scholarly journals Representation of the Self and Other in Joe Biden's Democratic National Convention Speech

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-69
Author(s):  
Ingrit Vianica ◽  
Trisnowati Tanto
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
National Convention ◽  
Positive Representation ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Negative Representation

This paper discusses the analysis of positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation in Joe Biden’s speech in Democratic National Convention on 20 August 2020. This research utilizes van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), in which the main analysis is related to social power abuse and inequality in the social and political context. The main purpose of this research is to find out how language contributes to build both positive and negative representation in the speech. However, the research will only focus on the micro-level approach which consists of macrostructure, microstructure, and superstructure analyses. This research employs a qualitative descriptive method since it involves data interpretation in describing the representation. The result of the analysis shows that Biden as the Self has a positive representation; on the other hand, Trump as the Other has a negative representation. Both negative and positive representation are formed through various tools. Through this analysis, it is hoped that people can be more critical in absorbing the information given by political figures.

scholarly journals REPRESENTATION OF BANGKA BELITUNG’S WOMEN ON NOVELS WRITTEN BY BANGKA BELITUNG’S FEMALE AUTHORS: FEMINISIM STUDIES

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Andri Fernanda ◽  
Ranto Ranto
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method

The goal of this study was to break down gender issues and stereotypes towards women constructed in Bangka Belitung society from the perspective of female authors. In analyzing the data, researchers carried out a qualitative descriptive method with feminist theory. The researchers also conducted critical discourse analysis on writings that have been published by Bangka Belitung’s female authors. The results showed that there were still gender inequality and inferiority of women in society. The identity crisis faced by women when they are not married since marriage is seen as an ideal as well as a complement to their life as real women in society. On the other hand, the picture of how women had no rights over themselves was demonstrated in a situation when matchmaking and marriage were performed one-sidedly and suddenly, women did not have enough power to question these, even refused them. Besides, how strong a patriarchal system and culture was shaped by women, their closest people and the community was proven in the novels of the Bangka Belitung’s female authors.

scholarly journals A Contrastive Critical Discourse Analysis of Netanyahu’s and Abbas's Speeches on the Gaza War (2014)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa’ G. Rababah ◽  
Jihad M. Hamdan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly

This study provides a contrastive critical discourse analysis of the speeches of the Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations General Assembly regarding the Gaza War (2014). The analysis explores the representation of the “Self” and the “Other” in relation to the war. Van Dijk’s ‘Ideological Square’ theory is adopted to explore the group polarization of Us versus Them dichotomy. Moreover Halliday’s Systematic Functional Grammar is utilized in the analysis to study how the polarization of the “Self” and “Other” is constructed via particular grammatical transitivity choices. The results indicated that the representation of the “Self” and “Other” in the speeches reflects two different opposing ideologically-governed perspectives on the Gaza conflict. Both speakers present the “Self” as ‘strong’, ‘human’ and ‘honorable’ in contrast to the “Other” that is deemed to be a ‘dire threat’ and an ‘agent of destruction’.

scholarly journals THE REPRESENTATION OF BRUNEI’S SHARIA LAW IN NEW STRAIT TIMES AND BANGKOK POST

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-148
Author(s):  
Luluk Kholidatul Oktavia ◽  
Sahiruddin Sahiruddin ◽  
Ismatul Khasanah
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Sharia Law ◽  
Positive Representation ◽  
The Media ◽  
Text Context ◽  
Negative Representation

The purpose of this study is to discover positive-self and negative-other representations of Brunei’s Sharia Law on LGBT through the lexical choices used by the New Strait Times and Bangkok Post also reveals the ideology from both of the media. This study uses a qualitative approach with critical discourse analysis as the research design. Following Van Dijk’s analytical framework, the words were selected and classified into word class, type of meaning (lexical or contextual), and category (positive or negative).  Ideology from both media is obtained from the cognition analysis of the journalist's expression based on the co-text, context, and social context (social condition). The result showed that both media used lexical choices that indicate positive representation of LGBT by stating LGBT as victims, while negative representation on Brunei’s Government, Muslim, and Sharia law as a persecutor. There were four methods in indicating the positive representation of LGBT; noun/noun phrase representation, detailed information on a noun, verb indicating accusation, and verb indicating discrimination; also there were three methods used to indicate negative representation of Brunei’s Government, Muslim, and Sharia law; noun/ noun phrase representation, verb indicating negative actions, and verb indicating provocations.

