A CLOSER LOOK ON CULTURAL STUDIES IN 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.

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

Linguistik Online ◽

10.13092/lo.14.821 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Terry Threadgold

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Theory ◽

Cultural Studies ◽

Cultural Politics ◽

The Other ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Local Contexts ◽

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.

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

10.31227/osf.io/uw6ck ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Elfrida Kartika Dewi

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Theory ◽

Cultural Studies ◽

The Other ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Local Contexts ◽

Critical Discourses ◽

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 .

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

10.31227/osf.io/84xg2 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Elfrida Kartika Dewi

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Theory ◽

Cultural Studies ◽

The Other ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Local Contexts ◽

Critical Discourses ◽

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 .

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

10.31227/osf.io/5pnc2 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Elfrida Kartika Dewi

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Theory ◽

Cultural Studies ◽

The Other ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Local Contexts ◽

Critical Discourses ◽

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 .

Consensus behind disputes: a critical discourse analysis of the media coverage of the right-of-abode issue in postcolonial Hong Kong

Media Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/016344370202400103 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 49-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Xiaping Pan

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Media ◽

The Right

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

Canadian Journal of Communication ◽

10.22230/cjc.1992v17n2a661 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Martin Montgomery ◽

Stuart Allan

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Cultural Studies ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

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).

Critical Discourse Analysis of Adjectives Used with the Word Multiculturalism in British Print Media

International Journal of Linguistics ◽

10.5296/ijl.v8i6.10405 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 185

Author(s):

Sadok Abcha

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Print Media ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Key Word ◽

Critical Insight ◽

The Times ◽

The Right ◽

Insight Into

The present paper critically analyses the ideological uses of the adjectives used to describe multiculturalism in opinion articles published by two British quality newspapers, The Telegraph and The Times, which politically lean to The Right. Methodologically, the sample on which this study is based has been retrieved from the websites of the two dailies by means of the Key Word In Context (KWIC) technique, which has been used to look for comment articles published between July 2005 and December 2015, and in which the search word, multiculturalism used with an adjective featured. Using Fairclough’s theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study pinpoints the ideological underpinnings of the adjectives used with the word multiculturalism in the editorials. The study found out that all the adjectives are used in a derogative way to describe multiculturalism as being unreasonable, harmful and unsuccessful. Significantly, this paper provides critical insight into the peculiar uses of derogative adjectives in comment articles dealing with multiculturalism and avers that negative adjectives are not simply linguistic elements, but most importantly, ideological tools.

Framing Secular Women’s Rights in Contemporary Britain and Beyond: Challenges and Implications (MA Thesis)

Leviathan Interdisciplinary Journal in English ◽

10.7146/lev.v0i1.96783 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Martin Rosendal Ehlers

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Theory ◽

Frame Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Added Value ◽

Group Rights ◽

Muslim Majority ◽

Ma Thesis ◽

Challenge Group

This thesis argues that a group of women from Muslim majority communities campaigning against Sharia law in Britain is challenging group rights multicultural discourse, and that this challenge is quite serious. The thesis’ premise is based on decentering. Instead of looking at their campaign through the lens of multicultural theory, the campaigners are given the proverbial first and last word against their intellectual adversaries. This is done for the purpose of added value – there is limited literature in the field privileging this position. The theory used consists of frame analysis with added insights from critical theory and critical discourse analysis, as power and the concept of hegemony are central to the case. It is concluded that the way the women frame their campaign and their politics does indeed challenge group rights multicultural discourse.

Who is 'New Zealand'? Publics in Aotearoa/New Zealand General Election Discourse

10.26686/wgtn.17060252 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Ian Anderson

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

New Zealand ◽

Voter Turnout ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Public ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

General Elections ◽

The Right

<p>2011 saw the lowest voter turnout in Aotearoa/New Zealand since women won the right to vote (Vowles, 2014). This decline in participation aligns with trends elsewhere in the Anglosphere (Ailes, 2015; Hansard, 2015). This organic crisis poses new questions for notions of the ‘public sphere’ and ‘publics’ – the forms of political engagement with citizens in a mass-mediated society. Fraser (1990) contends that in theorising the “limits of actually existing late capitalist democracy” (p. 57), we need a notion of pluralised and contesting ‘publics’ (ibid). The project asks how political parties named the 'public' (or publics) in the 2011 and 2014 Aotearoa / New Zealand General Elections. In order to consider the dominance of these political articulations, research will also consider whether these invocations of 'the public' found coverage in the national press. This is not intended as a sociological examination of actually existing publics, but an examination of dominant encoding (Hall, 2001). This analysis tests the thesis that dominant cross-partisan electoral discourses defined the 'public' in terms of dual identification with productive work and capital, in opposition to named subaltern publics. This formulation suggests that workers are called to identify with capital, following from Gramsci’s (2011) theorisation of bourgeois hegemony. Research begins with a content analysis of party press releases and mainstream coverage during the 2011 & 2014 General Elections, when official discourses hailing 'the public' are intensified. Content analysis quantifies nouns used for publics – for example, 'taxpayer', 'New Zealander', or even 'the public'. From this content analysis, the project proceeds to a critical discourse analysis, which seeks to historically contextualise and explain the patterns in content. Reworking Ernesto Laclau's (2005a) theorisation of populism to factor in the left/right axis (which Laclau considered outmoded), this critical discourse analysis considers what 'public' alliances are articulated, and what political programmes these articulations serve.</p>