scholarly journals Movie Media: Misrepresentation of Homosexual Characters Within Comedy Films Since the 80s Caused by Heterosexist Ideals in the Acting and Directing Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Salyer-Gummoe ◽  
David Morton
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Analysis

Critical discourse analysis is a qualitative research approach used to study social inequalities, in which it creates the connection between social practices and the social context. The use of film analysis variables of non-discourse and discourse practices relating to this analysis approach was examined from one film representative of each decade; the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. The heterosexism found within the acting and directing process of films within the comedy genre while structuring a gay character in screenplay was examined through the research process by honing in on specific variables. The conducted study’s research process involved multiple viewings of each movie: Victor/Victoria, Clueless, and Bridget’s Jones Diary where 3 scenes were chosen from the film regarding variables such as materialisations, speech, and actions that held correlation to the portrayal of a homosexual character. By the film variables directly corresponding with the characterization, the research analysis demonstrated heterosexist actor’s and director’s choices throughout the filming process and their correlation to common stereotypes against homosexuals being drawn off of for comedic effect. Over the span of 3 decades, the use of stereotypes within homosexual movie media representation; although progressive towards inclusion, has strictly portrayed such characters in comical, non-serious scenes. It is with a comparison of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s take on gay portrayals that the founded extremity of the use of such common stereotypes was recognized as they continuously, negatively impact the LGBTQ community through the continuation of use constituting these portrayed personas as correct. 

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of Socio-Psychological Factors in Taufiq Rafat’s “Wedding in the Flood”

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (I) ◽  
pp. 78-90
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Common People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Poetic Diction

People use language for different social practices in different contexts and perspectives, and discourse analysts examine these social practices for a better understanding of the discourse. The language used by a poet is different from the language used by common people; the poetic diction helps to understand a poet’s literary style, his ideology, and the use of descriptive language. This article focuses on exposing the socio-psychological factors through examining the use of language in a free verse poem ‘Wedding in the Flood’ by Taufiq Rafat who tried to present different aspects of Pakistani culture in the poem. The socio-psychological factors combine the social (family, society, wealth, religion) and the psychological factors (feelings, thoughts, actions, beliefs) that play an important role in shaping the personality of an individual, and the characters in the poem are the best examples of it. This analysis is based on Fairclough’s conceptions in CDA that claims of an inter-link between ideologies and texts, and this link cannot be separated because there are many ways to interpret texts, and the Socio-Psychological Theory (20121) also combines many social and psychological factors of human life. Many researchers did the stylistic analysis of the poem, but nothing has been done to highlight its socio-psychological factors through CDA.

scholarly journals Mengulik Akar Kritis dalam Analisis Wacana Kritis dan Implementasinya Terhadap Teks Berita (Exploring Critical Roots in Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Implementation on News Text)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Aswadi Aswadi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Critical View ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Praxis ◽  
Language Meaning ◽  
Language Text

Paradigma atau pemikiran kritis memandang bahwa individu tidaklah dianggap sebagai subjek yang netral yang bisa menafsirkan secara bebas sesuai dengan pikirannya karena dipengaruhi oleh kekuatan sosial yang ada di masyarakat. Bahasa/teks merupakan representasi yang berperan dalam membentuk subjek tertentu, tema wacana tertentu, maupun strategi di dalamnya. Reproduksi realitas dalam suatu teks pada dasarnya sangat dipengaruhi oleh bahasa, simbolisasi pemaknaan dan politik penandaan. Praksis sosial memerlukan makna dan makna tidak bisa lepas dari bahasa. Makna mempertajam serta memengaruhi segala sesuatu yang dilakukan seseorang, maka semua praktik sosial tidak bisa lepas dari dimensi wacana.Analisis wacana termasuk dalam kategori paradigma kritis.Oleh karenanya, istilah analisis wacana kritis hadir untuk membedah kuasa-kuasa dalam teks. Analisis wacana kritis digunakan untuk membongkar kuasa yang ada dalam setiap proses bahasa, batasan yang diperkenankan menjadi wacana, perspektif yang digunakan, dan topik yang dibicarakan, yang dalam berupa teks berita. Analisis wacana kritis yang digunakan mengacu pada model Van Dijk. Kata kunci: kritis, analisis wacana kritis, teks beritaABSTRACTParadigm or critical view considers that an individual is not considered a neutral subject who can interpret freely according to his mind because it is influenced by the social forces that exist in society. Language/text is a representation that plays a role in shaping a particular subject, a particular theme of discourse, as well as a strategy in it. Reproduction of reality in a text is basically strongly influenced by language, meaning symbolization, and political tagging. Social praxis requires meaning and meaning cannot be separated from language. Meaning can strengthen and influence everything that a person does, all social practices cannot be separated from the dimensions of discourse. Discourse analysis belongs to the category of critical paradigms. Therefore, the term critical discourse analysis is present to analyze the powers in the text. Critical discourse analysis is used to uncover the power that exists in each language process, the boundaries that are allowed to become discourse, the perspectives used, and the topics discussed, which in this study are news texts. Critical discourse analysis used refers to the Van Dijk model.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis on Beauty Product Advertisements