scholarly journals INDIVIDUALITY AND SELF-REPRESENTATION: PERSONALITY AS AN OBJECT AND SUBJECT OF CONSUMPTION IN THE MODERN SOCIETY

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Ekaterina A. Urusova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reference Group ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
External Evaluation ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Presentation Methods ◽  
Search For Objects ◽  
Selection Of

Entering the process of consumption, not only does the person construct their individual being and social reality but also completes their individuality, relying on symbols popular in the environment. Attempts to show one’s own personality are confronted with the ways of self-presentation accepted in the society, as well as with assessments from other people, so a person is faced with the necessity to choose what and how to present. The openness of self-presentation methods results in the spread of interest in individual aspects and characteristics of the personality and also causes its transition to the category of the object of consumption. At the same time, the desire to get a positive external evaluation from others entails «folding» of the individuality due to the demonstration of only certain aspects that are most in demand (that is, the most «consumed» ones). Such a process is associated with the desire to satisfy the needs for recognition and respect, to supplement the qualities, features, characteristics of the image of the «Self» or to hide the lack of the basic reality and understanding of oneself as an integral personality. On the other hand, identification of oneself in the sociocultural space, in the reference group, leads to the search for and selection of individuals that are of the greatest interest. Personality, while becoming a subject of consumption, objectifies the other, endowed with the desired qualities and characteristics, consuming the information communicated by it. However, such a process of consumption causes a feeling of incompleteness and inferiority of oneself, resulting from the impossibility of possessing the desired qualities, thus provoking ongoing search for objects of consumption, distancing from one’s own individuality and the loss of one’s own Self.

Interpersonal rhetoric of attitude in news

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-286
Author(s):  
Mona Bahmani ◽  
Ahlam Alharbi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Nuclear Program ◽  
The Us

Abstract Drawing on principles of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the proposed study examined and compared the attitudinal positioning of both CNN and Al-Jazeera English (AJE) concerning Iran’s Nuclear Program (INP). The paper has employed the appraisal framework (Martin & White 2005) to reveal the different subtypes of attitude, i.e., affect, judgment, and appreciation, which have been encoded in the selected news items. It has been found that AJE discourse is highly evaluated. AJE has appraised INP positively; yet, it has evaluated Iran (apart from INP) and the US negatively. Unlike CNN, it is very obvious that AJE has various agendas. To achieve its goals, AJE has employed judgment more than the other subsystems of attitude. This is not surprising, given that the function of judgment is to judge people and their actions rather than things. This may explain why AJE news coverage is biased. On the other hand, although CNN relies heavily on appreciation, its coverage is biased as well. Indirectly through appreciating INP as being a nuclear weapons program, CNN has tried to invoke readers’ judgment of Iran. In addition, CNN has highlighted aspects of their opposition towards Iran such as unity, unification, consensus, etc, through the use of (+sec). Unlike AJE, CNN has one agenda and they achieved it through appraising the “self” positively and the “other”, i.e., Iran negatively.

