scholarly journals “El paseo Ahumada” de Enrique Lihn, adaptado al cómic por Liván: “affordances” y tensiones en el proceso de adaptación

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 669
Author(s):  
Julio I. Gutiérrez García-Huidobro
Keyword(s):  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Adaptation Theory ◽  
Enrique Lihn ◽  
The Media

 Este trabajo revisará cómo Liván realiza la transposición de El Paseo Ahumada. Desde las reflexiones de McHale (2010), se revisará cómo la segmentación de la poesía puede ser replicada en el cómic, y cómo los media affordances influyen en la transposición. Se buscará analizar la mirada del adaptador y cómo esta tensiona con los affordances y los modos de construcción discursiva secuencial. Este trabajo es relevante pues ofrece nuevas reflexiones en torno al proceso de transposición de medios tan dispares como el texto lírico y el secuencial, un tema escasamente se ha estudiado en la teoría de la adaptación.This paper intends to study how Liván achieve the transposition of El Paseo Ahumada. Through McHale’s (2010) conclusions, we will review how poetry segmentation can be replicated into comics, and how the media affordances influence in the adaptation. It is also intended to analyze the source view from the adapter, and how it tensions with the affordances and the modes of discursive construction in comics. This work is relevant because it offers new thoughts around the process of adaptation in such media as poetry and comics, a subject that it’s been sparingly studied in adaptation theory.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Everyday ICT Use: The Discursive Construction of Old Age in German Media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Köttl ◽  
Verena C Tatzer ◽  
Liat Ayalon
Keyword(s):  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Active Lifestyles ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Design And Methods ◽  
German Newspapers

Abstract Background and Objectives Media discourses have the power to construct and perpetuate positive and negative aging images and influence public and individuals’ attitudes. This study aims to critically examine the media portrayal of older persons’ everyday information and communication technology (EICT) usage during the first and second waves of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Research Design and Methods A total of 51 articles published in 3 leading German newspapers between March 2020 and November 2020 were identified from the LexisNexis Academic database. Data were analyzed employing critical discourse and thematic analysis. Results EICT use was associated with youthful, consumption-orientated, and active lifestyles, while nonuse was constructed as failures on the policy or individual level. The pandemic seemed to have acted as an amplifier, further exacerbating and perpetuating stereotypical, dichotomous, but also empowering aging images. Discussion and Implications Neoliberal rational and binary distinctions of active users and nonusers opened and encouraged critical discussions on positive aging trends, the concept of the third and fourth ages, and aging-and-innovation discourses. Moreover, the crucial educative role of the media in raising awareness about power imbalances and reducing EICT-related ageism is stressed.

Othering as soft-power discursive practice: China Daily’s construction of Trump’s America in the 2016 presidential election

Politics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengxin Pan ◽  
Benjamin Isakhan ◽  
Zim Nwokora
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Power Construction ◽  
The Media

The relationship between Chinese soft power and Chinese media has been a focus of a growing body of literature. Challenging a resource-based conception of soft power and a transmission view of communication that inform much of the debate, this article adopts a discursive approach to soft power and media communication. It argues that their relationship is not just a matter of resource transmission, but one of discursive construction, which begs the questions of what mediated discursive practices are at play in soft power construction and how. Addressing these oft-neglected questions, we identify a typology of three soft-power discursive practices: charm offensive, Othering offensive, and defensive denial. Focusing on the little-understood practice of Othering offensive, we illustrate its presence in Chinese media through a critical discourse analysis of China Daily’s framing of Donald Trump and the United States, and argue that the Othering offensive in Chinese media that portrays Trump’s America as a dysfunctional and declining Other serves to construct a Chinese self as more responsible, dynamic, and attractive. Adding a missing discursive dimension to the study of soft power and the media, this study has both scholarly and practical implications for analysing a nation’s soft power strategy.

