Post-truth and Disinformation: Using discourse analysis to understand the creation of emotional and rival narratives in Brexit

Critical Discourse ◽

Media Representation ◽

The Creation ◽

Media Reports

Abstract Nigerian media reports on herdsmen’s violence present dehumanised images of a slaughterhouse in which farmers are represented as animals being slaughtered by herders. Using a critical discourse analysis and appraisal framework, with a focus on the systems of attitude and graduation, this paper critically examines media representation of herdsmen’s violence as “butchering” in the form of carnism. Analysis reveals that carnist representation is reinforced through death-dealing socio-cognitive labelling, attitudinal lexicalisation and strands of carnism. Also, using attitude and graduation resources, a one-directional and horrific image is painted. The study concludes that the creation as well as consumption of such scary news cultivates cognitive prejudices and stereotypes.

ISIS Rhetoric for the Creation of the Ummah

Religion and Theology ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-2457-2.ch025 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 429-449

Author(s):

Amaryllis Maria Georges

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Communal Identity ◽

Muslim Community ◽

Community Based ◽

Linguistic Strategy ◽

I intend to examine the linguistic strategy used by ISIS as a means through which it creates the concept of the Muslim Ummah, which seeks to emphasize the unity of an international Muslim community based off the power of Islam. I apply a Critical Discourse Analysis for the study of Baghdadi's sermon on 4 July 2014 where he declared the establishment of the Caliphate and himself as the Caliph. Baghdadi's discourse creates a new communal identity from a Muslim populace who may have felt marginalized due to their religion in their countries of residence. It is through this discourse that he structures the Ummah loyal to the Caliphate in two ways: a) by summoning Islam to create a singular global Muslim body and the establishment of a Caliphate; and b) the structuring of an indiscriminate opponent, one that conflicts with the “camp of Islam”. The method of convincing and generating consent – of institutionalizing jihad - goes beyond propaganda; it necessitates the formation of an entirely novel lexicon, a narrative that fosters support while concurrently quashing any singular qualms.

Change of students’ activities in the process of becoming a teacher

Andragoška spoznanja ◽

10.4312/as.23.3.89-103 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 89-103

Author(s):

Joanna Malinowska

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Effective Teacher ◽

Discursive Practices ◽

The article presents a part of research focused on teacher education in Poland. Becoming a teacher is a process that takes place in the space of universities and schools as educational entities in which two discursive communities meet. The distinctness and the hermetic character of the communities are an epistemological barrier to the creation of cooperation, which is essential for effective teacher education. The research is directly related to the need to introduce changes in this area and to define the conditions for these changes to occur. The purpose of the research is to establish how an institution which trains teachers functions. In order to achieve this goal, the author reconstructs a set of rules of discursive practices which were revealed during a group discussion among the students. In the research, a reconstructive formula based on critical discourse analysis was adopted. On the basis of the analysis, recommendations for the practice of teacher education are offered.

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development - Political Discourse in Emergent, Fragile, and Failed Democracies ◽

ISIS Rhetoric for the Creation of the Ummah

10.4018/978-1-5225-0081-0.ch010 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 178-198 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Amaryllis Maria Georges

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Communal Identity ◽

Muslim Community ◽

Community Based ◽

Linguistic Strategy ◽

I intend to examine the linguistic strategy used by ISIS as a means through which it creates the concept of the Muslim Ummah, which seeks to emphasize the unity of an international Muslim community based off the power of Islam. I apply a Critical Discourse Analysis for the study of Baghdadi's sermon on 4 July 2014 where he declared the establishment of the Caliphate and himself as the Caliph. Baghdadi's discourse creates a new communal identity from a Muslim populace who may have felt marginalized due to their religion in their countries of residence. It is through this discourse that he structures the Ummah loyal to the Caliphate in two ways: a) by summoning Islam to create a singular global Muslim body and the establishment of a Caliphate; and b) the structuring of an indiscriminate opponent, one that conflicts with the “camp of Islam”. The method of convincing and generating consent – of institutionalizing jihad - goes beyond propaganda; it necessitates the formation of an entirely novel lexicon, a narrative that fosters support while concurrently quashing any singular qualms.

