Critical Discourse Analysis as an Instrument to Enhance Social Justice Among Teenage Mothers

2022 ◽  
pp. 202-220
Author(s):  
Tshimangadzo Selina Mudau ◽  
Roehl Sybing
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Shared Meaning ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Marginalized Groups

The aim of this study is to present how critical discourse analysis was used to enhance social justice among teenaged mothers. Critical discourse analysis was used to promote critical dialogue between the socially legitimate structures and the marginalized teenaged mothers to deconstruct text and discourses that perpetuate social injustice. The study is anchored on community engagement. Data was generated with seven teenaged mothers, parents, and community leaders. Individual interviews, focus group discussions, and reflections were used to generate data with co-researchers. The study found that when teenaged mothers are exposed to social marginalization, they are denied the needed support in the development of personal, cultural, and social skills. Through critical dialogue, social text and discourses were deconstructed to co-create contextual and shared meaning leading to social justice for the marginalized teenaged mothers. The study concludes that critical discourse analysis is most appropriate in studies with youth or marginalized groups.

scholarly journals Problematizing the Educational Messaging on Sex Trafficking in the US “End-demand” Movement: The (Mis)Representation of Victims and Anti-Sex Work Rhetoric

Affilia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 088610992110588
Author(s):  
Ran Hu
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Us

This study adopts a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to problematize the representation of victims in the online educational messaging on sex trafficking promoted in the US “end-demand” movement. The websites of 20 US anti-trafficking groups are analyzed. While these website-based messages are positioned to educate the public about sex trafficking, they are predominately framed toward problematizing sex work and essentializing women with racialized and marginalized identities in sex work, with no discursive recognition of intersectional structural inequalities (e.g., racism, sexism, poverty, homo/transphobia) that lead to trafficking. These ideologically charged messages, when presented as “facts,” further the anti-sex work sentiment among the public, powerfully (re)produce and sustain the public (mis)perception equating “anti-sex trafficking” with “anti-sex work,” and legitimize the carceral feminist anti-trafficking practice that primarily criminalizes, censors, and oppresses the agency, behaviors, and needs of structurally marginalized communities. This paper calls attention to how injustice may be (re)produced in the way trafficking is represented and how representational injustice may translate into material consequences, further subjecting already marginalized groups to criminalization and surveillance. Through incorporating representational justice into our conceptualization of racial and social justice, we may (re)build an anti-trafficking framework that is structurally competent, rights-inclusive, and centered on humanization.

With the Best of Intentions: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Physical Education Curriculum Materials

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Rossi ◽  
Richard Tinning ◽  
Louise McCuaig ◽  
Karen Sirna ◽  
Lisa Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Government Education ◽  
Developed World

Much of physical education curriculum in the developed world and specifically in Australia tends to be guided in principle by syllabus documents that represent, in varying degrees, some form of government education priorities. Through the use of critical discourse analysis we analyze one such syllabus example (an official syllabus document of one of the Australian States) to explore the relationships between the emancipatory/social justice expectations presented in the rubric of and introduction to the official syllabus document, and the language details of learning outcomes that indicate how the expectations might be satisfied. Given the complexity and multilevel pathways of message systems/ideologies we question the efficacy of such documents oriented around social justice principles to genuinely deliver more radical agendas which promote social change and encourage a preparedness to engage in social action leading to a betterment of society.

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis of “Canción sin Miedo” by Vivir Quintana

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Verónica Andrea Escobar Mejía
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Feminist Ideology

The feminist movement in Mexico has recently gained attention due to the diverse manifestations along with the country. The song Canción sin miedo (2020) portrays elements that keep a relationship with the feminist ideology, as well as recent events that are depicted in the lyrics. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is presented as an approach to examining the song, using Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model and parallelism analysis. The outcomes of this study suggest that the song was produced as a claim for social justice, but it involves elements that generate a sense of identity for some women because their roles and struggles are depicted in the lyrics, principally femicide. Additionally, the parallelism analysis shows three syntactical structures that compose the body of the text. This examination is also a call for noticing the emergence of violence against women in Mexico.

scholarly journals Through eurocentric logics

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-115
Author(s):  
Ernesto Abalo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
Foreign News ◽  
Victims Of Violence

This study aims to explore the construction of difference in foreign news discourse on culturally similar but politically different non-Western subjects. Applying critical discourse analysis (CDA) together with a critique of Eurocentrism, the study examines difference in newspaper constructions of government supporters and oppositional groups in Venezuela. Discursive differences are evident in the strategies used for constructing the two groups with regard to political rationality and violence. Government supporters are associated with social justice, Venezuela’s poor, dogmatic behavior, and the use of political violence. The opposition, in contrast, is constructed as following a Western democratic rationale that stresses anti-authoritarianism. This group is primarily associated with victims of violence. While the opposition is conveyed as being compatible with Eurocentric values and practices, government supporters to great extent deviate from these norms. Such constructions serve to legitimize politico-ideological undercurrents of Eurocentrism, as the defense of liberalism.