A Stain on the White Uniform - The Discursive Construction of Nurses' Industrial Action in the Media

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Henttonen ◽  
Kirsi LaPointe ◽  
Sinikka Pesonen ◽  
Sinikka Vanhala
Keyword(s):  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Industrial Action ◽  
The Media

scholarly journals Media construction of the immigrant’s image: specifics of discourse strategies (based on the content of a Facebook group and articles in The Daily Mail)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
M. S. Matytsina ◽  
O. N. Prokhorova ◽  
I. V. Chekulai
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Reciprocal Effect ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of

The paper based on the content of the Facebook group Immigrants in EU and The Daily Mail publications discusses the issue of discursive construction of an immigrant image in media discourse. Using the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the authors claim that the image of an immigrant can be viewed as a discursive construct, and the main discursive strategies involved in its construction include the reference strategy and the prediction strategy. As a result of the analysis, the so called CDA-categories (topic blocks) underlying the formation of the immigrant figure, are identified and illustrated by the relevant examples, the need for further study of the social media discourse as part of critical discourse analysis is justified. The relevance of such study is due to the growing research interest in discursive construction of the immigrant figure in the media discourse, since it underpins the definition of discourse as a form of social practice, not only reflecting processes in the society, but also exerting a reciprocal effect on them. The use of both verbal and non-verbal means in the media texts under study reflects the intention of the authors of the messages to use all possible communication channels when constructing an immigrant’s image. The results show that the dichotomy of “friends and foes” is being formed and maintained by the British newspaper The Daily Mail, while the members of the Immigrants in EU group try to mitigate the conflict between immigrants and indigenous people.

A corpus-assisted analysis of the discursive construction of LGBT Singaporeans in media coverage of Pink Dot

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-201
Author(s):  
Robert Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
The State ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Keywords And Phrases ◽  
Standing Up ◽  
Original Goal ◽  
The Media ◽  
Assisted Analysis

Abstract Beginning in spring 2009 and continuing annually since, members of Singapore’s LGBT communities have assembled at Hong Lim Park at an event dubbed Pink Dot. The original goal of the gathering was to help build a more inclusive nation by standing up to discrimination faced by LGBT Singaporeans. While the early Pink Dot events were all but ignored by the mainstream state-run press, the change in tone, the increasing number of attendees, and the participation by members of the ruling People’s Action Party and their families made the gathering impossible to ignore. This paper uses a corpus-based keywords analysis to evaluate the main lexical differences between the media coverage of Pink Dot by the state-run press and that of the sociopolitical blog The Online Citizen. Two separate language corpora (State Media and Online Citizen), each containing approximately 111,000 words, were compiled from available coverage of Pink Dot dating from 2009 to 2018. Using SketchEngine (Kilgarriff et al. 2004, 2014), top keywords and phrases were identified by comparing these corpora to each other. Through a preliminary exploration of the collocational environments and the concordance lines adjoining these keywords, this paper sheds light on how language is being deployed in an attempt to sway a debate of great national and regional significance.

Hate Speech as Part of Contemporary Public Discourse and Possible Solutions to Support Public Administration: European Parliament Elections in Croatia

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-216
Author(s):  
Vlasta Kučiš ◽  
Darja Kupinić Gušić
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Public Behavior ◽  
The Media ◽  
European Parliament Elections

This article deals with hate speech in public discourse and the media, emphasizing the importance of detecting it in a timely manner in order to remove it. This falls within the scope of the tasks of public administration according to the EU’s normative framework because language is one of the main ways that discrimination is enacted. To this end, the empirical research was carried out in two parts. The first part identifies and analyzes unacceptable public behavior (hate speech), defining types of occurrence as opposed to insults and slander, and identifying the advantages and disadvantages of using language technologies for timely identification. The second part of the research detects occurrences of hate speech in Croatian offline media using the example of the 2019 European Parliament elections, drawing attention to a number of methodological obstacles preventing timely identification of hate speech. The results of this investigation contribute to understanding the linguistic-discursive construction of offline and online hate speech in multicultural communities. It is hoped that regulatory authorities will use the results of this research to facilitate implementation of the EU normative framework.

