Parrhesia as a Discursive Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-245
Author(s):  
Namju Jo
Keyword(s):  
Discursive Practice

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of Representations of Travellers in Public Policies in Ireland

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Claire Jane Snowdon ◽  
Leena Eklund Eklund Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Negative Stereotypes

In Ireland, negative stereotypes of the Traveller population have long been a part of society. The beliefs that surround this minority group may not be based in fact, yet negative views persist such that Travellers find themselves excluded from mainstream society. The language used in discourse plays a critical role in the way Travellers are represented. This study analyses the discourse in the public policy regarding Travellers in the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy (NTRIS) 2017–2021. This study performs a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the policy with the overall aims of showing signs of the power imbalance through the use of language and revealing the discourses used by elite actors to retain power and sustain existing social relations. The key findings show that Travellers are represented as a homogenous group that exists outside of society. They have no control over how their social identity is constructed. The results show that the constructions of negative stereotypes are intertextually linked to previous policies, and the current policy portrays them in the role of passive patients, not powerful actors. The discursive practice creates polarity between the “settled” population and the “Travellers”, who are implicitly blamed by the state for their disadvantages. Through the policy, the government disseminates expert knowledge, which legitimises the inequality and supports this objective “truth”. This dominant discourse, which manifests in wider social practice, can facilitate racism and social exclusion. This study highlights the need for Irish society to change the narrative to support an equitable representation of Travellers.

Ästhetisch konstruierte Traditionen?

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 442-470
Author(s):  
Torsten Voß
Keyword(s):  
Discursive Practice ◽  
German Romanticism ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
European Tradition ◽  
Concept Of Beauty

Abstract Throughout various literary and artistic periods, artists have referred to or even converted to Catholicism as a means of conjuring a certain perception of a European tradition. In doing this, they seek to create an aesthetic of romanticism and/or an idea and concept of beauty, the artist, artwork etc. After giving a brief overview of this discursive practice in modern avant-garde movements, this article focuses on early forms of literary Catholic movements, such as the French Renouveau catholique and François-René de Chateaubriand’s Le Génie du Christianisme (The Genius of Christianity), as well as Novalis’ ‘invention’ of German romanticism in his essay Die Christenheit oder Europa (Christianity or Europe). It shows that there are a variety of parallels to be identified across these periods and places, namely, in programs, performances, rhetoric-building and group-building processes, and in cultivating an anti-bourgeois distinction, both in the texts themselves and in the positioning of the artists within the literary field. Despite accusations of being reactionary, writers and artists who elaborate a Catholic concept of art and literature aim to develop a traditionalist and anti-modern stance within (aesthetical and social) modernity.

Conflicting Discourses

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Ciechanowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Bilingual Students ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
School Text ◽  
Content Coverage

This article provides micro analysis of one representative incident from a larger qualitative study to examine how third-grade bilingual students and their teacher negotiated academic disciplinary and popular culture discourses in a social studies unit on Jamestown and Pocahontas. Informed by discourse and linguistic analyses, this study explores the competing dominant and nondominant discourses as they intersected and overlapped in the complex literacy practices in this classroom. Ms. Montclair’s instruction was shaped by the textbook’s approach to social studies and accountability pressures of testing and content coverage. Yet the students drew from everyday popular resources in their thinking, taking up nonacademic discourses to understand content. This research explores the following questions: (a) What are the predominant discourses evident in the official curricular text and teacher’s enactment of it? (b) What are the discourses evident in children’s everyday resources drawn on to make sense of the school text? (c) How do specific linguistic features make possible these discourses and perspectives? Findings demonstrate that students navigated across multiple discourses that were different but represented dominant culture. As discourses intersected in class, participants provided a level of critical analyses but did not deeply take up nondominant perspectives despite their own positioning from linguistically and culturally nondominant backgrounds. By showing the complexity of literate and discursive practice, this article contributes to understandings of how bilingual and English language learner students confront the demands of academic disciplinary language, draw on their own resources to make sense of content, and require explicit instruction on language and social justice.

