Discourse Analysis as a Qualitative Methodology

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Joseph Zajda
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Behaviour

The article analyses the term discourse and discourse analysis with reference to Foucault and other critics. Foucault used the role of discourses in wider social processes of legitimating power, and emphasizing the construction of current truths. The article argues that discourse analysis, as employed by Foucault, concentrated on analysing power relationships in society, as expressed through language and social practices. The article examines the use of genealogy, where Foucault attempted to trace the beginnings of internalised moral behaviour, or a reflexive relation to the self in human beings. Examples are presented of various approaches to discourse analysis, including deconstruction and preferred reading and interpretation of the text. The article concludes with the evaluation of discourse analysis as a qualitative methodology.

scholarly journals Reclaiming the Body Through Tattoos

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Sybele Macedo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

Psychoanalysis has always addressed issues concerning the body. More recently, the proliferation of practices of aesthetic body intervention such as plastic surgery, piercings and tattoos have been calling the attention of psychoanalysts to their use and effects on the subject. This paper focuses on the analysis of the role of tattoos in reclaiming one’s body, which will be approached through the psychoanalytical discourse analysis of data retrieved from online magazines and blogs. The practice of tattooing has subjective implications on the relationship between the body and the self, revealing a fundamental trace of human beings: the need to process traumatic events and give them some sort of tolerable expression.

scholarly journals Management of acceptable use of computing facilities in the public library: avoiding a panoptic gaze?

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Gallagher ◽  
David McMenemy ◽  
Alan Poulter
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Key Features

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the language utilised in Acceptable Use Policies (AUP) in Scottish public libraries. Through this examination the paper aims to ascertain if power relationships between local authorities, public libraries and users are apparent. Finally, the paper aims to determine if Foucault’s theory of panopticism is relevant to public libraries in this context. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses all 32 of the AUPs used in Scottish public libraries, applying a Foucaldian discourse analysis to the content of the policies. Findings – By thorough examination of the literature the researchers were able to extract ten key features that ought to appear in an AUP. It was found that only one of 32 local authorities included information relating to all of these features. It was also found that one local authority contained as few as four of these key features. The median number of features included in the policies was seven. It was also found that power relationships are evident and can be perceived throughout the AUPs. By identifying the key Foucauldian themes of discipline, surveillance, knowledge, and power and resistance throughout the AUPs, the researchers were able to analyse and identify the existence of power relationships and consider the implications these could have on users and on the library services being provided. Research limitations/implications – The study examines one geographic region, and is only indicative of the region concerned. In addition the usage of the qualitative methodology utilised could be deemed to have elements of subjectivity. Practical implications – The study would be of benefit to researchers and professionals interested in issues around AUPs and surveillance of library users. Originality/value – The use of Foucaldian discourse analysis is limited in library and information science research, and this study helps fill this gap. It is the first study the researchers have found that critically examines a range of public library AUPs.

scholarly journals Binarism, Identity (Crisis) and Power Structures in Postcolonial Anglophone Fiction: Analyzing Discursive Strategies in The God of Small Things

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Sundas Tahreem ◽  
Inayat Ullah ◽  
Tariq Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Small Things

Binary relationship among people of a particular society creates a power correlation that becomes a common social practice of that society with the passage of time. Social structure is based on power structure of any society that defines social identities on the basis of collective social ideology. The present study is based on Fairclough’s approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) that takes discourse as social practice. In this study, an effort has been made to show how social practices create power imbalance in the society. The objectives include study of binary relationships that establish power relationships, role of power structures to define social identities, role of ideology to maintain power and hegemony in social structures and to bring into the limelight the resistance of oppressed class against power structures. The study is delimited to the novel, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, and Postcolonial binarism is applied for analysis of the text. Binary relationships of the society have been exclusively studied through Fairclough’s approach to CDA. The analysis shows that social identities are ideologically driven on the basis of power relationships and it is due to ideological construction that certain group of people sets up hegemony and dominated group gives its consent to dominant group. Firstly, discourse forms knowledge which defines social relationship. Secondly, ideology is constructed due to power relationships. Lastly, social roles construct social identities on the basis of ideology. Roy also has created some economically weak and socially marginalized characters in her novel which try to go against established social practices to bring disorder in the hierarchy of social structure. The study has research implications for the fields of Language and Literature as the evaluation deals with the exploration of a literary text through the lens of the theories of language and literature. Researchers can also further the scope of the present study by conducting an exclusive and comprehensive study of the selected novel on marginalization of women in the given society.

