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Pavlichenko, Larysa V. "POLARIZATION IN MEDIA POLITICAL DISCOURSE ON THE WAR IN UKRAINE: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 2, no. 24 (December 20, 2022): 214–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2022-2-24-18.
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The war unleashed by Russia in 2022 is widely presented in online versions of English-language newspapers; Ukraine is constantly in the epicentre of the world news. This study highlights political and ideological contexts of the war in Ukraine, the sociopolitical and cognitive aspects of news according to an interdisciplinary approach considering the language as a social practice. The article highlights the polarization in the presentation of the events and the main actors entitled in the discursive strategies, representing the dichotomy In- versus Out-group. The study is aimed at the investigation of the ideological structures and their manifesting linguistic devices in political discourse based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of discursive strategies for constructing the images of Ukraine and Russia in the British and American press. The integrated Critical Discourse Analysis was applied to the research of the news to study the media discourse and the language, where CDA focuses on social practice, social power and ideology. Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) is used to research the ideology of war images presented in the language of news reports. The relevance of this study determined by the aim is to show the main discursive strategies of polaeization in political media discourse. The research methods of the article combine three vectors of the analysis by Fairclough with explanatory tools (by van Dijk), and the elements of stylistic analysis and Critical Metaphor Analysis. The illustrative material was collected by information search and continuous sample from the open access newspapers and magazines issued in the US and Great Britain (The Daily Mail, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and others). Conclusion. This research argues that polarisation is being demonstrated in the media discourse on the war in Ukraine in 2022. The taxonomy of the identified discursive strategies of polarization deployed in the media political discourse includes labelling, evidentiality, number game, hyperbolism, victimization, personalization and analogy, that can either be used singly or intervened. The discursive strategy of evidentiality is applied to authorities, officials, witnesses that are accepted as trustworthy sources of data; the number game strategy combined with victimization are verbalized by metaphoric simile, metonymy, enumerating and magnifying the numbers with the modifying adverbs; the strategy of hyperbole conveys the positive impression of the in-group and negative acts magnification of the out-group verbalized by metaphor, metonymy, metaphtonymy; the personalization strategy is deployed with the purpose of foregrounding the positive actions of the in-group that implies negative out-group actions; the strategy of analogy is applied in the comparison of the war in Ukraine and the struggle of the Ukrainians for their independence with other historical events. Linguistic means used to realize the discursive strategies of polarization include the conceptual metaphor, metonymy, simile, idioms, metaphtonymy, intertextual allusion and personification.
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Salih, Rajaa Hamid. "Conceptual Metaphor: Blending and Ideology in Discourse Analysis." Journal of AlMaarif University College 31, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 503–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.51345/.v31i2.314.g183.
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The incorporation of conceptual metaphor study and assessment in the broader process of critical discourse analysis represents a relatively recent development. At one level, this process can be viewed as an outcome that derives from the broader purpose and scope of critical discourse analysis (CDA). The main objective of this article is to understand how metaphors may unconsciously shape people's perception of the world. It is understood that metaphors may play a prominent role in shaping public perception of important topics especially in politics, journals or media discourses. People are exposed to many more metaphors than they may even realize on a daily basis.
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Liu, Mengna, and Jinshi Chen. "A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Anti-telefraud Public Legal Education Discourse." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 5, no. 3 (March 13, 2022): 108–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.3.14.
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Nowadays, news media provides an important platform for knowledge dissemination of public legal education (PLE) and combating fraud is one of the most important topics in PLE news reports. WAR, ANIMAL and CONTAINER metaphors are three important metaphors that frequently appear in anti-telefraud PLE discourse. The present paper analyzes the role of the three metaphors in English and Chinese anti-telefraud PLE discourse based on the framework of critical metaphor analysis. Specifically speaking, the paper focuses on two research questions: 1) How WAR, ANIMAL and CONTAINER metaphors are used in PLE discourse that serves for anti-fraud activity. 2) Whether, if so, how do the metaphors achieve the function of evaluation and persuasion in PLE discourse. Our analysis shows that WAR, ANIMAL and CONTAINER metaphors construct different metaphor scenarios in anti-telefraud PLE discourse, highlighting different aspects of telecom fraud. Moreover, WAR, ANIMAL, and CONTAINER metaphors, as a very powerful tool for framing reality of telecom fraud and anti-telefraud topic, play an important role in simplifying and facilitating the understanding of telecom fraud and anti-telefraud process; they also enhance the effects of persuasion by its role of expressing “evaluative stances” on the perceived reality.
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Kalinin, Oleg I., and Darya V. Mavleeva. "Comparative Analysis of Coronavirus-Related Discursive Metaphors in PRC and ROK Media." NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 18, no. 4 (2020): 99–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2020-18-4-99-109.
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This article aims to compare the metaphorical representation of coronavirus in the Chinese and South Korean media. The theoretical basis of the research is Discursive Theory of Metaphor, which regards metaphor as an integral part of the discourse, as a cognitive frame that has functioned within the discourse over time. Critical Metaphor Analysis methodology (by Charteris-Black) is used to analyze metaphors. 750 headings and leads of coronavirus news reports in Chinese and 2000 headings and leads in Korean were used as the research material. The study found that the metaphorical models of the virus in Chinese and Korean media are practically similar: VIRUS is an ENEMY / OPPONENT; NATURAL DISASTER / PHENOMENA; LIVING BEING; REASON FOR FEAR. At the same time there are significant differences in quantitative distribution of metaphors and in metaphorical implications. By studying news reports, we can trace the models of public opinion formation in the framework of two distinct political systems.
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Hu, Chunyu, and Yuting Xu. "WAR Metaphor in the Chinese Economic Media Discourse." Higher Education Studies 7, no. 1 (February 20, 2017): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/hes.v7n1p94.
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The economic media discourse depends upon a complex web of metaphors, among which WAR metaphor is worthy of special attention. The data used in this study is comprised of 2566 articles (about 1.2 million words) under the Economy column of China Daily published in 2014. Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) is used as the analytical framework to investigate WAR metaphor in the economic media discourse. This study is governed by the three steps of CMA including metaphor identification, metaphor interpretation and metaphor explanation. The results show that among the selected 62 lemmas, 40 of them have metaphorical instantiations and more than half of all the metaphorical expressions are nouns. Both social resources and individual resources influence metaphor choice. WAR metaphor has the rhetorical function as persuasion, which constructs the cognitive model of competition in the mind of the readers and arouses their emotions; on the other hand, it hides the cooperative principle of economic activities.
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Khatoon, K. "Metaphoric Construction: A Critical Analysis of Identity and Ideology in Pakistani Political Discourse." Journal of English Language, Literature and Education 1, no. 01 (August 15, 2019): 01–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.54692/jelle.2019.010128.
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The current study falls in the area of Critical Discourse Analysis. It has been further classified in Metaphors Analysis of Political Discourse. The main objectives of the study are to identify metaphoric construction in Pakistani Political Discourse and to explore the ideology, identity, power and hegemony employed by the Politicians through metaphors construction in the speeches. The study addresses the leading research question: How politicians employ the ideology, identity, power and hegemony through metaphors construction in their speeches? The research is qualitative in nature because it involves the corpora of political speeches as research instruments to collect the data. Corpus driven methodology has been used for critical discourse analysis of metaphoric construction. The sample has been selected from the electronic media. Thirty speeches of selected Pakistani political party leaders were selected as sample of the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to draw the sample. The sample was further classified as Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf, Pakistan Muslim League and Pakistan People’s Party. Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), Fairclough Nine Properties Model and Gee’s Seven Building Tasks Model were used to analyze the text. The analysis reflected that all the party representatives presented their ideology and identity in their speeches by constructing metaphors based on different domains, culture and social practices and all the representatives of the political parties constructed metaphors with the aggressive tone and intention to exercise power and hegemony on the opponent party. The study can be useful for Political influence and propaganda through metaphors.
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Cibulskienė, Jurga. "Communicating attitudes through metaphor." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6, no. 1 (July 12, 2019): 130–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00033.cib.
