Dissertations / Theses: 'Discourse and textual studies'

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Baskin, Colin. "Analysing the Dynamics of a Textually Mediated Community of Practice: The Social Construction of Literacy in the Business Faculty." Thesis, Griffith University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365625.

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This study is positioned within existing debates about the meaning and role of academic literacy, how it shapes and then frames the academic and professional writing practices of business students. It explores relationships between literacy, individual writers and the academy. It goes beyond merely locating these relationships, pointing more to the need to understand how particular student and staff groups within the faculty describe academic writing practices, and in turn act upon these descriptions. Current formulations of academic literacy reflect a heavy emphasis by academic and professional communities on the commodity value of 'literacy skills'. This happens despite the fact that not much is known about the details and current culture of literacy practices in Australian universities, and how these are inflected by different disciplinary areas and cross-cultural factors. Given the divergent applications of literacy that exist across the business professions, there remains a distinct lack of consensus over the meaning of literacy in business higher education communities. Institutional responses reflect this lack of consensus, and are expressed as inflections around a perceived 'crisis' in tertiary literacy standards. Business and professional faculties, while simultaneously embracing the economic and policy imperative underlying mass education, are seen to remain scornful of the service obligation this brings. Implicit in current understandings of academic literacy are the taken for granted connections between basic literacy, reading and writing, schooling, education and employment. These connections underwrite the relations of institutional arrangements, everyday practices, policy construction, and the conditions for student evaluation in the faculty. This study begins from where literacy is located 'bodily', and provides in the first instance a content analysis which explicates and presents student discussions on various ways of thinking about, framing and reframing academic writing. The project then turns to contemporary literacy theory for an explanation of how a community discourse of 'academic literacy' is conceived, produced and in turn reproduced. Contemporary literacy theory has embraced three theoretical frameworks in its move away from a traditional uni-dimensional view of literacy, namely critical social theories, discourse and textual studies, and ethnographic research methodologies (Smith 1988). This trinity of frameworks is used in the second instance to examine a series of interviews with student writers. This data makes visible the means by which institutions value certain literacy practices over others, practices which support the naturalized world of writing required by the faculty and its professional communities. Dominant literacy practices are identified, and interpretive procedures from the field of Ethnomethodology are used to account for the ways in which discourses on academic writing both reflect and produce social and community realities. Theories of discourse are used to examine the social construction of student writing practices within this local faculty community by identifying the attributes and assumptions that are attached to different community members to account for aspects of writing practice. The key to understanding academic literacy practices is found in explication of the social processes and practices that organise the 'everyday' world of the business faculty. This project discloses how the subjective world of academic literacy is organised, and how this form of organisation is articulated 'to the social relations of the larger social and economic process' (Smith 1988:152). In the strict context of this study, this means being able to disclose for certain groups of student writers, how their situations and literacy practices are organised and determined by social processes outside the scope of their 'everyday' world. This process of discovery requires the researched to actively construct 'local' referents as categories and concepts which, when applied to a faculty context, can form an observable, local practice as a dialectic 'between what members do in tending the categories and concepts of (an) institutional ideology' on academic writing (Smith 1988:161). The interpretive practices students use to analyse literacy practices bring academic literacy into being. The outcomes of the study show that the relationships between literacy, the individual and the academy are currently explained and understood in terms of the connections that can be made between existing professional and academic community discourses. Here the concept of a 'literacy crisis' resides. It is expressed through informant talk as a perceived fall in academic literacy standards. Informant debate on what has caused this decline is generally expressed through two key positions. One of these holds a rhetorical view of literacy as a somewhat natural and procedural outcome of the higher educational process, positioning literacy within an oppositional framework of deficit cultural and linguistic models. A second view evokes a competitive agenda of limited and limiting academic and professional opportunities. Behind these arguments and their rebuttals, lie assumptions about the 'literate' person as a member of the faculty. In arguing that research into the field of academic literacy has concealed a student sub-text, this study argues that literacy has been constructed, implemented and investigated from the perspective of the institution. It follows that academic literacy can be better understood as a socially constructed and signifying space, one which includes opportunities for students to create their own powerful identities as writers and as members of professional and faculty communities. This project bridges many aspects of student experience, with the major focus upon that which has been excluded by the absence of students from the making of the topics and the relevance of the discourse. For this compelling reason, this project has direct relevance to teachers, researchers, fieldworkers and policy-makers involved in the overlapping fields of literacy and higher education.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Cognition, Language and Special Education
Arts, Education and Law
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Baskin, Colin, and Colin Baskin@jcu edu au. "Analysing the Dynamics of a Textually Mediated Community of Practice: The Social Construction of Literacy in the Business Faculty." Griffith University. School of Cognition, Language and Special Education, 2000. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20021219.151517.

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This study is positioned within existing debates about the meaning and role of academic literacy, how it shapes and then frames the academic and professional writing practices of business students. It explores relationships between literacy, individual writers and the academy. It goes beyond merely locating these relationships, pointing more to the need to understand how particular student and staff groups within the faculty describe academic writing practices, and in turn act upon these descriptions. Current formulations of academic literacy reflect a heavy emphasis by academic and professional communities on the commodity value of 'literacy skills'. This happens despite the fact that not much is known about the details and current culture of literacy practices in Australian universities, and how these are inflected by different disciplinary areas and cross-cultural factors. Given the divergent applications of literacy that exist across the business professions, there remains a distinct lack of consensus over the meaning of literacy in business higher education communities. Institutional responses reflect this lack of consensus, and are expressed as inflections around a perceived 'crisis' in tertiary literacy standards. Business and professional faculties, while simultaneously embracing the economic and policy imperative underlying mass education, are seen to remain scornful of the service obligation this brings. Implicit in current understandings of academic literacy are the taken for granted connections between basic literacy, reading and writing, schooling, education and employment. These connections underwrite the relations of institutional arrangements, everyday practices, policy construction, and the conditions for student evaluation in the faculty. This study begins from where literacy is located 'bodily', and provides in the first instance a content analysis which explicates and presents student discussions on various ways of thinking about, framing and reframing academic writing. The project then turns to contemporary literacy theory for an explanation of how a community discourse of 'academic literacy' is conceived, produced and in turn reproduced. Contemporary literacy theory has embraced three theoretical frameworks in its move away from a traditional uni-dimensional view of literacy, namely critical social theories, discourse and textual studies, and ethnographic research methodologies (Smith 1988). This trinity of frameworks is used in the second instance to examine a series of interviews with student writers. This data makes visible the means by which institutions value certain literacy practices over others, practices which support the naturalized world of writing required by the faculty and its professional communities. Dominant literacy practices are identified, and interpretive procedures from the field of Ethnomethodology are used to account for the ways in which discourses on academic writing both reflect and produce social and community realities. Theories of discourse are used to examine the social construction of student writing practices within this local faculty community by identifying the attributes and assumptions that are attached to different community members to account for aspects of writing practice. The key to understanding academic literacy practices is found in explication of the social processes and practices that organise the 'everyday' world of the business faculty. This project discloses how the subjective world of academic literacy is organised, and how this form of organisation is articulated 'to the social relations of the larger social and economic process' (Smith 1988:152). In the strict context of this study, this means being able to disclose for certain groups of student writers, how their situations and literacy practices are organised and determined by social processes outside the scope of their 'everyday' world. This process of discovery requires the researched to actively construct 'local' referents as categories and concepts which, when applied to a faculty context, can form an observable, local practice as a dialectic 'between what members do in tending the categories and concepts of (an) institutional ideology' on academic writing (Smith 1988:161). The interpretive practices students use to analyse literacy practices bring academic literacy into being. The outcomes of the study show that the relationships between literacy, the individual and the academy are currently explained and understood in terms of the connections that can be made between existing professional and academic community discourses. Here the concept of a 'literacy crisis' resides. It is expressed through informant talk as a perceived fall in academic literacy standards. Informant debate on what has caused this decline is generally expressed through two key positions. One of these holds a rhetorical view of literacy as a somewhat natural and procedural outcome of the higher educational process, positioning literacy within an oppositional framework of deficit cultural and linguistic models. A second view evokes a competitive agenda of limited and limiting academic and professional opportunities. Behind these arguments and their rebuttals, lie assumptions about the 'literate' person as a member of the faculty. In arguing that research into the field of academic literacy has concealed a student sub-text, this study argues that literacy has been constructed, implemented and investigated from the perspective of the institution. It follows that academic literacy can be better understood as a socially constructed and signifying space, one which includes opportunities for students to create their own powerful identities as writers and as members of professional and faculty communities. This project bridges many aspects of student experience, with the major focus upon that which has been excluded by the absence of students from the making of the topics and the relevance of the discourse. For this compelling reason, this project has direct relevance to teachers, researchers, fieldworkers and policy-makers involved in the overlapping fields of literacy and higher education.

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Mansour, Garni. "VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN TIMES OF CONFLICT : A textual analysis of media representations of Yazidi women during ISIS conflict in Iraq and Syria." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-177936.

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Sexual violence against women in the time of conflict is a problem that appeared in many cases during wartime. Despite that it is a common problem, media and especially Western media through its coverage of war and rape during war did not give this concept its focus but rather researcher argued that media focus’s in its coverage on its ideology and agendas. In this study, which focus on media coverage during ISIS war in Iraq and Syria, critical discourse analysis was carried out on Western media and Arab media in order to understand media representation for Yazidi women who been subject to sexual violence and the potential outcomes for their representation. The results of the analysis showed that Western media represented Yazidi women as victims, on the other hand Arab media represented them as survivors, Western media portray put Yazidi women in the box of being the “other”, while both Western and Arab media had specific ideologies in their coverage, Western media with a political agenda and Arab media in justifying Islam from ISIS actions. In both cases media did not took sexual violence against Yazidi women in the wartime rape discourse.

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Ogwude, Haadiza N. "Popular Nigerian Women's Magazines and Discourses of Femininity: A Textual Analysis of Today's Woman, Genevieve, and Exquisite." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou161643816575918.

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Ziegler, Barbara. "Die diskursive Konstruktion nationaler Identität in dem bundeseinheitlichen Einbürgerungstest der Bundesrepublik Deutschland : Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-43802.

