scholarly journals THE IMAGE OF ARAB IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH PRESS: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 116-132
Author(s):  
Huda Abed Ali Hattab ◽  
Rasha khalil Ibrahim Fakhir
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Arab Immigrants ◽  
British Press

scholarly journals Metaphor, morality and legitimacy: A critical discourse analysis of the media framing of the payday loan industry

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 802-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Budd ◽  
Darren Kelsey ◽  
Frank Mueller ◽  
Andrea Whittle
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Moral Problem ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
British Press

This study examines the metaphors used in the British press to characterize the payday loan industry in order to develop our understanding of organizational delegitimation. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and theories of moral panic, we show how the metaphors used in the press framed the industry as a ‘moral problem’. The study identified four root metaphors that were used to undertake moral problematization: predators and parasites, orientation, warfare and pathology. We show how these metaphors played a key role in the construction of a moral panic through two framing functions: first by constructing images of the damage and danger caused by the firms and second by attributing agency in such a way that moral responsibility was assigned to the organizations. We also extend the discussion of our findings to explore the ideological dimensions of the moral panic. We develop a critical analysis that points to the potential scapegoating role of the discourse, which served as a convenient moral crusade for the government and other neo-liberal supporters to pursue, while detracting attention away from the underlying socio-economic context, including austerity policies, the decline in real wages and the deregulation of the finance sector. From this critical perspective, payday loan companies can be seen as a ‘folk devil’ through which society’s fears about finance capitalism are articulated, creating disproportionate exaggeration and alarm, while the system as a whole can remain intact.

scholarly journals ‘Bisexual oysters’: A diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis of bisexual representation in The Times between 1957 and 2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-267
Author(s):  
Mark Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Significant Variation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
The Past ◽  
British Press ◽  
The Times ◽  
Bisexual People

Recent decades have witnessed an increase in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) visibility in the British media. Increased representation has not been equally distributed, however, as bisexuality remains an obscured sexual identity in discourses of sexuality. Through the use of diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis, this study seeks to uncover how bisexual people have been represented in the British press between 1957 and 2017. By specifically focusing on the discursive construction of bisexuality in The Times, the results reveal how bisexual people are represented as existing primarily in discourses of the past or in fiction. The Times corpus also reveals significant variation in the lexical meaning of bisexual throughout the 60 years in question. These findings contribute to contemporary theories of bisexual erasure which posit that bisexual people are denied the same ontological status as monosexual identities, that is, homosexuality and heterosexuality.

scholarly journals Battles and breakthroughs: representations of dementia in the British press

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Bailey ◽  
Tom Dening ◽  
Kevin Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Professional Attitudes ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
British Press

AbstractMedia coverage of dementia can influence public and professional attitudes towards the syndrome, shaping societal knowledge of dementia and impacting how people with dementia are cared for. This paper reports on a study of news articles about dementia published in the British press in the years 2012–2017. The analysis combines the tools of corpus linguistics, a methodology for quantitatively surveying a vast amount of electronic linguistic data, with the qualitative perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis, which seeks to uncover dominant discourses and ideologies. The most salient discourse that emerged from this analysis was the portrayal of dementia in biomedical terms, with a particular focus on the pathological processes of dementia, and pharmaceutical treatments and research. Keywords relating to this discourse are interrogated in detail, illuminating the linguistic strategies through which the pathology of dementia and people with dementia are depicted. This study highlights the challenges that this type of reporting presents to people living with dementia and their families, and points to the relevance of a discursive approach to understanding societal perceptions of dementia.

scholarly journals Utopia or Uprising? Conflicting Discourses of Japanese Robotics in the British Press

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-167
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The West ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
Advanced Nation ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
The Future ◽  
British Press ◽  
Conflicting Discourses

Technology is a particularly interesting example of where media portrayal of Japan is inconsistent. For many years, Japan has been known as a technologically advanced nation. This image persists, especially in the last couple of years with the introduction of service and retail robots such as Softbank’s Pepper. While sometimes news publications present this as a positive image of the future, an idea of what we in the West have to look forwards to, at other times, the image of technology in Japan is decidedly negative. Sometimes it has too much technology, or it has technologies that ‘we in the West’ would not see a use for. How do these conflicting views arise? This paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis to analyse British news articles about three recent robots in order to reveal the discourses present. The article will investigate whether these depictions are a result of Orientalism, but will show that no single Orientalism is responsible, but rather a combination of Techno-Orientalism, Self-Orientalism, and Wacky Orientalism.

scholarly journals Immigration Discourse in the British Press: Peculiarities of Construction

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 248-257
Author(s):  
M. S. Matytsina
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Illegal Immigration ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Immigration Control ◽  
British Press

The present research features immigration discourse published in the Daily Mail. The author believes immigration discourse to be a consequence of the so-called Arab Spring of 2011. The paper describes some peculiarities of the discourse related to the events of 2011, its semantic indicators, and some particular examples. According to the critical discourse analysis, discourse is a form of social interaction, which makes it possible to clarify how ideology sets the formatting rules of discourse and determines its content. The relevance of the study is due to the growing scientific interest to the phenomenon of political discourse and its various aspects. The research revealed non-politicized terminology that represents immigrants as helpless, desperate victims, who are described with the help of "humanitarian" concepts when it goes about immigration control measures. However, the humanization and victimization of immigrants act as a justification for the measures taken to combat "illegal" immigration and the "humanitarian rescue" of citizens in danger. 

scholarly journals Colony vs. Metropolis: Opposing Discursive Representations of a Colony’s National Identity in the Printed Press

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángela Alameda Hernández
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
British Press ◽  
Human Side ◽  
Discursive Representations

AbstractTheoretically based on the paradigm known as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this paper explores the discursive representation of Gibraltar’s identity as it was perceived both from inside –Gibraltar itself- and from its metropolis –Britain, during two crucial moments for this community: the referendums held in the colony in 2002 and 1967. The textual corpus consists of editorial articles drawn from Gibraltarian and British newspapers. Analysis shows how Gibraltar strongly builds its identity on the expression of its inner self, hence as a victim and passive entity, while the British press constructs Gibraltar as a political entity with little interest on the human side of the issue.Key words: Discourse analysis, CDA, national identity, media discourse, transitivity system, editorial articles.ResumenBasado en el paradigma lingüístico conocido como Análisis Crítico del Discurso (CDA), este artículo explora la identidad Gibraltareña a través de la representación discursiva construida tanto desde dentro de la colonia como desde fuera, su metrópolis, durante los dos referendums que se celebraron en 2002 y 1967. El trabajo analiza artículos editoriales extraídos de la prensa gibraltareña y británica. Los resultados han mostrado cómo Gibraltar construye su representación discursiva como una víctima, mientras que la prensa británica refuerza su identidad política con escaso interés por el lado humano del asunto.Palabras clave: Análisis del discurso, CDA, identidad nacional, discurso mediático, sistema de transitividad, editoriales.

Translating images of Hong Kong in news coverage on BBC Chinese

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Ping
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Image Building ◽  
British Press ◽  
Target Readership

Abstract This study investigates how the image of Hong Kong is presented in translated news in the case of the 2014 protests, adopting an imagological approach. The corpus consists of translated news articles on the BBC Chinese website and their English-language source texts from a variety of British press articles published between 28 September and 15 December 2014. The study is a corpus-based critical discourse analysis focusing on aspects of the labelling and semantic prosodies in relation to Hong Kong. It also assesses aspects of image-building, including the selective appropriation of texts for translation, the institutional procedures, and target readership reception, that together contribute to the discursive construction of socio-political images of Hong Kong.

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