scholarly journals The Shadow Side of Second-Person Engagement: Sin in Paul's Letter to the Romans

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Susan Grove Eastman
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
Holding Environment ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Shadow Side

This paper explores the characteristics of debilitating versus beneficial intersubjective engagements, by discussing the role of sin in the relational constitution of the self in Paul’s letter to the romans. Paul narrates ‘sin’ as both a destructive holding environment and an interpersonal agent in a lethal embrace with human beings. The system of self-in-relation-to-sin is transactional, competitive, unidirectional, and domineering, operating implicitly within an economy of lack. Conversely, Paul’s account in romans of the divine action that moves persons into a new identity of self-in-relationship demonstrates genuinely second-personal qualities: it is loving, non-transactional, non- competitive, mutual, and constitutive of personal agency.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Helen Keller ◽  
Rhetorical Performance

The Introduction shows how the attraction to the devout life explored in Part 1 of A Philosophy of Christian Life can be further qualified as vocation. Doing so brings the issue out of the realms of ineffable experience into the domain of language. The foundational role of language in the constitution of the self is explored with reference to Helen Keller, who found that language itself set her free by giving her the possibility of a coherent and meaningful relation to herself and to her world. Its place in human beings’ God-relationship flags up the necessity of listening and hearing, as well as attention to the rhetorical performance of language.

A prova de língua portuguesa em concursos para docentes: um contrassenso? / Portuguese Language Exam inTeachers Contest: A Nonsense?

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Ondina Maria Da Silva Macedo ◽  
Eliane Marquez da Fonseca Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Language Use ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Dialogic Discourse ◽  
Federal Institute

Resumo: Este texto é um recorte da tese de doutorado e tem o objetivo de analisar o questionamento teórico sobre o conhecimento de língua portuguesa na construção de uma prova de Língua Portuguesa (LP) aplicada a candidatos no concurso para docente de sociologia do Instituto Federal de São Paulo (IFSP), em 2015. O embasamento teórico é a Análise Dialógica do Discurso com Bakhtin (2003, 2010) e Orlandi (2001, 2007). Questiona-se o caráter descritivo da prova voltada para aspectos formais, em detrimento da discussão dos sentidos possíveis de uso da língua, como preconizam os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN) e a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC). Esta pesquisa segue metodologia qualitativa, de cunho documental, partindo da materialidade dos enunciados da prova de LP, com olhar para as práticas sociais. É importante ressaltar que em 2018, três anos depois, o IFSP aplicou prova a candidatos com a mesma formação, ressignificando a avaliação de modo a não valorizar aspectos gramaticais apenas.Palavras-chave: enunciado; dialogismo; sentidos.Abstract: This text is an excerpt from the doctoral thesis and it aims to analyse the theoretical questionnaire about the knowledge of Portuguese language in the construction of a Portuguese Language (PL) exam applied to candidates in the contest for professor of sociology at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP, in Portuguese), in 2015. The theoretical basis is the Dialogic Discourse Analysis with Bakhtin (2003, 2010) and Orlandi (2001, 2007). It is questioned the descriptive character of the test, which was focused on formal aspects, at the expense of the discussion of the possible meanings of language use, as recommended by the National Curriculum Parameters (PCN, in Portuguese) and the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC, in Portuguese). This research follows qualitative methodology, a documentary nature, starting from the materiality of the statements of the PL test, with focus on social practices. It is important to emphasize that in 2018, three years later the previously mentioned contest, the IFSP applied tests to candidates with the same background, reframing the evaluation so as not to consider only grammatical aspects.Keywords: enunciated; dialogism; meanings.

