scholarly journals CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ABOUT WAR AND THE SHAPING OF CHILDREN’S IDENTITY

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Sedighesadat Meghdari ◽  
John Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Human Trait ◽  
Children's Stories ◽  
Women In War ◽  
Children's Identity ◽  
War Stories

This study aims to investigate the representation of men and women in war children literature in Iran and it tends to show how the kind of representation can influence the children's identity shaping. The study, working through critical discourse analysis, examines ten Persian children’s stories (seven short stories and three longer ones) related to the 1980s Iran-Iraq war and published between 2000 and 2007. This study focused on ‘crying’  as an example and detected  how crying, which is a unique human trait and essential need for a child to survive and the first sign of life, becomes a discriminatory term for women, and as a means to reinforce the unequal power relation scale with a male at the powerful end and a female at the powerless end. The participation of Iranian women in the stories has been neglected and they are either excluded (mostly) or included in passive roles that emphasize their weeping for the ‘martyrs’. So ignoring women and girls and emphasizing boys' and even very young boys' presence in the war stories for children can be harmful in identity shaping for both boys and girls.

scholarly journals Symbolic Violence in Children’s Stories: Content Analysis in Bobo Magazine

Society ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 677-694
Author(s):  
Rahma Isnania ◽  
Nanang Martono ◽  
Tri Rini Widyastuti
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Children's Stories ◽  
Class Habitus

The upper-class dominates various social spaces in society, including children’s stories. Children’s stories as a means of socializing values also participate in socializing upper-class habitus in the storyline. This study aims to describe the children’s habitus as narrated in short stories published in Bobo magazine. The method used in this study is the quantitative content analysis method and critical discourse analysis. This study’s object is about 174 short stories published in Bobo magazine from January 2019 to August 2020, of which 110 stories were taken randomly as samples. The results show that most of the children’s habitus narrated in the stories were upper-class children’s habitus, reaching out to 87 or 79.1% of all stories. Meanwhile, lower-class children’s habitus was found in 30.9% of all stories. The habitus of upper-class children featured in the story consisting of go on an excursion, luxury living, own electronic goods, own expensive good, wearing nightgowns, reading, and writing. On the other side, the habitus of lower-class children habitus featured in the story consisting of playing traditional games, living in poverty, and doing lower-class work. In conclusion, the upper-class children’s habitus appears more dominantly within short stories in Bobo magazine. This study’s results are expected as recommend to parties related to children’s stories publication to present more balanced stories.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Framing of the Feminization of Forced Displacement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha DeBoer
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Forced Displacement ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Global Feminism ◽  
Women And Girls

The Major Research Paper seeks to examine the discursive practices that frame the issue of the feminization of forced displacement and construct representations of forcibly displaced women. It will examine the discourse that constructs representations of forcibly displaced women, which has implications for their protection and treatment in society. Forcibly displaced women are victimized through the representational discourse in terms of how they are spoken about and their visual depictions (Johnson, 2011). Based on feminist theory, the conceptual framework of the gender binary, gender and cultural essentialism, representations of victims, the discourse of victimization, and global feminism will be applied to a critical discourse analysis of the UHCR Handbook for the Protection of Women and Girls. This paper argues that the linguistic constructs and discursive practice contribute to misrepresentations of forcibly displaced women.

“Something Seriously Wrong With U.S. Soccer”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Consumers’ Twitter Responses to U.S. Soccer’s Girls’ Apparel Promotion

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Katherine Sveinson ◽  
Rachel Allison
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Consumer Responses ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Sport Fan ◽  
Women And Girls

In September 2020, U.S. Soccer Federation posted a promotional tweet for girls’ fan clothing which included feminized aesthetics. Within 48 hr, the tweet was deleted. Previous work has shown that sport fan clothing are important organizational artifacts that contain symbolic meanings. This study extends this insight by exploring consumer responses to material items. Three hundred and seven tweets responding to the original post were collected. Through critical discourse analysis, findings illustrate that responses were embedded in gender discourses, with overwhelming dislike for hyperfeminized items marketed to women and girls. The stereotypical gender norms in marketing resulted in consumers’ suggesting organizational culture issues within U.S. Soccer Federation. Furthermore, this strategy was perceived as a transgression by creating material items that do not align with consumers’ values. This study illustrates that the meanings associated with fan clothing go beyond consumer preferences in that apparel can represent a material manifestation of organizational culture.

