scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis: A Critical Approach To Expose Hidden Realities In The Discourse Of Sustainable Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Masood Ahmed ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Critical Discourses ◽  
Business As Usual

The acceptability of sustainable development as the concept to response to increasing social environmental challenges has led many firms to adopt sustainable development in the form of corporate sustainability. However, the evidence show there is little impact of the so called sustainable activities of the firms on the society and environment and business as usual continues. In the paper it is suggested that to understand why such impact has not occurred we need to look at the current discourses on sustainable development and corporate sustainability through the lens of critical theory and its methodology of critical discourses analysis. Major discourses prevailing in Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability have been discussed. It is found out that dominant discourse of Business Case for Sustainability is marginalizing the other discourses that favor nature or society over economics as the central theme of sustainability. The implications of the findings is such that unless the dominant discourse Business Case for Sustainability is not challenged the goals of Sustainable Development would remain elusive and the path towards social and environmental degradation would continue.

scholarly journals Representation of immigrants in New Zealand print media: A critical discourse analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Neda Salahshour
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Entry Points

<p>Representation of Immigrants in New Zealand Print Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis  New Zealand is often perceived as one of the most diverse countries in terms of its population, with “more ethnicities in New Zealand than there are countries in the world” (Statistics New Zealand, 2013). According to the 2013 census, 39% of people who live in Auckland, New Zealand’s most immigrant-populated city, were born overseas. In such a setting, the issue of social harmony becomes important. Media institutions hold power and therefore their representations play a significant role in how immigrants are perceived and whether they are embraced and welcomed or resisted. It is for this reason that media discourse deserves attention.  Research in this area in the context of New Zealand has been limited and furthermore has leaned towards content analysis or a purely qualitative analysis of a specific diaspora. Addressing these issues, my research aims to gain a better understanding of how immigrants are discursively constructed in the New Zealand Herald newspaper during the years 2007 and 2008. Given that the Global Financial Crisis began to make its presence felt in 2008, this study also sought to investigate expected discrepancies in the representation of immigrants during economically challenging times.  Grounded within a critical approach, this study adopts methodic triangulation; that is, the data is analysed using two complementary analytical frameworks, namely that of corpus-assisted discourse analysis (Baker, KhosraviNik, Krzyzanowski, McEnery, & Wodak, 2008) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (Reisigl & Wodak, 2009). Using these two frameworks, I use statistical information as entry points into the data and explore significant collocations which contribute to the construction of dominant representations. This analysis is followed by an in-depth analysis of systematically sampled news articles with the aim of identifying the ii various discursive and argumentation strategies commonly employed in print media.  The findings from both analyses point to a rather ambivalent representation of immigrants. On the one hand, immigrants are constructed as being qualified and playing an important role in filling skill shortages in New Zealand. This positive construction depicts immigrants as an economic resource which ought to be capitalized. In addition, liquid metaphors, previously argued to dehumanize immigrants and construct them as uncontrollable (KhosraviNik, 2009) are surprisingly used in my data to construct the immigration of large numbers of immigrants to New Zealand as essential. On the other hand, immigrants are also constructed as threateningly Other or passive victims. Therefore, immigrants are not only constructed as beneficial to New Zealand society but are also represented as being problematic.  This study identifies a unique representation of immigrants in the New Zealand Herald which could perhaps be explained by the unique socio-political and geographical context of the country. The triangulation and methodic rigour of this study also ensure that the findings are generalizable to the whole dataset and contribute to current understandings of immigrant representation and approaches to the study of discourse and representation.</p>

scholarly journals Greening the Dark Side of Chocolate: A Qualitative Assessment to Inform Sustainable Supply Chains

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa Camilher Camargo ◽  
Nicholas J Hogarth ◽  
Pablo Pacheco ◽  
Isilda Nhantumbo ◽  
Markku Kanninen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Social Environmental

SummaryDespite the plethora of discourse about how sustainable development should be pursued, the production of agricultural commodities is held responsible for driving c. 80% of global deforestation. Partially as a response, the private sector has made commitments to eliminate deforestation, but it is not yet clear what factors these commitments should take into account to effectively halt deforestation while also contributing to broader sustainable development. In the context of private sector commitments to zero-deforestation, this study characterizes the perceptions of different types of stakeholders along the cocoa and chocolate supply chain in order to determine the main challenges and solutions to encourage sustainable production. The main purpose is to understand the key factors that could facilitate a transition to a more sustainable supply while harmonizing the multiple actors’ interests. A qualitative thematic analysis of perceptions was conducted based on responses from 59 interviews with different stakeholders along the cocoa and chocolate supply chain in six key producing and consuming countries. Thematic analysis of the responses revealed six main themes: (1) make better use of policies, regulations and markets to help promote sustainability; (2) improve information and data (e.g., impacts of climate change on cocoa) to inform sound interventions; (3) focus on the landscape rather than the farm-level alone and improve integration of supply chain actors; (4) promote better coordination between stakeholders and initiatives (e.g., development assistance projects and corporate sustainability efforts); (5) focus on interdependent relationships between social, environmental and economic dimensions to achieve sustainable development; and (6) engage with the private sector. The study shows the importance of identifying different stakeholder priorities in order to design solutions that accommodate multiple interests. It also emphasizes the need to improve coordination and communication between stakeholders and instruments in order to address the three different dimensions of sustainability in a synergistic manner, considering the interactions from production of raw material to end consumer.

