Historical materialist policy analysis meets critical discourse analysis of practical argumentation: making sense of hegemony struggles in Italys crisis management

2019 ◽  
pp. 216-241
Author(s):  
Daniela Caterina
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Historical Materialist ◽  
Practical Argumentation

Making Sense of the Human-Nature Relationship

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-295
Author(s):  
Ulrika Olausson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Reception Study ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Representations Of Nature ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

Gaining knowledge about laypeople’s representations of nature is crucial to meeting the sustainability challenges ahead. However, the ways laypeople discursively construct nature in digital settings have received scant attention. Guided by Stuart Hall’s theory of encoding/decoding and multimodal critical discourse analysis, this study aims to contribute knowledge about the ways laypeople construct the human-nature relationship on social media. This is accomplished through a reception study of YouTube users’ discussions about two of the films in the campaign “Nature Is Speaking.” The results show that the human-nature dichotomy largely prevails notwithstanding the pluralist nature of YouTube users’ interpretations, but also indicate the (embryonic) potential of social media to open up for a politics revolving around new visions of the socio-environmental future.

scholarly journals Between the Rhetoric of Employability and the Reality of Youth (Under)Employment: NEET Policy Rhetoric in the UK and Scotland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte McPherson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Problem Agenda

AbstractIn the UK and Scotland, considerable resources have been devoted to tackling the persistent issue of young people who are, or are at risk of becoming, not in education, employment or training (NEET), a pathologized status that incurs significant penalties for young people and the economy. Using critical discourse analysis, this paper analyses and evaluates policy rhetoric to explore how the NEET ‘problem’, agenda and population are constituted by the UK and Scottish governments. In doing so, numerous unifying and problematic NEET policy tropes are identified, challenging the popular notion of significant policy divergence between the punitive reputation of Westminster and the image of Scottish governance as more socially democratic. Moreover, this paper differs from traditional policy analysis by also evaluating policy from the perspective of young people, drawing on empirical data from a qualitative study of the school-to-work transitions of NEET and marginally employed young people in Scotland.

The urban water reform project: a critical discourse analysis of the water policy making process in Delhi, India

Water Policy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 769-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vandana Asthana
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Reform Project ◽  
The Government ◽  
Neoliberal India ◽  
Water Reform

Making sense of policy processes in India requires an understanding of how particular ways of thinking about water have gained ascendancy in national and state discourses, and how they have determined the frame through which water is perceived, defined and handled. The way in which the concept of water is framed has important implications for the ways in which water reform policies come to be shaped. Shifting narratives of the causes and solutions to water issues in a neoliberal India both drive and produce policy processes, making available or constraining policy choices in which different forms of water knowledge can be available and mobilized. Using methods of critical discourse analysis, this paper uses the Delhi Water Reform Project as a basis for understanding how power and knowledge define spaces of engagement among a range of positioned actors like the World Bank, the Government of Delhi, and civil society. It argues that their strategies are constructed in a way that permits intervention in a manner so as to promote a particular kind of technical and managerial approach that lends persuasiveness to policy instruments.

scholarly journals A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Corporate Apologies by Starbucks CEO from the Perspective of Crisis Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-123
Author(s):  
Silang Liu ◽  
Xiangmin Li
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Visual Characteristics ◽  
Discourse Practice

From the perspective of crisis management, this research examines how Starbucks chief executive officer (CEO) extended corporate apologies to the stakeholders via an interview video and a monologue video under the framework of multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA). The apologies offered by Starbucks CEO in an interview with ABC News and a monologue were analyzed to illustrate textual, and visual characteristics. The analysis of text, discourse practice and social practice was conducted to explore apology discourse strategies employed by Starbucks CEO. The results indicated that corporate apology discourse contributes to crisis management and revealed the interplay of corporate apology discourse, crisis management, and social background.

scholarly journals A critical discourse problematization framework for (disability) policy analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Jennifer Van Aswegen ◽  
David Hyatt ◽  
Dan Goodley
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Disability Policy ◽  
Critical Policy Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Critical Policy ◽  
Analytical Tools

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a composite framework for critical policy analysis drawing from discourse analysis and post-structuralist analysis. Drawing on an interpretive paradigm (Yanow, 2014), this paper provides a thick description (Geertz, 1973) of the processes involved in the application of these tools in a critical policy analysis project, focusing on disability policy within the Irish context. Methodologically, this is a resourceful cross-fertilization of analytical tools to interrogate policy, highlighting its potential within critical disability policy analysis and beyond. Design/methodology/approach Merging a critical discourse analysis framework and a policy problematization approach, the combination of tools presented here, along with their associated processes, is referred to as the critical discourse problematization framework. Findings Potentially, the framework can also be employed across a number of cognate social policy fields including education, welfare and social justice. Practical implications The value of this paper lies in its potential to be used within analytical practice in the field of critical (disability) policy work by offering an evaluation of the analytical tools and theoretical framework deployed and modeled across an entire research process. Social implications The framework has the potential and has been used successfully as a tool for disability activism to influence policy development. Originality/value The analytical framework presented here is a methodically innovative approach to the study of policy analysis, marrying two distinct analytical tools to form a composite framework for the study of policy text.

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