Power and Gender Issues in Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride: A Critical Discourse Analysis

This critical discourse study explores power and gender issues discursively constructed in Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride. The study aims to examine gender issues in the tribal patriarchal social system in Pakistan. The novel understudy critically explored the abuse of power in a patriarchal society. Lazar’s concept of Feminist critical discourse analysis and Fairclough’s approach to critical discourse analysis has been chosen to examine the main issues faced by women in remote areas of Pakistan. Fairclough’s (1989) model has been adopted as a method for the analysis of the selected excerpts taken from the text of the novel. The analysis of the text has been made on the ground to explore women's marginalization, patriarchal hegemony, and power exercise in Pakistan’s remote areas.

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Reformulating the Riot Grrrl Movement: Space and Sisterhood in Kathleen Hanna’s Lyrics

Clepsydra. Revista de Estudios de Género y Teoría Feminista ◽

10.25145/j.clepsydra.2021.20.05 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 99-119

Author(s):

Soraya Alonso Alconada ◽

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Gender Issues ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Gender Identities ◽

Cultural Understanding ◽

Riot Grrrl ◽

The Social ◽

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Underground Music

Music has become a crucial domain to discuss issues such as gender, identities and equality. With this study I aim at carrying out a feminist critical discourse analysis of the lyrics by American singer and songwriter Kathleen Hanna (1968-), a pioneer within the underground punk culture and head figure of the Riot Grrrl movement. Covering relevant issues related to women’s conditions, Hanna’s lyrics put gender issues at the forefront and become a significant means to claim feminism in the underground. In this study I pay attention to the instances in which Hanna’s lyrics in Bikini Kill and Le Tigre exhibit a reading of sisterhood and space and by doing so, I will discuss women’s invisibility in underground music and broaden the social and cultural understanding of this music

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Are STEM Syllabi Gendered? A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

The Qualitative Report ◽

10.46743/2160-3715/2016.2467 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Parson

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Research University ◽

Education Institution ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Higher Education Institution ◽

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

And Gender

This study explored the gendered nature of STEM higher education institution through a feminist critical discourse analysis of STEM course syllabi from a Midwest research university. I explored STEM syllabi to understand how linguistic features such as stance and interdiscursivity are used in the syllabus and how language and discourses used in the syllabus replicate the masculine nature of STEM education. Findings suggest that the discourses identified in the syllabi reinforce traditional STEM academic roles, and that power and gender in the STEM syllabi are revealed through exploration of the themes of knowledge, learning, and the teaching and learning environment created by the language used in the syllabus. These findings inform and extend understanding of the STEM syllabus and the STEM higher education institution and lead to recommendations about how to make the STEM syllabus more inclusive for women.

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“One, Two, Many = One too many?” Conceptualizations of mother tongue

Oslo Studies in Language ◽

10.5617/osla.8494 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 135-157

Author(s):

Anne Golden ◽

Toril Opsahl ◽

Ingebjørg Tonne

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Conceptual Metaphor ◽

Mother Tongue ◽

Point Of View ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Novel ◽

Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽

Traditional Use ◽

Metaphor Theory

In this article, we analyze the use of the term ‘morsmål’ (‘mother tongue’) in official Norwegian documents and in media texts to identify if and how its conceptualization has changed in the era of increasing globalization. Our point of view is explorative. When examining our data, we highlight the importance of reflecting openly about the instability of powerful concepts. We highlight two partly conflicting conceptualizations that we name the ‘traditional use’ and the ‘novel use’, respectively. Building on critical discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory we explore how the conceptualizations reveal certain aspects of ideologies and the potential management of multilingualism in society. A broader understanding of how conceptualizations of mother tongue(s) are played out in the Norwegian context may contribute to the dialogue about multilingualism as it is understood and recognized across diverse contexts.

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A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GENDER SUBJECTIVITY IN HENRY JAMES’ THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

European Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics Studies ◽

10.46827/ejlll.v5i2.275 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Shah Mir ◽

Saima Jahangir

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Henry James ◽

Social Order ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Power Structures ◽

Portrait Of A Lady ◽

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Patriarchal Power ◽

Gender Subjectivity

Reassessment and interpretation of gender dynamics in the current social order has been prevalent theme within gender discourses. The yoke of subordination borne by women as readers, writers or fictional characters in the patriarchal pyramid occupies a central space across the whole spectrum of debates. This study utilizes a qualitative mode of inquiry which is centered on textual analysis. The present study evaluates the instances of gender subjectivity and patterns of subjugation within the textual arena invested with hegemonic ideologies as depicted in the novel The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. The paper employs feminist critical discourse analysis as a tool to analyze The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James in order to dissect the underlying ideologies present in the Victorian time period and investigates discourses of subjectivity. The findings of the study demonstrate that notwithstanding temporal advancements, gender power structures remain intact, and women continue to suffer under patriarchal power structures. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0874/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

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Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of The Stone Woman by Tariq Ali

Global Language Review ◽

10.31703/glr.2020(v-iii).28 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol V (III) ◽

pp. 275-287

Author(s):

Muhammad Asaf Amir ◽

Sajid Ali ◽

Farheen Akhter

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Class ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Institutions ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Feminist Critique ◽

The Social ◽

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Family And Marriage ◽

Status Of Women

This paper brings out the Feminist Critique of Ali's Novel The Stone Woman by applying Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth CDA). The study employs a corpus-driven technique. Lazar's (2007) feminist CDA model has been used to study how women are kept out of the social circle, and the ideology of the superiority of men has been institutionalized and naturalized. This, in turn, gives power and hegemony to man as a social class. It has been concluded that the place and status of women in society have been gendered, and they are victims of social and economic discrimination. Men are supported by social institutions like family and marriage to make their discourse privileged, preferred and justified.

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Quest for Body and Voice: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Shamsie's Broken Verses

Global Language Review ◽

10.31703/glr.2021(vi-ii).09 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol VI (II) ◽

pp. 78-84

Author(s):

Mashhood Anjum ◽

Iftikhar Baig ◽

Abdul Hameed

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Paradigm Change ◽

Feminist Discourse ◽

Discourse Strategies ◽

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

In contemporary and postmodern literary discourses, feminism has introduced a paradigm change in the sex debates. The plan of feminist critical discourse analysis is to explore different discourses from a feminist viewpoint. The planned study conforms to this field of feminist discourse that will attempt to analyze Kamila Shamsie's selected work, Broken Verses. She, being a famous feminist, has produced discourses in which structural and thematic samples absorb sex debates. Her feminist tendency has established clear expression in all the aspects of her works: body, voice and characterization. The current study shows how she has used feminist discourse strategies in conventionality with her feminist literary position. This research extensively improves the perceptive of Kamila Shamsie's work and pictures how the feministic arrangement and feminist critical discourse analysis have been inventively infused in her famous works.

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