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Abstract Metaphor analysis in real-world discourse is increasingly becoming the focus of many cognitive studies. Accordingly, this paper seeks to investigate how euro adoption in Lithuania in 2015 was metaphorically communicated by the media. The study is carried out within the framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), which was developed by Charteris-Black (2005, 2011), Musolff (2008), Hart (2010). Thus, a three-step metaphor analysis procedure (Identified→ Interpreted→ Explained) was employed in order to analyze the attitude towards euro adoption presented in Lithuanian media. The findings show that the euro is most frequently conceptualized as a living organism with different scenarios (active agent and passive agent) being realized linguistically. In the final stage – explanation – metaphors were analyzed from a rhetorical perspective, which means that an attempt was made to look into how metaphors communicate positive or negative attitudes about euro adoption in the media. The results demonstrate that personification of the euro makes the idea of euro adoption more understandable, it activates a range of emotions and evaluates it. This leads to further insights about the way the media exercises its power in an attempt to persuade people and manipulate their attitudes, emotions and opinions.
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Cibulskienė, Jurga. "Cross-linguistic Metaphorical Representation of the #MeToo Movement: Communicating Attitudes." Respectus Philologicus, no. 38(43) (October 19, 2020): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2020.38.43.57.
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The article focuses on the metaphorical conceptualisation of the #MeToo movement, which has spread virally as a hashtag used on social media in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment. The #MeToo movement as a social issue is looked at from the perspective of Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) (Charteris-Black 2005/2011, 2014, Musolff 2004, 2016, Koller 2014, De Landtsheer 2009, Hart 2010). CMA is a blend of Cognitive Metaphor Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis that aims at identifying how metaphors are used to describe socially contested issues and how they reveal speakers’ hidden intentions and attitudes (Charteris-Black, 2014, p. 174). CMA is also concerned with the different functions metaphors may perform. A predicative function, being one of many, is most likely to explain how socially sensitive issues are communicated (Charteris-Black, 2014, pp. 204-207; Musolff, 2016, p. 4). In other words, it implies positive or negative attitudes expressed towards certain issues. Thus, the paper aims to study how the predicative function of metaphor manifests in the discourse of contemporary social concerns cross-linguistically and cross-culturally. In other words, the paper looks into how different attitudes towards the #MeToo movement are communicated via metaphors in Lithuanian and English media and how they shape prevailing public attitudes.
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Muelas Gil, María. "Ideology, metaphor and persuasion in times of elections: a corpus-based study of British and Spanish economic reports." Complutense Journal of English Studies 27 (October 4, 2019): 223–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/cjes.63865.
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Metaphor has been studied as a pervasive and intrinsic discourse tool over the last decades in many different types of discourse (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Semino 2008, Kövecses 2010, etc.). Considering the strong effect it has on the discourse participants and how it can persuade them towards one side, action, or thought (Charteris-Black 2004, Silaski 2012), it is necessary to study it when the timeframe and the discourse where it is used are ideologically loaded. Based on recent studies on metaphor in economics (Alejo 2010, Herrera-Soler and White 2012, Soares da Silva et al. 2017), metaphor in the press (Koller 2004/2008) and metaphor and ideology (Goatly 2007, Silaski 2012), this article presents a corpus-based study of metaphor in reports of economic affairs in the English and Spanish press during the pre-election week of 2015. The corpus (about 160,000 words) consists of reports published by six newspapers that support different political spheres (left, centre and right): The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph in English, and Público, El País and ABC in Spanish. From a Critical Metaphor Analysis perspective (Charteris-Black 2004), the study starts from the hypothesis that the political stand of each newspaper might condition the metaphors. Indeed, metaphors pointing at certain side of political spheres appear in all the sub-corpora of the study, but in distinctive ways, as will be shown. In any case, critical factors such as cognitive and cultural reasons beyond the political stand of the media in question need to be acknowledged as well, which conveys further and more comprehensive analyses.
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Guliashvili, Nino. "Metaphorical Representations of the 2008 Russian-Georgian War: Critical Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors of War in Relation to Gender (A Case Study based on the newspaper -The Georgian Times)." Kadmos 9 (2017): 7–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/kadmos/9/7-87.
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This paper focuses on conceptual metaphors of war, supposedly shaping peoples’ world-views in relation to gender. Any social event or phenomenon connected to human activity has a discursive representation in the media. War is not an exception. Discourse structures have an ideational function which represents human views of the world. Metaphor is a powerful linguistic tool to serve this function. The objective of the research is to reveal conceptual war metaphors based on the print media coverage of the 2008 Russian-Georgian war, which reflects male and female perceptions of the reality. The research blends Critical Discourse Analysis with Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The blending creates a relevant theoretical and methodological basis for making an attempt to uncover the conceptual metaphors, apparently underlying male/female cognition. The domain of war is the target domain in the present study; As for the source domain, it is not uniform, it may have a variety of revelations. BYU (Brigham Young University) Corpora data were used to enhance the results of the study.
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Lacković, Stjepan, Mateja Šporčić, and Marina Baralić. "War and Apocalypse Metaphors in Media Discourse on the Pandemic and Earthquake in Croatia 2020/2021." Medijska istraživanja 27, no. 2 (December 17, 2021): 37–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.22572/mi.27.2.2.
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The way we talk about complex and abstract ideas is abundant in metaphors. Many research studies have shown that even the most subtle metaphor can have a significant influence on the way people try to tackle various social problems. Thus, the assumption is that metaphors are not just a simple rhetorical tool, but also have a profound effect on how we conceptualize reality and respond to important social issues. In the last two decades, scientists have studied the impact of metaphorical framing on political discourse from different research perspectives. Metaphors are often used for framing political topics, and these metaphorical frames are considered to affect the way people regard these issues, perceive the world, and act, on both the individual and collective level. In accordance with these research studies, in this paper, we will regard the metaphor as a cognitive tool that classifies our conceptual system and enables the understanding of our experiences. The objective of this paper is to examine the use of conceptual metaphors in media discourse on the corona crisis and the earthquake crisis caused by the quake in Petrinja. The research was conducted in three steps, following the methodology of critical metaphor analysis (Charteris-Black, 2004). In the first step, the identification of metaphorical expressions was performed by using a big data corpus of articles published by Croatian web-portals from the beginning of the pandemic (from January 2020 to April 2021) and after the Petrinja earthquake (from 29 December 2020). In the second step, the dominant conceptual metaphors employed in communicating the two crises were interpreted. The results of this interpretation are that war metaphors are ubiquitous in reporting on the COVID-19 disease pandemic, and the apocalypse metaphor is used in reporting on the earthquake. In the third step of the analysis, the reasons and implications of the occurrence of these metaphors are explained.
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Trčková, Dita. "Representations of Ebola and its victims in liberal American newspapers." Topics in Linguistics 16, no. 1 (December 1, 2015): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/topling-2015-0009.
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Abstract Combining critical discourse analysis and the cognitive theory of metaphor, the study analyses hard news on Ebola from two American newspapers of a liberal political orientation, The New York Times and The New York Daily News, to investigate metaphoric representations of the disease and portrayals of its victims. It is revealed that both newspapers heavily rely on a single conceptual metaphor of EBOLA AS WAR, with only two alternative metaphors of EBOLA AS AN ANIMATE/HUMAN BEING and EBOLA AS A NATURAL CATASTROPHE employed. All three metaphoric themes assign the role of a culprit solely to the virus, which stands in contrast to non-metaphoric discursive allocations of blame for the situation in Africa, assigning responsibility mainly to man-made factors. African victims tend to be impersonalized and portrayed as voiceless and agentless, rarely occupying the role of a “fighter” in the military metaphoric representation of the disease, which runs counter to the findings of recent studies detecting a change towards a more positive image of Africa in the media. Both newspapers fail to represent infected ordinary Africans as sovereign agents, hindering readers from reflexively identifying with them.
