scholarly journals Signs of Colonial Discourse and their Psycho-Semiotic Significance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahzad-ul-Hassan Farooqi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Sign Theory ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Linguistic Practices

Colonial discourse is defined as a “complex of signs and practices” (Ashcraft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 1998, p.235). In the light of this statement this research article investigates following main questions. 1-What are those signs and practices which constitute colonial discourse? 2- How do they signify according to semiotic theory? This article is a philosophical endeavour to develop conclusive argument to determine the psycho-semiotic nature of those meaning making practices which form the very basis of the colonial discourse. The aim of this study is to establish a triangular link of the sign theory, psychological conditioning and colonial discourse. Fairclough’s (1995) triadic model of Critical Discourse Analysis has been used to analyse various linguistic practices of colonisers at Description—Interpretation—Explanation levels. After exemplifying from various texts, the study concludes that colonial signs are psychologically conditioned, discursively conventionalised and socially upheld linguistic practices which disseminate ideas they stand for. Hence, colonialism is not only a historical fact but also a linguistically and semiotically crafted phenomenon. The article lays down a vivid criterion which can serve for further analytical studies in the domain of colonial and post-colonial discourse.

scholarly journals Language and Power: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 982-988
Author(s):  
Ochulor Nwaugo Goodseed
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Language And Power ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Traditional Marriage ◽  
Bride Price

The play, The Lion and the Jewel by Soyinka has been projected variously as a triumph of African culture over the Western culture. This is because it is a post-colonial write-up that came almost after the end of the struggles that got Nigeria its independence. There have been different approaches to the study of this text with respect to the struggles between the two traditions as represented by Lakunle (the Western tradition) and Baroka (the African tradition). However, this paper takes a different dimension. Its concern is to investigate, using Fairclough’s tools of Critical Discourse Analysis, some of the ideologies and power relations embedded in some discourses in the text which reveal, in the same context, that Yoruba (African) traditional marriage ideology of bride price oppresses and marginalizes women whereas Western marriage ideology empowers and helps women to discover their self-worth. In addition too, the play reveals that chauvinism in African man cannot be completely eroded no matter the level of Western education acquired. In other words, there were still other levels of imperialism within the so called “independent world” of the traditional Yoruba and at large, Africa.

Discourse Approaches

2019 ◽  
pp. 212-220
Author(s):  
Johannes Angermuller ◽  
Raj Kollmorgen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discourse Studies

As a practice of meaning making in society, discourse points to important dimensions of social and historical change. This chapter discusses examples of discourse research on social transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. It shows how methods from linguistic, semiotic, and cultural theory can be used to account for a changing social order (e.g., how change is narrated in Russia during the perestroika period or how Eastern Germans are represented in Western media discourse after the reunification). Against a background in Discourse Studies, we put special emphasis on macrosociological views of discursive change, which one can find, for instance, in Foucault’s power/knowledge approach, Laclau/Mouffian hegemony analysis, and Critical Discourse Analysis. The chapter concludes by pointing out the strengths as well as the limits of discourse research, which is based on the idea that language not only represents social realities but, through representation, also contributes to creating them.

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis: The Knowledge Power Presented by Scholar in Creating Research Article

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Tisa Arum Wardani ◽  
Slamet Setiawan ◽  
Pratiwi Retnaningdyah
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study was aimed to analyse the background study on research article and put the argumentation based on the theory about critical discourse analysis related to social cognition theory. Furthermore, the researcher wanted to compare 2 article in critical discourse analysis approach. This method on this study is descriptive qualitative which is presented in the positivist views. Then the result was generalized in the relation on finding and discussion with the theory. In summary, the result showed the different ways in giving the power of the argumentation and explanation between RA1 and RA2. In conclusion, the power of argument used will lead the reader to ignore or accept on how it is become valid statement or not. Keywords: Social Cognition, Critical Discourse Analysis, Background Study

Voicing the absented presence of blackness in Canada: a multimodal critical discourse analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Amideo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Black People ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Specific Response ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
To Come

Abstract Canada makes of multiculturalism its trademark in a process caught between a (yet to come) full openness toward cultural and linguistic diversity, and the removal of an ambiguous collective memory rooted in racio-cultural violence. One that at different times in Canadian history considered Black people unwanted citizens, making of their experience an “absented presence” within the Canadian discourse. Drawing on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, the aim of this essay is to investigate the retrieval of part of that absented presence through an exploration of the 2015 miniseries The Book of Negroes (dir. Clement Virgo) which traces the life story of the West African storyteller Aminata Diallo as she is captured, sold into slavery and then slowly regains her freedom. The essay focuses on the analysis of the different semiotic resources employed in the miniseries and on the way a reflection of their co-articulation contributes not only to the meaning-making potential of the narrative but also to a specific response in the audience. The multiple ‘languages’ of storytelling through which Aminata’s story unfolds emphasise the need for a rethinking of national belonging by way of privileging diasporic affiliations that reject the violence inherent in monolithic and appropriating discourses.

scholarly journals Role of Cinema in Identity Construction in India and Pakistan After Partition 1947

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ausima Malik ◽  
Raja Nasim Akhtar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Visual Modality ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Vital Part

