scholarly journals The Multimodal Construction of Brexit in the Economist (2017 – 2021)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Balance Of Interests ◽  
The Eu

This paper aims to show how and why the Economist constructs the post-Brexit European Union’s (EU) image in a string of commentaries published in the Charlemagne section in the 2017-2021 period. The theoretical concepts that provide the interdisciplinary methodological framework within which the research topic – the exposure of the discursive and cognitive mechanisms whereby the global media of British origin constructs the EU’s image and frames the debate about the EU – is explored encompass social semiotics and critical discourse analysis. The findings suggest that through its interplay of headline and subheading, together with the cartoon and textual body, the Economist holds the assumption that Brexit threatens the cohesion of the EU and prompts the drawing of a new balance of interests.

scholarly journals Political philosophy and Australian far-right media: A critical discourse analysis of The Unshackled and XYZ

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 072551362110086
Author(s):  
Imogen Richards ◽  
Maria Rae ◽  
Matteo Vergani ◽  
Callum Jones
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
New Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Far Right ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Conservative Revolution ◽  
Social Conservatism ◽  
European New Right

A 21st-century growth in prevalence of extreme right-wing nationalism and social conservatism in Australia, Europe, and America, in certain respects belies the positive impacts of online, new, and alternative forms of global media. Cross-national forms of ‘far-right activism’ are unconfined to their host nations; individuals and organisations campaign on the basis of ethno-cultural separatism, while capitalising on internet-based affordances for communication and ideological cross-fertilisation. Right-wing revolutionary ideas disseminated in this media, to this end, embody politico-cultural aims that can only be understood with attention to their philosophical underpinnings. Drawing on a dataset of articles from the pseudo-news websites, XYZ and The Unshackled, this paper investigates the representation of different rightist political philosophical traditions in contemporary Australia-based far-right media. A critical discourse and content analysis reveal XYZ and TU’s engagement with various traditions, from Nietzsche and the Conservative Revolution, to the European New Right and neo-Nazism.

scholarly journals The Oslo Museum Puzzle. Reflections on the relation between culture and economy

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joar Skrede
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
New Buildings ◽  
Renewal Project

The decision has been made to relocate several cultural institutions in Oslo, without any existing plans for the old premises. In this article, the supportive arguments are analysed against the backdrop of the critical voices. The critics want to preserve the old buildings because they are embedded in the nation’s collective memory and have value as history. The supporters of the plans argue that the new buildings are bricks in a bigger city renewal project and shall generate synergetic effects beyond just functioning as cultural institutions. Critical discourse analysis is used eclectically as a methodological framework with a specific focus on what structural patterns of social change the arguments imply. The conclusion is that economy’s entry into the cultural sphere may be a threat to the cultural heritage.

scholarly journals Salomi Boukala. “European identity and the representation of Islam in the mainstream press: Argumentation and media discourse”

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitris Serafis
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Cultural Political Economy ◽  
Ideological Background ◽  
Mainstream Press ◽  
The Eu

In her book European identity and the representation of Islam in the mainstream press: Argumentation and media discourse, Salomi Boukala offers us a thoroughly interdisciplinary and extremely timely scrutiny of print media communication in times of profound crises in Europe. Boukala interweaves Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Argumentation theory, employing also notions and principles coming from the fields of Political Sciences, Anthropology, (Cultural) Political Economy. In particular, the author examines how “specific [European] newspapers with opposite ideological background […] construct the European supranational identity via references to the EU and the representation of Islam as a common, European ‘Other’” (p. 7).

scholarly journals Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic features of SABC indigenous language adverts: A Critical Discourse Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-139
Author(s):  
Magret Jongore ◽  
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Pink Phaahla ◽  
Rose Masubelele ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Television Advertising ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Camera Angle ◽  
Visual Semiotics ◽  
The Media ◽  
Electronic Advertising

Discourse encompasses not only written and spoken language but visual images as well. If discourse combines visuals and images, it is important that analysis of such texts account for the special characteristics of visual semiotics; the relationship between language and images. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this paper, unravels power relations in the electronic advertising texts such as those aired on television. The targeted television advertising discourse is characterised by sound, colour, picture, camera angle and other motion picture attributes. The paper argues that texts in general and texts as adverts are hegemonic in nature. The reproduction of a popular culture perpetuated by adverts has been noted to support the perspective that advertising drives the global media and has profound influence on the content of the media messages received and subsequently on the cultures of the recipients. The paper makes use of the McDonalds TV Seat Advert shown on SABC1.

scholarly journals Γλωσσική διδασκαλία στην Α΄ δημοτικού

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ευαγγελία Τύμπα
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Semiotics