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Amaireh, Hanan A. "COVID-19 IS WAR, WATER & A PERSON: Metaphorical Language of the Coronavirus Disease in "the Jordan Times" Newspaper." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 7 (July 4, 2022): 1286–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1207.06.
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Metaphors permeate our daily communication, and they are part of our cognition. The present study investigates metaphors in a corpus-based study during the Coronavirus disease 19 crisis (COVID-19) using the Antconc Software. The way written media discourse framed the COVID-19 Crisis, especially in the Middle East received little attention from discourse analysts. The data include news editorials about the Coronavirus disease 19 from April 1, 2020 to July 5, 2020 collected from "the Jordan Times" Newspaper in English. The metaphors will be analysed according to Lakoff and Johnson's (1980; 2003) perspective of Conceptual Metaphors and Charteris-Black (2004) of Critical Metaphor Analysis. The quantitative analysis shows that the conceptual metaphors COVID-19 IS WAR, COVID-19 IS WATER, and COVID-19 IS A PERSON are highly used in the corpus to frame the pandemic. The conceptual metaphor COVID-19 IS WAR is not only used to represent a war against the disease, but also a war between countries. So, the metaphorical use is politicised, and reflects hidden ideology. The quantitative analysis asserts that the context is the decisive factor for the analysis of certain lexical items related to the pandemic and identifying whether they are literally or metaphorically used.
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Sajid, Muhammad Akbar, Sajid Waqar, Rabia Mohsin, and Muhammad Javaid Jamil. "Post 9/11 American Footprints in Pakistani Media: A Critique of Semiotic Discourses of Pakistani Newspapers." Review of Economics and Development Studies 6, no. 1 (March 31, 2020): 125–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.47067/reads.v6i1.190.
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This paper highlights the power of image in shaping perception of the people regarding post 9/11 American representation in Pakistani print media discourses. The study deconstructs the semiotic discourse(s) of Pakistani English newspaper Dawn (daily) from September 2018 to February 2019 to argue that linguistic and semiotic devices and techniques work discursively to shape the readers’ perception regarding American foot-prints in Pakistani print media. It employs Multimodal Critical Discourse analysis approach by drawing upon Machin (2007), Van Leeuwen framework for recontextualization (2008) and Fairclough’s (2003) for visual and linguistic analyses to lay bare embedded ideologies propagated through word-picture conjunction. The levels of analysis include participants, settings, poses, objects, metaphor, inclusion, exclusion and discourse. Moreover, the researchers have validated the findings of their semiotic analysis by conducting two focus group discussions among the students of linguistics and other disciplines. The findings reveal that print media semiotic discourses provide an appropriate use of language in graphic form. The findings reveal that no use of language is ideology free and words and pictures work in conjunction to propagate desired ideology to the target readership. Additionally, the study notices the visible change that has taken place regarding American representation from superordinate to back foot and ready-to-hold dialogue through semiotic discourses of mentioned newspaper.
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Huda, Laila Nabilal. "CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ONLINE MEDIA NEWS: MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS BANNING ARABIC LANGUGE." Leksema: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra 7, no. 1 (June 12, 2022): 37–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22515/ljbs.v7i1.4911.
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The purpose of this research was to describe the micro, mezzo, and macro linguistic aspects of the news discourse ‘Ministry of Religious Affairs banning Arabic language’ on Tempo.co and Republika online media. The news topic has emerged a polemic among the madrasas or Islamic school environments. It is because there are a lot of Indonesian muslim children study at the schools. This research applied descriptive-qualitative method with critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach. The analysis was divided into three dimensions, namely the micro, mezzo, and macro. From the microdimension, in Tempo news, there were found four data of modalities and each two for positive evaluation sentences and assertive verbs. Meanwhile, in Republika, there are two data of modalities and only one from each metaphor and negative evaluation sentence. In the mezzodimension, the scope of Tempo's discourse is not only restricted to the issue on the prohibition of using Arabic language but also of using hijabs or veils. On the other hand, the news of Republika focuses on the banning of Arabic language without associating it to another case. In the macrodimension, both news texts show an alignment to the government, particularly Ministry of Religious Affairs.
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Arif, Muhammad, and Sulis Triyono. "What Lies Beneath Baby Shark Song?: A Critical Analysis On Korean Society." PAROLE: Journal of Linguistics and Education 7, no. 1 (April 27, 2018): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/parole.v7i1.44-52.
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This study aims to analyze a phenomenal song entitled “Baby Shark” composed by the Pinkfong, a South Korean media startup. The song has become viral over children and adults alike. This research is undertaken to find out; the composer’s attitudes, the social relation among the participants, and the context of the situation in the discourse. The object of the study is obtained from the whole lyrics. Then it is analyzed through Appraisals and Critical Discourse Analysis by connecting every single line to the intentional marketing and social context. Finally, the conclusion shows that “Baby Shark” is a song about local wisdom education in Korea. The composer implicitly admires the shark and uses it as metaphor of Korean people mindset. The composer intends to give his full support and persuades the listener about hard working culture in Korea
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Afifulloh, M., and Nurvita Wijayanti. "Body Size on Cinema: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Contemporary Indonesian Cinema." Studies in Media and Communication 11, no. 1 (December 23, 2022): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v11i1.5790.
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This article discusses how a fat body in a film is used as a metaphor for a deviant, dangerous, and irresponsible personality through the various narratives occupied by the characters in the film. This research is qualitative research with the main data source is Imperfect film released in 2020. The approach used is a combination of film studies and Sara Mills' critical discourse analysis. The results of the study show that although Imperfect promotes gender equality in society, the narrative that is built still position fat bodies and black skin as non-ideal, especially for woman. Furthermore, Imperfect film positions fat women as a subculture group that struggles as well as agents of change. In conclusion, this study provides an understanding of how the cinematic discourse on size and weight in the context of the structure of the wider community is related to gender issues and films as popular media still have not placed a positive side on weight and skin color, especially in Indonesian society.
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Budd, Kate, Darren Kelsey, Frank Mueller, and Andrea Whittle. "Metaphor, morality and legitimacy: A critical discourse analysis of the media framing of the payday loan industry." Organization 26, no. 6 (November 29, 2018): 802–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508418812569.
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This study examines the metaphors used in the British press to characterize the payday loan industry in order to develop our understanding of organizational delegitimation. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and theories of moral panic, we show how the metaphors used in the press framed the industry as a ‘moral problem’. The study identified four root metaphors that were used to undertake moral problematization: predators and parasites, orientation, warfare and pathology. We show how these metaphors played a key role in the construction of a moral panic through two framing functions: first by constructing images of the damage and danger caused by the firms and second by attributing agency in such a way that moral responsibility was assigned to the organizations. We also extend the discussion of our findings to explore the ideological dimensions of the moral panic. We develop a critical analysis that points to the potential scapegoating role of the discourse, which served as a convenient moral crusade for the government and other neo-liberal supporters to pursue, while detracting attention away from the underlying socio-economic context, including austerity policies, the decline in real wages and the deregulation of the finance sector. From this critical perspective, payday loan companies can be seen as a ‘folk devil’ through which society’s fears about finance capitalism are articulated, creating disproportionate exaggeration and alarm, while the system as a whole can remain intact.
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Hart, Christopher. "Metaphor and intertextuality in media framings of the (1984–1985) British Miners’ Strike: A multimodal analysis." Discourse & Communication 11, no. 1 (January 22, 2017): 3–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481316683291.
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The British Miners’ Strike of 1984–1985 represents one of the most pivotal periods in British industrial relations. The significance of media stance towards the miners remains a controversial issue today, as attested by recent publications looking back at the strike (Williams, 2009a, 2014). Here, authors including miners, journalists and other commentators argue that media coverage of the strike followed a consistently anti-trade union agenda in which the media sought to destabilise the strike. An internal British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) report, only recently made public, shows that the BBC themselves had concerns over possible imbalances in their coverage of the so-called ‘Battle of Orgreave’ (Harcup, 2014). Despite the weight attached to media coverage in this context, however, surprisingly little research has been conducted from a discourse-analytical perspective to show systematically and empirically how such an agenda may have been manifested across media texts. In this article, drawing on Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies (CL-CDS), I show how one particular metaphorical framing of the strike, which construed the strike as a war between the State and the National Union of Miners, persisted through the year-long period and consider the potential ideological functions of this framing in media strategies of (de)legitimation. I show how this metaphor featured in linguistic, visual and multimodal forms of media representation.
