Analysing the discursive strategies in the narratives of victims of an Egyptian sex predator: a corpus-assisted Discourse Historical approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
وسام محمد عبد الخالق إبراهیم
Keyword(s):  
Historical Approach ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

From religious performances to martial themes

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 617-633
Author(s):  
Soudeh Ghaffari
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Rhetorical Tools

Abstract This paper deconstructs how religious musical eulogies, as the most important discursive practices of Shi’a rituals (Ghaffari 2019), were used as “war songs” serving to construct the Iranian national identity during the 1980–1988 Iraq-Iran war. These musical practices (in)formed the wider ideological and persuasive rhetoric of Iranians. In this paper, I analyse the textual and musical features of the audio-recorded versions of ten well-known war songs. The Discourse-Historical Approach (Reisigl and Wodak 2016) is used to analyse the discursive strategies and persuasive rhetorical tools within the lyrics. I draw on Machin (2010), Machin and Richardson (2012) and van Leeuwen (1999) to analyse various features of voice and the modality of sounds. This paper concludes that, by reflecting the power of religious discourse in the non-religious and highly nationalistic occasion of war, Iranian war songs were inspired by the religious eulogies in encouraging the Iranian nation to attend the war fronts.

“We must unite now or perish!”

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Nartey
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Pan African ◽  
The World ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

Abstract This paper presents a discourse-mythological analysis of the rhetoric of a pioneering Pan-African and Ghana’s independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, drawing on Ruth Wodak’s discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis. The thesis of the paper is that Nkrumah’s discourse, in its focus on the emancipation and unification of Africa, can be characterized as mythic, a discursive exhortation of Africa to demonstrate to the world that it can better govern itself than the colonizers. In this vein, the paper analyzes four discursive strategies employed by Nkrumah in the creation and projection of his mythology: the introduction or creation of new discourse events, presupposition and implication, involvement (the use of indexicals) and lexical structuring and reiteration. This study is, therefore, presented as a case study of mythic discourse within the domain of politics.

‘A badge of Europeanness’

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Zappettini
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Discursive Representations ◽  
Institutional Construction

This paper contributes to the advancement of the established body of literature on language and identity by ascertaining how discursive representations of multilingualism at an institutional level have interplayed with the construction and the definition of European identities. Using the Discourse Historical Approach (Wodak 2001), the analysis focuses on a corpus of official speeches given by the European Commissioner for Multilingualism to identify discursive strategies and linguistic devices and link them to wider socio-political and historic dynamics. Findings suggest that the institutional construction of Europeanness has primarily occurred through macro discourses predicated on cultural, civic and economic dimensions of multilingualism with some inherent tensions in contrasting representations of ‘diverse’ and multilingual EU-rope. It is suggested that through heterogeneous representations of multilingualism torn between identity politics and commodification, European identities emerge as hybrid and fragmented constructs in between national, post national and global dimensions.

The significance of the discursive strategies in al-Baghdadi’s and al-Zawahiri’s hortatory speeches

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 769-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Badeen Mohammed Al-Rikaby ◽  
Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Group Representations ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

Abstract Recently, jihadi rhetoric has been employed extensively to ordain a justified violence and to incorporate radical groups’ identifications. In this article, the researchers take Reisigl’s and Wodak’s discourse – historical approach (2001; 2009), van Dijk’s ideological square (1998: 267) and Chilton’s binary concepts in political discourse (2004: 197–205) to show the significance of the discursive strategies in Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s and Ayman al-Zawahiri’s jihadi rhetoric used to establish their so-called Islamic State. We present two exemplary calls for jihad by al-Zawahiri (2006) and al-Baghdadi (2015) to exemplify their jihadist ideology giving much focus to in-group and out-group representations in their speeches and to their social impacts on Muslim societies over the last ten years. We argue further that such calls are abusive to Islamic religion and are designed in historical, pragmatic and communicative contexts (as mental models) to gain political legitimacy.

scholarly journals Discursive Strategies of Verbal Violence in the Users Comments on Facebook News Updates

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Ahmad Zulfahmi Muwafiq ◽  
Sumarlam Sumarlam ◽  
Diah Kristina
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Discursive Strategy ◽  
Verbal Violence ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

