scholarly journals Nigerian Women Language Use in Home Videos versus Performance Songs: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nwaugo Goodseed Ochulor ◽  
Ojuola Olusegun
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Nigerian Women ◽  
Home Videos

Attitudinal stance towards the anti-extradition bill movement in China Daily and South China Morning Post

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuling Cao ◽  
Danqi Zhang ◽  
Qianjun Luo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
South China ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Appraisal Theory ◽  
South China Morning ◽  
China Daily

Abstract Based on Appraisal Theory and critical discourse analysis, this corpus-assisted study examines how China Daily (CD) and South China Morning Post (SCMP) used appraisal resources to express their respective stances towards the anti-extradition bill movement. The results show that both newspapers employed negative resources of Judgement and the predication strategy to convey their stance, but SCMP seemed more refrained in the use of appraisal resources. CD openly stated that any illegal actions should be punished, and SCMP also criticised these actions. Besides, CD emphasized the consequences brought by violence and attributed the breakout of the protests to the opposition camp’s political intention for their own benefit, whereas SCMP highlighted Hong Kongers’ widespread opposition to the bill. These differences in language use and stance might be explained by the different press systems they respectively belong to and related to their respective historical and socio-political contexts.

scholarly journals A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of Pre-2019 General Elections Reports in Selected Nigerian Newspapers

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 142-147
Author(s):  
Samuel Oyeyemi Agbeleoba ◽  
Edward Owusu ◽  
Asuamah Adade-Yeboah
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Reports ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Language Corpus ◽  
Different Levels

Generally, language experts believe that there are inherent ideologies in language use. The aspect of discourse study that discloses such ideologies is known as Critical Discourse Study (CDA). This paper seeks to exhume the various inherent ideologies that presuppose selected news reports on the Nigeria’s 2019 General Elections in Nigerian newspapers. This study is, however, corpus-based. Scholars have established that discourse is a kind of constructively conditioned public exercise. They believe that power relations exist at different levels of daily social interaction; revealing superiority or inferiority of interlocutors involved. News reports relating to the General Elections were electronically collated from the various newspaper platforms for a sizable language corpus. The name Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was selected and analysed purposively with the aid of Digital Humanities (DH) tool to observe the frequency of the acronym INEC and the textual context in which it occurs in five newspapers’ reports about the electoral body via the authority it gives; the warning it issues, and the appeal it makes to the stakeholders. The paper finds out that the negative perceptions of many observers about the elections have actually been predicted by the various reports in the newspapers, prior to the elections. The paper concludes that reporters of news items do not account for issues concerning electoral body with the same constructive and destructive dispositions; and this gives room for subjectivity and prejudice.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Marriage Certificate (Nikah Nama) in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (III) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Jabreel Asghar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Good Faith ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Social

This research paper looks at the language use to exploit and propagate certain stereotypes imposing on the parties involved in the institution of marriage. A critical discourse analysis with a field, tenor, mode approach uncovers how bride and bridegroom are deprived of their consents on various issues and are socially forced to accept the assumptions created by prevalent social norms. The study exposes how the use of certain discourses and lexical choices restrict the participants to overlook or discard other options which could be otherwise legally and religiously granted to them. The study emphasizes that the current marriage certificate (Nikah Nama) needs to be thoroughly revised in order to eliminate language exploitation and allow both parties to be well aware and exercise their rights before giving their consent in good faith, predetermined by the social taboos.

Convention, Context, and Critical Discourse Analysis “Jim the Boatman” (1846) and the Early Fiction of Trinidad

2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 253-268
Author(s):  
Renée Figuera
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Anglophone Caribbean ◽  
Critical Observation ◽  
The Social

"Convention, Context and Critical Discourse Analysis: 'Jim The Boatman' and The Early Fiction of Trinidad" re-evaluates the claim of colored authorship which has been attributed to a short story published anonymously, in the Trinidad Spectator in 1846. This re-evaluation is significant since 'Jim the Boatman" has been cited as part of a collection of writing in the emerging literary tradition of nonwhite authors of nineteenth century Trinidad. A critical discourse approach to identifying the writer, in this essay, proposes an alternative paradigm to traditional "plantation power structures" which have been used for identifying writers of anonymous texts, as they may override the cultural context of literary discourse formation in complex Anglophone Caribbean societies like Trinidad. Critical Discourse Analysis focuses specifically on the ways in which writers’ discursive behavior is the result of external sociopolitical pressures, and the strategies they use for textualizing their worldview, in their cultural contexts. This alternative paradigm is based on the researcher’s critical observation of the social context, discourse conventions, and language use in relation to anonymous texts.