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Indrawan, Fani. "CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON FOREIGN MEDIA NEWS RELATED TO INVESTMENT SCAMS: AN ANALYSIS OF VAN DIJK’S MODEL." Teaching English as Foreign Language, Literature and Linguistics 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 118–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.33752/teflics.v2i1.3025.
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Van Dijk’s model of critical discourse analysis on foreign media news about “These young Indonesians became rich through 'investment platforms'. They've now been charged with fraud”. Van Dijk model consists of macrostructure, superstructure and microstructure. These three structures are used to analyze the discourse of the news text. The results of this research are: 1. The macrostructure of the text describes the theme of "investment fraud" in which there are some important points that are stated which refer back to the big theme; 2. The superstructure of the text explains the theme of the news and the scheme or order of news that is displayed in the news text. The theme or topic are found in the title, while the content and the closing of the news is found in the body of the text news; 3. The microstructure of the texts contain several elements of discourse, namely semantic aspects, syntactic aspects of stylistic aspects (lexicon) and rhetorical aspects (graphics, metaphors and expressions). The conclusion of this research confirms that Van Dijk model can be used to analyze the discourse of the news tex by using critical discourse analysis.
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Chiluwa, Innocent, Rotimi Taiwo, and Esther Ajiboye. "Hate speech and political media discourse in Nigeria: The case of the Indigenous People of Biafra." International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 16, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 191–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/macp_00024_1.
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The study adopts approaches in linguistics and critical discourse analysis to interpret media speeches and public statements of the Biafra secessionist movement leader, Nnamdi Kanu, as hate speech. The study shows that hate speech in discourses produced by the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra appears as language aggression, such as insults and verbal attacks, as well as threats. Discourse structures such as the use of interrogation and metaphor also appear in the hate narratives. Compared with the Rwandan case, the study argues that hate speech could result in similar incitement and violence. While hate speech caused genocide in Rwanda, it did not work in Nigeria, largely because of the division among the Biafra campaigners and the Igbo political elite about the Biafra independence campaign.
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Kasim, Azahar, Mokhtarrudin Ahmad, and Azman Bidin. "METAPHOR IN STRATEGIC NEWS WRITING ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM (GTP)." International Journal of Humanities, Philosophy and Language 3, no. 10 (June 10, 2020): 57–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/ijhpl.310006.
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Language in news writing is very important because it brings a lot of meaning and understanding when reading to every member of society. The use of correct and meaningful language and having a certain interpretation can shape the thinking of society. Language combinations in news writing have an impact on the development of socio-cultural, informational sources, education, entertainment, key points in the arena of political communication, democratic participation, ideological value communication, norms, nature, and beliefs on an issue. Therefore, this study uses the Critical Discourse Analysis approach (CDA) which emphasizes Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) elements to examine the use of language and phrases formed by journalists in writing news on government policy, especially the Government Transformation Program (GTP). The data used in this study were taken from three online newspapers namely Malaysiakini newspaper, Berita Harian, and Utusan Malaysia. The use of metaphorical concepts and metaphors is fully utilized to refine terms in the words, phrases, and sentences written by journalists of these three media organizations. The findings show that journalists are aware and unconscious of writing metaphorical writing and setting the concept metaphor by framing the news they have written. The conceptualized metaphor is clearly displayed in every news writing because they have an agenda set by their respective media organizations to promote or provide understanding on government policies especially in relation to the GTP and the National Key Result Area (NKRA). Their behavior and processes produce stories that have implicit meaning by using metaphors to produce strategic news. The resulting metaphors are different but coherent to confirm the GTP and NKRA as the carriers of positive economic change to the country. Implicitly pointing out that GTP and NKRA need to be implemented if Malaysia wants to become a developed nation. It gives implied meaning because it is not said directly but indirectly through the metaphor.
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Riswandi, Riswandi, Ellys Lestari Pambayun, and Rahmadya Putra Nugraha. "Corruption News in Online Media Post Amendment of the 2019 Corruption Eradication Commission Law." Jurnal Kajian Jurnalisme 4, no. 2 (January 27, 2021): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/jkj.v4i2.30034.
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The process of the new commissioner election and the amendment to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) received public attention due to the controversial agenda and arguably had weakened the KPK. The purpose of this study is to describe the discourse of Kompas.com, CNN Indonesia, and Republika.co.id regarding corruption after the amendment of the KPK law using Teun Van Dijk's critical discourse method and news text analysis unit from 21 December 2019-29 February 2020. The results found that at the level of macro structure, superstructure, and micro structure, the three online media discourse advocacy and support for the KPK and criticism of Joko Widodo's government in detail, systematically, and with minimal lexicons and metaphors, and represent public aspirations for the KPK as an independent institution in eradicating corruption. The results on the macro, superstructure, and micro-level showed that Kompas.com established defense and support discourse to the Commission to Eradicate Criminal Acts of Corruption through detailed, systematic reporting, without lexicons and metaphors. Contrastingly, CNN Indonesia emphasized on the facts of real actions taken by the Corruption Eradication Commission in combating corruption and the amount of losses. Moreover, Republika.co.id emphasized on the weakness in the revised law of the KPK and reinforces its hypothesis of the news with the proper metaphor.
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Asplund, Therese. "Metaphors in climate discourse: an analysis of Swedish farm magazines." Journal of Science Communication 10, no. 04 (October 26, 2011): A01. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.10040201.
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This article examines communicative aspects of climate change, identifying and analysing metaphors used in specialized media reports on climate change, and discussing the aspects of climate change these metaphors emphasize and neglect. Through a critical discourse analysis of the two largest Swedish farm magazines over the 2000–2009 period, this study finds that greenhouse, war, and game metaphors were the most frequently used metaphors in the material. The analysis indicates that greenhouse metaphors are used to ascribe certain natural science characteristics to climate change, game metaphors to address positive impacts of climate change, and war metaphors to highlight negative impacts of climate change. The paper concludes by discussing the contrasting and complementary metaphorical representations farm magazines use to conventionalize climate change.
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Hansson, Magnus, Hanna Gottfridsson, and Sandra Raanaes. "The boss and daddy’s little girl: on the construction of gender in Swedish business media." Gender in Management: An International Journal 34, no. 1 (March 4, 2019): 59–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-06-2018-0060.
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Purpose This paper aims to analyse the construction of gender in business media through identification of media discourses in terms of vocabulary and vocabulary structures. Design/methodology/approach The authors conduct critical discourse analysis and linguistic text analysis of media articles in two Swedish business magazines, focussing on vocabulary and vocabulary structures used to describe men and women as managers. Findings Media texts fall into traditional, gender-stereotyped patterns. The use of metaphors, choice of words and sentence structures construct and maintain stereotyped models of gender. The linguistic practices and use of specific and gender-biased vocabulary shape discursive practices, contributing to the construction and reconstruction of institutionalised gender-stereotyped patterns of behaviour and established social norms. Research limitations/implications The focus on vocabulary and vocabulary structures extends the technique and application of critical discourse analysis, enabling fine-grained analyses, in this case of media texts. This research also indicates a need for future studies that adopt a critical discourse analysis to take into account analytical procedures that shed light on micro-mechanisms that support the materialisations of gender inequalities. Social implications Texts that portray both men and women show gender bias that is deeply rooted in the vocabulary and vocabulary structures and thus help to reinforce established discursive practices and gender inequalities. Therefore, there is a need for a fundamental change in the media reports on managers. Originality/value The research contributes to the analysis of media texts and representations of men and women as managers by providing a detailed analysis of discursive practices that takes into account vocabulary and vocabulary structures. The findings show the deeply rooted structure of gender-stereotyped patterns in media texts.