Ideological Representation of Women's Oppression in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (138) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Huda Aziz Muhi Al-shammari ◽  
Nidaa Hussain Fahmi Al-Khazraji
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Abuse Of Women

The abuse of women is an issue that persists throughout the ages till the present time because people are still living in a world of a dominated idea which is known as man is the self and woman is the other. So the objective of this research paper is to argue this global issue using Van Dijk's Ideological Square (1998) as a framework so as to examine the ideologies that underline the use of language in The Handmaid’s Tale. It is hypothesized that the ideology of oppression is exposed in the novel throughout using the ideological strategies of positive- self presentation and negative-other presentation. Ultimately, it concludes that the novelist employs both, male and female, characters to consistently ridicule and offer negative coverage about women and to increasingly align and offer favorable comments about men to present the world of patriarchy from a different perspective.

scholarly journals Representing Islam in the Eyes of the Self and the Other: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Articles

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Dewi Hermawati Resminingayu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
National Media ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
Newspaper Articles

<p>Since terrorism in Indonesia was associated to Moslem extremists, news regarding Islam has been mostly associated with those two aspects. In results, the concern of researches related to Islam in media only focuses on terrorism issue. Providing this background, this research is aimed to raise the issue related to Moslems and the Chinese minority in Indonesia, specifically in the celebration of Chinese New Year 2013 which is associated with Islamic issue. The data of this research are two newspaper articles. The first article is written by a journalist working for Agence France Presse (AFP) as the foreign media. Meanwhile, the other is written by The Jakarta Post which is the national media. The pivotal theory applied in this research is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by Norman Fairclough. This theory comprises of two notions of analysis namely communicative event analysis and order of discourse analysis. Orientalism theory by Edward W. Said regarding the self and the other is also applied to analyze the socio-cultural context of the data. In this case, AFP represents the self, while The Jakarta Post is the other. After conducting thorough analysis, the findings disclose that the self represents Indonesian Islam negatively. In contrast, the other represents Indonesian Islam objectively</p>

scholarly journals Tackling Negative Representation: The Use of Storytelling As a Critical Pedagogical Tool for Positive Representation of Roma

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-70
Author(s):  
Georgia Kalpazidou ◽  
Dimitris Alexandros Ladopoulos ◽  
Theofano Papakonstantinou
Keyword(s):  
Negative Feedback ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Century ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
Critical Multiculturalism ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Positive Representation ◽  
Negative Representation

This article focuses on the negative representation of Roma in Greece in the early twenty-first century. It investigates how negative feedback takes the form of a self-fulfilling prophecy that suppresses the self-esteem of young Roma and maintains a distance between Romani identity and education despite several positive yet little known examples of Romani scientists and scholars. The article questions how negative Romani images canbe reversed in order to enhance Roma’s educational success. The importance of innovative educational activities based on Romani literature, critical multiculturalism, and the parameter of Romani bilingualism is highlighted. Particularly, the article focuses on the power and the echo that stories can have (storytelling),where protagonists have a Romani connection or identity and are portrayed as positive models, both within classrooms with Romani students and within a society where the idea of Romani literature is a fantasy.

scholarly journals The Representation of America and China in Trump's Press Conferences Concerning COVID-19: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainab Abd Al-Razaq Mohammad ◽  
Zainab Abd Al-Razaq Mohammad
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Lexical Items

This study explores the construction of “Self” and the “Other” in President Donald Trump’s political discourse concerning COVID-19. The study is based on two Critical Discourse Analysis approaches which are van Dijk’s ideological square and Fairclough’s three-dimensional approach. Van Dijk’s ideological square is utilized to investigate the representation of the “self” and the “other” throughout Trump’s conferences. Fairclough’s three-dimensional model is utilized to reveal the lexical items that are used in Trump’s political discourse to construct the “self” and the “other”. Fourteen press conferences of Trump are used for the analysis. The data is selected between periods from February 2020, until September 2020. This period represents the period of appearance and the spreading of COVID-19. The results of the study revealed that before the spreading of COVID-19, China was represented in a positive portrayal, while after the spreading of COVID-19; China was represented in a negative portrayal. On the other hand, America was represented in a positive and noble portrayal after and before the outbreak of COVID-19. Furthermore, lexical items, such as “China virus, Wuhan virus, Wuhan labs, Kung flu, got out of control, etc.” are associated with China, to hold it responsible for creating and spreading COVID-19.

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