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The essay analyses the discursive construction of national identity in the present naturalisation test of the Federal Republic of Germany. The essay includes an overview of immigration to Germany, and a survey of political measures to improve the integration of immigrants. The language and structure of representative multiple-choice questions (and answers) of the naturalisation test are analysed by using the method of critical discourse analysis (CDA). The theoretical background of this study is grounded in cultural studies. The methodological framework consists of a combination of critical discourse analysis and textual analysis. Criteria of the linguistic analysis are: the situational context of the text, thematic roles, deixis, lexical repetitions, modality, coherence (including implicit meanings and presuppositions), intertextuality and interdiscursivity, competence and performance. The analysis shows that national identity is conceptualized by the multiple-choice questions of the naturalisation test. National identity is above all constructed by the German language. One of the qualifications which the examinee has to fulfil is competence in German on the level B1 (of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). Linguistic competence is necessary in order to answer the questions. National identity is linguistically created by using alterity. Binary oppositions are constructed by stipulations and presumptions about migrants living in Germany. These oppositions are created by giving three alternative answers, which represent prejudices about foreigners; we is represented by an idealized construction of Germans, and the other is represented by stereotypical assumptions about foreigners. National identity is created by the content of the questions, too. Many questions deal with German laws and standards, which implies that being a German means to be law-abiding. The present study shows that German identity is constructed by language and the construction of alterity.

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Wikrén, Maria. "Att förmedla eller förnöja? : En diskursanalytisk studie av debatten kring förekomsten av moraliska budskap i holländsk 1600-talskonst." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-91088.

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Uppsatsen undersöker den konstvetenskapliga diskussionen angående rimligheten i att läsa in moraliska budskap i holländsk genrekonst från 1600-talet. Detta görs utifrån en diskursanalytisk metod med fokus på textanalys. De texter som behandlas är skrivna av konsthistoriker under 1980- och 1990-talet och belyser tolkningsfrågan ur olika synvinklar.
This thesis investigates the art historical debate about whether or not it is reasonable to assume the presence of moralistic messages in Dutch seventeenth-century genre art. The study is conducted according to a discourse analytical method with emphasis on textual analysis. The texts chosen for analysis were written during the 1980s and 1990s by art historians who advocate different standpoints.

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Sobiesuo, Andrew Mwinvuure. "Textual self-consciousness and discourse in Luis Goytisolo's Antagonia /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487681788252317.

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Henderson, Ian J. "The bureaucratic construction of Aborigines: A textual and discourse analysis." Thesis, Henderson, Ian J. (1992) The bureaucratic construction of Aborigines: A textual and discourse analysis. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 1992. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/53721/.

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Many discourses contribute to the definition of 'the Aborigine' including anthropology, sociology, media, health, statistics, etc. This dissertation explores the way the bureaucratic discourse has constructed the 'Aborigine' rendering them bureaucratically intelligible, and facilitating their control. A study of three Department of Native Affairs files of the 1940's, reveals a 'documentary reality' which is read as a 'situational reality'. Informed by the values, morality and mores of the Judaeo/Christian protestant ethic, the bureaucracy of the 1940's constructed the Aborigine to reflect these norms. Instances of this are highlighted in the files studied. To reveal the white construction of Aboriginality, theories of 'documentary reality' and discourse analysis are applied to the texts, enabling a deconstruction and exposure of the manner in which this construction was maintained. Also demonstrated is the confining and regulating nature of the bureaucracy. Whilst these texts were authored some forty five years ago, they bear an uncanny resemblance to present day events. Bureaucratic intervention in negotiations for mining rights continues to indicate a "big brother" attitude founded on racist values. Suggestions are made as to how the bureaucratic/Aboriginal dichotomy may be remedied.

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Guerra, Alessandra Regina. "Funções textual-interativas dos marcadores discursivos /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86595.

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Orientador: Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves
Banca: Clélia Cândida Abreu Spinardi Jubran
Banca: Marli Quadros Leite
Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é, a partir de uma análise comparativa entre as principais abordagens teóricas do estudo de Marcadores Discursivos (MDs) e da identificação de princípios elementares comuns a essas abordagens, especificar, e, assim, precisar, a definição de MDs da Gramática Textual-Interativa (GTI). Especificamente, o objetivo é levantar, no corpus selecionado, todas as unidades que preenchem os traços de um núcleo piloto definidor de MDs e, então: (i) definir funções específicas predominantemente textuais dessas unidades, como forma de especificação da variável articulação de segmentos do discurso; (ii) definir funções específicas predominantemente interacionais, como forma de especificação da variável orientação da interação (JUBRAN & KOCH, 2006); e (iii) identificar as diferentes formas morfossintáticas que funcionam como MDs e, então, possíveis correlações sistemáticas entre as formas e as (sub)funções dos MDs. A investigação teórica preliminar permitiu constatar que diferentes abordagens de MDs compartilham algum tipo de função conectiva. Com base nesse princípio da conectividade, foi especificada, e, em alguns aspectos, reformulada a definição de MDs da GTI. A parte da pesquisa referente à definição de subfunções predominantemente textuais evidenciou a necessidade de estabelecimento de critérios precisos de distinção entre seqüenciamento tópico e seqüenciamento frasal. A esse respeito, mostraram-se relevantes os seguintes critérios: (i) grau de integração sintática e semântico-pragmática entre o segmento e seu antecedente, (ii) grau de integração prosódica entre o segmento e seu antecedente, (iii) grau de relevância textual-interativa do segmento no interior do Segmento Tópico. Essa parte da análise permitiu distinguir três subfunções predominantemente textuais:... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This study aims at refining Textual-Interactive Grammar (TIG) definition of Discourse Markers (DMs) based on both a comparative analysis among the main theoretical approaches on DMs and on the identification of common principles within such theories. The investigation aims particularly at searching the corpus for all the units which match the features of a defining pilot core and then (i) defining these unitsþ predominantly textual functions as a way of specifying the discourse segments articulation variable; (ii) defining predominantly interactional functions as a way of specifying the interaction orientation variable (JUBRAN & KOCH, 2006); and (iii) identifying the different morfo-syntactic forms which function as DMs as well as possible systematic correlations between such forms and DMs (sub)functions. The preliminary theoretical investigation has shown that different approaches on DMs share some kind of connective function. TIG definition of DMs was stated and, in some aspects, reformulated according to this connective principle. The part of this investigation dealing with the definition of predominantly textual sub-functions evidenced the need to establishment accurate criteria in order to distinguish topical sequencing and clausal sequencing. As to this, the following criteria have proven to be relevant: (i) syntactic and semantic-pragmatic integration degree between the segment and its antecedent, (ii) prosodic integration degree between the segment and its antecedent, (iii) the textual-interactive relevance degree of the segment within the Topic Segment. This analysis showed the predominantly textual sub-functions: Introduction, Sequencing and Topic Segment Closing. The definition of predominantly/primarily interactional sub-functions implied a rearrangement of interaction orientation variable based on the connectivity principle what led to a proposal... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Guerra, Alessandra Regina [UNESP]. "Funções textual-interativas dos marcadores discursivos." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86595.

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O objetivo deste trabalho é, a partir de uma análise comparativa entre as principais abordagens teóricas do estudo de Marcadores Discursivos (MDs) e da identificação de princípios elementares comuns a essas abordagens, especificar, e, assim, precisar, a definição de MDs da Gramática Textual-Interativa (GTI). Especificamente, o objetivo é levantar, no corpus selecionado, todas as unidades que preenchem os traços de um núcleo piloto definidor de MDs e, então: (i) definir funções específicas predominantemente textuais dessas unidades, como forma de especificação da variável articulação de segmentos do discurso; (ii) definir funções específicas predominantemente interacionais, como forma de especificação da variável orientação da interação (JUBRAN & KOCH, 2006); e (iii) identificar as diferentes formas morfossintáticas que funcionam como MDs e, então, possíveis correlações sistemáticas entre as formas e as (sub)funções dos MDs. A investigação teórica preliminar permitiu constatar que diferentes abordagens de MDs compartilham algum tipo de função conectiva. Com base nesse princípio da conectividade, foi especificada, e, em alguns aspectos, reformulada a definição de MDs da GTI. A parte da pesquisa referente à definição de subfunções predominantemente textuais evidenciou a necessidade de estabelecimento de critérios precisos de distinção entre seqüenciamento tópico e seqüenciamento frasal. A esse respeito, mostraram-se relevantes os seguintes critérios: (i) grau de integração sintática e semântico-pragmática entre o segmento e seu antecedente, (ii) grau de integração prosódica entre o segmento e seu antecedente, (iii) grau de relevância textual-interativa do segmento no interior do Segmento Tópico. Essa parte da análise permitiu distinguir três subfunções predominantemente textuais:...
This study aims at refining Textual-Interactive Grammar (TIG) definition of Discourse Markers (DMs) based on both a comparative analysis among the main theoretical approaches on DMs and on the identification of common principles within such theories. The investigation aims particularly at searching the corpus for all the units which match the features of a defining pilot core and then (i) defining these unitsþ predominantly textual functions as a way of specifying the discourse segments articulation variable; (ii) defining predominantly interactional functions as a way of specifying the interaction orientation variable (JUBRAN & KOCH, 2006); and (iii) identifying the different morfo-syntactic forms which function as DMs as well as possible systematic correlations between such forms and DMs (sub)functions. The preliminary theoretical investigation has shown that different approaches on DMs share some kind of connective function. TIG definition of DMs was stated and, in some aspects, reformulated according to this connective principle. The part of this investigation dealing with the definition of predominantly textual sub-functions evidenced the need to establishment accurate criteria in order to distinguish topical sequencing and clausal sequencing. As to this, the following criteria have proven to be relevant: (i) syntactic and semantic-pragmatic integration degree between the segment and its antecedent, (ii) prosodic integration degree between the segment and its antecedent, (iii) the textual-interactive relevance degree of the segment within the Topic Segment. This analysis showed the predominantly textual sub-functions: Introduction, Sequencing and Topic Segment Closing. The definition of predominantly/primarily interactional sub-functions implied a rearrangement of interaction orientation variable based on the connectivity principle what led to a proposal... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

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Kluepfel, Gail A. "Reading textual differences : grammars, epistemologies, and their subjects in composition /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9385.

