Discourse Analysis in Translation Courses

Social Relations ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Translation Strategy ◽

Relations Of Power ◽

Cultural Constraints ◽

Different Levels ◽

One of the primary functions of a translator is to mediate not only between languages but also between cultures. As ideology is one of the crucial cultural constraints, it is essential to teach students that selection of translation strategy is always either implicitly or explicitly affected by the translator's ideology. Thus, the main aim of this chapter is to illustrate the importance of introducing critical discourse analysis as a powerful tool for ideological analysis in the translation classroom. By understanding how social relations of power are exercised and negotiated in and through discourses, future translators will be able to better operate on different levels during text (re)production and translation of a message. The authors outline the course in which the students were first presented advertising slogans in English, which were later analyzed in the classroom.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Representations of Travellers in Public Policies in Ireland

Societies ◽

10.3390/soc11010014 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 14

Author(s):

Claire Jane Snowdon ◽

Leena Eklund Eklund Karlsson

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Relations ◽

Social Practice ◽

Expert Knowledge ◽

Minority Group ◽

Critical Role ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Discursive Practice ◽

Negative Stereotypes

In Ireland, negative stereotypes of the Traveller population have long been a part of society. The beliefs that surround this minority group may not be based in fact, yet negative views persist such that Travellers find themselves excluded from mainstream society. The language used in discourse plays a critical role in the way Travellers are represented. This study analyses the discourse in the public policy regarding Travellers in the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy (NTRIS) 2017–2021. This study performs a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the policy with the overall aims of showing signs of the power imbalance through the use of language and revealing the discourses used by elite actors to retain power and sustain existing social relations. The key findings show that Travellers are represented as a homogenous group that exists outside of society. They have no control over how their social identity is constructed. The results show that the constructions of negative stereotypes are intertextually linked to previous policies, and the current policy portrays them in the role of passive patients, not powerful actors. The discursive practice creates polarity between the “settled” population and the “Travellers”, who are implicitly blamed by the state for their disadvantages. Through the policy, the government disseminates expert knowledge, which legitimises the inequality and supports this objective “truth”. This dominant discourse, which manifests in wider social practice, can facilitate racism and social exclusion. This study highlights the need for Irish society to change the narrative to support an equitable representation of Travellers.

Scottish Press Coverage of UK General Elections after Devolution: the 2001 and 2005 Campaigns

Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network ◽

10.31165/nk.2009.21.34 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marina Dekavalla

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Press Coverage ◽

Election Campaign ◽

Political Debate ◽

Research Project ◽

General Elections ◽

This paper presents preliminary findings from a wider study into the form that political debate takes in Scottish and English/UK newspapers’ reporting of the 2001 and the 2005 UK Elections. The research project aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the role played by the Scottish press in political deliberation after devolution and compares its contribution to the electoral debate with that of newspapers bought in England. This paper explores the results of a content analysis of articles from daily Scottish and UK newspapers during the four weeks of each election campaign period. This reveals that, despite some differences, the overall picture of the coverage of major election issues is consistent. A selection of the coverage of taxation, the most mentioned reserved issue in the 2001 campaign, is subsequently analysed using critical discourse analysis, and the results suggest more distinction between the two sets of newspapers.

A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of Pre-2019 General Elections Reports in Selected Nigerian Newspapers

International Journal of Linguistics Literature & Translation ◽

10.32996/ijllt.2020.3.9.15 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (9) ◽

pp. 142-147

Author(s):

Samuel Oyeyemi Agbeleoba ◽

Edward Owusu ◽

Asuamah Adade-Yeboah

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Interaction ◽

Language Use ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

News Reports ◽

General Elections ◽

Negative Perceptions ◽

Language Corpus ◽

Different Levels

Generally, language experts believe that there are inherent ideologies in language use. The aspect of discourse study that discloses such ideologies is known as Critical Discourse Study (CDA). This paper seeks to exhume the various inherent ideologies that presuppose selected news reports on the Nigeria’s 2019 General Elections in Nigerian newspapers. This study is, however, corpus-based. Scholars have established that discourse is a kind of constructively conditioned public exercise. They believe that power relations exist at different levels of daily social interaction; revealing superiority or inferiority of interlocutors involved. News reports relating to the General Elections were electronically collated from the various newspaper platforms for a sizable language corpus. The name Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was selected and analysed purposively with the aid of Digital Humanities (DH) tool to observe the frequency of the acronym INEC and the textual context in which it occurs in five newspapers’ reports about the electoral body via the authority it gives; the warning it issues, and the appeal it makes to the stakeholders. The paper finds out that the negative perceptions of many observers about the elections have actually been predicted by the various reports in the newspapers, prior to the elections. The paper concludes that reporters of news items do not account for issues concerning electoral body with the same constructive and destructive dispositions; and this gives room for subjectivity and prejudice.