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Kazemian, Bahram, and Somayyeh Hashemi. "A Radical Shift to a Profound and Rigorous Investigation in Political Discourse: An Integrated Approach." International Journal of English Linguistics 7, no. 3 (February 9, 2017): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v7n3p115.
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Drawing on overarching methodological frameworks of Hallidayan grammatical metaphor, Fairclough’s perspective on critical discourse analysis and rhetoric, this study attempts to posit a novel, integrated and practical approach to political, the media, advertisement and other discourses. To this end and based on the proposed approach, it aims to critically and eclectically exemplify and dissect three speeches delivered by Mr. Barack Obama, former president of the US, to first manifest the integrated approach practicality and adeptness through analysis; then by virtue of analysis to unveil how language is manipulated and distorted by orators in order to convey seamlessly intended messages and political creeds to the audience. Surveying recent annals of literature, to date no one has conducted an integrated study applying these disciplines in an individual paper and this study as a trial one can be useful for upcoming research. The analysis depicts practicality and efficiency of the integrated approach and displays that the speeches abound with nominalizations, modal verbs, parallelisms and antitheses. Furthermore, there are some three-part listing, the use of passivization, quotations and modality metaphors. Therefore, a tendency to utilize more nominalizations, parallelism and other devices by the speaker can be a fundamental reason for making his political language more powerful, impressive, persuasive and ambiguous as well.
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Farooq, Fatima, Muhammad Akbar Sajid, and Fasiha Maryam. "Image of Muslim Women and Media Discursivity: A Case Study of the Washington Post’s Discourses." Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences 4, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 123–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.47067/ramss.v4i1.105.
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Print media representation about Islam and Muslims has never been ideology free especially post 9/11. A war of words has ever been there between non-Muslim west and Muslims. The dichotomy of Otherisation divides the world into two poles i.e. good vs. evil. Similarly, the present research critically decodes discourse of articles published in an American newspaper i.e. ‘The Washington Post’ about representation of Muslim women. The data has been collected from the newspapers’ articles which appeared from June 2019 to December 2019. The study employs Fairclough’s (1993) model of Critical Discourse Analysis. The analytical categories of the mentioned model include representation, metaphor, lexicalization, back/fore grounding, in/out group and number game. The data has been analysed at the levels of word, sentence and discourse. The analysis of the data reveals that Muslim women are represented stereotypically through the discourse of the articles of the mentioned newspaper as oppressed, narrow minded, hijabbed, and deviation from norm. Moreover, according to western perception and representation of this American newspaper they are contriving to harm civilized West by introducing new system of caliphate to disturb the activities of civilized world. The study concludes that print media discourses act as distorting prism to represent a desired version of reality about Islam and Muslim women to shape the mindset of the target audience accordingly.
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Raitskaya, Lilia, and Elena Tikhonova. "The Top 100 Cited Discourse Studies: An Update." Journal of Language and Education 5, no. 1 (March 31, 2019): 4–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2411-7390-2019-5-1-4-15.
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The editorial review of the top 100 most cited articles on discourse in the subject area of ‘linguistics and language’ aims to define the dominating trends and find out the prevailing article structures for JLE authors to follow as the best practice-based patterns and guidelines. The top 100 quoted articles were singled out from Scopus database, filtered through subject areas (social sciences; arts and humanities), language (English), years (2015-2019), document type (article) and keywords (discourse; discourse analysis; critical discourse analysis; semantics). The research finds out that educational discourses and news media coverage discourses are the most popular themes with 23 publications each; other prevailing topics cover media, policy-related, ecology discourses, metaphors, racism and religion in discourses. As the top 100 cited articles include mainly original articles (both theoretical and empirical), the study focused on the article structure, calling JLE authors’ attention to the journal editors’ stance on article formats.
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Ana, Otto Santa, Sandra L. Treviño, Michael J. Bailey, Kristen Bodossian, and Antonio de Necochea. "A MAY TO REMEMBER." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 4, no. 1 (2007): 207–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x07070117.
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AbstractWe examine mainstream U.S. print news depictions of the 2006 immigration policy debate. Using critical discourse analysis informed by cognitive metaphor theory, we analyze a substantial sample of mainstream U.S. print news reports in May 2006, at the height of national attention on the “Great May Day” demonstrations across the country. We compare it to a second sample of print news media articles from October 2006, at the time of the passage of the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Mainstream print media represented immigrants with a noteworthy balance between human and nonhuman language during the time of the Great May Day marches. However, the media did not sustain a balanced representation of immigrants in the ensuing months. The conceptual metaphor immigrant as criminal is predominant during both periods. We explore the implication of the language used to frame the immigration policy debate.
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Trimble, Linda. "Julia Gillard and the Gender Wars." Politics & Gender 12, no. 02 (April 22, 2016): 296–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x16000155.
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The Australian news media used the metaphor of the gender war(s) to describe Julia Gillard's political strategies and speech acts in the final nine months of her term as that nation's first woman prime minister. In particular, the metaphor was mobilized in response to Gillard's October 9, 2012, parliamentary speech on sexism and misogyny. Based on a critical discourse analysis of the gender wars allegory as it was applied to Gillard by three Australian newspapers, my article analyzes the meanings revealed by metaphoric constructions of the former prime minister's speeches as unusual and unjust forms of political warfare. I argue that the trope of the gender wars cast Gillard's political tactics as a violation of deeply held cultural norms about appropriate behavior on the so-called political battlefield, and it worked both to discipline Gillard for raising issues of sexism and gender inequality in politics and to bracket gendered power relations out of everyday understandings of political competition.
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Mavin, Sharon Anne, Carole Elliott, Valerie Stead, and Jannine Williams. "Women managers, leaders and the media gaze." Gender in Management: An International Journal 31, no. 5/6 (July 4, 2016): 314–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-05-2016-0105.
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Purpose The purpose of this special issue is to extend the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC)-funded UK seminar series–Challenging Gendered Media (Mis)Representations of Women Professionals and Leaders; and to highlight research into the gendered media constructions of women managers and leaders and outline effective methods and methodologies into diverse media. Design/methodology/approach Gendered analysis of television, autobiographies (of Sheryl Sandberg, Karren Brady, Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard), broadcast news media and media press through critical discourse analysis, thematic analysis, metaphor and computer-aided text analysis software following the format of the Gender Media Monitoring Project (2015) and [critical] ecological framework for advancing social change. Findings The papers surface the gendered nature of media constructions of women managers and leaders and offer methods and methodologies for others to follow to interrogate gendered media. Further, the papers discuss – how women’s leadership is glamourized, fetishized and sexualized; the embodiment of leadership for women; how popular culture can subvert the dominant gaze; how women use agency and how powerful gendered norms shape perceptions, discourses and norms and how these are resisted, repudiated and represented. Practical implications The papers focus upon how the media constructs women managers and leaders and offer implications of how media influences and is influenced by practice. There are recommendations provided as to how the media could itself be organized differently to reflect diverse audiences, and what can be done to challenge gendered media. Social implications Challenging gendered media representations of women managers and leaders is critical to social justice and equality for women in management and leadership. Originality/value This is an invited Special Issue comprising inaugural collection of research through which we get to “see” women and leaders and the gendered media gaze and to learn from research into popular culture through analysis of television, autobiographies and media press.
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Mahliatussikah, Hanik, and Mahbub Humaidi Aziz. "Akhbar Khuttah Mishriyyah-Urduniyyah li al-Saitharah alâ Taáddud Jihât al-Qarâr fi Hamas (Tahlil al-Khitab al-Naqdy Teun A. Van Dijk." Arabiyatuna : Jurnal Bahasa Arab 5, no. 2 (October 25, 2021): 311. http://dx.doi.org/10.29240/jba.v5i2.3233.