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Iacoban, Deliana, and Måns Mårtensson. "The Discourse Behind Textual and Visual Representations of Mindfulness on Twitter." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24005.

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Our study is a collaborative dissertation paper that combines two differentdiscourse analyses, textual and visual, based on a common theoretical background.The introduction guides the reader through the content of the study, at the same timeoffering a brief context of research. The aim of the paper is to address a gap that weidentified in the study of mindfulness, namely a critical approach, from a media andcommunication perspective, of how this concept is represented in social media. Eventhough our research questions are developed separately in the analyses conductedindependently, they can be reduced to three core questions: ‘How is the meaning ofmindfulness constructed on Twitter?’, ‘Are there any power relations in theconstruction of discourse and if they exist, how do they shape the discourse?’, ‘Howdoes the reproduction and circulation of discourse shape its meaning throughintertextuality?’For answering these questions existing research from psychology,sociology and business has been reviewed, with the mention that no relevantmedia and/or communication studies on mindfulness have been found.Therefore, our attempt to open a discussion in the field required a theoreticalframe of analysis. For that we chose Michel Foucault’s discourse theory, addingobservations on relations of power, and Stuart Hall’s theories of representation.The methodologies used for the two analyses are Fairclough’s and Rose’sapproaches of applied discourse analysis. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) andVisual Discourse Analysis (VDA) are two detailed disseminations of qualitativedata, conducted separately. Results show that there is a mainstream discoursethat portrays mindfulness as a positive practice. This type of discourse might beinvested with power, however our conclusions in this sense are restrained by thelimitations of access to Twitter data. High intertextuality and low reliability onthe scientific discourse further suggested in our case that the understandings ofmindfulness are subject to change due to an advanced grade of interpretabilityamong Twitter users.

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Bacilieri, Maria. "Controversial Europe : a textual analysis of journalistic discourse in Italian and English." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410214.

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Al-Muhammad, Muhammad. "Patterns of textual cohesion in medical textbook discourse in English and Arabic." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240160.

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Al-Shabab, Omar S. "Organizational and textual structuring of radio news discourse in English and Arabic." Thesis, Aston University, 1986. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10291/.

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The present work studies the overall structuring of radio news discourse via investigating three metatextual/interactive functions: (1) Discourse Organizing Elements (DOEs), (2) Attribution and (3) Sentential and Nominal Background Information (SBI & NBI). An extended corpus of about 73,000 words from BBC and Radio Damascus news is used to study DOEs and a restricted corpus of 38,000 words for Attribution and S & NBI. A situational approach is adopted to assess the influence of factors such as medium and audience on these functions and their frequence. It is found that: (1) DOEs are organizational and their frequency is determined by length of text; (2) Attribution Function in accordance with the editor's strategy and its frequency is audience sensitive; and (3) BI provides background information and is determined by audience and news topics. Secondly, the salient grammatical elements in DOEs are discourse deictic demonstratives, address pronouns and nouns referring to `the news'. Attribution is realized in reporting/reported clauses, and BI in a sentence, a clause or a nominal group. Thirdly, DOEs establish a hierarchy of (1) news, (2) summary/expansion and (3) item: including topic introduction and details. While Attribution is generally, and SBI solely, a function of detailing, NBI and proper names are generally a function of summary and topic introduction. Being primarily addressed to audience and referring metatextually, the functions investigated support Sinclair's interactive and autonomous planes of discourse. They also shed light on the part(s) of the linguistic system which realize the metatextual/interactive function. Strictly, `discourse structure' inevitably involves a rank-scale; but news discourse also shows a convention of item `listing'. Hence only within the boundary of variety (ultimately interpreted across language and in its situation) can textual functions and discourse structure be studied. Finally, interlingual variety study provides invaluable insights into a level of translation that goes beyond matching grammatical systems or situational factors, an interpretive level which has to be described in linguistic analysis of translation data.

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Subramaniam, Ganakumaran. "Ideological stylistics : 'collative' explorations in Malaysian and Singaporean fictional discourse." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313230.

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Kim, Mira. "A discourse based study on Theme in Korean and textual meaning in translation." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/13281.

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Thesis by publication.
Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Department of Linguistics.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Translation error analysis: a systemic functional grammar approach -- Systemic functional approach to the issues of Korean theme study -- A corpus based study on the system of THEME in Korean -- Using systemic functional text analysis for translator education: an illustration with a foucus on the textual meaning -- Readability analysis of community translation: a systemic functional approach -- Conclusion.
Most linguistic communities have textual resources for organizing experiences into coherent text. The way that the resources are used may not be the same but vary from one language to another. This variation can be a source of translation difficulty in rendering a natural-reading translation. This thesis investigates the question of how the choices of Theme, which is one of the main textual resources, have an impact on textual meaning in translation between English and Korean. -- The premise underlying the study is that a translation that is not inaccurate in lexical choices may still read as unnatural to the target readers if a careful consideration is not given to Theme choices at the clause level and Thematic development at the text level in the source and target texts. This assumption is derived from systemic functional linguistic (SFL) theory, which postulates that Theme at the clause level plays a critical role in constructing a text into a coherent linear whole at the text level. This brings in another equally important question of the study: how Theme works in Korean. No research has been done to investigate the system of THEME in Korean from a systemic functional point of view or on the basis of extensive discourse analysis across a range of registers. Therefore, this study investigates the THEME system in Korean using a corpus consisting of a number of authentic Korean texts in three different text types. -- These two coherent questions are investigated in five self-contained journal articles included in the thesis. Two of them have been published (Chapters 2 and 5), one has been submitted for publication (Chapter 6) and the other two will be submitted (Chapters 3 and 4). The journal article format for thesis has recently been introduced at Macquarie University as an approved alternative to the traditional thesis structure.
Chapter 1 introduces a number of preliminary issues for, and information relevant to, the study such as research questions and background, the corpus, the underlying theoretical assumption and anticipated contributions to this area of research. Chapter 2 is a report of a pilot-project that motivated the current study. It discusses how to use text analysis based on systemic functional grammar to analyze translation errors/issues and provides systematic explanations relating to such issues. Chapter 3 reviews issues that have been raised by Korean linguists in relation to the study of Theme in Korean and provides suggestions on how to resolve these issues drawing on systemic functional theory. Chapter 4 describes the features of Korean THEME system based on the analysis of clausal Themes and thematic development of 17 texts of the corpus. Chapter 5 is a discussion about the pedagogical efficiency of using systemic functional text analysis for translator education with a particular emphasis on the textual meaning in translation. Chapter 6 attempts to analyze the readability issue of community translations in Australian context. Chapter 7 concludes the thesis with a number of suggestions for further study. --As the research investigates the question of textual meaning in translation, which has not been rigorously studied, and the question of Theme in Korean, which has never been studied on the basis of a corpus and of discourse analysis, it is anticipated that this work will make considerable theoretical and practical contributions in both fields.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Solin, Anna. "Intertextuality in pollution discourse : a study of textual relations in the public domain." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274252.

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Bonfiglio, Emilio. "John Chrysostom's discourses on his first exile : Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of the Sermo antequam iret in exsilium and of the Sermo cum iret in exsilium." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:df828fcd-dc2a-47b9-8bb1-c957c9199fb1.

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The Sermo antequam iret in exilium and the Sermo cum iret in exsilium are two homilies allegedly pronounced by John Chrysostom in Constantinople at the end of summer 403, some time between the verdict of the Synod of the Oak and the day he left the city for his first exile. The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that a new critical edition of these texts is needed before any study of their literary and historical value can be conducted. Chapter one sketches the historical background to which the text of the homilies refers and a concise survey about previous scholarship on the homilies on the first exile, from the time of Montfaucon’s edition until our days. The problem of the authenticity occupies the last part of the chapter. Chapter two investigates the history of the texts and takes into account both the direct and indirect traditions. It discusses the existence of double recensions hitherto unknown and provides the prefatory material for the new critical edition of recensio α of Sermo antequam iret in exilium and of the Sermo cum iret in exsilium. Chapter three comprises the Greek editions of the two homilies, as well as a provisional edition of the Latin version of the Sermo antequam iret in exilium. Chapter four is divided into two parts, each presenting a philological commentary on the text of the new editions. Systematic analysis of all the most important variant readings is offered. The final chapter summarizes the new findings and assesses the validity of previous criteria used for discerning the authenticity of the homilies on the exile.

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LeitÃo, Renata Jorge. "Relativas Explicativas: Aspectos SintÃticosemÃnticos E Textual-Discursivos." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3074.