Framing and blaming in times of economic crisis: The rise and fall of the “Rudd Recession”

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 814-836
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Diffusion Resistance ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

This article takes a critical approach to the language used by Australian politicians during the global financial crisis of 2007–8. Critical periods in history provide a rich substrate for the appearance of new expressions with the potential to frame the debate, influencing the ways events are interpreted and blame attributed. Passing unnoticed into usage, such memes have the potential to become part of unexamined background knowledge and covertly co-opt hearers and users into shared systems of value and belief. The study focusses on one specific neologism deployed by opposition politicians, firstly in an attempt to create the erroneous impression that a recession was occurring and secondly that it was the fault of the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. Patterns of occurrence were tracked against local and international events, indicating a life cycle with several distinct phases: chance emergence, a strategic deployment, cross-genre diffusion, resistance and eventual rejection. Keywords: Alliteration; critical discourse analysis; economic crisis; blame; political discourse; slogans; social media; memes.

Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Chilton ◽  
Hailong Tian ◽  
Ruth Wodak
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
Discourse Practice ◽  
Intellectual Environment

The term “critical”, as used by scholars writing under the banner of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), is in need of review in a new global intellectual environment in which diverse philosophical and political traditions are increasingly in contact with one another. This essay is particularly concerned with the question of how a shared understanding of the concept of the critical can be developed among Western and Chinese scholars. To this end the paper gives an overview of notions of critique in the historical traditions of China and the West, addressing issues of conceptualisation, discourse practice and translation. This leads us to consider, from a “critical” point of view, what the appearance of the “critical” approach may mean in the Chinese context. The need for continued dialogue oriented to a deepened understanding of existing ideas and approaches is highlighted.

scholarly journals ‘Sectarianism’ and Scottish football: Critical reflections on dominant discourse and press commentary

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
The Press ◽  
Core Identity ◽  
Critical Reflections

This article provides a critical discourse analysis of Scottish newspaper reports relating to football and ‘sectarianism’ in Scotland. It claims that there is a powerful and longstanding ideological ‘framing’ of sectarianism in sections of the Scottish press that is latently power-laden. This discourse attempts to construct and reaffirm a unified non-sectarian core identity that ‘real’ and ‘authentic’ Scots (should) share in opposition to a set of sectarian ‘others’. The various connotations attached to sectarian and sectarianism, together with their use in particular ways that reflect an ideological hegemony, are illustrated. Much of the press treatment of sectarianism is shown to lack sensitivity to the historical, hierarchical and relational aspects of religious, political and ethnic identities in Scotland.

scholarly journals The Empire and the Egyptians

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Eide
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Western World ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Analytical Approaches

Abstract This article explores how three different analytical approaches to texts may work together to a certain extent in a critical approach to journalistic representation, in this case of the “non-western” world. Focusing on short news items dealing with the nationalist uprising in Egypt in 1919, the texts are analysed using critical discourse analysis, but also inspired by Said’s Orientalism critique, Bourdieu’s field theory including the notion of journalism as an autonomous field, albeit with a weak autonomy.

scholarly journals The representations of racism in immigrant students’ essays in Greece

Pragmatics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Argiris Archakis
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
The Other ◽  
Explicit Description ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Hybrid Resistance ◽  
Other Hand

Abstract Racism as a means for accomplishing homogeneity is at the center of this study which draws on Critical Discourse Analysis and focuses on descriptions of racist behaviors included in immigrant students’ school essays. We investigate how the dominant assimilative and homogenizing discourse operates in Greece and how immigrant students position themselves towards this dominant discourse. Our analysis focuses on the ways the immigrant students of our sample construct legitimizing and hybrid resistance identities. We demonstrate that legitimizing identities are found in the vast majority of the essays of our data due to the racist behaviors experienced by immigrant people. On the other hand, the explicit description of such behaviors appears only in few essays. We argue that in these few essays, via referring to racist behaviors of majority people against them, immigrant students manage to build hybrid resistance identities.

scholarly journals Connecting Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis: Past, Present, Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elfrida Kartika Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Critical Discourses ◽  
Global And Local

In this journal the researcher have explored some of the inexorably connected histories , but also distinguishes , analyzes critical discourses and cultural studies . I argue that both are strongly influenced by the version of critical theory which has been characterized as 'postmodernism ' and 'poststructuralism ' and both can benefit not only from some serious engagements with some of the disciplines with which they are interdisciplinary , but also from some further in exploration depth of critical theory that informs them and that they are often 'translated ' or 'co-opted ' by reductionist means . I also argue that the claims that are sometimes made for critical discourse analysis are increased and without ethnography and serious attention to the theory and research on the context , such claims can not be sustained . On the other hand 'resignation ' or CDA cultural politics is an important agenda and we need to do more work to determine exactly how social change can be done through the kind of work CDA can do . My conclusion is that we need to reframe and contemplate the ways in which we define and do the CDA and it will involve the taking of cultural studies and critical discourse analysis together in a productive new way with other disciplinary and theoretical formations and with the attention that true to the new and different global and local contexts in which we work .

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