scholarly journals Social Responsibility of Mining Companies at a Time of COVID-19: Dear Shareholders!

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Irena Jindřichovská ◽  
Eva Eckert
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
Multinational Mining Companies

This paper examines annual reports (ARs) of multinational mining companies Glencore, Rio Tinto and BHP framed by the challenge of COVID-19 in 2020. We apply a linguistic analysis to screening the letters of chairmen and CEOs that encapsulate an ideology of mining, prioritize the message of sustained and prospective financial success, and display commitment to employees and communities. Using critical discourse analysis, we explore how corporations involved in destructive activities managed to mask the nature of their conduct and promote positive PR when expected to document an on-the-ground involvement with employees and local communities due to the global pandemic. We accounted for the ideology of mining natural resources, the central message foregrounded in the reports, the selection and distribution of key topics and keywords, and relexicalization of critical concepts and descriptions. The CDA revealed “smart management” of COVID-19 aimed to hide facts related to the destruction of the environment and to manipulate people in exchange for education, financial rewards and social improvement. The critical contribution of our paper is that the COVID-19 crisis became an opportunity for corporations to display resilience as well as to manage, dominate and render local populations dependent and vulnerable.

scholarly journals STAKEHOLDER RELATION IN PT TIMAH AS THE KEY OF COMPANY’S SUSTAINABILITY AS REFLECTED IN PP No 1 2017

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henni Gusfa ◽  
Stella Monica Febrianti ◽  
irmawati oktavianingtyas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
Collaborative Decision

<p><i>This research is aimed to gain deeper understanding on the stakeholder relation held by PT Timah Indonesia and its changes based on Peraturan Pemerintah No 1 2017. The issue of the PP No 1 2017. The thesis question discussed in this research to what extend the Corporate Capitalism Practices applied by PT Timah Indonesia based on the mining practices in Bangka Belitung Island.The theory aplied in this research is the Stanley Deetz Critical Perspective of organization theory. The theory is explaining about the collaborative decision making between stakeholders in company. The methodology applied in this research is the Critical Discourse Analysis by Teun A Van Dijk. The result of the research is the return of power to Central Government and re – mapping the stakeholders of PT Timah. The position of the Inalum as the agent of Central Government has main function in integrating the informations from PT Timah and other mining companies so that the Central Government will be well informed of the condition on each of the companies.</i></p>

scholarly journals Women’s Rights and the Feminists’ “Dirty Plans”: Media Discourses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia

Affilia ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 088610992096082
Author(s):  
Anna Andreeva ◽  
Nataliia Drozhashchikh ◽  
Galina Nelaeva
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Restrictive Measures

In this brief, the authors examine Russian media discourses on domestic violence during the COVID-19 global pandemic. With the introduction of restrictive measures against the virus, such as physical distancing measures, cordoning off cities, a 2-week travel quarantine, and others, media reports started to emphasize growing numbers of domestic violence cases and the insufficiency of measures to help the victims. Russian media frequently linked the incidents of violence under lockdown to the absence of adequate legislative measures. Importantly, Russian media reports referenced a proposed draft law on domestic violence that had been actively debated throughout the second half of 2019 but was not adopted. Traditionalist groups, who believed the special law was not necessary, countered media reports insisting that family remained the safest place for people under the pandemic. Drawing on a constructivist paradigm and using critical discourse analysis and content analysis, this article examines media representations of domestic violence during the COVID-19 health pandemic, as well as media narratives over the perception of the state faced with the two insurmountable tasks: to contain the epidemic and protect the most vulnerable members of the society. We argue that despite the increasing influence of traditionalist ideas in Russian foreign and domestic policy-making, the COVID-19 pandemic can provide human rights activists and social workers with a renewed opportunity to frame the necessity of a special domestic violence law as means to protect the interests of the most vulnerable members of the society during crisis situations.

scholarly journals “Where am I?” A Critical Discourse Analysis of Religious Representation in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 126-143
Author(s):  
Maretha Dellarosa
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Learning Ecosystem ◽  
Gamified Learning ◽  
Game Elements ◽  
Specific Learning

Diversified learning is the path to supplement students’ needs in the contemporary generation. These students’ lives have revolved around technology since birth; as such, the role of technology cannot be ignored. Furthermore, this was prevalent during the lockdown imposed by the global pandemic which compelled the incorporation of educational technology into student’s lives. As gamification harnesses the power of game elements, identifying how gamified learning affects a student’s game player traits will be vital in identifying whether specific learning methods can invoke, change and cultivate better learning outcomes. This quasi-experimental study involving two groups of students learning computer science in Malaysia was carried out over eight weeks. Findings revealed that most prevalent player traits changes were evident in the primary construct of social player traits, followed by subconstructs of customization, relationship, socializing, and mechanics. These changes are attributed to the need to reach out, communicate, and collaborate with their peers and look into how the system works for them individually, within the context of the learning and explorative needs of students. As such, gamified learning has not only managed to offer a new paradigm into the learning ecosystem but has also shown that positive changes can be cultivated based on these conditions.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI KELUGASAN BERANDA LAMAN WWW.COVID19.GO.ID: TINJAUAN ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS

MIMESIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Irwan Suswandi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Information Providers ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Valid Information