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Sri Susanti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Textual Features

This research is aimed at describing the use of language in beauty ads (Pantene and Garnier ads), elaborating the way of the strategy are used in persuading the consumers and investigating the reason for the use of strategies. This is a descriptive qualitative method in which the data were collected from the advertisements of Pantene and Garnier. The collected data are the words, phrases, clauses, sentences that are used in ads. The data were analyzed according to Fairclough’s three dimensional approach of discourse analysis; they are textual features, discursive features, and social feature. The findings of this study show that the language used in Pantene and Garnier advertisements appear very interesting in building image to the audience and were successful in utilizing the various discourse strategies to gain people’s attraction to buy the product being advertised. For the social practices, the words found in their advertisement are considered have control or power over people.

scholarly journals FEMINIST DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON KOMPAS.COM NEWS: ATLET SENAM SEA GAMES DIPULANGKAN KARENA TAK PERAWAN

Widyaparwa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-229
Author(s):  
Dian Lestari ◽  
Sulis Triyono
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Micro Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Pros And Cons

This study aims to describe the representation in the case of a woman in the discourse of SEA GAMES gymnastics athlete who was sent back home because of a virginity issue that was published by Kompas.com on the 29th of  November, 2019. The discourse is a hot topic because it raises the pros and cons. Besides social context, this study also describes the structure of the text consisting of macrostructure, superstructure, and microstructure. The research approach uses critical discourse analysis by Van Dijk. The results of this study indicate that the news text has a main topic, namely the violation againts feminist values. The superstructure of the news text consists of an introduction, main text, and concluding part. Kompas.com through the micro structure chooses to use various diction in delivering news. In addition to diverse diction, the text is also built with cohesion and coherence to unify the meaning of discourse. The social context built by Kompas.com in this discourse, especially in representing womanis the persecution of women (gender bias) and professional violations of a person.Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk memaparkan representasi perempuan dalam wacana atlet senam SEA GAMES dipulangkan karena tidak perawan yangdiberitakan pada Kompas.com pada 29 November 2019. Wacana tersebut merupakan wacana yang sedang hangat diperbincangkan karena menimbulkan pro dan kontra di kalangan masyarakat. Selain konteks sosial, penelitian ini juga mendeskripsikan struktur teks berita yang terdiri atas struktur makro, superstruktur, dan struktur mikro. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan analisis wacana kritis model Van Dijk. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa teks berita mempunyai topik utama, yakni pelanggaran nilai-nilai feminisme. Selanjutnya, superstruktur teks berita terdiri atas pendahuluan, inti teks, dan penutupan berita. Kompas.com melalui struktur mikro memilih untuk menggunakan berbagai macam diksi dalam menyampaikan berita. Selain diksi yang beragam, teks dibangun dengan piranti kohesi dan koherensi untuk menyatukan makna wacana. Konteks sosial yang dibangun Kompas.comterutama dalam merepresentasikan perempuan pada wacana tersebut adalah adanya penindasan terhadap perempuan (bias gender) serta pelanggaran profesionalitas suatu oknum.

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

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.

scholarly journals La orientación discursiva de la universidad pública colombiana en el contexto de la globalización neoliberal: análisis crítico del discurso de la misión, visión y metas

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Benavides
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relations Of Power

The objective of this article is to invite the reader to consider the new field of critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a complementary way to the study of history. It intends to approach several interdisciplinary concepts for the incorporation of critical discourse analysis, a relatively recent theoretical and practical approach of discourse analysis based on critical theory, critical linguistics and discourse analysis into history. It centers its focus on the consideration of discourse as an event, a socio-cultural expression conditioned by social structures and belief systems of groups of power acting upon others and conditioning the social context while being the transmitter of ideology. It presents social practices in parallel to discursive ones thereby creating a dialectal relationship between them. The relations of power, hegemony, dominance, and especially, ideology, are the main concerns of critical discourse analysis thereby making room for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary joint efforts to research: psychology, sociology, politics, economics, and education, among a few others are related to history in order to describe, interpret and explain the historical relationships between society and language.