Αντικείμενο της διατριβής αποτελεί η μελέτη της γλωσσικής διδασκαλίας σε μία τάξη Α΄ Δημοτικού και η ανάδειξη των ποικίλων λόγων (discourses) που τη διαμόρφωσαν. Με δεδομένο το γεγονός ότι εκτός από ερευνήτρια ήμουν και η εκπαιδευτικός της τάξης, η έρευνα αφορούσε την ανάλυση και των δικών μου διδακτικών επιλογών (κριτική αυτοεθνογραφία), οι οποίες συνδέονται τόσο με τη διδακτική μου εμπειρία όσο και με ποικίλες άλλες παραμέτρους. Προσεγγίζω τη διδασκαλία όχι ως μια τεχνική υπόθεση που συμβαίνει σε κοινωνικοπολιτισμικό κενό, αλλά από μια πολυπαραγοντική διάσταση, εντάσσοντας στη μελέτη της το κοινωνικό και πολιτισμικό συγκείμενο, αναδεικνύοντας τη συνθετότητά της. Η σύλληψη της γλωσσικής διδασκαλίας ως πολυπαραγοντικής και δυναμικής διαδικασίας προσδιόρισε σε σημαντικό βαθμό τις θεωρητικές και μεθοδολογικές μου επιλογές. Αξιοποιώ παραδόσεις από τον χώρο της Κοινωνικής Σημειωτικής (Social Semiotics), της Κριτικής Ανάλυσης Σχολικού Λόγου (Critical Discourse Analysis) και των Κοινοτήτων Πρακτικής (Communities of Practice). Στο πλαίσιο αυτό αναλύω τη διδασκαλία ως μακροκείμενο και ως μια συγκεκριμένη μορφή κοινωνικής πρακτικής, όπου αναζητώ τη σύνδεσή της με τις ταυτότητες των κοινωνικών πρωταγωνιστών καθώς και με το στενό και ευρύτερο συγκειμενικό πλαίσιο. Οι αναλύσεις του σχολικού χώρου, των διδακτικών μακροκειμένων και των διδακτικών συμβάντων ανέδειξαν ποικίλες όψεις του γραμματισμού που καλλιεργήθηκε και επηρέασε την εγγράμματη εμπειρία των παιδιών. Ανέδειξαν επίσης την πολυπλοκότητα της διδασκαλίας που συγκροτήθηκε, η οποία οφείλεται σε ποικίλες και διαφορετικές παραμέτρους που σχετίζονταν με εμένα ως διδάσκουσα, τα παιδιά, τους γονείς αλλά και την ισχύουσα στην ελληνική εκπαίδευση και στο συγκεκριμένο σχολείο πραγματικότητα. Από την έρευνα προκύπτει ότι κάθε πρόταση σχολικού γραμματισμού δεν αποτελεί μια ουδέτερη διαδικασία μεταβίβασης γνώσεων και κατάκτησης δεξιοτήτων αλλά ένα ιδεολογικό και βαθύτατα πολιτικό ζήτημα.

scholarly journals Narrative reinventions as cognitive mechanisms for public policy stability: the case of anti-drug policy in Colombia

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1613-1631
Author(s):  
Jairo Santander
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Drug Control ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
Institutional Order

Abstract Public policies face major challenges to their consolidation and stability that force rulers to make significant political efforts to keep them alive. Some of these challenges occur by the adjustment of the policy’s idea as an attempt to reduce the possible difficulties caused by public confrontation, thus better adapting them to the reference frame of the actors. Such is the case of Colombia’s drug control policy which did not have sufficient legitimacy to be carried out, despite international pressure, but it was later coupled to the international agenda as a national need. By using the critical discourse analysis, this study verifies how the discursive transformation of this policy took place and the cognitive mechanisms used to reinterpret it as a matter of national security and not international co-responsibility, which allowed consolidation of the current prohibitionist strategy. The results of the study reveal an interpretation of the drug trafficking problem as a threat to the institutional order, which reduces the confrontation capacity of the critics of the proposed policy.

scholarly journals Reinvenções narrativas como mecanismos cognitivos para a estabilidade de políticas públicas: o caso da política antidrogas na Colômbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1613-1631
Author(s):  
Jairo Santander
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Reference Frame ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Drug Control ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
Institutional Order

Abstract Public policies face major challenges to their consolidation and stability that force rulers to make significant political efforts to keep them alive. Some of these challenges occur by the adjustment of the policy’s idea as an attempt to reduce the possible difficulties caused by public confrontation, thus better adapting them to the reference frame of the actors. Such is the case of Colombia’s drug control policy which did not have sufficient legitimacy to be carried out, despite international pressure, but it was later coupled to the international agenda as a national need. By using the critical discourse analysis, this study verifies how the discursive transformation of this policy took place and the cognitive mechanisms used to reinterpret it as a matter of national security and not international co-responsibility, which allowed consolidation of the current prohibitionist strategy. The results of the study reveal an interpretation of the drug trafficking problem as a threat to the institutional order, which reduces the confrontation capacity of the critics of the proposed policy.

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