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Com base em pressupostos teÃricos do paradigma funcionalista, investigamos os aspectos sintÃtico-semÃnticos e textual-discursivos da oraÃÃo relativa explicativa em textos escritos do portuguÃs contemporÃneo pertencentes Ãs literaturas tÃcnica, jornalÃstica, romanesca e dramÃtica do Banco de Dados de LÃngua Escrita ContemporÃnea no Brasil, que estÃ armazenado no Centro de Estudos LexicogrÃficos da Faculdade de CiÃncias e Letras, UNESP de Araraquara-SP. Neste estudo, partimos de uma discussÃo a respeito das propriedades da oraÃÃo relativa explicativa apontadas pelas gramÃticas tradicionais e descritivas de lÃngua portuguesa, bem como por pesquisas de orientaÃÃo funcionalista para, apÃs a anÃlise de 503 ocorrÃncias, proceder Ã comparaÃÃo com construÃÃes, Ã primeira vista, muito semelhantes: as apositivas nÃo-restritivas e as adverbiais. Os resultados obtidos confirmam a hipÃtese de que as oraÃÃes relativas explicativas se assemelham Ãs construÃÃes apositivas, sobretudo no que concerne Ãs caracterÃsticas do plano textualdiscursivo, mas se afastam da representaÃÃo prototÃpica da aposiÃÃo pela assimetria sintÃtico-semÃntica observada na construÃÃo relativa. Os dados analisados tambÃm confirmam a hipÃtese de que a oraÃÃo relativa explicativa assemelha-se Ãs construÃÃes adverbiais por comportar-se como uma manifestaÃÃo alternativa de articulaÃÃo de conteÃdos circunstanciais (mediante proposiÃÃes relacionais inferidas de causa, conseqÃÃncia e concessÃo); mas, ao contrÃrio delas, pode servir diretamente ao propÃsito de aporte de informaÃÃes na construÃÃo argumentativo-atitudinal da identidade dos referentes discursivos. A partir dos resultados da pesquisa, discutimos uma proposta de abordagem reflexiva e produtiva da oraÃÃo relativa no ensino de gramÃtica nas escolas. Acreditamos que a presente pesquisa contribuirÃ para a descriÃÃo e anÃlise lingÃÃstica do portuguÃs contemporÃneo, bem como para o ensino, que deverÃ buscar a ampliaÃÃo da competÃncia textual-discursiva dos alunos ao tornar as aulas de anÃlise lingÃÃstica e de leitura e produÃÃo de textos mais consistentes e coerentes em relaÃÃo ao uso efetivo da lÃngua.
Based on the theoretical presuppositions of the functionalist paradigm, a research was done on the syntactic-semantic and textual-discursive aspects of the explicative relative sentence in texts written in contemporary Portuguese. These texts are part of the technical, journalistic, novelistic and dramatic literatures of the Contemporary Written Language Database in Brazil, which are stored in the Lexicographical Studying Center of the Science and Letters College, UNESP from Araraquara in SÃo Paulo â Brazil. In this study, it was developed a discussion related to the explicative relative sentence properties which are presented by the traditional and descriptive grammars of the Portuguese language, as well as by some functionalist orientation researches, in order to make a comparison with some structures, after analyzing 503 occurrences. At first, these structures were considered too similar: the non-restrictive appositives and the adverbial ones. The obtained results in this research confirm the hypothesis that the explicative relative sentences are similar to the appositive structures, above all considering the characteristics of the textual-discursive plan; but they move away from the prototypical representation of the apposition by the syntactic-semantics asymmetry which is observed in the relative structure. The analyzed data also confirm the hypothesis that the explicative relative sentence is similar to the adverbial structures while working as an alternative articulation manifestation of circumstantial contents (by means of inferred relational proposals of cause, consequence and concession); but, in contrast with them, it can be directly used for serving to the purpose of conducting some information to the argumentative-attitudinal arrangement of the identity of the discursive referents. From the obtained results of this research, it was discussed a proposal of a productive and reflexive approach of the relative sentence in the grammar teaching process at schools. It is important to mention that this research will certainly contribute to the descriptive and linguistic analysis of the contemporary Portuguese language, as well as to the teaching process, which is supposed to try to get the extension of the textual-discursive studentsâ competence by turning the linguistic analysis and the reading-comprehension and writing lessons into more consistent and coherent classes in relation to the effective use of the language.

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Louren?o, Maria das Vit?rias Nunes Silva. "An?lise textual dos discursos: responsabilidade enunciativa no texto jur?dico." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2013. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16383.

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This investigation aims at describing, analyzing and interpreting the Commitment in Initial Petitions, which is a genre circumscribed in the judicial domain. For this purpose, we have chosen sections, facts as found and relevant law , sections of the petition, with the understanding that, in this way, respectively, the narration of events, which gives margin to the propositioning to the judicial action, and the exposition of the law that upholds the author s intention. We base our discussion on the field of Linguistics, more precisely, Textual Discourse Analysis (TDA), whose theoretical basis is derived from Textual Linguistics (TL) and Enunciative Linguistics. We foreground, particularly, the way in which the author of texts, objects of analysis, use discursive strategies that evidence ER. The relevance of this study, then, is in the formation of a critique of the judicial text, as it conceives of a dialogical approach to the point of view, raising not only questions about the way in which a linguistic instance conceives an object of discourse, but also considering questions of language inherent to technical writing and, in this aspect, contributing to the work of those operating in Law about the many ways ER is formed in the body of a petition. We selected two categories to analyze that, according to Adam (2011), characterize the degree of ER in the textual material of the propositional enunciations: the different types of representation of speech and the indications of profile of mediators. In this sense, with this task as an objective, we base our study regarding point of view on Rabatel (2003, 2009a, 2010) with relation to the enunciative approach, including the study of PDV in polyphonic and dialogical theoretical framework to study the ER from different types of speech representations that conceive forms of transmission of discourse and the role of the enunciating subject, mainly the responsibility and the prerogative by the propositional contents. In the same way, intending to study the indications of the mediator profiles, we observed the postulations of Guentch?va (1994, 1996), which develop the notion of mediative grammatical categories, of which permit the linguistic marking of distance and engagement of the enunciator with regard to the information expressed. The methodology we adopted was based on qualitative research, of an interpretive and introspective nature, in light of the fact that his study focuses on processes and strategies underlying language use. The corpus of the research is comprised of Initial Petitions, which gave rise to actions originating in the Civil Court of Currais Novos County RN. The data analysis shows that an object of discourse is always perspective oriented and presents the point of view of one or more enunciators. Consequently, the producer of a text, using the PDV of other enunciators, influences and establishes the argumentative orientation of the text. In the same way, it evidences the relevance of the use of mediated constructions in the judicial text, as they function as strategies attenuated to the responsibility of the producer of the text with what is said, and at the same time points to a discourse of authority through the entrance of the sources of law. Moreover, it reveals the documental and international importance of this practice, at the same time that it exposes the compositional and normative difficulties with regard to legal and linguistic aspects
Esta investiga??o objetiva descrever, analisar e interpretar a Responsabilidade Enunciativa (RE) em Peti??es Iniciais, g?nero discursivo circunscrito ao dom?nio jur?dico. Para tanto, elegemos como objeto o estudo das se??es Dos fatos e Da fundamenta??o jur?dica , da peti??o, compreendendo, assim, respectivamente, a narra??o dos eventos, que deu margem ? propositura da a??o judicial, e ? exposi??o do direito que ampara a pretens?o da parte autora. Ancoramos a discuss?o no campo da Lingu?stica, mais precisamente, na An?lise Textual dos Discursos (ATD), cujas bases te?ricas decorrem da Lingu?stica Textual (LT) e da Lingu?stica Enunciativa. Colocamos em relevo, particularmente, o modo como o autor dos textos, objetos de an?lise, faz uso das estrat?gias discursivas que indicam a RE. Dessa forma, a relev?ncia deste estudo reside na constru??o da cr?tica ao texto jur?dico, pois empreende uma abordagem dial?gica do ponto de vista, suscitando n?o apenas questionamentos sobre a maneira como uma inst?ncia lingu?stica concebe um objeto de discurso, mas tamb?m discutindo as quest?es de linguagem inerentes ? escrita especializada e, nesse aspecto, contribuindo com o trabalho dos operadores do Direito acerca das v?rias maneiras de constru??o da RE no corpo do texto peticional. Selecionamos duas categorias de an?lise que, segundo Adam (2011), caracterizam na materialidade textual o grau de RE dos enunciados proposicionais: os diferentes tipos de representa??o da fala e as indica??es de quadros mediadores. Nesse sentido, objetivando tal tarefa, baseamo-nos nos estudos acerca do ponto de vista realizados por Rabatel (2003, 2009a, 2010) no que concerne ? abordagem enunciativa, inserindo o estudo do PDV no arcabou?o das teorias polif?nicas e dial?gicas para estudar a RE a partir dos diferentes tipos de representa??o da fala que compreendem as formas de transmiss?o do discurso e o papel do sujeito enunciador no tocante ? responsabilidade e ? imputa??o pelos conte?dos proposicionais. Da mesma forma, tencionando estudar as indica??es de quadros mediadores, observamos os postulados de Guentch?va (1994, 1996), que desenvolve a no??o de categoria gramatical do mediativo (MED), a qual permite marcar linguisticamente o distanciamento ou engajamento do enunciador diante das informa??es expressas. No que concerne ? metodologia, adotamos a pesquisa de base qualitativa, de natureza interpretativista e introspectiva, haja vista que este estudo focaliza processos e estrat?gias subjacentes ao uso da linguagem. O corpus da pesquisa ? constitu?do por Peti??es Iniciais, que ensejaram a??es oriundas na Vara C?vel da Comarca de Currais Novos-RN. A an?lise dos dados mostra que um objeto de discurso ? sempre perspectivado e manifesta o ponto de vista de um ou mais enunciadores. Como consequ?ncia, o produtor do texto, ao utilizar-se dos PDV de outros enunciadores, influencia e estabelece a orienta??o argumentativa do texto. Da mesma forma, evidencia a relev?ncia do uso das constru??es mediatizadas no texto jur?dico, pois funcionam como estrat?gias atenuantes da responsabilidade do produtor do texto com o que ? dito, e ao mesmo tempo visa um discurso de autoridade pela entrada das fontes do direito. Ainda, revela a import?ncia documental e interacional dessa pr?tica, ao mesmo tempo que exp?e dificuldades de natureza composicional e normativa no que concerne aos aspectos legais e lingu?sticos

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Lara, Margarete Maria Fernandes do Nascimento. "Propaganda bancária: uma análise textual e orientada." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14593.