Teach First organisational discourse: What are Teach First teachers really being trained for?

Power and Education ◽

10.1177/1757743818771393 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 264-274 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jenny Elliott

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Teaching Profession ◽

Vested Interest ◽

Initial Teacher Education ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Institutional Discourse ◽

Strategic Positioning ◽

Different Levels

This article considers the networked nature of Teach First in order to illustrate the different business, philanthropic and educational agents that have a vested interest in the organisation. It also reflects on Teach First’s strategic positioning within the initial teacher education landscape in order to attract high-calibre graduates into the teaching profession, and goes on to explore Teach First’s institutional discourse and the ways in which this serves to shape the Teach First teachers’ understandings of themselves, teaching and their potential career prospects after their two-year commitment on the Teach First programme. An understanding of the Teach First institutional discourse is gained through an analysis of data gathered from Teach First documentation and interviews with people working at different levels within the organisation. Critical discourse analysis is used to understand the ways in which this institutional discourse serves to provide a particular ideological positioning for Teach First and its teachers. It argues that such a positioning encourages them to take with them a neo-liberal understanding of ways of working into influential positions within the wider network invested in Teach First.

The spectacle of the ‘Other’: Media representations of same-sex sexuality in Senegal

Sexualities ◽

10.1177/1363460719893623 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (1-2) ◽

pp. 13-28

Author(s):

Aminata Cécile Mbaye

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Mass Media ◽

Media Representations ◽

The Other ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Gay And Lesbian ◽

Same Sex ◽

This article examines media representations of same-sex sexuality in Senegal, and analyses how same-sex sexuality has been covered in a selection of Senegalese newspapers since the early 2000s. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s perspective on the role of mass media and ideology and the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis, this article describes how discourses produced by selected Senegalese newspapers generate and circulate ideological meanings. This article intends to underline the ways in which Senegalese media have come to fabricate a certain image of gay and lesbian people, often portrayed as deviant, mad or abnormal.

When we are the violent: The Chechen Islamist guerrillas’ discourse on their own armed actions

Journal of Eurasian Studies ◽

10.1016/j.euras.2017.05.002 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 185-195 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Adrián Tarín Sanz

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

North Caucasus ◽

Discursive Strategies ◽

Academic Literature ◽

News Agency ◽

The North ◽

War Discourse ◽

Over the last decades, the strategic profile of the discourse with which wars are narrated has been reinforced. This discourse has also varied in the light of a recent – and alleged – peace culture permeating Western societies. Whereas the war discourse in Russia during the Second Russian-Chechen War has been widely studied, this has not been the case of the rhetoric of the Chechen Islamist guerrillas. The aim of this paper is to contribute to bridging this gap in the academic literature on the North Caucasus, employing to this end a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of a selection of texts posted by the Kavkaz Center (KC) news agency. On the basis of this analysis, it can be concluded that one of the main discursive strategies revolved around the construction of an “us” embodying the Chechen victims of the initial aggression in a conflict provoked by the Russian “other”.

FRAMING PEACE: AN IDEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF OBAMA’S SPEECH IN CAIRO

Education and Human Development Journal ◽

10.33086/ehdj.v2i2.1382 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Semino Semino ◽

Edi Pujo Basuki

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Cognitive Processes ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Ideological Discourse ◽

Global Meaning ◽

Propositional Structures ◽

Local Meaning ◽

Different Levels

Language is not always neutrally utilized by a politician. It is framed to persuade people to think and act in line with the intention of the orator or the ideology of the group he represents. This study dealt with ideological discourse analysis of Obama speech in Cairo. It focused on the cognitive processes showing the link of the ideology structure and discourse structures. This study was (1) to identify the underpinning ideology of the speech, (2) how the ideology structure link withthe discourse structures employed, covering (a) how the ideology was expressed at global meaning level and at local meaning level, (b) how propositional structures were employed as ideology controlled strategy, (c) how sentence syntax was employed as ideology –controlled strategy, (d) how discourse forms or genres were employed as an ideology-controlled strategy, and (e) how styles were employed as persuasive ideology-controlled strategy in his efforts to frame peace. The framework of the research was Critical Discourse Analysis in general and Ideological Discourse Analysis in particular. So Ideological Discourse Analysis in this study was employed as Theory and Method. The data were the text of Obama’s speech in Cairo 2009. The data in the form of quotes were analyzed, and interpreted by employing Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 1995) to uncover the underpinning ideology of the speech, and Ideological Discourse Analysis to show the link of the ideology structure and the discourse structures employed in the speech. The results were in the form of the description of the cognitive processes showing how the underpinning ideology was expressed at different levels of discourse structures for the purpose of framing peace.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Nelson Mandela’s Defense Speech I am Prepared to Die