The digital era has encourages information providers to innovate by utilizing the internet to convey information quickly. No exception for the government in a way to provide information and news related to Covid-19 which has become a global pandemic.  Using a website as a source of information can give quick access for people to obtain actual and valid information relating to Covid-19.  Through www.covid19.go.id, the government provides a facility for people to be able to access all information about Covid-19 matters. In this research, the researcher will analyze how government gives simplicity in providing information related to Covid-19, which is represented on the www.covid19.go.id homepage. The researcher used CDA (critical discourse analysis) theory from Fairclough to analyze the text found on the www.covid19.go.id homepage.  Then, the results of critical discourse analysis were linked with the reputation theory of Charles J. Fombrun.  The analysis produced information in the form of language units of www.covid19.go.id homepage which contains a simplicity matter in the delivery of information.  From this analysis, the researcher can conclude that the simplicity in www.covid19.go.id homepage was represented through the website components, content, and propositions contained in the homepage.  The simplicity matter also found in the use of modes, those were descriptive, persuasive, and interrogative mode. 

scholarly journals Environmentální prvky jako součást skrytého kurikula v učebnici anglického jazyka

Envigogika ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Kubrická ◽  
Zdeněk Hromádka
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
The Cross

The paper deals with the environmental content in an English foreign language textbook Time to Talk. The purpose of the text is to classify environmental elements in the textbook in the context of Czech curricular documents for environmental education and analyse the presentation of this content. The potential ideological message and the degree of manipulativeness of the environmental content is described by selected techniques of critical discourse analysis and the concept of open and closed text. In total 4 texts and 19 tasks are analysed. The results of the analysis imply that the textbook can be used in teaching the cross-curricular topic environmental education as it is related to the key topics of Czech curricular documents. Special attention is paid to ideological elements in closed texts where the environmental content is presented as unquestionable and presupposes the reader ́s passive cooperation.

Realising our (neoliberal) potential? A critical discourse analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Ontario, Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Smith-Carrier ◽  
Andrea Lawlor
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Reduction Strategy ◽  
Poverty Reduction Strategy ◽  
The Government

We examine the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) launched in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province. Using corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, we explore the dominant discourses that emerge in a genre chain produced by the Government of Ontario, including the initial 2008 PRS, annual reports and the 2014–2019 recontextualised PRS. Six key discourses surfaced: social exclusion, social inclusion, economic benefit or social investment, expert knowledge, community engagement and requisites for the PRS’ success – typically involving investments from the federal government and a favourable economic climate. No discourse of human rights, or of the rights to food, housing and an adequate standard of living is present in the PRS texts, absolving the government from its responsibility to ensure these rights. Without the accountability mechanisms attached to a rights-based approach, the PRS has little chance of ‘breaking the cycle’ of poverty, and will not likely ‘realise its potential’ to do so.

scholarly journals Sustainability in Public Pension Funds? A Longitudinal Study of the Council on Ethics of the Swedish AP Funds

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 429
Author(s):  
Joel Boudin ◽  
Jan Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Public Pension ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Value Conflicts ◽  
Public Pension System ◽  
Economic Rationale

Are public pension funds taking sustainability values into serious consideration? This question is addressed by analyzing annual reports of The Council on Ethics in the Swedish public pension system, which has a clear mission from The Swedish Government to consider sustainability values. The council was established in 2007 and supports four funds with advice. This article studies empirically how the council’s expression of words connected to different values has changed over time as well as how it practically reasons in situations of value conflicts. The quantitative data shows that words indicative of “sustainability values” have considerably increased. As a contrast, the critical discourse analysis shows that the council often reasons in a general, loose way about preferable solutions, while more practical claims for action are largely lacking or are vague in relation to sustainable development. The underlying rationale is very much in line with the discourse of economic rationalism. Thus, the quantitative findings suggest an emerging sustainability discourse, while the qualitative analysis clearly indicates that an economic rationale continues to underpin the council’s practical reasoning. However, it is concluded that this is not a simple case of green washing documents but rather a slow train moving towards green institutional change.

scholarly journals STAKEHOLDER RELATION IN PT TIMAH AS THE KEY OF COMPANY’S SUSTAINABILITY AS REFLECTED IN PP No 1 2017

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henni Gusfa ◽  
Stella Monica Febrianti ◽  
irmawati oktavianingtyas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
Collaborative Decision

<p><i>This research is aimed to gain deeper understanding on the stakeholder relation held by PT Timah Indonesia and its changes based on Peraturan Pemerintah No 1 2017. The issue of the PP No 1 2017. The thesis question discussed in this research to what extend the Corporate Capitalism Practices applied by PT Timah Indonesia based on the mining practices in Bangka Belitung Island.The theory aplied in this research is the Stanley Deetz Critical Perspective of organization theory. The theory is explaining about the collaborative decision making between stakeholders in company. The methodology applied in this research is the Critical Discourse Analysis by Teun A Van Dijk. The result of the research is the return of power to Central Government and re – mapping the stakeholders of PT Timah. The position of the Inalum as the agent of Central Government has main function in integrating the informations from PT Timah and other mining companies so that the Central Government will be well informed of the condition on each of the companies.</i></p>

Discursive construction of an anti-immigration Europe by a Sweden Democrat in the European Parliament

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-439
Author(s):  
Kamber Güler
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Social Power ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Group

Discourses are mostly used by the elites as a means of controlling public discourse and hence, the public mind. In this way, they try to legitimate their ideology, values and norms in the society, which may result in social power abuse, dominance or inequality. The role of a critical discourse analyst is to understand and expose such abuses and inequalities. To this end, this paper is aimed at understanding and exposing the discursive construction of an anti-immigration Europe by the elites in the European Parliament (EP), through the example of Kristina Winberg, a member of the Sweden Democrats political party in Sweden and the political group of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy in the EP. In the theoretical and methodological framework, the premises and strategies of van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach of critical discourse analysis make it possible to achieve the aim of the paper.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document