Did you call in Mexican? The racial politics of Jay Leno immigrant jokes

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
OTTO SANTA ANA
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
Political Comedy ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Television Audience ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACTThis article analyzes a set of anti-immigrant jokes with which Jay Leno entertained his national television audience in 2006, when the U.S. public was focused on unprecedented demonstrations urging justice for immigrants. Leno adroitly mocks immigrants and their cause to give his audience emotional release by distancing them from immigrants. It is argued that political comedy can be an insidious discursive practice that reduces its audience’s critical judgment as it signifies social boundaries. It should be carefully scrutinized because, with a few laughs, Leno can steer sentiment about public policy and instantiate divisiveness for an audience of 6 million who, in the words of Leno’s official website, “are drifting off to dreamland.” (Humor, political comedy, late-night television, immigrant rights marches)*

AXIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW SENSIBILITY DISCOURSE: HOW LANGUAGE REFLECTS REALITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.N. Koshkarova
Keyword(s):  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Emotional Culture

The paper analyses new sensibility discourse as a social and discursive practice. Axiological characteristics of new sensibility discourse include expression of feelings and emotions, new emotional practices, reaction of a person to the undergone experience, and new genres. Alongside that new sensibility discourse is an institutional, linguistic and pragmatic embodiment of emotional culture. The author analyses genres, forms of communicative behaviour, lexical units and other speech means which function in the framework of new sensibility discourse and reflect axiological preferences of the speakers.

A Preliminary Analysis of Rhymed Passages in the Daybook Manuscripts

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-335
Author(s):  
Rens Krijgsman (武致知)
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Discursive Practice

Abstract The daybook manuscripts are miscellanies in that they gather together a range of different forms of text onto a single manuscript carrier. This article focuses on passages of rhymed text, analyzing in particular the forms, patterns, and functions of the rhymes. On this basis, I provide a number of preliminary observations on the use and context of the daybook manuscripts. The article focuses on the use of rhyme in material from the Kongjiapo 孔家坡 and Shuihudi 睡虎地 daybook manuscripts in particular, while also paying attention to related hemerological, astrological, and divinatory material from Mawangdui 馬王堆, Fangmatan 放馬灘, and the Beida 北大 manuscripts among others. These materials have a penchant for using especially Yang-group 陽部 rhymes marking the (auspicious or otherwise) results of actions and divinations, in this regard they can be further compared to genres such as prayers and philosophical sayings for instance, raising the possibility of a shared discursive practice.

Humor in Couple Relationships: An Opportunity for Therapeutic Inquiry

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Wendy Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Couples Therapy ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Relationship Development ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Couple Relationship ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Relational Practice ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
Therapeutic Possibilities

Humor has been a focus of therapy literature for over a century and is considered an essential communication tool and important component of therapeutic relationships. Yet couple therapy literature does not feature humor as a relational practice or strategy for couples’ relationship development. When humor presents in a therapy conversation it offers opportunities for therapists to explore the implications and meanings for the couple relationship, potentially contributing to new and enhanced relationship experience. This article provides vignettes from one couple therapy conversation to illustrate therapeutic possibilities for exploration of couples’ humor. Therapists are encouraged to pay attention to humor as a complex, dynamic, discursive practice with therapeutic benefits for couples’ therapy.

On ESPN Deportes: Latinos, Sport Media, and the Cultural Politics of Visibilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 470-497
Author(s):  
Jorge E. Moraga
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Latino Americans ◽  
Cuban American ◽  
Sport Media ◽  
Content Coverage ◽  
Changing Demographics

This article explores the ways Latinos—as audience, market, media—reshape the boundaries of sport media coverage. Its central focus examines the ways ESPN responds to the “browning of America” and its changing demographics. To this end, the essay examines the emergence and development of ESPN Deportes, and provides a textual analysis of “One Nación” (September 2015-August 2016), a podcast hosted by Max Bretos (Cuban American) and Marly Rivera (Puerto Rican). Offering a textual and content analysis, I suggest that One Nación provides a benchmark to assess the cultural politics of diversifying sport media content, coverage, and context. Moreover, I argue that One Nación, while unable to escape the dominant features of late racial/gendered capitalism, produces a counterhegemonic discursive practice capable of challenging mediated circulations of Latino Americans.

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