scholarly journals Ideology, Discourse, and Cultural Studies: The Contribution of Michel Pêcheux

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Montgomery ◽  
Stuart Allan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Current Movement ◽  
A Current

Abstract: This article offers an evaluative assessment of the potential contribution of Michel Pêcheux's research to a current movement within cultural studies to secure a conceptual framework for the critical discourse analysis of the linguistic mechanisms of ideology (examples of which are drawn from news accounts). Résumé: Cet article propose une appréciation et une évaluation de la contribution potentielle qu'apportent les travaux de recherche de Michel Pêcheux à un courant actuel des études sur la culture qui vise à appuyer sur un cadre conceptuel toute analyse critique du discours et des mécanismes linguistiques d'une idéologie (des exemples sont tirés des compte rendus de nouvelles).

scholarly journals Rural as Periphery Per Se? Unravelling the Discursive Node

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianka Plüschke-Altof
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Per Se

Despite often being used interchangeably, the dominant equation of the rural with the peripheral is not self-evident. In order to critically scrutinize the discursive node, the aim of this article is twofold. On one hand, it argues for overcoming the prevalent urban‒rural divide and dominant structural approaches in sociological and geographical research by introducing discursive peripheralization as a conceptual framework, which allows the analysis of the discursive (re-)production of socio-spatial inequalities on and between different scales. On the other hand, this article explores how rural areas are constituted as peripheries within a hegemonic discourse naturalizing the ascription of development (non-)potentials. Following a critical discourse analysis approach, this will be illustrated in the case of periphery constructions in Estonian national print media.

scholarly journals Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis: Histories, Remembering and Futures

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Threadgold
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Global And Local

In this paper I have explored some of the histories which inevitably connect, but also differentiate, critical discourse analysis and cultural studies. I have argued that both are strongly influenced by the versions of critical theory which have been characterised as 'postmodernism' and 'poststructuralism' and that both could benefit not only from some serious engagement with the several disciplines from which their interdisciplinarity is derived but also from some further in depth exploration of the critical theory which informs them and which they have often 'translated' or 'co-opted' in reductionist ways. I have also argued that the claims sometimes made for critical discourse analysis are inflated and that without serious ethnographies and attention to the theorisation as well as research of contexts those claims cannot really be sustained. On the other hand 'resignification' or the cultural politics of CDA are important agendas and we need to do much more work on establishing exactly how social change can be effected through the kinds of work CDA could do. My conclusion is that we need to reframe and recontextualise the ways in which we define and perform CDA and that that will involve bringing cultural studies and critical discourse analysis together in productive new ways with other disciplinary and theoretical formations and with proper attention to the new and different global and local contexts in which we work.

scholarly journals A CLOSER LOOK ON CULTURAL STUDIES IN CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
mikeyulfa
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
The Right ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Deep Exploration

This study explored several histories in cultural studies and critical discourse analysis. This research has argued that both are strongly influenced by the critical theory versions that are characterized as "postmodernism" and "poststructuralism" and both can benefit not only from some serious involvement with some of the disciplines from which their lipliner interactions originate but also from some deep exploration of critical theory that tells them and them are often "translated" or "co-opted " "by reductionist means. Later, the article also argues that claims that are sometimes made for critical discourse analysis are increased and without ethnography and focus on the theorem as well as research on the context, the claim cannot be seriously defended. On the other hand, the "resignation" or cultural politics of Critical Discourse Analysis (therefore: CDA) is an important agenda and we need to do more work to determine exactly how social change can be done through the type of work CDA can do. This paper argues that we need to reprint and re-contemplate the ways in which we define and do the CDA and will ultimately link cultural studies and critical studies and critical discourse analyzes together in a productive new way with other disciplinary and theoretical formations and with the right attention to the new and different global and local context in which we work.

scholarly journals MENJADI BINTANG ATAU BINATANG Analisis Wacana “Othering” dalam Film “The Greatest Showman”

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Devi Nirmala Muthia Sayekti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Business People ◽  
True Story

This paper is aimed to analyse critically towards a film entitled “The Greatest Showman” related to its content which is problematic in its way to represent those “unique” persons. This film is created based on true story about P. T. Barnum, a politician and a business man in performing arts production. As a text in the cultural studies, this movie brings a discourse that can show how the reality is, especially in the field of entertainment and performing arts business. People considered as a “unique,” or maybe “weird,” always be narrated as the other, beyond the normal. They will be shown as an object to be laughed. From this point, I employed critical discourse analysis from Norman Fairclough, concerning in language used within this movie. We, then, would see how those “unique” persons will be placed as the other in very subtile way.

Zimbabwe Dancehall Music as a Site of Resistance

2017 ◽  
pp. 238-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blessing Makwambeni
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
State Control ◽  
Dominant State ◽  
A Site ◽  
Dancehall Music ◽  
Communicative Space

The popularity and consumption of dancehall music in Zimbabwe has grown exponentially over the past few years. However, despite its popularity, Zimdancehall has attracted controversy for promoting violence and vulgar behavior among other ills. This chapter casts aside society's moral judgements in order to investigate Zimdancehall music's role as an alternative public sphere. Using Fraser's alternative public sphere and Bakhtin's carnivalesque as its conceptual framework, and Norman Fairclough's approach to Critical Discourse Analysis as its methodology, the study analysed the discourses that underpin Zimdancehall music. The chapter argues that Zimdancehall music has become a counter public that provides marginalised youths with a platform to resist the dominant state-sponsored patriotic discourse. The music genre has opened a liberating alternative communicative space, outside of state control and ZANU-PF's patriotic discourse, where marginalised youths can symbolically invert their reality, protest as well as articulate their needs and aspirations freely.