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This dissertation is in the research line of Text and Discourse in Oral and Written Modalities and it has as subject the discourse of bank advertising. The fundamental question which drives the analysis undertaken is: In what linguistic-discursive artifices do producers of such advertisements rely on to argumentatively influence the readers? We assume it is the ideological character of the propagandistic discourse. Thus, we established a general goal: to analyze the discourse of bank advertising; and a specific goal: to identify the social and linguistic-discursive dimensions of bank advertising. For this study, we sought help, especially in the work of Norman Fairclough (2001) which addresses the discourse as a social practice. Regarding the works made about the language of advertising and its features, we make comments on some authors: Antônio Sandmann (1993), Adilson Citelli (1994 and 1990) and Luiz Carlos Assis Iasbeck (2002). Concerning the argument, we present the considerations of Chaim Perelman (1987) and Olivier Reboul (1998). The obtained results show us that the discourse of bank advertising is produced, textually, with several features such as cohesion, politeness, ethos, transitivity, theme, modality and the vocabulary that involves the meaning and the sense of the words. But, we also have the extralinguistic elements such as culture and ideology. We consider that the extralinguistic elements appear in the discourse, especially in interdiscursivity, in the intertextuality and in the assumption of the discourse of bank advertising. So, these are the linguistic-discursive artifices that the producers of bank advertising rely on to argumentatively influence the readers. And, it confirms our assumption that it is, above all, the ideological character of the propagandistic discourse that influences the readers and supposed consumers
Essa dissertação insere-se na linha de pesquisa Texto e Discurso nas Modalidades Oral e Escrita e tem como tema o discurso da propaganda bancária. A questão fundamental, que move a análise empreendida, é: De quais artifícios linguístico-discursivos se valem os produtores dessas propagandas para influenciar, argumentativamente, os leitores? Temos como pressuposto o caráter ideológico do discurso propagandístico. Para tanto, estabelecemos um objetivo geral: analisar o discurso da propaganda bancária; e um objetivo específico: identificar as dimensões social e linguística-discursiva da propaganda bancária. Para este estudo, buscamos auxílio, sobretudo, no trabalho de Norman Fairclough (2001) que aborda o discurso como prática social. Em relação aos trabalhos realizados sobre a linguagem da propaganda e suas características, tecemos comentários de alguns autores: Antônio Sandmann (1993), Adilson Citelli (1994 e 1990) e Luiz Carlos Assis Iasbeck (2002). Sobre a argumentação, apresentamos as considerações de Chaim Perelman (1987) e Olivier Reboul (1998). Os resultados obtidos mostram-nos que o discurso da propaganda bancária é produzido, textualmente, com vários recursos como coesão, polidez, ethos, transitividade, tema, modalidade e o vocabulário que envolve o significado e os sentidos das palavras. Mas, temos também os elementos extralinguísticos como a cultura e a ideologia. Consideramos que os elementos extralinguísticos aparecem no discurso, sobretudo, na interdiscursividade, na intertextualidade e na pressuposição do discurso da propaganda bancária. Assim esses são os artifícios linguístico-discursivos que se valem os produtores das propagandas bancárias para influenciar, argumentativamente, os leitores. E, confirma o nosso pressuposto de que é, sobretudo, o caráter ideológico do discurso propagandístico que influencia os leitores e supostos consumidores

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Starks, Shannon. "Moral Values in Moral Psychology? A Textual Analysis." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6067.

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What values, if any, is moral psychology based on with regard to what humans should be like? While the value-free ideal of science requires at least the bracketing of values in regards to the conducting of research and influence on its results, this investigation takes seriously the concerns of leading social psychologists that biases may influence the subdiscipline. Textual analyses of moral psychology's literature involving content analysis of codes and cultural discourse analysis of value themes illuminate values involving moral problems and moral goods that may inherently influence research at various levels. It is proposed that values are impossible to eliminate from moral psychological research and that a simple epistemic/nonepistemic value distinction is inadequate for deciding which values are appropriate. A norm of value disclosure to replace the norm of the value-free ideal is recommended.

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Davis, Miles. "Textual Analysis of the Soma Mining Disaster." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10273837.

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This paper is a case study of the Soma mining disaster that took place on May 13, 2014. The disaster ultimately resulted in the deaths of 301 miners. To better understand how this incident was portrayed in newspaper coverage, a textual analysis of frames was conducted. In order to garner the broadest possible scope regarding the depiction of this disaster, newspapers with varying political and religious affiliations were examined. These frames were analyzed to identify elements of classical propaganda in news organizations regardless of political or religious affiliation.

Coverage from four daily newspapers (Yeni Şafak, Sabah, Cumhuriyet, and Everensel) was analyzed for frames that emphasize nationalism, Islamism, or worker-employer relations. The study found that the most commonly used elements of classical propaganda were: emotional appeals and flag waiving—or the invocation of nationally held symbols to motivate action or thought the audience would not have done on their own volition.

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Hartley, John. "Television studies: Creating a critical discourse." Thesis, Hartley, John (1990) Television studies: Creating a critical discourse. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1990. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50587/.

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The point of departure for this thesis is the approach to television studies first developed in Reading Television (co-authored with John Fiske), and Understanding News, two books which were instrumental.in establishing the. study of television from a cultural and textual perspective. Television was not an obvious or ready-made object of study when the work represented here began in the mid 1970s. Thus the first aim of the thesis is to contribute to the creation of a critical discourse by means of which it can be better understood. The initial strategy is to take popular television seriously as a social and aesthetic medium, and to account for its meanings, textual forms and social significance within the general realms of popular culture and democratic politics. To this end it elaborates a flexible, interdisciplinary theoretical apparatus which can encompass television's formal/aesthetic (semiotic) properties as well as its social/political (cultural) significance. Working from this basis it undertakes extensive textual analysis of a wide range of television programming from three continents. In addition, it mounts arguments of a more polemical nature to justify the study of the medium, especially in opposition to the climate of negative evaluation which still attaches to television both within and beyond the academy. The thesis responds to changes over time and contributes to developments in the fast-growing fields of Cultural and Communication Studies. In particular, it evolves a more complex critical stance, moving beyond the formalism of early semiotics. It shows that cultural and historical dimensions required for the analysis of television texts, setting them into a discursive and social context, .and takin account of the relations that are or might be established between TV institutions and popular audiences in various contexts. Attention to the question of how audiences are known and constituted results in an argument that television audiences are themselves produced and circulated discursively. (Industrial, political and critical institutions all create differing images of the audience which then play a major part in shaping the organisation and content of television programming). The thesis includes not only research and analysis but also represents an innovative strategy for teaching and writing about both television and the theoretical apparatus upon which its study is founded. Thus, it is an attempt to popularise critical approaches to television, remaining in touch with theoretical developments and yet able to address non-specialist and non-academic communities. Television criticism, it is argued, can intervene in public debate about media policy, stimulate critical audiences, and thus inform both media and audience practices. The thesis is organised into two parts: Television Theory and Television and Australian Culture. The publications upon which it is based span more than a decade (1978-90), during which time they have played a significant and original role in establishing both television theory and the study of television and popular culture worldwide.

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Saib, Arlene de Araújo. "A Rotulação no Discurso: uma Estratégia Sociocognitivo-interacional no Fazer Textual." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2008. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3702.

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Essa pesquisa questiona a noção de referencia como representação extensional dos referentes entendidos como categorias do mundo e, apoiando-se numa concepção sociocognitivo-interacional de linguagem, defende a referenciação como atividade discursiva voltada para a criação de objetos-de-discurso ancorados no contexto enunciativo e produzidos no fazer textual. O recorte teórico-metodológico proposto focaliza as estratégias de rotulação (de criação de formas nominais referenciais) as quais criam um dominio conceitual para a interpretação das informações-suporte presentes num texto-fonte, geralmente uma proposição ou uma sequência de proposições com independência enunciativa. A análise fundamenta-se num certo grau de indeterminação da linguagem e na dinâmica da (re)categorização como índice de uma estratégia discursiva em que os rótulos desempenham papel relevante tanto no encadeamento discursivo das unidades informativas dos textos quanto na organização semântico-argumentativa global do discurso. Por essa via de análise, os rótulos constituem paráfrases resumitivas com papel coesivo bem definido na superfície textual. Entretanto, a escolha da construção nominal (tanto do núcleo quanto dos determinantes) depende muito mais da interação entre os sujeitos envolvidos no processo interativo do que na relação de correferência buscada na semântica dos objetos ou dos fatos enunciados. O exame do corpus, constituído de textos opinativos presentes na mídia impressa brasileira e colhidos no período de dezembro de 2005 a dezembro de 2007, apontou para a necessidade de ultrapassar o plano das relações anafóricas e integrar o funcionamento dos rótulos num referencial dêitico-enunciativo de linguagem.
This research Discusses the notion of reference as an extentional representation of the referents seen as world categories and, based on a social-cognitive-interactional conception of the language, it also considers the referentiation as a discursive activity aimed at the creation of speech objects engaged in the enunciative context and produced in the text. The theorical-methodological frame proposed focuses on the strategies of labelling (creation of referential nominal forms) that create a conceptual field for the supporting information present in a source text, usually a proposition or a sequence of propositions which are enunciatively independent. This analysis is based on a certain degree of language indetermination and the dynamics of (re) categorization as an index of sppeech strategy in which labels have an important role in the sequence of the informative units of the text as well as in the global semantic-argumentative organization of speech. From this point of view, labelling constitutes synthetic paraphrases with a cohesive role defined on the textual surface. However, the choice of the nominal construction (of the nucleus, as well as the determinants) depends much more on the interaction between the subjects involved in the process rather than on a relation of co-reference found in the semantics of the objects or the enunciated facts. The exam of the corpus, composed of opinative texts present in the Brazilian printed midia, and selected from December 2005 to December 2007, pointed to the necessity to overcome the level of the anaphoric relations, and integrate the function of labelling in a deitic-enunciative referential of language .

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Nahajec, Lisa Margaret. "Evoking the possibility of presence : textual and ideological effects of linguistic negation in written discourse." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2012. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/17537/.

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This thesis explores the textual and ideological effects of linguistic negation in written texts. It argues that when language users process negation, understanding its use in context is as much about the possibility of presence as it is about the actuality of absence. This gives rise to a variety of effects in texts from contributing to the construction of fictional characters to potentially influencing readers’/hearers’ view of the world they inhabit. This thesis brings together research on the theoretical aspects of how negation works to present a new approach to linguistic negation in written discourse. It also demonstrates how this approach can be applied in the analysis of the conceptual practice of negating. The approach presented is made up of three main elements; negation is presuppositional, is realised through a wide variety of linguistic forms beyond the morphosyntactic core forms (not, no, never, none, un-, in-, and so on) and includes semantic and pragmatically implied forms. These two elements combine to give rise to implied meaning in context. Having outlined this approach to negation, it is then applied in the analysis of literary and non-literary texts to explain the textual and ideological effects that arise from its use.