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This research is about critical discourse analysis using Teun A. Van Dijk's theory specialized in the discussion of the text section. Analyzing the discourse on Egyptian-Jordanian plans to control the large number of Hamas decision-makers, Van Dijk sees that the text consists of several structures/levels, which support each other. He divided it into three levels. First, the overall structure, second, the superstructure, and third, the microstructure. This type of research is qualitative research using the method of documentation and descriptive analysis of the content of the news text. In the documentation process, the researcher obtained the data from the news website alarab.co.uk. This study aims to determine the results of Teun A. Van Dijk's critical discourse analysis on the news text. The object of this study is the online news media in Arabic, alarab.co.uk, while the subject of this research is the discourse of the state of the many faces of the Hamas organization that controls decision-making. This analysis was performed on macro-structure (themes), superstructure (layouts), micro-structure (semantics: background, detail, intent, assumptions), micro-structure (structure: sentence form, coherence, and pronouns), and micro-structure (style: lexicon ), the precise structure (rhetorical: graphic, metaphor, expression) in Arabic discourse.
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Prendergast, Muireann. "Hero, leader, traitor: The print media deconstruction of Argentina’s last dictator." Discourse & Communication 11, no. 6 (September 1, 2017): 610–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481317726929.
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The 1982–1983 period marked the end of Argentina’s last dictatorship, one of the most brutal in history, and a difficult time of transition for the country from dictatorship to democracy following defeat in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War. Using the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis, which approaches media as constructing rather than mirroring social reality and driven by the interests behind them, this article explores representations of Argentina’s last dictator, Leopoldo Galtieri, within broader discourses on nationalism in three newspapers that supported the regime. The methodological framework of the study is mixed, combining qualitative elements of the discourse-historical approach with corpus tools for an investigation into collocations and metaphors employed. Findings suggest that linguistic and discursive features used in relation to Galtieri change over the course of the year, reflecting shifting discourses on nationalism and Argentina’s period of socio-political crisis.
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Tehseem, Tazanfal, and Mubina Talaat. "Obfuscating Agency in Pakistani Newspaper Reporting: A Discourse- based Perspective." Global Educational Studies Review VII, no. III (September 30, 2022): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2022(vii-iii).06.
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This paper investigates the use of strategies to obfuscate agency such as metonymic expressions, passive structures and nominalization as a resource for constructing knowledge in media discourses. The methodological framework of the study is inspired by Halliday’s (2004) concept of grammatical metaphor. Linguistic choices play a critical role in facilitating ideological information flow, for example, nominalization structure the information in ways which allow writers’ perspective on events to be conveyed to the reader (Halliday and Martin, 1993). The data for this study come from three Pakistani daily English newspapers: Dawn, the News and the Nation, selected on the basis of their wide circulation. A sample analysis has confirmed the working hypothesis that nominalizations are useful in abstracting and classifying actions and events in order to build and organize media discourses (for a fuller account see Fairclough 2010). The study explores the lexico-grammatical patterns which have been deployed to build ideological positions, maintain power relations and relate with the literature in the field that journalists use in order to inculcate particular socio-political morals in the consumers.
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Karapetjana, Indra, and Gunta Roziņa. "Metaphoric Conceptualization of Social Reality in the Language of News Media." Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture 11 (2021): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/bjellc.11.2021.05.
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Today, social reality can hardly be viewed as the one-state-one-nationone language ideological framework (Bauman and Briggs, 2003). The modern multilingual and multicultural communities are inclined to examine social reality in a multiple variety of socio-economic and political manifestations and forms. To understand how social reality can be explored through examining certain socio-political processes in a country, the present paper aims at analysing the role of conceptual metaphor in cases when political scandals, involving corruption charges of high-ranking officials in Latvia are considered. For this purpose, the present study has focused on the analysis of selected commentaries that deal with corruption charges which were revealed in December 2019 issues of the magazine IR. The Latvian-origin weekly magazine IR was selected deliberately because; on the one hand, it has an enormous influence on how social reality is constructed and perceived by Latvian citizens. On the other hand, it was important to reveal that the evidence-based theoretical premises on the relationship between metaphor and society in the English language are applicable and work cross-linguistically in Latvian. The research presents a case study type. With the focus on the conceptualization of corruption-related social problems, selected discursive practices that dealt with the corruption cases being revealed by the news medium IR were considered. The results demonstrated that the journalists of the commentaries tend to take a critical discourse perspective on the representation of corruption-related issues and political events, which can be represented at the levels of abstraction. Conceptual metaphors contributed to mental representations of political issues and communication of social reality by conveying additional negative evaluation of such an inherently derogatory concept as corruption. The metaphors CORRUPTION IS DIRT, CORRUPTION IS GARBAGE, CORRUPTION IS NUCLEAR DISASTER, CORRUPTION IS A DISEASE also fulfil a cognitive function, helping to understand the concept of corruption in terms of another more concrete concept. The use of metaphors in the commentaries may have causal effects such as bringing about changes in the readers’ knowledge, beliefs and attitudes.
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Fataya, Isna Ardyani. "BUILDING COMIC IMAGINATION THROUGH POLITICAL PARODY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON DONALD TRUMP IN THE PRESIDENT SHOW AND SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’S THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 7, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v7i2.62746.
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The number of Americans watching political comedy shows has significantly growing recent years. The views increase as TV channels spread their programs into social media, such as YouTube. The comic and funny aspects depicted in the political parody can be in the forms of imitation, impersonation, and reflection of one’s character, expression, and appearance. This paper aims to investigate American TV programs, The President Show and Saturday Night Live’s The Presidential Debate, by employing humor theory seen from Van Dijk’s critical discourse analysis. The dialogues used by the impersonators are analyzed to figure out the elements of funny features, comedy, and parody. Hence, the purpose of this study is to answer whether or not the discourse mechanism can build humor in The President Show and Saturday Night Live’s The Presidential Debate. The data apply ten Comedy Central’s YouTube videos and four Saturday Night Live’s YouTube videos. The data comprises of political and power discourse. The analysis concludes that both shows utilize some aggressive strategies to criticize Trump’s character, such as metaphor to represent policies, contrast to illustrate positive self-representation, and hyperbole to demonstrate racism. While Saturday Night Live applies Hillary Clinton to contrast Trump’s image. Saturday Night Live contrast Trump by applying strategies such as disclaimer, implication, incongruity, aggressive, and illustration to criticize his personalities and his controversial political decisions.
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Ng, Carl Jon Way. "Skilling the nation, empowering the citizen." Journal of Language and Politics 17, no. 1 (November 3, 2017): 118–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.16012.ng.
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Abstract This paper focuses on what is referred to as the SkillsFuture initiative as the most current crystallization of the Singapore government’s lifelong learning policy, and the state-sponsored discourse associated with it. Adopting a critical discourse-analytic approach, the study examines a data set that cuts across various genres and media (i.e. political speeches, Internet website, video clips), covering both linguistic and (moving) visual instantiations, involving semiotic features like pronouns, modality, image design parameters, and importantly, metaphor. The paper seeks to provide insight into the ideological foundations of Singapore’s education-labour policies as an indication of the ideal(ized) Singaporean citizen-subject promulgated by the state, and how these are semiotically instantiated in state-sponsored discourse. In so doing, the analysis also considers the contextual specificity of the neoliberal-oriented values purveyed, as the individualizing tropes of neoliberalism discursively interact with what might be considered a post-Confucian Singaporean communitarian/collective ethos.
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de Melo Resende, Viviane. "Discursive representation and violation of homeless people’s rights: Symbolic violence in Brazilian online journalism." Discourse & Communication 10, no. 6 (November 7, 2016): 596–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481316674778.
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This article is part of the research project ‘Representação midiática da violação de direitos e da violência contra pessoas em situação de rua no jornalismo on-line’, associated with Red Latinoamericana de Análisis Crítico del Discurso de la Extrema Pobreza (REDLAD), and focuses upon the ways in which electronic news media represent homeless people in Brazil. The focus is a pair of texts, related through internal hyperlinks, about the controversy concerning the installation of a social center in a middle-class neighborhood in central Sao Paulo. The texts are analyzed on the theoretical basis of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and considering the following analytical categories: metaphor, representation of social actors and intertextuality. Analyses show a scenario of ‘invasion by unwelcome people’, who are not perceived as rights holders, but as a threat to the rights of others.