scholarly journals Connecting Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis: Past, Present, Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elfrida Kartika Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Critical Discourses ◽  
Global And Local

In this journal the researcher have explored some of the inexorably connected histories , but also distinguishes , analyzes critical discourses and cultural studies . I argue that both are strongly influenced by the version of critical theory which has been characterized as 'postmodernism ' and 'poststructuralism ' and both can benefit not only from some serious engagements with some of the disciplines with which they are interdisciplinary , but also from some further in exploration depth of critical theory that informs them and that they are often 'translated ' or 'co-opted ' by reductionist means . I also argue that the claims that are sometimes made for critical discourse analysis are increased and without ethnography and serious attention to the theory and research on the context , such claims can not be sustained . On the other hand 'resignation ' or CDA cultural politics is an important agenda and we need to do more work to determine exactly how social change can be done through the kind of work CDA can do . My conclusion is that we need to reframe and contemplate the ways in which we define and do the CDA and it will involve the taking of cultural studies and critical discourse analysis together in a productive new way with other disciplinary and theoretical formations and with the attention that true to the new and different global and local contexts in which we work .

Completeness of the qualitative characteristics using Foucauldian critical discourse analysis and content analysis paradigms: towards a revised conceptual framework

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Evans ◽  
Joanne Lusher ◽  
Stephen Day
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

Purpose The qualitative characteristics of decision-useful financial information (as set out in the revised March 2018 Conceptual Framework for financial reporting of the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]) are fundamental for standard setting relied on by companies when making accounting policy changes and choices. However, there has not been an overarching universally agreed conceptual context of the qualitative characteristics. This paper aims to study the completeness of the qualitative characteristics towards suggesting a revision of the Conceptual Framework. Design/methodology/approach The present study evaluated the completeness of these qualitative characteristics using Foucauldian critical discourse analysis and content analysis paradigms to elucidate the inclusion conundrum. Foucauldian analysis allowed focus on power relationships, governmentality and subjectification in accounting society, as expressed through language and practices of the IASB who ultimately decide on the qualitative characteristics. Content analysis was used to analyse data collected via interviews with preparers and users of banks’ accounts, changes in banks’ accounting policies after the conceptual framework was published and comment letters from banks who wrote to the IASB. Findings Novel findings from this study revealed the potential significant omissions of the constraints of “materiality”, “transparency” and “regulatory/supervisory framework”. Also, surrounding the qualitative characteristics having been shown to be valid and includable, the adjective “decision-useful” reinstated in the chapter title and the IASB project team technical writers needing to show completeness of attention to all comments. Originality/value From these findings, a freshly formulated chapter in the conceptual framework on the qualitative characteristics can now be submitted for consideration by the IASB, with potential for international post-implementation review.

scholarly journals Mutated Masculinities: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the New Lad and the New Man in Sons of Anarchy and Ray Donovan

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaspreet K. Nijjar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
New Man ◽  
The Family ◽  
Crisis Of Masculinity ◽  
Discursive Constructions ◽  
A Current

There has been a recent influx of popular U.S. television dramas depicting heteronormative but emotionally conflicted male protagonists. This article examines discursive constructions of hegemonic masculinity in two of these dramas, Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014) and Ray Donovan (2013-), in terms of the socio-cultural concepts of the New Lad and the New Man. It questions whether these discursive tools are useful for analyses of contemporary, male-focalized television, or whether they need updating. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, I argue that protagonists from both programs embody mutated, destabilized versions of the New Lad and the New Man that connect to a current U.S. “crisis of masculinity.” Offering timely conceptual updates of the New Lad and the New Man (the “Family-Oriented New Lad” and the “Emotionally Inarticulate New Man”), I show that these terms remain useful, but also need revision to capture the intricate struggle between inexpressiveness and emotionality characterizing present-day U.S. dramas.

On a stepping-stone to cultural intelligence: Textual/discursive analyses of media reception in cultural studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Glapka
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reception

The article discusses the potential contribution of (critical) discourse analysis to cultural studies. The textual/discursive approach to media reception is advanced as a way of investigating the semiotic and sociological concerns underpinning cultural studies. The article demonstrates the expediency of exploring the socio-cultural implications of media consumption by embracing its complexity. Understood as related to the textual/discursive, affective, cognitive, ideological and embodied aspects of identity, the complexity of individuals’ engagements with media is examined by means of discursive psychology. The advantages of this approach over other methods of investigating media reception are illustrated and discussed in relation to the concept of ‘cultural intelligence’. Relatedly, the importance of the proper understanding of the media consumer’s reflexivity is stressed, as well as an accurate operationalization of this concept in critical research.

scholarly journals Connecting Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis: Past, Present, Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elfrida Kartika Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Critical Discourses ◽  
Global And Local

In this journal the researcher have explored some of the inexorably connected histories , but also distinguishes , analyzes critical discourses and cultural studies . I argue that both are strongly influenced by the version of critical theory which has been characterized as 'postmodernism ' and 'poststructuralism ' and both can benefit not only from some serious engagements with some of the disciplines with which they are interdisciplinary , but also from some further in exploration depth of critical theory that informs them and that they are often 'translated ' or 'co-opted ' by reductionist means . I also argue that the claims that are sometimes made for critical discourse analysis are increased and without ethnography and serious attention to the theory and research on the context , such claims can not be sustained . On the other hand 'resignation ' or CDA cultural politics is an important agenda and we need to do more work to determine exactly how social change can be done through the kind of work CDA can do . My conclusion is that we need to reframe and contemplate the ways in which we define and do the CDA and it will involve the taking of cultural studies and critical discourse analysis together in a productive new way with other disciplinary and theoretical formations and with the attention that true to the new and different global and local contexts in which we work .

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