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Payne, Geoffrey. "Discourse analysis of biblical Hebrew texts : a stylistics based on systemic linguistics for textual analysis." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27176.

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The thesis is written against a fairly recent background of dispute and acrimony centring on the analysis and interpretation of secular texts using either the long-established, literary-critical approach, or the newer, stylistics approach based on modern linguistics. Linguistic stylistics seeks to relate the observations of literary criticism rigorously to the linguistic infra-structure. The thesis sets out to test a form of stylistics based on systemic linguistics, a linguistics originating with J.R. Firth and developed especially by M.A.K. Halliday. It is ideally suited to the interpretation of all kinds of texts, because it is based on a semanticized grammar, i.e. it relates grammar to meaning and to social context and use. The thesis explores how the language of a text constructs meaning, and stylistics is offered as a methodology to evaluate the detailed data of linguistic analysis and to articulate the relationship between the given of a text and the intuitions of the reader. It does not eschew polysemy, which is of the very nature of texts, especially literary ones, and a major constituent in the pleasure of reading, but explores the limits set by the language to interpretation. I have applied it to a broad range of excerpts from Biblical Hebrew writings covering narrative, conversation, persuasion and poetry. Stylistics is not meant to replace or subordinate other approaches, but is a preliminary and complementary method, demanding of the interpreter a serious regard for language.

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Skinner, Katharine Virginia. "The Castle/Nikki Heat Phenomenon: A Detailed Examination of Female Representation in Entertainment Media." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955124/.

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As entertainment reflects a culture's ideology, it is important for researchers to study its messages and subsequently its potential meanings. Entertainment has the power to inform and persuade, creating models for behavior with which the public interacts. The entertainment texts for the purpose of this study are the Castle television series and the Nikki Heat novels. Together, they create a unique multi-layer fictional world. By using postmodern, feminist, communication, and entertainment theories, the results of this study provide a tightly focused lens which views a narrow aspect of entertainment media. Each text was thoroughly examined using textual analysis, Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis, and conversation analysis. Contrary to expectations, the results indicated that the Castle and Nikki Heat texts support hegemonic ideology, particularly through the use of exaggerated stereotypes, strict gender roles, imagery, and narrative choices that help perpetuate rape culture. The discussion outlines how these results can be interpreted through the dominant messages presented in the texts. This research is intended to serve as a foundation for future research regarding entertainment media.

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Mlotsa, Faith Busisiwe. "Learner involvement in discourse : a contextualised discourse analysis of undergraduate online discussions." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7881.

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Bibliography: leaves 128-134.
The study analyzes the discourse from online discussions in a Language and Communication Economics course at the University of Cape Town. The study critiques claims made by several researchers in Computer Mediated Communication that CMC as mode of Communication enhances interaction and produces hybrid discourse.

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Corrêa, Jaquelini Aparecida Silva. "A representação textual-discursiva do feminino em crônicas de Marina Colasanti." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14366.

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This thesis is situated in the research area of text and discourse in oral and written modalities of the postgraduate studies program in Portuguese Language of the PUC-SP. It is based on the Critical Discourse Analysis with socio-cognitive aspects and in the Textual- Discursive Linguistic. The thesis has as theme the different forms of representation of feminine in Marina Colasanti's chronicles having as a starting point the relationship between the categories: society, cognition and discourse. The general purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the linguistic-discourse studies of feminine gender in Brazil. It has specific objectives as: 1) to identify the social roles of feminine in Marina Colasanti's chronicles; 2) to verify the opinion of the chronicler regarding the values attributed to the female; according to the social cognition; 3) to situate the feminine gender representations in the argumentative structure of the opinion of the chronicler. 4) to identify in the narrative textual sequences the way the feminine is represented. The methodological procedure used is theoretical and analytical with qualitative analysis of documentary material. This is a multidisciplinary research ranked by the cognition sciences. For a good understanding of the process of this thesis, should be mentioned the fact that it is based on the theoretical foundations of Discursive-Textual Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis with socio-cognitive aspects. The analytical categories are: society, discourse and cognition. The corpus consisted of the Marina Colasanti s chronicles that were analyzed from the themes, and their semantic progression for the representation of feminine s social roles in Brazilian society. The results indicate that female representations in Marina Colasanti s chronicles are paradoxical because confront the social cognitions (macho ideology), with the view of the chronicler (feminist ideology). To sum up, these results indicate a change in Brazilian society, in the seventies and eighties, due to the emergence of the contraceptive pill and the professionalization of women in Brazil
Esta dissertação está situada na linha de pesquisa texto e discurso nas modalidades oral e escrita do programa de estudos pós-graduados em Língua Portuguesa da PUC-SP. Está fundamentada na Análise Critica do Discurso, com vertente sociocognitiva e na Linguística Textual-Discursiva. Tem por tema as formas de representação do feminino em crônicas escritas por Marina Colasanti a partir da interrelação entre as categorias sociedade, cognição e discurso. O objetivo geral é: contribuir com os estudos linguístico-discursivos do gênero feminino no Brasil. São objetivos específicos: 1) Identificar os papéis sociais do gênero feminino em crônicas de Marina Colasanti; 2) Verificar a opinião da cronista frente os valores atribuídos ao feminino, conforme as cognições sociais; 3) Situar a representação do feminino na estrutura argumentativa da opinião da cronista; 4)Tratar das sequências narrativas e a representação do feminino. O procedimento metodológico é teórico-analítico, com análise qualitativa de material documental. Trata-se de uma pesquisa multidisciplinar hierarquizada pelas ciências da cognição. Para bem situar o processo de constituição da dissertação, parte-se das fundamentações teóricas da linguística textual discursiva e da Análise Crítica do Discurso com vertente sociocognitiva. As categorias analíticas são: sociedade, discurso e cognição. O corpus foi constituído por crônicas de Marina Colasanti analisada a partir de temas e sua progressão semântica para a representação dos papéis sociais do feminino na sociedade brasileira. Os resultados obtidos indicam que as representações do feminino em crônicas de Marina Colasanti são paradoxais, pois confrontam as cognições sociais (ideologia machista), com a opinião da cronista (ideologia feminina). Em síntese, esses resultados indicam uma mudança na sociedade brasileira, nas décadas de setenta e oitenta, decorrente do aparecimento da pílula anticoncepcional e da profissionalização da mulher, no Brasil

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Almeida, Dayane Celestino de. "Análise forense de autoria textual: estilos sociais e individuais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-06102015-133459/.

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O interesse pela autoria de textos escritos é tão antigo quanto a própria escrita. Desde que o homem passou a registrar a sua língua dessa forma, podem ser muitas as circunstâncias em que emerge a pergunta Quem escreveu este texto?. Ela pode surgir porque os textos são anônimos, assinados por pseudônimos ou porque há uma disputa com relação a sua autoria. Mais recentemente, saber quem escreveu um determinado texto ou conjunto de textos tem ajudado a solucionar crimes ou dirimir contendas judiciais. Nesses contextos, entra em cena o linguista forense, cujo trabalho pode elucidar tais casos uma vez que sua análise é capaz de depreender estilos linguísticos que se relacionam tanto a um grupo social (elaboração de perfis sociolinguísticos) quanto a um indivíduo (atribuição de autoria). Este trabalho preocupa-se particularmente com noções de estilo da Sociolinguística e da Semiótica Discursiva nas análises forenses de autoria e almeja demonstrar de que modo a incorporação da análise do plano do conteúdo pode render frutos a essas análises. Assim, no que diz respeito à depreensão de perfis sociolinguísticos, sugere-se que o pertencimento a um grupo social, aqui proposto como um universo discursivo, pode ser revelado por meio da análise da recorrência semântica e não apenas de variáveis linguísticas (que seriam uma ou mais maneiras de se dizer a mesma coisa). Para isso, analisa-se um conjunto de escritos provenientes da investigação do que ficou conhecido como Massacre de Realengo e sugere-se que seus autores compartilham o mesmo grupo, neste caso o dos Fiéis (em oposição aos Infiéis). Quanto à atribuição de autoria, faz-se necessário saber se as categorias examinadas em análises semióticas podem realmente distinguir autores. Para isso, realizou-se um estudo quantitativo com 4 autores, em que cada autor contribuiu com 20 textos, divididos em dois grupos de 10 (Autor 1A, Autor 1B, e assim por diante). A hipótese era a de que os textos dos grupos A e B de um mesmo autor seriam mais semelhantes entre si do que comparativamente aos subconjuntos de textos dos outros autores, no que diz respeito a elementos do plano do conteúdo. Os resultados corroboram essa hipótese e indicam, portanto, que as categorias semióticas podem ser utilizadas com sucesso em casos de autoria questionada.
Interest in the authorship of written texts is as old as writing itself. Ever since men started recording language in this way, there can be various circumstances in which the question \"Who wrote this text?\" emerges. Such a question can arise because the texts are anonymous, signed by pseudonyms or because its authorship is being disputed. More recently, knowing who wrote a particular text or set of texts has been helping to solve crimes or settle legal disputes. In these contexts, the forensic linguist stands out, working to elucidate such cases, since linguistic analysis is able to infer writing styles that relate either to a social group (sociolinguistic profiling) or to an individual (authorship attribution). This work is particularly concerned with the ideas on style proposed by Sociolinguistics and Discourse Semiotics and their relation to forensic authorship analysis. It seeks to demonstrate how the incorporation of the analysis of the content plane can assist authorship examination. Regarding sociolinguistic profiling, this work suggested that the membership in a social group proposed here as a \"discourse universe\" can be revealed through the analysis of semantic recurrence (and not only by observing linguistic variables, that is, one or more ways to say the same \"thing\"). In order to accomplish that, we analyze a set of writings from the investigation of what became known as \"Realengo Massacre\". Such an analysis indicates that the texts under scrutiny seem to have been written, if not by the same author, at least by authors within the same social group. As for authorship attribution, it is necessary to know if the features examined in semiotic analysis can really distinguish authors. Hence, we performed a quantitative study with 4 authors, wherein each author contributed with 20 texts divided into 2 groups of 10 (Author 1A, Author 1B, and so on). The hypothesis was that texts from a single author would be more similar to each other than texts from different authors, when it comes to an analysis of the content plane. The results seem to confirm the hypothesis; thus semiotic features may successfully be used in questioned authorship scenarios.