Trump and Muslims: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Islamophobic Rhetoric in Donald Trump’s Selected Tweets

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/21582440211004172 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 215824402110041

Author(s):

Mohsin Hassan Khan ◽

Farwa Qazalbash ◽

Hamedi Mohd Adnan ◽

Lalu Nurul Yaqin ◽

Rashid Ali Khuhro

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

The United States ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Political Polarization ◽

Presidential Candidate ◽

Hillary Clinton ◽

Donald Trump ◽

Political Sphere

The emergence of Donald Trump as an anti-Muslim-Islam presidential candidate and victory over Hillary Clinton is an issue of debate and division in the United States’ political sphere. Many commentators and political pundits criticize Trump for his disparaging rhetoric on Twitter and present him as an example of how Twitter can be an effective tool for the construction and extension of political polarization. The current study analyzes the selected tweets by Donald Trump posted on Twitter to unmask how he uses language to construct Islamophobic discourse structures and attempts to form his ideological structures along with. The researchers hypothesize that Islamophobia is a marked feature of Trump’s political career realized by specific rhetorical and discursive devices. Therefore, the study purposively takes 40 most controversial tweets of Donald Trump against Islam and Muslims and carried out a critical discourse analysis with the help of macro-strategies of the discourse given by Wodak and Meyer and van Dijk’s referential strategies of political discourse. The findings reveal that Trump uses language rhetorically to exclude people of different ethnic identities, especially Muslims, through demagogic language to create a difference of “us” vs. “them” and making in this way “America Great Again”.

Disrupting the Discourse Behind the Zoning of the Native Americans: Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit in the Environmental Racist Perspective

International Journal of English Linguistics ◽

10.5539/ijel.v9n4p358 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 358

Author(s):

Sehrish Bibi ◽

Wajid Hussain

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Native Americans ◽

Qualitative Content Analysis ◽

Cognitive Strategies ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Linda Hogan ◽

Environmental Racism ◽

This paper disrupts the Euro Americans’ environmental colonialist discourse which involves the practices of racist policies that result in the relocation of the Native Americans to a confinement called reservation. More specifically, it discusses this relocation which is termed as zoning as a dilemma for the Natives because this practice by the Euro Americans, which is primarily involves their economic agenda, not only restricts the Natives to their reservation and denies life opportunities for them but puts the responsibility of their plight on themselves. A qualitative content analysis, the research explores this idea in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit in the light of the joint critique of environmental racism and critical discourse analysis. Linguistically, the study applies critical discourse analysis focusing on van Dijk’s concept of discourse and manipulation. The analysis reveals that the discursive and cognitive strategies employed by the Euro Americans for the zoning of the Natives help the former rationalize and legitimize their environmental colonial practices. The discursive process first involves the creation of “othering” and then the tactful presentation of this “othering”. The study also highlights the counter actions taken by the Natives on the basis of the same or similar strategies as have been employed against them, to resist their zoning.

Hacktivism and Alternative Journalism

Encyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9715-5.ch023 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 347-361

Author(s):

Christophe Emmanuel Premat

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Original Position ◽

Conversational Analysis ◽

Traditional Media ◽

Critical Media ◽

New Form ◽

The Creation ◽

Alternative Journalism

The article deals with the creation of a hacktivist channel in France in 2013. The channel pretends to evaluate the information and invite critical guests that are not considered in traditional media. The aim of the article is to study how this channel presents the guests and the topics to see if there is a journalistic innovation. By using the tools of critical discourse analysis and conversational analysis, it is possible to describe the way the guests are presented and connected to the topic promoted by the article. The scenography is also worth being described as the guests have long interviews with a hidden journalist without any montage. In reality, the technique is all the more interesting as it allows the guest to correct his/her reputation. The development of a prior ethos to a discursive ethos is important as the channel can take an advantage of its original position in the sphere of media. Last but not least, the focus on those techniques helps to see if this kind of critical media is a new form of alternative journalism.

When citizens talk: Stance and representation in online discourse on Biafra agitations

Discourse & Society ◽

10.1177/0957926518816197 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 117-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Esther Ajiboye ◽

Taiwo Abioye

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Social Actor ◽

Online Discourse ◽

Social Actors ◽

Digital Communities ◽

Negative Valence ◽

Biafra secessionist agitations in Nigeria continue to generate varied conversations online and offline. This study applies critical discourse analysis and the appraisal framework in examining social actor representations in the ongoing Biafra agitations in Nigeria. It analyses posts produced by interlocutors, as they express variegated stances towards the agitations and its actors, within two vibrant Nigerian digital communities, Nairaland and Nigeria Village Square. This study identifies binary social actor positioning, revealing both negative valence and positive self-representation strategies towards the agitations and principal social actors in the agitations. Expressed within the appraisal resources of attitude, engagement and graduation, these valuations result in the distribution of socially and emotionally constructed identities for the principal social actors in the agitations. Such distribution is socio-cognitive, as there is the likelihood that the representations might evolve into the creation of new ideological orientations or the reinforcement of existing ideological leanings, whose consequences are potentially double-edged for tranquillity in the Nigerian polity.