This paper reflects only part of a broader research project in which narratives between India and Pakistan have been analyzed as propagated through the medium of film. Existing literature highlights that events from 1947 partition between India and Pakistan, have been used methodically by establishments on both side to recontextualize the realities of partition and violence associated with that, blaming each other for being the cause, suppressing much of what actually transpired, evading any clear position, while promoting triumphant discourses of nation, sacrifice and socio-economic insinuations. The focus of this paper is to examine how visual modality as explained by Machin and Mayr (2012), plays a part in shaping opinions and narrating events. Employing Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) to analyze the discourses realized by a partition based movie, this paper highlights that the way ‘other’ is depicted to experience partition, and has been represented to suit the ‘self’s’ account. The representation is a vital part of the legitimization of one particular discourse of partition, used to marginalize other likely discourses in both countries. The study has implications for understanding post-colonial and post-separation socio-cultural development in Pakistan and India. The outcomes of the study can be utilized to identify the ways both countries can use media and narratives to enhance socio-cultural ties and policies; thereby welfare of people on both sides.

scholarly journals Exploring John Updike's Terrorist as a Neo-Orientalist Narrative of the Arabo-Islamic World

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-561
Author(s):  
Muhamad Shahbaz Arif ◽  
Maqbool Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
World Peace ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Contemporary World

The present study aims at exploring John Updike's "Terrorist", as a Neo-Orientalist account of the Muslims, especially the Arabs. In fact, there has been an age long strife between the West and Islam dating back to the Crusades. The ideology which propelled the crusaders was based on the binary of "us" versus ˜them. The Western rulers, clergy, missionaries,merchants and writers would tend to view Islam and Muslims through their myopic lens and built an exotic, strange albeit distorted image of Islam and Muslims in their accounts. These accounts influenced the representations of the Muslim and Islamic World in the scholarly discipline of Orientalism significantly.The study underpins that orientalist representations of the Muslims as barbarians, inert, unprogressive and an imminent to danger to world peace, are still very much a part of the contemporary world. This re-incarnation of orientalist thinking is termed as Neo-Orientalism in the post-colonial parlance. Many literary works published in the wake of 9/11 echoes this Neo-Orientalist thinking. Updike's famous novel ‘Terrorist’, which was published in 2006, has been chosen as a specimen text to this effect. The critical appraisal of the narrative, particularly the depiction of Muslim characters, through application of the methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on the lines enunciated by Huckin, suggests that Updike has adopted a Neo-Orientalist approach by creating and fortifying the so called binary of West and Islam, and portrayed them as irreconcilable entities. Instead of bridging the gulp between the West and the Muslim World, the narrative is likely to create further chasm between the two.

scholarly journals Understanding CDA: Histories, Remembering, And Futures

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Siti Rafiah
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The aim of this library research article is trying to give us a deep understanding of what Critical Discourse Analysis is. The article starts with a discussion of the origin of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), then exploring interdisciplinary based on the theory proposed by Fairclough renowned expert in DA field, in the last part of the article discussed the principles of CDA form Fairclough point of view. The present article uses a descriptive qualitative approach from reputable references which is relevant to the topics. 

Analyzing neoliberal discourse: An integrated dialectical-relational critical discourse analysis-discourse theory framework utilizing conceptual metaphor

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-170
Author(s):  
Marissa K. L. E
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Nodal Point ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Primary Basis ◽  
Education Discourse

AbstractAn integrated Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-Discourse Theory (DT) framework is proposed that utilizes the Dialectical-Relational (DR) approach from CDA as its primary basis and incorporates DT concepts of articulation and nodal point to further develop DR and thus enhance descriptions and analyses of the complex, shifting and contingent nature of meaning making in discourses of late modernity that impact the construction of social realities (logic) and subjectivity. This paper argues that the addition of the above DT concepts enhances the description and analysis of the dynamics of meaning making by focusing on shifting and contingent meanings present in discourses operating within and between particular social contexts as a means to specifically and systematically capture the influence of context-specific ideologies. Furthermore, using DR allows for the inclusion of the relative permanence of social structures in dialectical relation with processes of meaning making which avoids the risk of a radical contingency that DT potentially entails. The framework is demonstrated using conceptual metaphors in the context of Singapore higher education discourse to show how neoliberalism as a seemingly hegemonic phenomenon operates as a variegated mobile technology adapting to its specific context by manifesting context-specific meanings, thus reflecting characteristics of complexity, non-permanence and contingency.

‘It all begins with a teacher’: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Singapore’s teacher recruitment videos

2021 ◽  
pp. 175048132199990
Author(s):  
Peter Teo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Facial Expression ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Teacher Recruitment ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Ideal Teacher ◽  
Secondary Meaning

This study focuses on a series of videos aimed at teacher recruitment in Singapore and how they are used as an ideological tool for persuasion. By adopting a multimodal critical discourse analysis approach to focus on affect, it examines how these videos create and promulgate the ideology of an ideal teacher as one who is caring, encouraging and supportive of students. The analysis shows how affect is not only embodied in and performed by the primary protagonists in the video narratives through their action, facial expression, posture and speech. It is also evoked through various secondary meaning-making modes, such as focus, angle, lighting, background music and setting, through which the narratives unfold. More importantly, it demonstrates how affect is used not only as a means to arouse and engage viewers’ sensibilities but also as a persuasive strategy to manufacture and manage particular social and economic realities in contemporary society.

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