scholarly journals Gendered Narratives And Feminine Identity Formation In Media Personal Accounts

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Débora De Carvalho Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Identity Studies ◽  
Narrative Studies ◽  
Body Design ◽  
Personal Accounts

In late modernity, the concepts of identity and identity formation have become inseparable from language and discourse. In this article, based on the theoretical frameworks of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Identity Studies, Narrative Studies and Genre Studies, I investigate how the identities of three women, especially in what concerns their body design, is construed in the genre ‘media personal accounts’, in the present case accounts of experiences of cosmetic plastic surgery published in two Brazilian glossy magazines, Claudia and Plastic Surgery&Beauty (Plástica&Beleza).

Making privilege palatable: Normative sustainability in chefs’ Instagram discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Gwynne Mapes ◽  
Andrew S. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Class Inequality ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Community Responsibility ◽  
Personal Accounts

Abstract In this article we consider the discursive production of status as it relates to democratic ideals of environmental equity and community responsibility, orienting specifically to food discourse and ‘elite authenticity’ (Mapes 2018), as well as to recent work concerning normativity and class inequality (e.g. Thurlow 2016; Hall, Levon, & Milani 2019). Utilizing a dataset comprised of 150 Instagram posts, drawn from three different acclaimed chefs’ personal accounts, we examine the ways in which these celebrities emphasize local/sustainable food practices while simultaneously asserting their claims to privileged eating. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis, we document three general discursive tactics: (i) plant-based emphasis, (ii) local/community terroir, and (iii) realities of meat consumption. Ultimately, we establish how the chefs’ claims to egalitarian/environmental ideals paradoxically diminish their eliteness, while simultaneously elevating their social prestige, pointing to the often complicated and covert ways in which class inequality permeates the social landscape of contemporary eating. (Food discourse, elite authenticity, normativity, social class, locality/sustainability)*

‘It all started here, and it all ends here too’: Homosexual criminalisation and the queer politics of apology

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 590-603
Author(s):  
Curtis Redd ◽  
Emma K Russell
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Australian State ◽  
The World ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
To Come

In recent years, we have witnessed a tide of government apologies for historic laws criminalising homosexuality. Complicating a conventional view of state apologies as a progressive effort to come to terms with past mistakes, queer theoretical frameworks help to elucidate the power effects and self-serving nature of the new politics of regret. We argue that through the discourse of gay apology, the state extolls pride in its present identity by expressing shame for its ‘homophobic past’. In doing so, it discounts the possibility that systemic homophobia persists in the present. Through a critical discourse analysis of the ‘world first’ gay apology from the parliament of the Australian state of Victoria in 2016, we identify five key themes: the inexplicability of the past, the individualisation of homophobia, the construction of a ‘post-homophobic’ society, the transformation of shame into state pride and subsuming the ‘unhappy queer’ through the expectation of forgiveness.

Testing the Language–Power Assumption of Critical Discourse Analysis: The Case of Israel's Legislative Discourse

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaul R. Shenhav ◽  
Gideon Rahat ◽  
Tamir Sheafer
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
The World ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Language And Politics

Abstract. The growing interest in the relation between language and politics brings new assumptions and theoretical frameworks to the study of politics. This study presents a simple empirical test of a major assumption of the critical discourse analysis school: that power is a major factor in political discourse. It examines whether the discourse of Israeli members of parliament (Knesset) represents a view of the world through the prism of power or whether parliament members refer to the experience of similar democracies. We demonstrate that power is a strong and significant factor in Israeli legislative discourse through time and across issues while relevance plays no role.Résumé. L'intérêt grandissant que suscite le lien entre langage et politique, génère de nouvelles hypothèses et de nouvelles théories de l'étude du politique. Cette étude propose de tester l'une des principales hypothèses de l'analyse critique de discours, à savoir que le pouvoir serait un facteur essentiel du discours politique. Le discours des membres du parlement israélien (la Knesset) est analysé afin de déterminer s'il reflète une vision du monde à travers le prisme du pouvoir, ou si au contraire les membres du parlements se réfèrent plutôt à l'expérience d'autres démocraties sous différents angles, en particulier celui de la similaritê de leur travail parlementaire. Cette étude démontre que le pouvoir constitue un facteur important et significatif du discours législatif israélien, à la fois sur la longue durée et concernant une variété de sujets, alors que le facteur de la pertinence ne joue aucun rôle.

scholarly journals 'This may not be represented in the curriculum documents’, an analysis of early childhood education curriculum from Ontario college programs.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gosson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
College Programs

This study examines the way in which Early Childhood Educators trained in Ontario college programs are prepared to work with queer populations upon entering the field. This study used post-structuralist, queer feminist, and critical disability theoretical frameworks while analysing the data. A content analysis, informed by critical discourse analysis, was used to assess program documents. Course descriptions from ECE program websites were collected, as well as a total of 33 course outlines from 11 different Ontario college ECE programs, and 9 textbooks identified through the course outlines. Queer content was found to be absent from all but 5 course outlines and 4 textbooks. The need to have queer issues included formally in Ontario ECE curriculum, the othering of queer populations, and the erasure of queer identities are discussed. Key

scholarly journals Identity Formation and Discourse of Power: A Study of Us, Them and Othering in Nervous Conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Fehmida Manzoor ◽  
Fouzia Rehman Khan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Historiographic Metafiction ◽  
Official History ◽  
The Voice

This study was designed to trace the deconstruction of authoritative officialized history in fiction through Postmodern Historigraphic Metafiction. Historiographic Metafiction dismantles the metanarrative of official history and raises the voice of silenced subaltern thus generates mininarratives. The study is thus grounded in Postmodern Historiographic Metafictional theory of Linda Hutcheon for investigation of the “subversive strategies” of officialized history and deconstruction of positively accentuated binary of “us” and negatively accentuated binary of “them” in the backdrop of postcolonial literary text Nervous Conditions. Norman Fairclough’s model of Critical Discourse Analysis is taken up as a research method for the analysis of fictionalized historical work under study. Finally, text is analyzed leading to the conclusion of the study. The study shows that fiction unveils the official overriding history and provides new perspectives of untold historical events.

