings of race and athlete activism by interrogating one key media spectacle surrounding athlete protests: President Trump’s 2017 speech questioning the National Football League (NFL) players’ character, with a focus on NFL owners’ responses. The NFL owners’ statements (n = 32) were subjected to critical discourse analysis. Discourses of post-racial nationalism and functionalism and the subject positions of “good player citizen” and “benevolent facilitator” (re)created meanings of the protests devoid of racial politics, linked to ideologies of color blindness, meritocracy, and diversity. These discourses and subject positions allowed the NFL owners to control protest meanings to maintain White privilege and appeal to their White fan base. These findings expand research on color-blind racism in sport, which perpetuates neoliberal ideals and the myth of a post-racial America, via taken-for-granted language use within discourses.

scholarly journals Why the Internet is Good for Music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Michael Malone
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
Good Music ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Detrimental Impact ◽  
Intellectual Disciplines ◽  
The Web

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to challenge the common notion that the internet has had a detrimental impact on the music industry, and on musicians’ ability to generate a viable income while still producing good music. Note, that the following arguments do not automatically extend to the effect that the web has had on books, patents, films, journalism or any other medium. The reason for this is because these different disciplines have individual characteristics that make them respond differently to the same socio-economic pressures. However, on the same token, it does not necessarily follow that the conclusions reached here are inapplicable to other activities: perhaps what is true for music in the following pages is also true for e.g. photography. Furthermore, I am not advocating for a free-for-all internet where behemoths like Google, Amazon and Facebook get to do whatever they wish. Although I am intrigued by such matters, the constraints of both time and space allow me only the possibility to focus on the subject that I am most familiar and passionate about. Furthermore, because I am painting a broad picture which encompasses many intellectual disciplines, many of which I am not an expert in, this work is to be considered more on the consistency of the overall argument rather than the minutia of its individual parts.</p>

‘They wrote history with their bodies’: Necrogeopolitics, Necropolitical Spaces and the Everyday Spatial Politics of Death in Turkey

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-70
Author(s):  
Lerna K. Yanık ◽  
Fulya Hisarlıoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Social Behaviour ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Turkish State ◽  
Alternative Reading ◽  
Domestic Level

In this piece, through an alternative reading of biopolitics and merging the literature on necropolitics with critical geography, we develop the concepts necrogepolitics and necropolitical spaces. We argue that the Turkish sovereign has very little difficulty in making death and self-sacrifice a desired behaviour by spatialising necropolitical power domestically and internationally. Necrogeopolitics emerges as a discursive practice that conditions the subject to die for the geopolitical and security interests of the sovereign, necropolitical spaces, on the other hand, are both material and discursive spaces that aim at the same goal at the domestic level. Both spaces condition the subjects for the idea that death is the appropriate behaviour if/when the state is under attack. This modification of social behaviour is engineered by the Turkish state in a very subtle, silent, and everyday manner. We discuss these instances of intervention through the necrogeopolitisation of Turkey’s territorial self, as well as the specific necrospatial changes that took place in the aftermath of the 15 July 2016 coup attempt.

Self-Portrait

2017 ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Gian Maria Annovi
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
The Self ◽  
Abstract Art ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

Pasolini’s less well-studied paintings and drawings, particularly his self-portraits, are the subject of chapter Four. I provide new critical and theoretical perspectives on his visual work and follow its development in parallel with Pasolini’s other creative endeavors, interpreting them as one way of delineating an public authorial performance. I analyze Pasolini’s drawing as wounded self-portrait, that is the graphic manifestation of a torn self-image, produced by the violent clash with society. In Chapter Four, I also look at Pasolini’s relationship to abstract art, focusing on the parallels between his cinema and his experimentation with materials and forms in painting. Challenging the common notion of Pasolini’s hatred for modern art, I argue that in his portraits and self-portraits, he actually used abstraction to deform or disfigure the self, as a result of the pressure of history and society. Finally, in this chapter I consider some of Pasolini’s photographic portraits as a part of his authorial self-fashioning, and as a necessary component of his multimedia practice and his authorial performance during the last phase of his career.

scholarly journals The Discursive Opposition and the “Power of Discourse” in the Ukrainian Mass Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 02007
Author(s):  
Iryna Synytsia
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

The subject of this publication is related to such directions of modern linguistics as critical discourse analysis, media linguistics, and text semantics. The article examines the features of the media discourse of Ukraine on the example of antonymic semantic relations that are the result of modern discursive practice. The media discourse of modern Ukraine demonstrates the facts of the emergence and functioning of the pseudo-antonymic opposition. The research is based on economic topics articles published in Ukrainian online publications during 2019-2020. The texts of the publications are written in Ukrainian or Russian. All articles are devoted to the problem of “betrayal or victory”. The author of the article asserts that the active functioning of the Ukrainian lexemes “betrayal” and “victory” in the media discourse influenced not only the emergence of unusual oppositional relations between these lexemes. The active use of pseudo-antonyms in speech contributes to the destruction of traditional axiological values of Ukrainians and involves them in pseudo-discussions. Thus, first of all, the “power of discourse” is manifested. The author speaks about the formation of an independent discourse “betrayal or victory” in the Ukrainian media discourse. Pseudo-antonyms explode the pragmatic intentions of the sender of the message and are a means of manipulative influence on the linguistic consciousness of the recipient.

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