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Werth, Megan Renee. "Spirit Possession: Exploring the Role of the Textual Tradition in Islam." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1334615227.

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Zakin, Sergei Aleksandrovich. "Inside books of the world : issues of textual interpretation in mid-seventeenth-century discourse on knowledge." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285014.

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Heimerdinger, J. G. "The contribution of discourse analysis to textual criticism : a study of the Bezan text of Acts." Thesis, Bangor University, 1994. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-contribution-of-discourse-analysis-to-textual-criticism--a-study-of-the-bezan-text-of-acts(b379c0fd-73d5-4ad2-a30d-a9dd7411427a).html.

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This study of the Greek text of Acts in Codex Bezae seeks to demonstrate how the practice of textual criticism can be helped by the application of discourse analysis to internal linguistic criticism. In so doing, it aims to throw light on the origin and purpose of the Bezan text. The text of Codex Bezae is compared with that of Codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. After an initial section explaining the method used and outlining the principles of discourse analysis, a selection of the types of variant readings is examined exhaustivelyi connectives, word order, prepositions, divine names and the spelling of Jerusalem. Grammatical and pragmatic features (particularly the context and the writer/recipient relationship) are considered. In the final section, consecutive variants in extended portions of text (1: 15-26; 12: 1-12,18-25; 113: 1-18) are the object of exegetical study. The findings of the analyses challenge the traditional view of the Bezan text as a late and wayward text, the work of a slipshod and fanciful scribe. It emerges, on the contrary, as a careful and deliberate work, displaying a high degree of inner coherence and remarkably close to the linguistic patterns which can be discerned in the text which is common to all three manuscripts. The results further suggest that the text peculiar to Codex Bezae was the work of an early Christian editor familiar with the Jewish background of the Church. Its purpose seems to have been to amplify and enhance the first text of Acts for the benefit of Jewish recipients in order to demonstrate the continuity between Judaism and Christianity and especially the divine endorsement of the openness of the new movement to the Gentiles. The Bezan revision of the original is, thus, a valuable witness to the life of the early Church and a demonstration of the acceptable fluidity of the pre-canonical text.

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Neidorf, Leonard. "The Origins of Beowulf: Studies in Textual Criticism and Literary History." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11366.

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Beowulf is preserved in a single manuscript written out around the year 1000, but there are many reasons to believe that the poem was composed several centuries before this particular act of manual reproduction. Most significantly, the meter of Beowulf reveals that the poet regularly observed distinctions of etymological length that became phonologically indistinct before 725 in Mercia. This dissertation gauges the explanatory power of the hypothesis that Beowulf was composed about three centuries before the production of the extant manuscript. The following studies test the hypothesis of archaic composition by determining whether it is able to accommodate independent forms of evidence drawn from the fields of linguistics, textual criticism, and literary history.

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Gu, Lingzhi. "Occidentalism and translation studies as academic discourse." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601686.

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This study aims la explore Occidentalism - the essentialist renderings of the West - as an intellectual and (or) political trend in modem Chinese society, and in particular to investigate whether, and if so, how, to what extent, and why stylised images of the West in contrast with those of China are manifested in Chinese translation scholars' theoretical discourses. I have answered these questions by doing case studies on some translation scholars and analysing their theoretical discourses produced in certain soda-political and historical circumstances. This thesis argues that what these scholars think and write about the West and how they visualize the Chinese-Western cultural relationship are at the hcal1 of their discourses, and various notions of the West vs. China in the antagonistic debates in Chinese translation studi.es are often employed to accomplish certain tasks. Among these are: to preserve tradition and assert identity against the West; to resonate with the state doctrines; to adopt the Western mode of producing knowledge clue to a strong sense of "self-insufficiency"; to win power by engaging with their Western counterparts; or to be a way of asserting other positions vis-a.-vis the Chinese- Western cultural relationship. This thesis also argues that dialectical and essentialist definitions of the West and China are to a greater or lesser extent shaped by socio-political complexities, and more or less driven by a range of local elite interests. Occidentalism in its various forms suggests different power relations between Chinese society and the outside world; it is also part of a critique of internal differences a'1d conflicts within Chinese society, and within Chinese translation studies. Using the theoretical framework of Occidentalism, this thesis hopes to illustrate the connections between discourse, society and history, and the dynamic exchange between individual scholar's academic endeavour and the broad so cia-political concerns. This study aims la explore Occidentalism - the essentialist renderings of the West - as an intellectual and (or) political trend in modem Chinese society, and in particular to investigate whether, and if so, how, to what extent, and why stylised images of the West in contrast with those of China are manifested in Chinese translation scholars' theoretical discourses. I have answered these questions by doing case studies on some translation scholars and analysing their theoretical discourses produced in certain soda-political and historical circumstances. This thesis argues that what these scholars think and write about the West and how they visualize the Chinese-Western cultural relationship are at the hcal1 of their discourses, and various notions of the West vs. China in the antagonistic debates in Chinese translation studi.es are often employed to accomplish certain tasks. Among these are: to preserve tradition and assert identity against the West; to resonate with the state doctrines; to adopt the Western mode of producing knowledge clue to a strong sense of "self-insufficiency"; to win power by engaging with their Western counterparts; or to be a way of asserting other positions vis-a.-vis the Chinese- Western cultural relationship. This thesis also argues that dialectical and essentialist definitions of the West and China are to a greater or lesser extent shaped by socio-political complexities, and more or less driven by a range of local elite interests. Occidentalism in its various forms suggests different power relations between Chinese society and the outside world; it is also part of a critique of internal differences a'1d conflicts within Chinese society, and within Chinese translation studies. Using the theoretical framework of Occidentalism, this thesis hopes to illustrate the connections between discourse, society and history, and the dynamic exchange between individual scholar's academic endeavour and the broad socia-political concerns.

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Knowles, Carol. "Reading against the grain : a metadisciplinary framework for poststructural and counterideological textual analysis with specific application to the problem of subject and structure." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13825.

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The main objective of this dissertation is the formulation of a framework within which counterideological discourse analysis and poststructural multiple interpretations can be systematically and reflexively applied to texts. The interest in developing a poststructural interpretive framework is based on prior work done on this subject by J.B. Thompson (1984 ;1990). Thompson's work focuses on the development of a comprehensive and integrated analytical framework for the analysis of ideology, critically defined in terms of the mobilization of meaning to sustain relations of domination. The framework has an intentionally inclusive and amoebic character which makes it adaptable to use within multiple and specific interpretive interests, while at the same time providing a broader interpretive system for reflection on these specific uses and interests. The different uses can be articulated and applied within the more general structure of the framework. This makes comparative evaluation of multiple strategies of interpretational analyses possible. The dissertation is an attempt at a test fornulation and exposition of both the specific and the general aspects of the framework.

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McCoy, Liza. "Accounting discourse and textual practices of ruling, a study of institutional transformation and restructuring in higher education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0020/NQ45788.pdf.

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Summers, Joanna. "The writer in prison : textual authority, contemporary discourse, and politicised self-presentation in some late-medieval texts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365487.

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Suo, Chengxiu. "GLOBALIZATION AND "HAIER": AN ORGANIZATIONAL DISCOURSE STUDY OF A LEADING CHINA-BASED TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/507.

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This dissertation is a qualitative discourse analysis study. The study seeks to understand roles of organizational discourse and management discourse in stimulating strategic organizational change, and facilitating organizational culture dynamics and identity development. Specifically, this study examines how The Haier Group Company has constructed, disseminated and entrenched its corporate public discourse (CPD) as a symbolic and rhetorical means for stimulating organizational change in the context of global challenges. Theoretical positions guiding this study are: globalization, the nexus of the global and local, glocalization, transculturation and hybridity, as well as organizational communication, organizational discourse study, organizational discourse analysis, and corporate public discourse. Methodologically, to better reveal the impact of globalization on organizational communication in a primarily non-Western context, this study adopts an interpretive-oriented approach, and adds a critical element from the language- ideology-power perspective. The data for this study is composed of a multiplicity of corporate public discourses (including print, online, audio-visual forms of texts, and artifacts) primarily produced by Haier between 1984 and 2004. In analyzing Haier's main CPD, this study examines how Haier has strategically constructed, disseminated, and entrenched the organization's culture, ideology, identity, and brand building. It also analyzes and demonstrates how Haier has, discursively and strategically, cultivated an organizational environment that fostered strategic organizational change. As the data set is diverse and large, the textual analysis and discussion depends on a combined use of organizational rhetorical analysis and storytelling analysis. To conclude, broadly, this study of Haier's corporate public discourse demonstrates China's current position within the historical phenomenon of globalization. More specifically, it shows that through constructing and communicating a specific organizational discourse about globalization and Haier's place in it, the Haier CEO and management is creating a reality that is challenging the dominant West- and U.S.-centric interpretations of globalization. This discourse challenges the notion that globalization is a new phenomenon, and that certain established and powerful global economic players will forever remain in positions of dominance. It frames globalization as a fluid phenomenon involving cultural fusion. This study is significant in at least two aspects. First, it demonstrates the impact of global mobility and interconnectivity upon a non-Western business corporation's communication strategies thereby adding to the scant numbers of empirical studies on this topic. Also, it differs from the extant studies on Haier, which are primarily case studies conducted by MBA scholars and practitioners of business and management, and provided an intercultural and organizational communication perspective. Second, this study demonstrates the utility of specific globalization concepts such as the global-local dialectic, glocalization, as well as some international/intercultural concepts such as transculturation and hybridity in studying organizational communication in a transnational context. One contribution of this study is its "insider" Chinese view of how Confucianism has shaped organizational communication practices in P. R. China. Another contribution is the "insider-outsider" perspective adopted in examining Haier's strategic communication about organizational change in an age of globalization. This `straddling' position is helpful in achieving an interpretive understanding of the impact of globalization upon organizational communication as it is situated in a mainly non-Western context.

