scholarly journals Employability of Persuasive and Rhetorical Strategies: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Selected Address

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-78
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Made In

This study deals with the utilization of Persuasive and Rhetorical Strategies used by Prime Minister Imran Khan in his address to the nation on 17th March 2020. This address was made in the background of the Covid-19 pandemic. Aristotle’s concept of persuasive components namely ethos, pathos, and logos was followed to examine the utilization of these devices. Furthermore, rhetorical devices like rhetorical questions, inclusiveness, and exclusiveness were also analyzed. A Mixed-Method approach was used to analyze the data. Quantitative data were obtained by using Corpus software AntConc, 3.5.8 (windows) 2019. Concordances were taken through this software, related to different devices and techniques. These numerical data were elaborated qualitatively. On the basis of the findings of the study, it can be said that PM Imran Khan practiced these techniques effectively and extensively.

scholarly journals Teaching Power Construction in EFL Classes through Tweets: A Discourse Analytic Based Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-329
Author(s):  
Dr. Mamona Yasmin Khan ◽  
Syeda Aeliya Raza ◽  
Farhana Yasmin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
English Language ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Power Construction ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
The Status ◽  
Method Approach

Communicative approaches and methods are still found to be inadequate in addressing the pedagogical issues of EFL learners. In developing countries, there is a dire need for EFL teachers to make the students understand and deconstruct ideologies embedded in the English language. The study sets out to define and explore the ways and dimensions of Critical Discourse Analysis that will assist EFL teachers to reveal and teach power constructions embedded in language. This study focuses on The Ideological Square Model of CDA proposed by Van Dijk (2000). Following a mixed-method approach, twenty tweets of Donald Trump are selected through random sampling dated from 27th May to 5th October 2020. The analysis reveals that Trump’s tweets expose polarization, use of pronouns (54% in-group pronouns, and 46% Out-group pronoun) emphasize positive In-Group representation. These ways expose the stances of extreme power use, criticism, and discriminatory attitude towards Out-Group and reveal that the centralizations of all authorities are entitled to In-Group that holds the status quo. The research implies that EFL learners will be better able to aware of ideological constructions of language by the CDA in teaching. This study can be expanded by adopting CDA as a teaching tool in EFL classes, which can be used to expose and deconstruct many other ideologies like, Feminism, Racism, and Marxism etc. that are rooted in language.

‘A long, narrow and uphill road’: The representation of Turkey–EEC/EU relations in the Turkish newspapers Cumhuriyet and Hürriyet (1959–2019)

2021 ◽  
pp. 026732312199951
Author(s):  
Ayça Demet Atay
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Front Page ◽  
The European Union ◽  
News Discourse

Turkey’s membership process to the European Union has been a ‘long, narrow and uphill road’, as former Turkish Prime Minister, and later President, Turgut Özal once stated. This study analyses the representation of the European Union–Turkey negotiation process in the Turkish newspapers Cumhuriyet and Hürriyet from 1959 to 2019 with the aim of understanding the changing meaning of ‘Europe’ and the ‘European Union’ in Turkish news discourse. There is comprehensive literature on the representation of Turkey’s membership process in the European press. This article aims to contribute to the field by assessing the representation of the same process from a different angle. For this purpose, Cumhuriyet and Hürriyet newspapers’ front page coverage of selected 10 key dates in the European Union–Turkey relations is analysed through critical discourse analysis.

Malaysian vs Philippines News Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Wan Faizatul Azirah Ismayatim ◽  
Sridevi Sriniwasss ◽  
Nadiah Thanthawi Jauhari
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Main Process ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Lexical Cohesion

This paper reports on a study on Experiential meaning particularly the main process types used in the reporting of the airstrike event launched by Malaysian security forces on March 5, 2013 during the intrusion of “Sulu Sultan” followers in Lahad Datu. Data for the study comprised text reports pertinent to the airstrike event published in four different English newspapers which are The News Straits Times (NST), The Star (TS), The Philippine Daily Inquirer (TPDI) and The Philippine Star (TPS). A total of 8 texts were analysed. Various methods have been developed to study newspapers representation and stance of controversial issues which include content analysis, critical discourse analysis, lexical cohesion, the use of metaphors, transitivity and thematic analysis among others. However, the framework of transitivity has not been widely used. Hence, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), in particular, the System of Transitivity propounded by M.A.K. Halliday (1994) was used to bridge the gap in research and the methodology of text analysis was deployed. The study revealed that NST was the only newspaper which highlighted the sorrow and the grief of Malaysians and its Prime Minister in which this newspaper accounts for the most in employing the Mental Processes, while TS, TPDI and TPS highlighted more on the physical actions and the resoluteness of both countries in handling the Lahad Datu conflict when Material Processes were dominant in these newspapers.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of Pakistani Newspapers Editorials in Coronavirus Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-153
Author(s):  
Nayab Waqas Khan ◽  
Mehak Muneer ◽  
Huma Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
Second Wave

This research explores Pakistani newspapers Editorials’ lexical, morphological, and social aspects of the coronavirus Pandemic in Pakistan under the light of the Critical Discourse Analysis angle. The focal idea is to discover the etymological decision and rhetorical questions utilized in a revealing pandemic, and how did the columnists shape readers' minds and thoughts through their words. The CDA has been used as a theoretical framework for analyzing the data. Information for this examination includes 15 Editorial randomly gathered from 100 newspapers in Pakistan. Results demonstrated the exploitation of terminologies has been shown inconvenience, fear of contagious disease, death, fear of touching, and outbreak among people. The bogus information was additionally found in newspapers. Contradiction among newspapers was found while presenting data. This social change brings ultimately a linguistic change in the world. The English language is the language of overcoming gaps among nations, but this time it had correspondingly ushered in a new vocabulary to the general populace. For instance, new vocabulary, acronyms, synonyms, compounding, etc. Social change is parallel to linguistic change, and it is a paramount theme of lexicography. The local newspapers advocated a massive outbreak of the coronavirus and expected a second wave of this pandemic that was frustrating for the educational sector on top. The newspaper editors manipulate thoughts through forceful lexis usage to influence the thought, and opinions of Pakistani people.

