Critical Discourse Analysis on the Family Discourse of the Public Sphere - Focusing on the Family Diversity Perspective -

AbstractThis article examines the ways in which states can exercise dispersed disciplinary power as exemplified in a selective erasure of gender from Indiana’s Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws. To do this, this article investigates a critical discourse analysis using Indiana’s TRAP laws that have been brought to the floor of the state legislature from 2013–2018. The major narrative present throughout these texts is an intentional re-framing of gendered subjectivity or who gets to be called “woman”. Such state-driven discourse has the power to regulate social norms. Such norms and language assumptions often find their way into policy, including those defining how women can act or not act in regard to the termination of a pregnancy. Thus, by examining how TRAP laws deploy certain discourse, one better understands how the state, via legislation, takes an active role in controlling the public sphere by becoming an institutionalized pattern of interpretation.

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The construction of the greek crisis in the public sphere

10.12681/eadd/42484 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Δημήτριος Σεραφής

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Public Sphere ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Macro Level ◽

The Public ◽

Greek Crisis ◽

Micro Level ◽

The Public Sphere

Η παρούσα διατριβή επιχειρεί να μελετήσει πως, σημαντικοί κοινωνικοί δρώντες και οργανισμοί (δηλ. πρωθυπουργοί , εφημερίδες και διαδηλωτές), αναπαριστούν την κοινωνική δράση σε διαφορετικά κειμενικά είδη και, πως αυτή η αναπαράσταση δίνει ώθηση σε μια κατασκευή συναισθημάτων, κατασκευάζοντας κρίσιμες στιγμές της ελληνικής κρίσης στη δημόσια σφαίρα. Αξιοποιεί τις θεωρητικές προκείμενες της Κριτικής Ανάλυσης Λόγου (Critical Discourse Analysis - ΚΑΛ, βλ. Fairclough 2003, 2010, 2014; Van Dijk 2008), και την αρχή εξέτασης της αλληλεπίδρασης μεταξύ του μακρο-επιπέδου (macro-level), που περιλαμβάνει τις κυρίαρχες αξίες και οπτικές και του μικρο-επιπέδου (micro-level), που περιλαμβάνει τη γλωσσική τοποθέτηση ατόμων και οργανισμών (βλ. Van Dijk 2008: 85-89), όπως αυτή πραγματώνεται σε τρία κειμενικά είδη, δηλαδή, σε κοινοβουλευτικά πρακτικά, σε τίτλους εφημερίδων και σε συνθήματα γκράφιτι. Στη θεωρήτική μας συζήτηση, ακολούθωντας μια διεπιστημονική (transdisciplinary) και συνθετική (integrationist) προσέγγιση, εντός του πλαισίου της ΚΑΛ (βλ. Fairclough 2010; Van Leeuwen 2005), θα εξετάσουμε τις έννοιες του δημόσιου χώρου (βλ. Arendt 1958; Habermas 1989) και της πολιτικής, ως διαδικασία που διαμορφώνεται μέσω της γλώσσας—λόγου—εντός της δημόσιας σφαίρας˙ αντίληψη που έχει σημαντικό αντίκτυπο τόσο σε πολιτικές μελέτες, όσο και σε μελέτες που εντάσσονται στο πλαίσιο της (κριτικής) ανάλυσης λόγου (βλ. Fairclough 2003; Fairclough and Fairclough 2012; Laclau and Mouffe 1985). Εστιάζοντας στο μικρο-επίπεδο σκιαγραφούμε και προτείνουμε ένα συνθετικό, αναλυτικό πλαίσιο, βασιζόμενοι σε δύο αναλυτικούς πυλώνες: εφαρμόζουμε μια Συστημική -Λειτουργική (Systemic-Functional - ΣΛ) ανάλυση για να μελετήσουμε δομές μεταβιβαστικότητας (transitivity, βλ. Halliday and Matthiessen 2004: Ch. 5) των διαφορετικών κειμενικών ειδών και μια ανάλυση της σημειωτικοποίησης των συναισθημάτων (semiotization of emotions, pathos, βλ. Plantin 2011; Micheli 2014) με σκοπό να εντοπίσουμε την κατασκευή συναισθημάτων και την επιχειρηματολογική τους δυναμική.

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Ideology and discourse in the public sphere: A critical discourse analysis of public debates at a Brazilian public university

Discourse & Communication ◽

10.1177/1750481318757765 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 278-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Erik Persson ◽

Luís Moretto Neto

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Public Sphere ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Public University ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

University Hospitals ◽

Staff Shortage ◽

Public Company ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Set Up

Since 2013, several social actors of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) community have formed a public sphere in order to deliberate and decide on the University Hospital’s (UH/UFSC) affiliation to the Brazilian Hospital Services Company (EBSERH), a public company set up in accordance with a private law which has been created by the Brazilian federal government in order to set up a management body for public university hospitals. Underpinned by critical discourse analysis, our purpose is to analyze the embedded ideologies in discursive practices within the UFSC/EBSERH public sphere, especially those perpetrated by the federal government’s bureaucratic means as to mystify reality, and also promote and legitimize dominant interests and actions with regard to the UH/UFSC’s affiliation to the EBSERH. We organized this analysis in five main categories: (1) staff shortage and the ideological use of the double standard policy, (2) the ideology of neo-liberalism and managerialism, (3) blame avoidance behavior and the ideological dispute between ideology and pragmatism, (4) the policy of terror and the fallacy of choice and (5) ideology of participationism.