Critical Discourse Analysis in Applied Linguistics: A Methodological Review

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 213-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel Lin
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Methodological Review ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Literacy Identity

The critical turn arrived in the field of applied linguistics in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the field has since witnessed a burgeoning body of literature drawing on a variety of analytical frameworks and methodological approaches that are loosely labeled as critical discourse analysis (CDA). A methodological review of the role of CDA in the field is thus timely both to provide signposts for researchers wishing to draw on CDA methods in applied linguistics research and to provide some theoretical and methodological resources to evaluate the rapidly growing body of CDA-oriented applied linguistics research. Unlike some methodological tools, such as corpus analytic tools that can be inserted into a diverse range of theoretical frameworks (e.g., positivist studies, interpretive studies, critical studies), CDA cannot be applied divorced from its paradigmatic theories, as it is closely related to a specific set of social theories about the nature of language, literacy, identity, social practice, and the social world. CDA methods thus cannot be applied without also a concomitant commitment to CDA's theoretical orientations. In this review, the theoretical commitments as well as the classic methods of CDA will first be discussed and then the major areas in which CDA researchers typically conduct their studies are outlined together with a review of the variety of methodological approaches used in these different areas. The strengths as well as the limitations of these approaches will be discussed with examples of recent studies using CDA in the field of applied linguistics. The article will conclude with some suggestions for future directions of CDA methodological development.

scholarly journals Broadening the Study of Participation in the Life Sciences: How Critical Theoretical and Mixed-Methodological Approaches Can Enhance Efforts to Broaden Participation

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. rm3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Metcalf
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
And Mathematics

This research methods Essay details the usefulness of critical theoretical frameworks and critical mixed-methodological approaches for life sciences education research on broadening participation in the life sciences. First, I draw on multidisciplinary research to discuss critical theory and methodologies. Then, I demonstrate the benefits of these approaches for researchers who study diversity and inclusion issues in the life sciences through examples from two critical mixed-methods studies of prominent issues in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) participation and recognition. The first study pairs critical discourse analysis of the STEM workforce literature, data, and underlying surveys with quantitative analyses of STEM pathways into the workforce. This example illustrates the necessity of questioning popular models of retention. It also demonstrates the importance of intersecting demographic categories to reveal patterns of experience both within and between groups whose access to and participation in STEM we aim to improve. The second study’s critical approach applies research on inequities in prizes awarded by STEM professional societies toward organizational change. This example uses data from the life sciences professional societies to show the importance of placing data within context to broaden participation and understand challenges in creating sustainable change.

scholarly journals Is your marriage “legitimate?”: a critical discourse analysis of Canada's policy on marriage fraud

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Dullabh
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Probationary Period

As of 2012, Canada has implemented a “conditional probationary period” for sponsored spouses or partners through immigration, influenced by a similar policy in the United Kingdom, geared to prevent fraudulent marriage. I will present a critical discourse analysis of the current policies in both the UK and Canada by reviewing the policies, parliamentary debates, media representations, and official statistics. A major finding is that defining a “genuine” or “legitimate” relationship requires such extensive knowledge of all cultures and traditions by immigration officials, that it can become problematic. I use the theoretical frameworks of biopower by Foucault (1978) and orientalism and othering by Said (1978), to explain government control on immigration as well as the control of relationships between spouses and partners, aimed at creating a specific desired population for Canada and the UK.

scholarly journals Is your marriage “legitimate?”: a critical discourse analysis of Canada's policy on marriage fraud

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Dullabh
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Probationary Period

As of 2012, Canada has implemented a “conditional probationary period” for sponsored spouses or partners through immigration, influenced by a similar policy in the United Kingdom, geared to prevent fraudulent marriage. I will present a critical discourse analysis of the current policies in both the UK and Canada by reviewing the policies, parliamentary debates, media representations, and official statistics. A major finding is that defining a “genuine” or “legitimate” relationship requires such extensive knowledge of all cultures and traditions by immigration officials, that it can become problematic. I use the theoretical frameworks of biopower by Foucault (1978) and orientalism and othering by Said (1978), to explain government control on immigration as well as the control of relationships between spouses and partners, aimed at creating a specific desired population for Canada and the UK.

scholarly journals Disability, the Politics of Maiming, and Higher Education in Palestine

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Snounu ◽  
Phil Smith ◽  
Joe Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Right ◽  
The U.S

Different pieces of a puzzle are put together to unpack the implications of biopolitical forms in relation to disability in Palestine. Tracing the political connections between Israel and the United States of America (the U.S.), both countries give themselves the right to maim the Palestinians in different forms. Israel maims the indigenous Palestinians in more direct ways, while the U.S. is the guard and supporter of Israel in the process of maiming the Palestinians. Yet, successful, disabled Palestinians have emerged from under the rubble in different fields and in academia and higher education in particular. In this paper, Critical Disability Studies (CDS) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) are used as theoretical frameworks to examine disability in Palestinian higher education in light of political implications. The paper also reveals a dearth of research on disability in Palestinian higher education

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