Framing and blaming in times of economic crisis: The rise and fall of the “Rudd Recession”

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 814-836
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Diffusion Resistance ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

This article takes a critical approach to the language used by Australian politicians during the global financial crisis of 2007–8. Critical periods in history provide a rich substrate for the appearance of new expressions with the potential to frame the debate, influencing the ways events are interpreted and blame attributed. Passing unnoticed into usage, such memes have the potential to become part of unexamined background knowledge and covertly co-opt hearers and users into shared systems of value and belief. The study focusses on one specific neologism deployed by opposition politicians, firstly in an attempt to create the erroneous impression that a recession was occurring and secondly that it was the fault of the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. Patterns of occurrence were tracked against local and international events, indicating a life cycle with several distinct phases: chance emergence, a strategic deployment, cross-genre diffusion, resistance and eventual rejection. Keywords: Alliteration; critical discourse analysis; economic crisis; blame; political discourse; slogans; social media; memes.

scholarly journals A Contrastive Critical Discourse Analysis of Netanyahu’s and Abbas's Speeches on the Gaza War (2014)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa’ G. Rababah ◽  
Jihad M. Hamdan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly

This study provides a contrastive critical discourse analysis of the speeches of the Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations General Assembly regarding the Gaza War (2014). The analysis explores the representation of the “Self” and the “Other” in relation to the war. Van Dijk’s ‘Ideological Square’ theory is adopted to explore the group polarization of Us versus Them dichotomy. Moreover Halliday’s Systematic Functional Grammar is utilized in the analysis to study how the polarization of the “Self” and “Other” is constructed via particular grammatical transitivity choices. The results indicated that the representation of the “Self” and “Other” in the speeches reflects two different opposing ideologically-governed perspectives on the Gaza conflict. Both speakers present the “Self” as ‘strong’, ‘human’ and ‘honorable’ in contrast to the “Other” that is deemed to be a ‘dire threat’ and an ‘agent of destruction’.

scholarly journals Designing diagnostics in complexity: Measuring technical and contextual aspects in monitoring and evaluation systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa ◽  
Marcel T. Korth
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Organisational Context ◽  
Management Function ◽  
The City ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Made In

Background: This article emphasizes the importance of reflecting on the methods employed when designing diagnostic tools for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. It sheds light on a broader debate about how we understand and assess M&E systems within their political and organisational contexts.Objectives: The article looks at what divergent purposes of M&E mean for how M&E systems are assessed, and how context-appropriate diagnostic studies can be designed.Method: The article draws on two different approaches: a survey that looks at the technical components of an M&E system and a complexity framework that analyses the way a system functions in a broader political and organisational context. The foundation is provided by survey and interview data from over 70 officials from across the City of Johannesburg’s administration.Results: The study revealed great diversity as to respondents’ understanding of what M&E structures and processes should do and achieve within the city, ranging from a management function closely linked to auditing and oversight responsibilities to a governance role that is more linked to learning and planning. Limitations in M&E capacity and/or performance were linked to contested political and bureaucratic structures.Conclusion: The mixed method approach to diagnostics proposed in this article contributes to the call in the ‘Made in Africa’ debate for more contextualised methods and tools around the practice and the assessment of M&E. The article proposes the development of a synthetic tool that covers both M&E technical components and capacity on one hand, and an analysis of how these are embedded in a political and organisational context on the other.

scholarly journals Editorial

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aileen Moreton-Robinson ◽  
Maggie Walter ◽  
David Singh
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Wrong Side ◽  
Indigenous Australia ◽  
The Social ◽  
Closing The Gap ◽  
Indigenous Perspective

This edition is marked by a strong Antipodean focus. The first three articles bring a critical Indigenous perspective to areas previously cosseted by Western understandings. Robyn Moore, using critical discourse analysis, takes Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s 2011 ‘Closing the Gap’ speech to task for naturalising Indigenous Australia’s position on the wrong side of the social and economic ‘gap’. She argues that, far from accepting white culpability, Gillard instead polishes cultural deficit understandings of Indigenous disadvantage by framing the social and economic divide in meritocratic terms. In so doing, Moore further argues, Gillard casts a benevolent light upon white Australia.

scholarly journals The Role of Critical Discourse in the Reproduction of Social and Political Power

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Abasel Dehchnashki ◽  
Zahra Kohi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
The Common

<p>Nowadays with increasing theoretical criticism of positivism approach, many social and humanities scientists emphasize qualitative methods of research rather than quantitative data collection and statistical analysis. One of the common methods of qualitative research is critical discourse analysis. From the perspective of philosophy, critical discourse analysis is based on structuralism which emphasizes human role (i.e. reduces reality to human structures). This article is to present a review of the origins of critical discourse analysis and influential theoretical schools and expresses the most common and different approaches. The article analyzes the logical implications of the structural foundations of critical discourse analysis. It also comes to the conclusion that diversity in discourse is inseparable from social and political factors. As a result, linguistic diversity reflects structured social differences that creates it.</p>

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