scholarly journals Procedural world nonlinear dynamics

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
N.N. Ravochkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Dynamics ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
The World ◽  
Present World

In this article, the author attempts to uncover and then critically analyze the nonlinear world dynamics of the leading trend of our time. Close attention is paid to the place and role of social processes that contribute to the growth of nonlinearity and unpredictability of modern world dynamics. The meaning of the synergetic concept is clarified when considering the dynamics of the present world. Shows the variability of modern social relations. The essence of the self-determinability of the world is presented. The hierarchization of modern social systems is determined.

The Technologies of the Self: Sport, Feminism, and Foucault

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirkko Markula
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
Gender Specific

Following Michel Foucault, feminist sport scholars have demonstrated how women’s physical activity can act as a technology of domination that anchors women into a discoursive web of normalizing practices. There has been less emphasis on Foucault’s later work that focuses on the individual’s role of changing the practices of domination. Foucault argues that human beings turn themselves into subjects through what he labels “the technologies of the self.” While his work is not gender specific, some feminists have seen the technologies of the self as a possibility to reconceptualize the self, agency and resistance in feminist theory and politics. In this paper, I aim to examine what Foucault’s technologies of self can offer feminists in sport studies. I begin by reviewing applications of Foucault’s technology of the self to analyses of women’s physical activity. I will next locate the technologies of the self within Foucault’s theory of power, self and ethics to further reflect how valuable this concept can be for feminist sport studies.

Telaah Kritis Eksistensi Pesantren sebagai Refleksi Pendidikan Islam Holistik dalam Membentuk Generasi Muslim Berkarakter

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sufirmansyah Sufirmansyah ◽  
Lailatul Badriyah
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Distinct Advantage ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Islamic Values

This article reveals the position of pesantren as a reflection of holistic Islamic education. Compared to other educational institutions, pesantren has a distinct advantage in terms of habituating Islamic values for students. Using a qualitative methodology and van Dijk's discourse analysis approach, this article was prepared by examining and analyzing all relevant references for the sake of obtaining a systematic conclusion. This article comes to the synthesis that pesantren has tremendous potential in shaping the personality of future generations of Muslims based on the Qur'an and Hadith. The role of the kiai is very vital and supported by activities laden with high levels of Islamic morality making pesantren have a very promising bargaining value for the realization of the objectives of Islamic education, namely the formation of our people. Therefore, without ignoring other Islamic educational institutions, pesantren must continue to be supported and at the same time synergize with other institutions in order to be able to spread these characteristics so that future generations of Muslims truly have Islamic character in their daily lives.

scholarly journals Paths of Speech

Ethnologies ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos David Londoño Sulkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
Other Substances ◽  
Colombian Amazon

Abstract The Muinane, an indigenous group of the Colombian Amazon, narratively present individual subjectivity as stemming from cultivated substances that constitute the bodies of human beings, or else from wild substances that usurp the role of proper stuffs. Moral subjectivity in particular stems from the tobacco, coca and other substances shared by a community. Subjectivity in such an account is both individual and collective, and either divine or animalistic as well. Muinane people’s rhetoric at times seems to present subjectivity as radically determined by extra-individual entities. However, the author argues that consciousness of the self is very much a part of their accounts of action — that is, that they understand their own actions to be self-directed as well as other-directed, and furthermore, that their ways of speaking about their own social interactions and thoughts/emotions performatively shape them. The author stresses the achieved character of social life and the intrinsically social character of selfhood, without making a case for a monolithic culture that monologically determines subjectivity and sociality.

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