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Social Media and the Public Sphere in China

Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media - Advances in Public Policy and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1081-9.ch022 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 410-425

Author(s):

Zhou Shan ◽

Lu Tang

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

High Speed ◽

Social Identities ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Political Discussion ◽

Social Imaginary ◽

Train Derailment ◽

The Public ◽

The Public Sphere

This chapter seeks to answer the question of whether microblog can function as a promising form of public sphere. Utilizing a combined framework of public sphere based on the theories of Mouffe (1995) and Dahlgren (2005), it examines the political discussion and interrogation on Sina Weibo, China's leading microblog site, concerning the Wenzhou high-speed train derailment accident in July of 2011 through a critical discourse analysis. Its results suggest that Weibo enables the creation of new social imaginary and genre of discourse as well as the construction of new social identities.

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Social Media and the Public Sphere in China

Media Controversy ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9869-5.ch029 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 497-512

Author(s):

Zhou Shan ◽

Lu Tang

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

High Speed ◽

Social Identities ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Political Discussion ◽

Social Imaginary ◽

Train Derailment ◽

The Public ◽

The Public Sphere

This chapter seeks to answer the question of whether microblog can function as a promising form of public sphere. Utilizing a combined framework of public sphere based on the theories of Mouffe (1995) and Dahlgren (2005), it examines the political discussion and interrogation on Sina Weibo, China's leading microblog site, concerning the Wenzhou high-speed train derailment accident in July of 2011 through a critical discourse analysis. Its results suggest that Weibo enables the creation of new social imaginary and genre of discourse as well as the construction of new social identities.

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Re-defining gender as a heinous crime: A case study from the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies

Discourse & Society ◽

10.1177/0957926520977219 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 095792652097721

Author(s):

Janaina Negreiros Persson

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Gender Ideology ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Public Hearing ◽

Rhetorical Invention ◽

Social Actors ◽

The Public ◽

The Core

In this article, we explore how the discourses around gender are evolving at the core of Brazilian politics. Our focus lies on the discourses at the public hearing on the bill 3.492/19, which aimed at including “gender ideology” on the list of heinous crimes. We aim to identify the deputies’ linguistic representation of social actors as pertaining to in- and outgroups. In addition, the article analyzes through Critical Discourse Analysis how the terminology gender is represented in this particular hearing. The analysis shows how some of the conservative parliamentarians give a clearly negative meaning to the term gender, by labeling it “gender ideology” and additionally connecting it with heinous crimes. We propose that the re-signification of “gender ideology,” from rhetorical invention to heinous crime, is not only an attempt to undermine scientific gender studies but also a way for conservative deputies to gain more political power.

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The Personal Public Sphere of Whitman's 1840s Journalism

PMLA ◽

10.1632/pmla.2011.126.4.983 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 126 (4) ◽

pp. 983-998

Author(s):

Bonnie Carr O'Neill

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Mass Culture ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Leaves Of Grass ◽

Social Community ◽

The Public ◽

Celebrity Culture ◽

Penny Press ◽

Public Figures ◽

The Public Sphere

Before Walt Whitman became the self-celebrating poet of Leaves of Grass, he was a professional journalist. This paper examines the journalism Whitman produced from 1840 to 1842 in the context of an emerging celebrity culture, and it considers celebrity's effects on the public sphere. It traces the penny press's personal style of journalism to both its artisan-republican politics and the formation of celebrity culture, in which celebrities assume status parallel to that of traditional representatives of authority. As editor of the Aurora, Whitman adopts the first-person, polemical style of the penny press and singles out prominent people for criticism. In other pieces, he presents himself as the ever-observant flâneur. As editor and as flâneur, he is a participant in and observer of the life of his community, and he assumes unassailable interpretive power. But he also regards his readers as fellow participants-observers who make judgments about the public figures he reports on. The tension between these positions is never resolved: Whitman's dialogic addresses to readers aim to extend the public sphere of critical debate even as Whitman holds steadfastly to his own social and political authority. Encouraging and modeling readers' negotiations over the meaning of public figures, he extends the features of celebrity culture to the public at large. His early journalism shows how and why it is so difficult to reconcile political and social community in the era of mass culture, and it highlights the complexities of the coexistence of celebrity and critical discourse in the personal public sphere.

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Julkinen kaivoskeskustelu diskursiivisena välienselvittelynä

Alue ja Ympäristö ◽

10.30663/ay.65574 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 79-103 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Veera Kangaspunta

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Online News ◽

Public Debate ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Online Newspapers ◽

The Public ◽

Analytical Tools ◽

Unique Part

The aim of this article is to approach one specific environmental topic and the public debate around this topic from a user-oriented perspective – through online news comments. The article analyses online news and comments sections from three Finnish online newspapers concerning the mining accident of Talvivaara company in November 2012. Discourse and discursive legitimation strategies are used as analytical tools with the focus of critical discourse analysis. The study aims to solve what kind of discourses the public debate contains and how these discourses are connected to certain legitimation strategies. In addition, the article also continues the conceptual deliberation about the concept of the public as a group of people participating in public discussion. The study shows that Talvivaara news and news comments consist four main strategies, authorization, rationalization, moral evaluations and mythopoiesis, used for legitimation, relegitimation and delegitimation. However, the parties differ in the way they utilize these strategies and different discourses. Consequently, online news commenting appears as a unique part of the public debate about the topic, rather than remaining marginal flaming. The users tend to absorb the role of the public as a part of the public showdown about the shared issue.

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