scholarly journals Between facts and ambiguity: Discourses on medical cannabis in Swedish newspapers

2021 ◽  
pp. 145507252199699
Author(s):  
Ernesto Abalo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Medical Cannabis ◽  
Abstract Form ◽  
Science Discourse ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
The Media

Aim: This study examines the discursive construction of medical cannabis in Swedish newspapers, with the aim of understanding how the news media recontextualise the medical potential of cannabis. Design: The study is centred on the concept of recontextualisation, which focuses on how discourses are reinterpreted and reshaped when moving from one context to another, with a special focus on recontextualisation in relation to the media. Methodologically, the study uses critical discourse analysis to qualitatively analyse 134 articles of different subgenres, published in four Swedish newspapers between 2015 and 2020. Results: The study shows that medical cannabis is constructed around myriad topics and contexts, ranging from news that focuses on the medical potential of cannabis to articles where medical cannabis is mentioned in passing and constructed in a more abstract form. The media have difficulties retaining a conceptual boundary between medical and recreational cannabis. Moreover, the study shows that the medical potential of cannabis is discursively constructed using three different discourses: patient discourse, strong science discourse, and weak science discourse. Conclusions: The study suggests that there is a widening of the debate on cannabis in the Swedish public sphere, giving more recognition to the potential medical use of cannabis. The media, however, show difficulties in refining discourses on medical cannabis, which results in an altering between constructions that are strongly connected to science, and those that are not.

scholarly journals DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF “POVERTY” IN RUSSIAN DIGITAL LIFESTYLE-MEDIA (CASE STUDY OF THE “AFISHA DAILY” AND “THE VILLAGE” PUBLICATIONS)

Articult ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 152-178
Author(s):  
Ksenia K. Eltsova ◽  
◽  
Elena M. Yudina ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Village

The article examines the emergence of the concept of “poverty” in the mid-2010s in two digital publications considered to be flagships of the “urban” lifestyle media in Russia – “The Afisha.Daily” and “The Village”. The coming into discourses on success and well-being (including the financial one) of a concept that is hardly associated with success and well-being looks like a significant departure from the сanon of lifestyle media, and therefore it is important for a closer study. The analysis is done within theoretical and methodological framework of cultural and media studies; a combination of discourse-analysis’ methods and techniques is addressed for work with digital media texts. The results obtained allowed to determine ways of constructing of “poverty” and to identify discursive strategies by which it is instrumentalized in the media under investigation.

scholarly journals Russian Political Blogs as Relevant Practice of Protest Communication : Systemic-Communicative Dimensions

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-116
Author(s):  
M. V. Milovanova ◽  
E. V. Terentyeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Political Blogs ◽  
The Media ◽  
Communicative Approach

The article is devoted to the study of a collective-personal, subject-oriented measurement of Russian-speaking protest communication in the framework of a broad communicative approach. The material was the content of political blogs hosted on the livejournal platform, the platform of the Echo of Moscow information site, and individual domains. The heterogeneity of functions characteristic of political blogs is revealed in the article. The language tools representing these functions are characterized. Particular attention is paid to the discursive hybridity of political blogs, manifested in the inclusion in the Internet discourse of elements of political, business, legal, conversational, artistic discourse. The specifics of constructing a complex addressee (individual, collective, title) and complex addressee (mass, target) are described. Relevant communication strategies and tactics of the mass, individual addressee are disclosed. Discussion topics that initiate a protest reaction of the addressee were identified, among which finance and taxes, government and administration, elections, corruption, officials, healthcare, parties and politicians, and social issues dominate. The stages of discursive construction of the problem in political blogs are shown. The ways of forming and maintaining Internet mobilization in the protest practice under consideration, the features of mediation of politics and personality in the analyzed content are described. The results obtained contribute to further understanding of the forms of modern protest, the interconnection of technology, politics and the media sphere.

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