scholarly journals Discursive Practices and Narrative Building in Post 9/11 Among Young American Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syeda Aysha ◽  
Raja Nasim Akhtar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social

The changing undercurrents of the political situation of the world, in the aftermath of 9/11, seem to have affected the notion of the 'other' in the social, cultural and most expressively the discourse of literature. The power structures embedded in these discourses have influenced the social practices in the portrayal of the 'other'. The construction of the 'other' is epitomized through writings illustrating biases that reveal themselves in ostracizing communities and ideologies. The socio-political implications of the identity in post 9/11 require further investigation.  The current study investigates the portrayal of the 'other' delineated in American young adults. The theoretical perspectives of Siegfried Jager and Teun van Dijk (2001) in the domain of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) were employed to analyze the data. The results of the investigation substantiated that the 'other' was redefined as an entity loaded with explicit negative implications and depicted by adding a prefix to the ‘other’ creating a ‘Muslim other’. The paper has implications for socio-political, education and cultural setting and practices in society.

scholarly journals Ideology of ISIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (132) ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Manal Ni’met Abdulhadi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Research Show

To the best of the researcher’s knowledge many studies (e.g., Bunzel: 2015) have been conducted studying the social practices of ISIS discourse only. Others (e.g, Buckingham, and Alali: 2019) focus upon the linguistic aspects of that discourse. The present paper aims at filling this gap by investigating both the social and the linguistic elements that characterize ISIS ideology. The present study focuses on analyzing the first speech delivered by Abu Bakkar Al Baghdadi in 2014 through implementing critical discourse analysis methodologies. The objective of this analysis is to outline the ideology of ISIS through exploring the critical social and cultural aspects together with the linguistic features in the text under investigation. The study will adopt an eclectic model of analysis and research based on Fairclough's (1992) principles of critical discourse analysis and Van Dijik’s ( 1980) framework of semantic structures (topics). Both global and local semantics are studied so as to relate social to linguistic practices and vise versa. The results of the research show that this speech has a distinctive tactic language that is full of figures of speech, in particular euphemism and dysphemism that help the speaker transfer his intended ideologies.

Media Representation of the Pandemic: a Metaphorical Image of War (based on American Newspapers)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
N. S. Dankova ◽  
E. V. Krekhtunova
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article is devoted to the study of the media representation features of the situation of coronavirus infection spread. The material was articles published in American newspapers. It is shown that the metaphorical model "War" is widely used in media coverage of the pandemic. The relevance of the work is due to the ability of the media to influence the mass consciousness. The methodological basis of the research is formed by critical discourse analysis, which establishes the connection between language and social reality. The article provides an overview of works devoted to the study of metaphor. The theoretical foundations for the study of metaphorical modeling are given. In the course of the analysis, the linguistic means of updating the metaphorical model "War" were revealed. The authors note that this metaphorical model is represented by such frames as “War and its characteristics”, “Participants in military action”, “War zone”, “Enemy actions”, “Confronting the enemy”. It is shown that modern reality is presented in the media as martial law, the coronavirus is positioned in the media as a cruel and merciless enemy seeking to take over the world, the treatment of the disease is represented as a fight against the enemy. It is concluded that the use of the metaphorical model "War" is one of the ways to conceptualize the spread of coronavirus.

THE USE OF CRITICAL THINKING AGAINST FAKE NEWS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra-Niculina Babii
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Informal Logic ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Sanctions ◽  
The One

The digital era has determined a very easy creation and propagation of fake news. As a consequence, it has become harder for people to fight this malicious phenomenon. However, the only weapon that can have results in this informational war is critical thinking. But who should use it? The creators of fake news that do this for different reasons? The social platforms that allow the circulation of fake news with ease? Mass media which does not always verify with much attention and rigour the information they spread? The Governments that should apply legal sanctions? Or the consumer that receives all the fake news, him being the final target? Even if critical thinking would be useful for every actor on fake news’ stage, the one who needs it the most is the consumer. This comes together with the big responsibility placed on his shoulders. Even if others are creating and spreading disinformation, the consumer must be aware and be careful with the information he encounters on a daily basis. He should use his reasoning and he should not believe everything just because it is on the Internet. How can he do that? Critical thinking seems to be a quite difficult tool to use, especially for non-specialized individuals. This paper’s aim is to propose a simplified model of critical thinking that can contribute to detecting fake news with the help of people’s self judgement. The model is based on theories from Informal Logic considering the structure of arguments and on Critical Discourse Analysis theories concerning the patterns found in the content of the information.

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