This article explores how verbal violence on Facebook was performed by the users. It investigates the discursive strategy exploited by them. The data of verbal violence were taken from user comments to news update posted on Indonesian news portal fans pages under the topic of Paris tragedy. The comments were taken from four different Indonesian news fans pages, namely Detik.com, Kompas.com, Liputan6.com and Tribunnews.com. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively. Applying Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) proposed by Wodak, the result shows that the users exploits three strategies to perform verbal violence namely referential strategy, predicative strategy and argumentation strategy. Employing referential strategy, verbal violence is realized in the form of noun and noun phrase, which functions as subject, object and modifier of noun phrase. Employing predicative strategy, verbal violence is realized in the form of word, phrase and clause, which function as attribute or predicate. Employing argumentation strategy, verbal violence is realized in the form of sentence and discourse.

scholarly journals Mega-events and regional identities: the 2010 Asian Games language controversy

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-636
Author(s):  
Zhonghua Gu ◽  
Bart Wissink ◽  
Yuan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

This article argues that mega-events can become important sites for the contestation of a variety of justice claims, including recognition for regional identities. The existing literature explores the potential of mega-events to achieve redistribution but their impact on identity claims is under-researched. Our analysis of the Cantonese language controversy in the run-up to the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games fills this gap by employing a discourse-historical approach. It demonstrates that a range of discursive strategies relating to the Cantonese language played a crucial role in the articulation of a Cantonese regional identity and were, in turn, countered through discursive strategies employed by local government, which argued that Cantonese and Chinese identities are not mutually exclusive. We conclude that scholars need to pay more attention to mega-events that are staged in non-Western countries outside core cities, as well as to the role that they can play in attempts to promote the recognition of regional identities.

scholarly journals Critical Analysis of Anti-Islamisation and Anti-immigration Discourse

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 26-53
Author(s):  
Noha Kader
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
The Other ◽  
British Society ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

This paper examines the discursive strategies employed by two of the far-right movements in the UK, specifically in the English Defence League (EDL) and Britain First, when dealing with immigration and what they term as the “Islamisation of Britain”. The paper will demonstrate how these movements frame their arguments by employing strategies of positive-self and negative-other representation. The analysis will rely on the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) as a framework for examining the mission statements of both movements in relation to three discursive strategies, namely nomination, predication and argumentation. The analysis will reveal how both movements put themselves forward as defenders of British society and basic liberal values, while negatively portraying “the other” either as a threat to such values or as a burden on Britain’s resources.

scholarly journals Infodemic in Germany and Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinah K. Leschzyk
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
First Year ◽  
State Governments ◽  
False Information ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Alternative Für Deutschland ◽  
The Media ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

AbstractEven though the topic of infodemic – a blending of the words information and pandemic – emerged just in 2020 it addresses a question that has been crucial ever since in communication: How to establish – or undermine – credibility? This article deals with rhetorical techniques applied by Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro (2019–) and high-ranking politicians of the German party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) during the COVID-19-pandemic. The analysis is based on tweets published through their official accounts during the first year of the pandemic (@jairbolsonaro, @AfD). Meanwhile Bolsonaro, who was in charge during the crisis, attacks the media claiming they would spread panic and false information, AfD, an opposition party, concentrates its criticism on the federal and state governments. The key concept credibility‹ as discussed by Ortwin Renn (2019) and basic claims that appear in Aristotle’s »Rhetoric«, dating from the 4th century BC, build the theoretical basis of this study. Methodologically, the analysis is based on the Discourse-Historical Approach (Reisigl/Wodak 2001), focusing on discursive strategies of negative other representation, and a framework for studies on the language of legitimation and delegitimation developed by Theo van Leeuwen (1996).

“Uma revolução democrática é sempre uma revolução inacabada” — or — “A democratic revolution must always remain unfinished”

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Democratic Revolution ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Ideological Tensions

This article analyses the discursive construction of collective memories and the function of commemorative events for national identity. It focuses on how the 30th anniversary of the Portuguese 1974 revolution was portrayed in the government’s Programme of Action issued for the 2004 commemorations and in forty-three newspaper opinion articles also published in 2004. The 1974 revolution ended a 48-year right-wing dictatorship and has shaped subsequent historical events since the 1970s. When the Programme of Action changed the 1974 slogan ‘April is revolution’ into ‘April is evolution’, the written press responded by conducting a debate on this reframing. Using the Discourse-Historical Approach in CDA as the analytical framework, this paper highlights the discursive strategies on which the government’s manifesto was built and explores the opinion articles’ ongoing political and ideological tensions over the revolution, its commemorations, and how it paved the way into Europe, by describing the main macro-discursive strategies and raising issues regarding the (mis)representation of social actors and social action.

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