10.31235/osf.io/mj89s ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Bader Nasser Aldosari

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Research Question ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Levels Of Analysis ◽

Main Research ◽

Political Stance ◽

Relations Of Power ◽

Level Of Analysis

This paper attempts to present a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Nelson Mandela’s defense speech I am prepared to die, which was delivered in 1964 during his trial in what is often called as Rivonia Trial. More specifically, the paper tries to explore the hidden relations of power and ideologies that have been encoded in Mandela’s defense speech. The main research question is: what are the ideological meanings Mandela tries to communicate through his speech, and how are these ideologies conveyed by CDA strategies? The paper draws on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), as discussed in the writings of Fairclough (1989, 2013) and Van Dijk (1993, 2001, 2014). The analysis covers two levels of analysis: the lexical level and the pragmatic level of analysis. Both levels are discussed under the theoretical umbrella of CDA. The paper reveals that Mandela managed, by using specific CDA strategies, to communicate particular ideological meanings that reflect his political stance, as well as his rebellious spirit as the most distinguished revolutionary leader who struggles against racial discrimination in South Africa.

Women’s Empowerment, Agency and Self-Determination in Afrobeats Music Videos: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

Frontiers in Sociology ◽

10.3389/fsoc.2021.646899 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Author(s):

Simphiwe Emmanuel Rens

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Music Videos ◽

Self Determination ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

African Women ◽

Black African ◽

African Context ◽

Song Lyrics ◽

Stemming from a broader PhD project, this article argues that neoliberal post-feminist cultural sensibilities–entrenched in contemporary popular culture–about empowered, agentic and self-determining women, are regressive for the feminist advancement of gender-relational equality in the African context. To arrive at this conclusion, the central aim was to elucidate whether the gender-performative representations prioritised in the multimodal discourses of Afrobeats music videos are implicated in post-feminist sensibilities and if so, in what ways and to what effect? Given the continent’s richly diverse, yet largely heteropatriarchal, sociocultural formations, I argue that ideas about empowered, agentic and self-determining (black) African women are–based on the limited purview offered through the multimodal discourses of a small corpus of Afrobeats music videos–no more than sociocultural façades as opposed to gender-relational realities in our context. The article relied on a multimodal critical discourse analysis of a total of nine music videos drawn from the PhD project’s larger corpus of 25 Afrobeats music videos, their accompanying song lyrics, as well as a selection of YouTube viewer comments extracted from the analysed music videos. In critically exploring the gender-relational depictions prioritised in the analysed music videos, I argue for the consideration of what I am coining “misogyrom”; a gender-relational cultural sensibility which, in tandem with a post-feminist sensibility partly undergirding the multimodal discourses of these music videos, effectively veil this popular musical genre’s evidently sexist and misogynistic undertones that subvert potentialities of empowered, agentic and self-determining black African women.

"Discourse construction of the reign of Roman emperors Augustus and Nero by Suetonius"

Journal of Education and Humanities ◽

10.14706/jeh2021412 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Seada Brkan ◽

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Relations ◽

Social Practice ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Ancient Text ◽

The Subject ◽

Linguistic Approach ◽

Linguistic Approaches ◽

Shed Light

The subject of this article will be the analysis of the application of two modern linguistic approaches to the ancient text. It is about M. Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) through whose patterns we will analyze Suetonius' account of two Roman emperors, Augustus and Nero. Since the language is a strong link between SFL as a linguistic approach and CDA, a movement that unites several different disciplines, including linguistic ones, focused on social change, this article will try to shed light on the role, connection and effectiveness of SFL and CDA in a biographical presentation of a personalities. Critical discourse analysis defines language as a social practice, an essential component of creating social relations and changing them; therefore, it focuses on the language in use - discourse, and analyzes it within the broader social, political, historical, cultural and any other context in which it is realized.