Power, ideology and language policies in Scotland

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-191
Author(s):  
Abhimanyu Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Sociopolitical Context

This paper deals with the role of power and ideology in language policies in Scotland and focuses on how policies promote certain languages whilst disadvantaging others. It investigates pre- and post-devolutionary legislation on language use in Scotland and examines how the role of power in policymaking has changed since the devolution of powers in 1998. Using Tollefson’s Historical Structural Analysis (HSA), the paper analyses the historical and structural factors underpinning these changes. Moreover, the paper also uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to assess how the changes in sociopolitical context are reflected at the textual level.

Language ideologies and self-Orientalism: representing English in China Daily travelogues

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoxiao Chen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Incorrect Usage ◽  
China Daily ◽  
East West

Abstract While there is plenty of scholarship on the spread and study of English in China, scarce attention has been paid to representations of English in tourism discourses about China. This article aims to explore language ideologies undergirding representations of English language use in 253 travelogues from China Daily published since 2000. Findings show that most prominently in China Daily “standard” English was represented as a lingua franca for travel in China, a language of prestige, and a means of Othering. Some places are demarcated from others due to the lack of English-language services. Chinese people’s way of using English was reduced to Chinglish, a pejorative term indicating inappropriate or incorrect usage of English. Chinese use of English was thus ridiculed as an inferior Other. This critical discourse analysis of tourism discourses about China emanating from within the country demonstrates one facet of Orientalism – self-orientalism. CD’s self-orientalist strategies were embedded in oppositional East-West ideologies that set an inferior China against a superior West.

scholarly journals WACANA KEAGAMAAN SYIAH-SUNNI DALAM MAJALAH TEMPO DAN SUARA HIDAYATULLAH

LITERA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dadang S Anshori
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Religious Understanding

This study aims to describe the language use as representation of mass media attitudes towards Shia-Sunni conflicts. It employed the qualitative method using Fowler’s critical discourse analysis. The data source was news on Shia-Sunni conflicts in Sampang reported in Tempo and Suara Hidayatullah magazines. The findings are as follows. First, Shia-Sunni conflicts are described in news headings and points of view. Tempo describes the conflicts using the point of view of ‘devil attack’ while Suara Hidayatullah presents them as conflicts of religious understanding. Second, expressions such as ‘belief forcing’, ‘Shia cleansing’, ‘devil attack’, and ‘intolerance’ represent Tempo’s attitudes while expressions such as ‘heretical’, ‘misleading’, ‘hijacking’, ‘deifying something’, and ‘infidel’ represent Suara Hidayatullah’s attitudes. Third, based on the use of vocabulary and sentences, Tempo tends to back the Shia group while Suara Hidayatullah tends to back the Sunni group.

scholarly journals ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS STRATEGI POLITIK PENGGUNAAN BAHASA DALAM PIDATO PRESIDEN SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO

LITERA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Endang Sumarti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Figures Of Speech

This study on the political strategy in the language use in Susilo BambangYudhoyono’s speeches is focused on the language behaviors. The data were collected from the internet sources containing his speeches in several occasions with regard to political policies during his presidency. The data were analyzed using the critical discourse analysis approach. The results show that his political strategy in the language use is reflected in the uses of words, sentences, and figures of speech. The language use helps public understandings of the conditions that Indonesian people are now facing and supports his presidency. From the language praxis, his political strategy in the language use is relevant to language behaviors in general.

scholarly journals A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE USE ON FACEBOOK: A STUDY OF PREMIUM TIMES NEWS HEADLINES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Bossan ◽  
Gideon Abioye Oyedeji
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Headlines

Attaining national unity and cohesion is a function of deliberate strategic plans of different facets of human endeavour in a nation. The language front has important role to play in fostering national unity and cohesion in any country. The Nigeria and Africa situation is not an exception. The chaos and rivalry that have become an intrinsic experience for us in Nigeria and in fact, Africa is partly a function of careless and unchecked language use in the social media. This paper, therefore, explores the use and misuse of language on social media. The study examines the comments of Facebook users to online news headlines posted on Premium Times Facebook handle. A corpus of a week screenshot samples of these comments are collected out of which nine (9) were purposively selected for the analysis. These nine (9) data are grouped into five (5) texts. The selected data were analysed using Dell Hymes’ Ethnography of Speaking complemented by Theo van Leeuwen’s Identities and Subjectivity Model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The paper uses the SPEAKING acronym as the theoretical insight and discussion was based on the postulations of the CDA model adopted. The study found that the responses from readers are mostly tilting towards their individual affiliations. Also, instances of arguments and rebuttals by readers reflect a situation where the polarity tilts in bidirectional positive in-group - “us” and negative out-group – “them” among the different affiliations the users represent. The study further found that copious use of vulgar expressions pervades the comments of readers. This study therefore concludes that such use of language cannot help Nigeria and Africa in its quest for unity. The study recommends that media literacy be taught in schools in order to entrench civility in the discussions of people on social media.

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