Postcolonial discourse analysis: The linguistic fall-out from Imperial Germany’s colonialist past in China

The urban Indigenous older adult population in Canada continues to grow; however, there is a lack of understanding of how non-Indigenous health and social services and Indigenous-specific organizations are responding to and addressing the growth of this population. Therefore, in this research, we conducted a postcolonial discourse analysis of semi-structured interviews with six decision-makers (e.g., managers and directors of health and social services organizations) and seven service providers (e.g., program coordinators and social workers) from Indigenous and non-Indigenous health and social service organizations in Ottawa, Canada, to examine how they produce understandings of supporting urban Indigenous older adults to age well. The participants produced three main discourses: (a) non-Indigenous organizations have a responsibility to support Indigenous older adults, (b) culturally specific programs and services are important for supporting Indigenous older adults to age well, and (c) it is difficult for community stakeholders to support Indigenous older adults to age well because this population is hard to reach. The results demonstrate the complexities and tensions that community stakeholders face in supporting Indigenous older adults to age well within a sociopolitical environment informed by reconciliation and a sociodemographic trend of an aging population.

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Psychoanalytical Theory in Postcolonial Discourse

Dialogue and Universalism ◽

10.5840/du202030338 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 123-140

Author(s):

Audrius Beinorius ◽

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Postcolonial Theory ◽

Postcolonial Studies ◽

Psychological Theory ◽

Frantz Fanon ◽

Colonial Discourse ◽

The Future ◽

Postcolonial Discourse ◽

Theoretical Project

This article deals with some earlier applications of psychology for the analysis of the colonial condition offered by three thinkers—Octave Mannoni, Frantz Fanon and recent applications of Freudian psychoanalytical theory in the poststructuralist approach of Homi K. Bhaba. An attempt is made to compare their standpoints and reflect more broadly on what their implications mean for the future of psychoanalysis’ place in postcolonial critique. Also to answer a vital question in the theoretical project of postcolonial studies: Is psychoanalysis a universally applicable theory for psychic disruption in the colonial context? What are differences in the application of psychological theory for studies of colonial discourse? The conclusion of the paper is: Despite the problematic inheritance of racializing thinking psychoanalysis has proved to be an important and reoccurring methodology in colonial critique and postcolonial theory. Nevertheless, it is necessary to recognize that psychoanalysis itself is a colonial discipline and must become an object of colonial discourse analysis.

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Postcolonial Discourse in Coogler’s Black Panther: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

Jurnal Humaniora ◽

10.22146/jh.47234 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 75

Author(s):

Albert Tallapessy ◽

Indah Wahyuningsih ◽

Riska Ayu Anjasari

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Issues ◽

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Social Practices ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Hybrid Identity ◽

The Social ◽

Postcolonial Discourse ◽

Black Panther

This article deals with the investigation of the existence of postcolonial discourse in Coogler’s Black Panther (2018). The study aims to reveal and examine the existence of social issues related to Bhabha’s notion of postcolonialism represented through visual and linguistic elements in the movie. Fairclough’s (1989,2001, 2010) Critical Discourse Analysis, Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) Reading Images, Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (2004) and Bhabha’s (1994) Postcolonialism are used to conduct this research. The result of the study shows that postcolonial discourse is proved represented in the movie. The findings imply that the post colonialism affects the characters in term of how they see and reflect themselves towards the dominance. They are also identified as possessing hybrid identity, ambivalence, and mimicry. It seems that the result of the research opposes the director’s intention to bring the theme of the movie. Theoretically, it is proved that the social irregularities representing black supremacy and exploitation of the citizen of Africa, Wakanda, is depicted in the movie. Empirically, the existence of nondemocratic social practices in black citizens is also seen in the movie.

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'Nothing in Our Histories': A Postcolonial Perspective on Twelfth-Century Christian Hebraism

Medieval Encounters ◽

10.1163/138078508x286824 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 35-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Deborah Goodwin

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Twelfth Century ◽

Christian Identity ◽

Biblical Exegesis ◽

Alternative Approach ◽

Postcolonial Discourse ◽

Herbert Of Bosham ◽

Christian Hebraism

AbstractThis essay examines how twelfth-century Christian Hebraism, as an aspect of biblical exegesis, contributed to producing Christian knowledge of the Jewish Other. It argues that Christian Hebraism was symptomatic of strategies central to the formation of Christian identity, a process to which Jews were essential not only as foils, but as collaborators. An alternative approach to Christian Hebraism, its contributions to a volatile Christian identity, and its status as both a cause and an effect of changing relations between Jews and Christians in the period, is demonstrated by the application of postcolonial discourse analysis to the psalms commentary by Herbert of Bosham.

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Plasticity of the neural coding metaphor: An unnoticed rhetoric in scientific discourse

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x1900133x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Giulia Frezza ◽

Pierluigi Zoccolotti

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Neural Coding ◽

Scientific Discourse ◽

Convincing Argument ◽

Unified View ◽

Brain Behavior

Abstract The convincing argument that Brette makes for the neural coding metaphor as imposing one view of brain behavior can be further explained through discourse analysis. Instead of a unified view, we argue, the coding metaphor's plasticity, versatility, and robustness throughout time explain its success and conventionalization to the point that its rhetoric became overlooked.

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