Analisis Kritis Isi Pesan Dakwah dalam Buku 7 Keajaiban Rezeki

Tabligh: Jurnal Komunikasi dan Penyiaran Islam ◽

10.15575/tabligh.v4i2.848 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 145-166

Author(s):

Tantri Junia Hasnah ◽

Yaya Yaya ◽

Aang Ridwan

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

General Public ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Communication Process ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Right Brain ◽

Analisis wacana kritis pada penelitian ini berguna untuk mengetahui orisinilitas buku, menyesuaikan data dan fakta yang dikemukakan penulis, dan memahami latar belakang yang mengiringi terciptanya buku 7 Keajaiban Rezeki, sedangkan metode kualitatif dipilih untuk menalisis konteks pesan dakwah, kontruksi pesan dakwah dan teknik pengemasan pesan dakwah pada buku 7 Keajaiban Rezeki. Dari hasil penelitian tersebut Ippho Santosa berusaha menanamkan kebiasaan sedekah dikalangan masyarakat luas sebagai salahsatu magnet untuk menarik rezeki, meraih kesuksesan, dan kesehatan dalam 99 hari dengan cara berfikir otak kanan. Selanjutnya peneitian ini menemukan pesan Akidah, Akhlak, dan syariah dalam Buku 7 Keajaiban Rezeki yang dikontruksikan kedalam 3 jenis pesan yaitu Informatif, Persuasif dan Koersif dengan teknik pengemasan berupa data dan fakta yang sesuai dengan dalil Al-Qur’an dan kebiasaan yang terjadi di masyarakat. Metode analisis wacana kritis juga menemukan interpretasi berupa identifikasi wacana teks menjadi proses komunikasi dan adanya Implikasi berupa aspek-aspek kognisi yang dapat diterapkan dikehidupan masyarakat. Critical discourse analysis in this study is useful for knowing the originality of the book, adjusting the data and facts presented by the author, and understanding the background that accompanied the creation of the 7 Keajaiban Rezeki, while the qualitative method was chosen to analyze the context of da'wah messages, missionary message construction and da'wah message packaging techniques. In the book 7 Keajaiban Rezeki. From the results of the study Ippho Santosa tried to instill alms habits among the general public as one of the magnets to attract sustenance, achieve success, and health in 99 days by right brain thinking. Furthermore, this research found the message of Aqeedah, Moral, and Shariah in the 7 Keajaiban Rezeki Book which was constructed into 3 types of messages, namely Informative, Persuasive and Coercive with packaging techniques in the form of data and facts in accordance with the Qur'anic propositions and habits that occur in society. The method of critical discourse analysis also finds interpretations in the form of identification of text discourse to be a communication process and the implication in the form of cognition aspects that can be applied to people's lives.

WACANA ISLAMOPHOBIA DAN PERSEPSI TERHADAP ISLAM INDONESIA MELALUI STUDI BAHASA DI KALANGAN MAHASISWA POLANDIA

MIQOT Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Keislaman ◽

10.30821/miqot.v42i1.547 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 207

Author(s):

Jauharoti Alfin ◽

Ach. Muhibbin Zuhri ◽

Zudan Rosyidi ◽

Dorotea Moni Stelmachowska

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

University Students ◽

Language Skills ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Language Studies ◽

The Creation ◽

Interpretive Framework ◽

Adam Mickiewicz

Abstrak: Artikel ini mengkaji persepsi mahasiswa Adam Mickiewicz of University tentang Islam di Indonesia. Pengetahuan menjadi variabel yang berperan dalam mempersepsikan Islam di Indonesia melalui proses perkuliahan BIPA. Melalui keterampilan berbahasa Indonesia, mahasiswa ini memiliki kemampuan memperoleh informasi yang pada akhirnya membentuk pengetahuan tentang Islam Indonesia. Kombinasi antara pengetahuan dan bahasa inilah yang menjadikan ide dan gagasan mereka tentang Islam di Indonesia, baik lisan maupun tulisan, dapat terbaca dan dianalisis oleh penulis. Secara implisit ancangan analisis wacana kritis digunakan sebagai kerangka untuk mengembangkan tulisan ini. Pendekatan ini menempatkan teks berbahasa tidak dalam kerangka interpretif namun lebih bersifat kontekstual.Abstract: Islamophobia Discourse and Perceptions of Indonesian Islam Through Language Studies among Polish Students. This article analyzes the perception of Adam Mickiewicz of University students about Islam in Indonesia. Knowledge becomes a variable that plays an important role in perceiving Islam in Indonesia through BIPA lecture process. With Indonesian language skills, this student has the ability to obtain information that ultimately forms the knowledge of Indonesian Islam. The author analyzes the combination of knowledge and language both oral and written that he claims to have contributed to the creation of ideas as well as ideas about Islam in Indonesia. The Critical Discourse Analysis is implicitly used as a framework for developing this paper. This approach places language texts not in an interpretive framework but rather in a more contextual character.Kata Kunci: Islamophobia, Islam Indonesia, mahasiswa Polandia