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MENA GARCÍA, Tomás. "Donald J. Trump: A Critical Discourse Analysis | Donald J. Trump: un análisis crítico del discurso." REVISTA ESTUDIOS INSTITUCIONALES 5, no. 8 (July 26, 2018): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/eeii.vol.5.n.8.2018.21778.
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Donald J. Trump is an “off the spectrum” President who creates controversial headlines of the media around the world. Where does his appeal come from? What is new about him? This paper tries to answer these questions from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. The essay is divided into three chapters. The first one gives a general overview of Trump’s discourse styles. The second one deals with the family model developed by George Lakoff in terms of metaphors and more specifically with the representation of the strict father pattern in Trump’s discourse. The third and final chapter is dedicated to the portrayal of “the other” in Trump. Strategies to depict “otherness” are analysed from an ideological discourse viewpoint. Racism, immigration and Trump’s depiction of “the establishment” are not neglected._____________________________Donal J. Trump resulta ser un Presidente fuera de lo común que genera polémicos titulares en todo el mundo. ¿Por qué provoca tanta atracción y polémica? ¿Qué novedades aporta? Este estudio pretende responder a estas cuestiones desde una perspectiva del análisis crítico del discurso. El ensayo está dividido en tres capítulos. En el primero se exponen los aspectos más característicos de su estilo discursivo. El segundo se dedica a estudiar la influencia de los modelos de familia en Trump analizados por el lingüista cognitivo George Lakoff, centrándose en los siguientes tipos: el Padre estricto y el Progenitor nutriente. El tercero y último capítulo se consagra a estudiar el modo en que “el otro” es representado por Trump. Se aborda en este trabajo el tratamiento de temas como el racismo, la inmigración o su visión de “la clase dirigente”.
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Moody, Stephanie, and Zohreh R. Eslami. "Political Discourse, Code-Switching, and Ideology." Russian Journal of Linguistics 24, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 325–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-2020-24-2-325-343.
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Language and Ideology is an area of critical discourse analysis that has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The vast influence of the media has provided a need for the explicit analysis of common linguistic mechanisms, particularly those in political discourse. Codeswitching, general pattern in a speech community of switching between two or more available languages or dialects with respect to certain extralinguistic factors (Blom & Gumperz 1972) is strategically employed by politicians to gain support for elections (Jarraya 2013; Craig 2013). Senator Tim Kaine was one of the first White politicians to engage in code-switching during the 2016 presidential election, however his use of Spanish when engaging in political discourse was met with great resistance and skepticism by the media and voters, many of whom felt that he was pandering to Spanish-speaking citizens. Using a language ideologies framework, the present paper seeks to determine how code-switching was used as a political discourse device by Senator Kaine, and how its use varied based on the context of each speech. To answer these questions, four speeches given by Senator Tim Kaine during the 2016 presidential campaign were transcribed and translated. Following descriptive coding procedures by Saldaña (2015), two raters coded instances of codeswitching in each speech for key features of political discourse: a) dissemination of personal information or background; b) repetition; c) hyperbole; d) metaphor; e) metonymy; f) comparisons; 1. promises for the future; h) solidarity; i) legitimization of self as authority; and j) florid verbiage. Results show that Senator Kaine relied most heavily on code-switching during his speech in Miami, Florida, and used it as a tactic to gain support and build solidarity between himself and members of the audience. Additionally, Senator Kaine engaged in much repetition through code-switching to emphasize key points of his speech and political goals. The present study illustrates how codeswitching can be used to cultivate political favor, forge alliances, and demonstrate cultural similarities between White politicians and biand multilingual voters.
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Yudhi, Sherine Gracia, and Trisnowati Tanto. "US Police Department’s Representation in The New York Times Article “George Floyd’s Brother Pleads with Congress: ‘Make it Stop’”: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Journal of Language and Literature 22, no. 1 (March 23, 2022): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/joll.v22i1.3434.
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The study aims to examine the representation of the US Police Department in a foreign media news article, The New York Times, entitled “George Floyd’s Brother Pleads with Congress: ‘Make it Stop’”. The text itself discusses an incident of brutality and systemic racism involving the US Minneapolis police officers towards George Floyd, an African-American, which leads to his death. This incident can be considered to be one of the biggest news that attracts the most attention, reaction, and action all over the world in 2020. This research uses Critical Discourse Analysis proposed by Teun A. van Dijk, focusing only on the micro-level analysis: macrostructure, microstructure, superstructure. There are four linguistics tools applied in the microstructure, which are rhetorical question, lexicalization, metaphor, and implication. The qualitative descriptive method is the research method used. Since the data are collected by searching for information in the Internet and other printed references, this research is also categorized into a library research for the fact that it has a wide scope of sources, including the academic journal, newspapers, magazine, e-books, relevant web resources, and various multimedia. The result shows that through these three aspects of the microstructure analysis, the author portrays a negative representation of the US Police Department.
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Tehseem, Tazanfal, Wajiha Amjad, and Muhammad Abbas. "Persuading Through the Print Media: A Discourse Historical Analysis of No- confidence Resolution Against IK in Pakistan." Global Digital & Print Media Review V, no. I (March 30, 2022): 131–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2022(v-i).13.
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This research aims at addressing the newspaper headlines during the time of the no-confidence motion to oust the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr Imran Khan and in doing so it highlights the various linguistic choices which help the journalists to persuade the masses. It is found that the newspapers employ various techniques and ways to portraya political conflict and bring it to the public's eye. Drawing on Wodak's Discourse Historical Approach (DHA, 2016) for Critical Discourse Analysis(Fairclough, 1995) the study highlights the ideological perspective presented by the different newspapers through their respective linguistic choices for the same move. It reveals how the various uses of language portray the events differently. The overall findings show that newspapers steer the viewpoint of the general public, and how the news coverage cast an impact on the audience and shapes their opinion. Moreover, the newspapers sensationalize the situation to create the desired impact. By the use of metaphors, phrases and idioms the papers intensify the scenario and paint a dramatic color to the picture.
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van Wijngaarden, Els, Carlo Leget, Anne Goossensen, Robert Pool, and Anne-Mei The. "A Captive, a Wreck, a Piece of Dirt: Aging Anxieties Embodied in Older People With a Death Wish." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 80, no. 2 (September 21, 2017): 245–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222817732465.
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The aims of this present study were to explore the use and meaning of metaphors and images about aging in older people with a death wish and to elucidate what these metaphors and images tell us about their self-understanding and imagined feared future. Twenty-five in-depth interviews with Dutch older people with a death wish (median 82 years) were analyzed by making use of a phenomenological–hermeneutical metaphor analysis approach. We found 10 central metaphorical concepts: (a) struggle, (b) victimhood, (c) void, (d) stagnation, (e) captivity, (f) breakdown, (g) redundancy, (h) subhumanization, (i) burden, and (j) childhood. It appears that the group under research does have profound negative impressions of old age and about themselves being or becoming old. The discourse used reveals a strong sense of distance, disengagement, and nonbelonging associated with their wish to die. This study empirically supports the theory of stereotype embodiment.
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Alfiantho, Arri. "MORAL AND GENDER IDENTITY IN THE STORY OF THE BUTTERFLY IN THE MOSQUE." Getsempena English Education Journal 9, no. 2 (December 4, 2022): 149–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.46244/geej.v9i2.1686.