Lexico-grammatical portraits of vulnerable women in war

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicci MacLeod ◽  
Barbara A. Fennell
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Women In War ◽  
Discursive Constructions ◽  
Ideological Construction

The 1641 Depositions are testimonies collected from (mainly Protestant) witnesses documenting their experiences of the Irish uprising that began in October 1641. As news spread across Europe of the events unfolding in Ireland, reports of violence against women became central to the ideological construction of the barbarism of the Catholic rebels. Against a backdrop of women’s subordination and firmly defined gender roles, this article investigates the representation of women in the Depositions, creating what we have termed “lexico-grammatical portraits” of particular categories of woman. In line with other research dealing with discursive constructions in seventeenth-century texts, a corpus-assisted discourse analytical approach is taken. Adopting the assumptions of Critical Discourse Analysis, the discussion is extended to what the findings reveal about representations of the roles of women, both in the reported events and in relation to the dehumanisation of the enemy in atrocity propaganda more generally.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Framing of the Feminization of Forced Displacement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha DeBoer
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Forced Displacement ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Global Feminism ◽  
Women And Girls

The Major Research Paper seeks to examine the discursive practices that frame the issue of the feminization of forced displacement and construct representations of forcibly displaced women. It will examine the discourse that constructs representations of forcibly displaced women, which has implications for their protection and treatment in society. Forcibly displaced women are victimized through the representational discourse in terms of how they are spoken about and their visual depictions (Johnson, 2011). Based on feminist theory, the conceptual framework of the gender binary, gender and cultural essentialism, representations of victims, the discourse of victimization, and global feminism will be applied to a critical discourse analysis of the UHCR Handbook for the Protection of Women and Girls. This paper argues that the linguistic constructs and discursive practice contribute to misrepresentations of forcibly displaced women.

scholarly journals HEGEMONI CERPEN WAJAH ITU MEMBAYANG DI PIRING BUBUR KARYA INDRA TRANGGONO: ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Nelda Sari Siregar ◽  
Else Liliani
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Traditional Markets

  The purpose of the study was to describe the dimensions of the text, the practice of discourse, socio-cultural practices, and the ideological formations in the short stories that face imagined on porridge plates. The theory used is the theory of sociology of Gramsci hegemony. The method used is a qualitative method with the Fairclough model of critical discourse analysis techniques. The results of the study are a form of hegemony when traditional markets turn into modern markets and make people have a consumptive lifestyle. The author expresses his criticism of the current phenomenon subtly with the symbol of genderuwo which has greed and hegemonic character. Genderuwo is represented as a capitalist system which is currently controlling society. The form of ideological formation in the form of authoritarianism-capitalism and humanistic-mysticism. There are groups of hegemony, pro-hegemony, and groups of counter-hegemony. The hegemony group is the main actor in the occurrence of hegemony (the dominant group), while the pro-hegemony group is a figure who supports the occurrence of hegemony, the counter-hegemony group consists of people who oppose the occurrence of hegemony (cultural rise).

Visual discourses of the role of women in war commemoration

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gill Abousnnouga ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
British Society ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The Us ◽  
Visual Discourses ◽  
Women In War ◽  
War Commemoration

Discourses of war are disseminated and legitimised not only through speeches and written texts, but through visual semiotic resources. One important vehicle for this has been the war monument. Evidence shows that from WW1 in Europe and the US monuments have been used systematically by authorities to recontextualise the realities of war and soldiery, suppressing much of what comprises war, avoiding any critical stance, while fostering celebratory discourses of nation, protection and noble sacrifice. The representation of women on the war monument has been particularly important in this recontexualisation. Using Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the discourses realised by British war monuments, this paper shows that while much of the way women participate in and experience war has been suppressed on war monuments. Their representation has been a key part of the legitimation of one particular discourse of war, a representation that has helped to sideline other possible discourse in British society and which is still used in the commemoration of the death of ‘our boys’ — such as the young men killed in Afghanistan.

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