Do you mean what you say? Do you say what you mean? Empowering women at work

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-138
Author(s):  
Shrouq Al Maghlouth
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
Blog Posts

In recent years, Saudi women have been empowered on plenty of levels which were not easily available at the dawn of this century. In the last two decades, social change has been initiated, constructed and distributed discursively on both governmental and non-governmental circles; with the topic of women's inclusion in unconventional work environments provoking controversial positions between the heterogenous society of Saudi Arabia. The current paper offers a critical discourse analysis on how these diverse positions are reported metaphorically in blog posts written by bloggers presenting themselves as supporters of change and women empowerment. Such posts were written between 2009 and 2011; thus, documenting the very early support and opposition to this topic, which has also intensified drastically after King Salman -the current Saudi monarch- ascended to throne in 2015, following the death of the late King Abdullah. Keywords: social change, critical discourse analysis, women empowerment, Saudi Arabia

Representations of Saudi Male’s Guardianship System and Women’s Freedom to Travel in Western Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariq Elyas ◽  
Abdulrahman Aljabri
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
Recent Reform ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Western Media

There has been a tremendous interest in the Western media concerning the status of women in Saudi Arabia. The recent reform in women’s rights and guardianship system has Western media gone into motion frenzy. A few research has been done on the representation of Saudi women in Arabic newspapers, but there is a scarce of research in Western English newspapers to date. This article exercises a critical discourse analysis approach to investigate the language used in three famous Western newspapers to uncover the hidden ideologies behind the representation of Saudi women’s guardianship system. To this end, van Dijk’s (2004) analytical framework was employed to reveal the underlying ideologies of six reports by The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Toronto Star. The findings show that the three newspapers have expressed the notion of “otherness” in their descriptions of Saudi Arabia and Saudi women. Furthermore, the newspapers have shared the employment of consensus and negative other-presentation to portray Saudi women as being oppressed and subordinate.

scholarly journals The Journalistic Representations of Saudi Women in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): A Corpus Critical Discourse Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Waheed M. A. Altohami ◽  
Amir H. Y. Salama
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
American English ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Context Model ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Saudi Women

This paper is a corpus critical discourse analysis of the journalistic representations of Saudi women as they appear in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (Davies, 2008). It follows a sociocognitive approach (van Dijk, 2008) to explore the thematic foci discussing issues related to Saudi women and to discuss the discursive strategies implemented to propagate such issues. The study has reached four findings. First, the thematic foci related to Saudi women are textually and referentially coherent as they were meant to provide a grand narrative underlying a specific context model. Second, Saudi women are negatively represented as no social roles are ascribed to them throughout the corpus. Third, different social actors are also represented alongside Saudi women to put them in a wider socio-cultural context to aggravate their problems. Finally, the most effective discursive strategies which mediated the running context model included victimization, categorization, stereotyping, normalization, and exaggeration.

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.

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

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Threadgold
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Global And Local

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.

scholarly journals The Driving Restriction on Saudi Women: Critical Analysis of Modality in Arabic Online News Discourse

2019 ◽  
pp. 466-487
Author(s):  
Farah Nadia Harun ◽  
Muhammad Marwan Ismail ◽  
Anissa Daoudi ◽  
Paul Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Result ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Hidden Agenda ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Car Driving

In a society mostly dominated by man, Saudi women faced many restrictions compared to man as they have legally been barred from doing many things by themselves or at least without a male guardian. One of these restrictions is car driving, which was supported by the Islamic pronunciation (fatwa) made by the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. Over the last twenty years, there are a lot of struggles recorded by the mass media between the group demanding more rights for Saudi women and the conservative preserving the fundamental of Saudi's culture based on strict Islamic teaching. Hence, this paper examines the way modern standard Arabic online news of Al-Jazirah (AJ) of Saudi Arabia and BBC Arabic (BBCA) of United Kingdom portrayed the restriction of car driving on Saudi women. This paper aims to analyse the ways that language is exploited in BBCA and AJ to report on struggles around the driving restriction on Saudi women, particularly in the used of modality as one of discourse construction strategy utilised by the news outlets. Therefore, the paper will examine the corpus data consists of online news articles published by BBCA and AJ between 2010 and 2014 using corpus data mining software ‘AntConc 3.1’. The quantitative result of corpus data then will be analysed using a qualitative approach based on the textual-oriented Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Fairclough and media discourse of Ruth Wodak. The result shows that the two news outlets have a different way of portraying the restriction of driving on Saudi women according to their political agendas and ideologies. Hence reveal the hidden agenda and ideologies of Arabic online news discourses around the issue of driving restriction and the Saudi women in general.

A Critical Discourse Analysis dalam Kajian Tafsir Alquran: Studi Tafsir Al-Azhar Karya Hamka

TAJDID ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
M. Munawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Individual Activity ◽  
Detailed Explanation

One of the phenomenal Tafsir in Indonesia written by non-Arabic commentators is Tafsir Al-Azhar by Hamka (Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah). This interpretation becomes a reference for Muslims in Indonesia before other modern interpretations come. This interpretation is widely referenced by Qur’an scholars because the language is easy to digest and detailed explanation in accordance with present times. Based on a search of some literature there is no specific discussion about manhaj Tafsir Al-Azhar and its application. So this article will critically examine Hamka’s Tafsir Al-Azhar, especially from the aspect of manhaj and its application in its interpretation. Specifically this article will discuss the method of interpretation, the mechanism of interpretation, and the style of interpretation. The approach used by the writer is Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis. Critical discourse analysis is one of the methods of analyzing discourse in a work by critically analyzing. Fairclough uses discourse analysis by pointing the use of language as a social practice not just an individual activity. In addition, Fairclough also created a model that brought together discourse analysis which was based on linguistics as well as on socio-political thought, or generally integrated with social change. The results of the study shows that Tafsir Al-Azhar is included in the category of non-school interpretation (non-madzhab), which is also characterized by patterns of thought and modern interpretation, especially from Tafsir Al-Manâr and Fî Zhilâl Al-Qur'ân, two books of tafsir are more patterned of adabi -ijtima’î.

scholarly journals Gender Representation in EFL Textbooks in Saudi Arabia: A Fair Deal?

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amjjad Sulaimani
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
International English

This study explores gender representation in an international English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbook that has been specifically adapted for the Saudi Arabian context. It aims to investigate gender frequencies in conversations in three dimensions: gender relations, subject positions, and contents. The quantitative data were analysed using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a model. The results indicate that the textbook is biased in terms of gender. Women are underrepresented in the textbook. They have been totally excluded from half of the units in the textbook. Also, the equal relations between the two genders are limited to friendship. Although both genders are positioned in the same subjects and contents, women are less frequently characterised than men.

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