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Researchers studied this study using Norman Faiclough's theory of critical discourse analysis. Through this theory, the researcher can carry out critical reflections to dismantle the interests of the analyzer. This study describes how moral identity and gender identity are in short stories on republika online media. The approach used is qualitative to understand phenomena about what the subject of the study experiences for example behavior, perception, motivation, action. The data collection technique is carried out by downloading short stories through the Republika e-paper, then describing, analyzing, and interpreting based on critical discourse analysis techniques. The findings of this study are: there are issues of moral and gender identity that are represented by examining the linguistic level and practice of discourse. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the study of moral and gender identity can dismantle ideologies and aspects hidden in short story texts by looking at linguistic elements through modalities and metaphors; in the practical dimension of discourse shows that short stories contain elements of moral identity and gender identity in line with the vision and mission of the Republika online media that uphold human and cultural values; Factors that influence the development of moral identity and gender include internal factors, namely factors that exist within the character himself, and external factors, namely factors that exist outside the character (environment, lifestyle, friendships).
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Febria, Rhani, Liliana Muliastuti, and Yumna Rasyid. "MORAL AND GENDER IDENTITY IN THE STORY OF THE BUTTERFLY IN THE MOSQUE." Getsempena English Education Journal 9, no. 2 (December 4, 2022): 98–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.46244/geej.v9i2.1841.
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Researchers studied this study using Norman Faiclough's theory of critical discourse analysis. Through this theory, the researcher can carry out critical reflections to dismantle the interests of the analyzer. This study describes how moral identity and gender identity are in short stories on republika online media. The approach used is qualitative to understand phenomena about what the subject of the study experiences for example behavior, perception, motivation, action. The data collection technique is carried out by downloading short stories through the Republika e-paper, then describing, analyzing, and interpreting based on critical discourse analysis techniques. The findings of this study are: there are issues of moral and gender identity that are represented by examining the linguistic level and practice of discourse. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the study of moral and gender identity can dismantle ideologies and aspects hidden in short story texts by looking at linguistic elements through modalities and metaphors; in the practical dimension of discourse shows that short stories contain elements of moral identity and gender identity in line with the vision and mission of the Republika online media that uphold human and cultural values; Factors that influence the development of moral identity and gender include internal factors, namely factors that exist within the character himself, and external factors, namely factors that exist outside the character (environment, lifestyle, friendships).
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Risnawati, Ririn. "ANALISIS BERITA POLITIK PADA SURAT KABAR HARIAN (SKH) KEDAULATAN RAKYAT TENTANG PEMBERANTASAN KORUPSI DI ERA PEMERINTAHAN JOKOWI-JK." JIKE : Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi Efek 2, no. 2 (June 30, 2019): 223–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.32534/jike.v2i2.529.
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This study examines the Political News Analysis of the Sovereignty of the People's Sovereignty on Eradicating Corruption as the Independence of the Mass Media in Proclaiming the Performance of the Jokowi-JK Government which focuses on 1 year of its administration (20 October 2014 October 20 2015). This research is based on two things, namely: first, how is the analysis of the political news regarding Corruption Eradication in the local mass media (Kedaulatan Rakyat) in reporting on the performance of the Jokowi-JK government; second, how the independence of the local mass media in reporting on the performance of the Jokowi-JK government in the area of ??corruption eradication. Media independence is seen from the method of Qualitative Approach with Critical Paradigm namely Critical Discourse Analysis; using Teun A. van Dijk's Model Analysis of text production involving aspects of cognition and social context. The production of text in the political news regarding the Eradication of Corruption in Judging the Performance of the Jokowi-JK Government presented by the Kedaulatan Rakyat SKH is a strong text structure. The Kedaulatan Rakyat Daily Newspaper is able to provide detailed Semantic Structure and more coherent relationships between words / sentences. In addition, the Kedaulatan Rakyat Daily Newspaper minimizes graphics and metaphor as rhetorical elements so as to be able to present more real and factual news. starting from text, social cognition and social context. The news on SKH Kedaulatan Rakyat is able to present the factual news objectivity in accordance with the truth and relevance. Not only that, the objectivity of the news about justice is able to be fulfilled by the People's Sovereignty SKH by presenting balanced news and explaining it more neutral without the support of the mass media.
Keywords: Political News, Independence, Mass Media, Eradication of Corruption
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Fitriani, Siti Sarah, Rizki Ananda, Andi Muhammad Irawan, Iskandar Abdul Samad, and Sukardi Weda. "Representation of 212 rallies in the Jakarta Post articles: A hybridity of CDA and SFL analysis." Studies in English Language and Education 8, no. 1 (January 3, 2021): 328–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.24815/siele.v8i1.16836.
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For decades, newspapers have become a daily need for people across the globe to update information. There is a tendency of the people to believe in the news published in newspapers, for media is considered neutral. In Indonesia, 212 rallies are the events that were widely reported as headlines for weeks by national and international newspapers. This study showcases the brief portrait of The Jakarta Post representations on the 212 rallies by its use of linguistic properties, to see whether The Jakarta Post is impartial in delivering the news. This study employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) strategies and applies the analytical tools drawn from Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). The data were taken from sixteen 212 rallies related news, including seven headlines, collected from The Jakarta Post archives. The result of this study reveals that by using transitivity and conceptual metaphor, The Jakarta Post tends to stand on the side of the one being protested, and oppose the rallies. This finding suggests newspaper readers to read the information in newspapers more critically, to understand the use of lexicon as well as the structure of sentences to conclude the right interpretation of the news and to realize the representation. By doing so, newspaper readers will not simply accept the news they read.
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Dankova, N. S., and E. V. Krekhtunova. "Media Representation of the Pandemic: a Metaphorical Image of War (based on American Newspapers)." Nauchnyi dialog 1, no. 8 (August 31, 2020): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2020-8-69-83.
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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.
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Golden, Anne, Toril Opsahl, and Ingebjørg Tonne. "“One, Two, Many = One too many?” Conceptualizations of mother tongue." Oslo Studies in Language 11, no. 2 (January 22, 2021): 135–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/osla.8494.
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In this article, we analyze the use of the term ‘morsmål’ (‘mother tongue’) in official Norwegian documents and in media texts to identify if and how its conceptualization has changed in the era of increasing globalization. Our point of view is explorative. When examining our data, we highlight the importance of reflecting openly about the instability of powerful concepts. We highlight two partly conflicting conceptualizations that we name the ‘traditional use’ and the ‘novel use’, respectively. Building on critical discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory we explore how the conceptualizations reveal certain aspects of ideologies and the potential management of multilingualism in society. A broader understanding of how conceptualizations of mother tongue(s) are played out in the Norwegian context may contribute to the dialogue about multilingualism as it is understood and recognized across diverse contexts.
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Carrington, Victoria. "How We Live Now: “I Don't Think There's Such a Thing as Being Offline”." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 119, no. 12 (December 2017): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811711901203.
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Background/Context Distinctions, real and conceptual, in being “online” or “offline” have featured heavily in the ways educational researchers have understood and approached research into the lives and practices of young people. Even as we argued that bridges must be built between “on” and “off,” our research has reflected a set of deeply entrenched metaphors about the Internet. Focus of Study This article takes a qualitative approach, using semistructured interviews and object ethnographies within a postphenomenological theoretical frame to explore how contemporary young people understand and experience “the Internet” and “online–offline” alongside their engagement with ubiquitous smartphones. Here, the article positions itself in the emerging new materialism studies alongside speculative realism and posthumanism, but with a particular focus on where the philosophy of technology known as postphenomenology can lead us in our thinking. Research Design The interviews described here were conducted in English and form part of a larger ongoing research project focused on understanding the impacts of mobile digital technologies on young people, including tracking shifts in the metaphors used to explain their everyday lives with digital media. To date, the project includes 41 surveys and a dozen semistructured interviews conducted in person in the United Kingdom and Europe, or, where necessary, via Skype and/or email. The interviews described here were conducted in person in 2015 in England. Analysis was conducted via critical discourse analysis and metaphor analysis. Conclusions The article demonstrates that our dated metaphors of online/offline are no longer fit for purpose when speaking about the activities, practices, beliefs, and priorities of these young women. The views of these young women are illuminating and challenging, and they pave the way for how we might usefully theorize the practices with text and technologies that they carry across different presences.