What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-327
Author(s):  
Gwen Bouvier ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
The Public

Twitter campaigns attacking those who make racist or xenophobic statements are valuable, raising the public profile of opinions that will not tolerate racism in any form. They also indicate how our major institutions are failing to address important matters of social justice. But there is concern that social media, such as Twitter, tends to extremes, moral outrages, lack of nuance and incivility, which shape how issues become represented. In this paper, using Critical Discourse Analysis, we look at three Twitter hashtags calling-out racist behaviour. We ask how racism and anti-racism is represented on these hashtags? We show how these misrepresent fundamental aspects of racism in society, distracting from, what race theorists would argue, is the most important thing these incidents tell us about racism at this present time. The findings have consequences for all such Twitter social justice campaigns.

Social Justice Through BPATC in Bangladesh Under the Shadow of Colonialism

2022 ◽  
pp. 303-319
Author(s):  
Parimal Roy ◽  
Jahid Siraz Chowdhury ◽  
Haris Abd Wahab ◽  
Rashid Saad
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
The Government

This chapter aims to understand how the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) can ensure social justice through its apex and unique training manuals. Qualitatively and by critical discourse analysis, this discussion shows that existing training guidelines and policies have a deep and robust lineage with coloniality, predominating the fundamental legal aspects of Bangladesh through Colonially Inherited Acts, Rules, and Regulations as well as practices. Can the government ensure the SDGs and a just and right productive, autonomous, and accountable citizen-oriented public service? The Government of Bangladesh may imply the recommendations in policies to ensure social justice in public administration through BPATC.

Corporatizating Activism Through Sport-Focused Social Justice? Investigating Nike’s Corporate Responsibility Initiatives in Sport for Development and Peace

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 522-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst ◽  
Courtney Szto
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Peace Initiatives ◽  
Media Platform

Inspired by assertions of “creeping commercialization” in issues of social justice, this article seeks to address the entanglement of privatization with sport for development and peace initiatives. We look specifically at Nike’s history of “social responsibility” to situate the N7 initiative, for Indigenous health, within a larger landscape of privatized social justice. Critical discourse analysis was used to unpack Nike’s annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. In addition, a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the #DeChief movement, which lobbies against the use of “Native” mascotry, was conducted via the social media platform, Twitter. The authors observed public criticism against Nike’s incongruous business practices in supporting Indigenous health on one hand, and financially benefitting from the sale of harmful Indigenous caricatures on the other.

Social Justice and the Portrayal of Migrants in International Organization for Migration’s World Migration Reports

2020 ◽  
pp. 004728162095337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saveena (Chakrika) Veeramoothoo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Social justice is a framework that has been at the forefront of technical communication in recent years. While social justice is often applied in participatory studies, it can also feature in studies using quantitative methods. In this study, I use corpus-based critical discourse analysis to investigate the portrayal of migrants in the World Migration Reports, the flagship publication of the International Organization for Migration. I emphasize context to bring in the social justice framework in this analysis. This study finds that the World Migration Reports represent migrants within various topoi, with a particular focus on the topos of advantage and that of danger/threat.

A local discursive dimension in a specific historical context: Students’ narratives of police experiences during South Africa’s #FeesMustFall protests

Multilingua ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-450
Author(s):  
Lynn Mafofo ◽  
Sinfree Makoni
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
South African ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Private Policing ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
South African Higher Education

AbstractMost studies on campus and private policing take on political, anthropological, sociological, and criminological perspectives. Although there were investigations on policing in South Africa during apartheid, scant research has focused on how students in South African higher education (SAHE) relate their experiences of campus policing. Due to recent unrest on SAHE campuses and radical changes that include the militarization of police forces, examining how students perceive the legitimacy and integrity of campus policing is vital. As such, this paper presents a discourse analysis focused on descriptions of students’ campus experiences in the aftermath of the #FeesMustFall (#FMF) protests. Combining critical discourse analysis (CDA) with systemic functional linguistics, through transitivity, it offers insight into the ideological power struggles between students and police. It shows the types of voices students reveal as an aggrieved group in the hope of identifying non-aggressive approaches to address emotionally charged events (such as protests). Adding transitivity analysis to CDA provides a solid framework for decoding radical meanings at the peak of chaotic situations in which social change in post-apartheid South Africa can be facilitated by understanding marginalized groups.

scholarly journals Promoting and Hindering Health and Well-Being in Firefighter Discourse

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402097917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Jacobsson ◽  
Susann Backteman Erlanson ◽  
Christine Brulin ◽  
Annika Egan Sjolander
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Rescue Service ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Routine Work ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Health And Well Being

The aim of this critical discourse analysis is to identify and discuss dominant and recurrent themes in firefighter discourse that promote and hinder firefighters’ health and well-being. Using critical discourse analysis, the focus is directed toward routine work culture at the station, as well as how firefighters deal with extraordinary events. The empirical material was collected from rescue services in Sweden representing different geographical areas. In total, 28 firefighters participated in focus group discussions or individual interviews. We identified dominant themes in the discourse that promoted firefighters’ health and well-being. We also identified recurrent themes that may serve as hindrances to health and well-being. We note that themes in the latter category also relate to changes in the profession and work culture, expressing external pressures on the rescue service. One reason for resistance toward change might be the health benefits that the current order of firefighter discourse brings.

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