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Carter, Richard Alexander. "Textual entanglements : a performative approach towards digital literature." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/21851.

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This thesis conducts a critical investigation into digital literature—a genre of literary expression that is integrated with, and articulated using, digital computing systems and infrastructures. Specifically, it presents a framework for evaluating the expressive capacities of this genre as it relates to particular conceptions of knowledge-making in the contemporary technocultural environment. This framework reveals how the generation of critical knowledge concerning digital literature, as crystallised through a reader’s material engagements with specific works, enacts a ‘performative’ conception of knowing and being, in which the observable world is treated as emerging in the real time of practice—as being articulated through the entanglement of human and nonhuman agencies, rather than existing as a fixed array of passive, unchanging primitives. Digital literature is presented subsequently as a model of this greater performative vision—as a means of evaluating the structures and processes that manifest it, particularly within digital systems, and for assessing its practical and political implications for art and culture more broadly. In so doing, this thesis aims to justify the value of engaging digital literature from a standpoint that is more expressly political, contending not only that these texts are revealing of key processes shaping digital activities, artefacts, and environments, but are enacting alternative vectors of thought and practice concerning them.

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Okiriguo, Wendy. "Discourse Analysis of Nigerian Feminism." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10128866.

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This study interprets the public perceptions of feminism and gender equality in Nigeria as reflected in the media. In recent times, the issue of gender equality has been subject to numerous debates in Nigeria. My interest in this issue stems from the increased awareness of feminism and a growing feminist movement in the country. This thesis details the popular opinions on feminism found on Nigerian blogs, online newspaper columns, social media and the likes. The purpose of this research was to (1) analyze feminism as a discourse in the Nigerian society (2) identify the existing gender issues (3) contribute to the growing body of transnational feminism. The findings reveal the dynamic interplay of gender and culture. The main discourses are centered on the relevance/irrelevance of feminism and the advocacy for the girl child rights. These findings have implications for the larger discourse regarding the correlation between culture and gender equality. Furthermore, findings indicate that issues concerning gender inequality is mostly linked with the cultural expectations of the particular society.

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Lee, Caitlyn. "Feminism, Consumer Culture, and Cannabis : A Textual Analysis of Broccoli Magazine." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38584.

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Modern media patterns show feminist narratives being used to market different consumer products in the name of female empowerment and emancipation. Typically, the industries targeted have historically been dominated by male perspectives and aim to perpetuate a capitalist consumer culture. The newly legalized cannabis industry in North America, has seen an increase in female participation both in production and consumption. This thesis takes Broccoli, an all-female produced magazine about cannabis, as a case to textually analyze how feminist narratives are used to appeal to their majority female and non-binary audience to a cannabis consumer lifestyle. In the analysis I have found that the magazine is critical to postfeminist notions of consumer culture, while simultaneously working within them in order to act as pioneers, holding a female-oriented space within the industry.

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Catunda, Elisabeth Linhares. "Um estudo do gÃnero jurÃdico acÃrdÃo." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2004. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5088.

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Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo descrever a organizaÃÃo retÃrica do gÃnero jurÃdico acÃrdÃo, bem como descrever a comunidade discursiva jurÃdica. Para isso, foram analisados 30 (trinta) acÃrdÃos oriundos de dois tribunais. A fundamentaÃÃo teÃrica estÃ apoiada na perspectiva sÃcio-retÃrica da AnÃlise de GÃneros, particularmente nas contribuiÃÃes teÃricas de Mikhail Bakhtin (2000) e John M. Swales (1990; 1992). A metodologia adotada foi pautada nos procedimentos metodolÃgicos postulados por Vijay Bathia (1993), que divididos em trÃs etapas proporcionou, primeiro, a coleta e a delimitaÃÃo do corpus; em segundo, o desenvolvimento propriamente dito da pesquisa, e por Ãltimo, a apresentaÃÃo dos resultados. Os resultados da anÃlise do corpus revelou que o gÃnero jurÃdico acÃrdÃo possui cinco unidades retÃricas bÃsicas constituÃdas de 18 (dezoito) subunidades. A saber, unidade retÃrica 1 â IdentificaÃÃo das partes; unidade retÃrica 2 â SumÃrio do conteÃdo; unidade retÃrica 3 â Relato dos motivos do autor; unidade retÃrica 4 â Justificativa da posiÃÃo do colegiado; unidade retÃrica 5 â Encerramento da sentenÃa. Da anÃlise da comunidade discursiva jurÃdica, concluiu-se que: a) os operadores do Direito sÃo verdadeiros membros constituintes da comunidade analisada; b) Que o gÃnero jurÃdico acÃrdÃo Ã elaborado por operadores especialista da comunidade. Conclui-se que a aplicaÃÃo de uma anÃlise baseada nos pressupostos da AnÃlise de GÃneros aqui citados, apresenta-se como uma abordagem bastante produtiva para estudos que versem sobre a interdisciplinaridade LingÃÃstica/ Direito.
This research aims at presenting a description of the rethorical organization of the juridic genre acÃrdÃo. It also aims at makig a description of the juridic discourse community. In order to accomplish such goals, 30 acÃrdÃos from two different courthouses were analysed. The theorical presuppositions of the Genre Analysis, especifically the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin (2000) and John M. Swales 1990/ 1992) gave the research the necessary support. To implement the analyses, the methodological procedings of Vijay Bathia (1993) were used. These were divided in three blocks. First, it was obseved the selection and delimitation of the corpus; second, development of the research, and finally the presentation of the results. The results of the aalyses performed on corpus shows that the juridic genre acÃrdÃo has five rethorical units and eighteen rethorical subunits. The rethorical units are: The identification of the parts â Unit 1; The summary of the subject â Unit 2; The reasons of the author â Unit 3; The position of the group â Unit 4; the end of the sentence â Unit 5. The evidence emerging from the analysis suggests that: a) the real members of the juridic community are the justice operators; b) the juridic genre acÃrdÃo is made by expert operators of the community. We conclude that the analysis based in the pressupositions of Genre Analysis may be quite productive in the studies which explore the interdisciplinarity between Linguistics and Law.

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Colombo, Alice. "Reworkings in the textual history of Gulliver's Travels : a translational approach." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2013. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/reworkings-in-the-textual-history-of-gullivers-travels(14665966-f5f9-4ff4-b1fd-48ab496fa65d).html.

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On 28 October 1726 Gulliver’s Travels debuted on the literary scene as a political and philosophical satire meant to provoke and entertain an audience of relatively educated and wealthy British readers. Since then, Swift’s work has gradually evolved, assuming multiple forms and meanings while becoming accessible and attractive to an increasingly broad readership in and outside Britain. My study emphasises that reworkings, including re-editions, translations, abridgments, adaptations and illustrations, have played a primary role in this process. Its principal aim is to investigate how reworkings contributed to the popularity of Gulliver’s Travels by examining the dynamics and the stages through which they transformed its text and its original significance. Central to my research is the assumption that this transformation is largely the result of shifts of a translational nature and that, therefore, the analysis of reworkings and the understanding of their role can greatly benefit from the models of translation description devised in Descriptive Translation Studies. The reading of reworkings as entailing processes of translation shows how derivative creations operate collaboratively to ensure literary works’ continuous visibility and actively shape the literary polysystem. The study opens with an exploration of existing approaches to reworkings followed by an examination of the characteristics which exposed Gulliver’s Travels to continuous rethinking and reworking. Emphasis is put on how the work’s satirical significance gave rise to a complex early textual problem for which Gulliver’s Travels can be said to have debuted on the literary scene as a derivative production in the first place. The largest part of the study is devoted to textual analysis. This is carried out in two stages. First I concentrate on reworkings of Gulliver’s Travels published in eighteenth- and in nineteenth-century Italy. These illustrate how interlingual translation operated alongside criticism, abridgment, adaptation and pictorial representation to extend the accessibility of Swift’s work and eventually turned it into a popular and children’s book. Then, I examine British reworkings and how the translational processes which they entail contributed to the popularity and the popularisation of Gulliver’s Travels in eighteenth-century Britain.

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Bernard, Taryn. "Justificatory discourse of the perpetrator in TRC testimonies : a discourse-historical analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1571.

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Thesis (MA (General Linguistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
This study investigates the ways in which former South African Police (SAP) perpetrators of human rights violations justify their criminal actions in testifying before the Amnesty Committee (AC) of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In particular, attention goes to the testimonies of former Commissioner of Police Johan van der Merwe, and former member of the Security Branch section of the SAP, Jeffrey Benzien. A key assumption in the study is that the justification of human rights violations is a discursive practice that is largely language dependent (Reisigl & Wodak 200: xi). The research draws on the theoretical aims and methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). It refers largely to Benke and Wodak’s (2003) discourse–historical study on the justificatory discourse of ex-Wehrmacht officers of the Austrian army. This study therefore takes a discourse-historical approach to discourse and the data, an approach which takes into consideration the surrounding political and historical context of the selected texts, which are, in this case, the testimonies of perpetrators at the AC hearings. Besides an analysis of the justificatory discourses produced by two former police officers, the study reflects on how the discursive strategies of the apartheid perpetrators compare with one another and with the ex- Wehrmacht officers. CDA and the discourse-historical approach provide interdisciplinary angles on linguistic analysis of a text. For this reason, a review is given of literature which relates the study to political, historical and philosophical insights. The analysis particularly makes use of Foster et al.’s (2005) socio-political study of apartheid perpetrator narratives. The study reveals that perpetrators used a fixed set of justificatory discursive strategies to talk about human rights violations, and their role in such violations. These linguistic strategies are used for a number of different reasons, including reducing personal responsibility, avoiding talking about past atrocities, saving face where personal malicious and degenerate behaviour is made public and diverting feelings of personal guilt. On a discourse theoretical level the study eventually convinces that there are generic strategies typically used in justificatory discourse, whether it be in response to Wehrmacht atrocities of the Second World War or to security force excesses in repressing aspirations of disenfranchised citizens during the last thirty years of the Nationalist government in South Africa. Some stories don’t want to be told. They walk away, carrying their suitcases held together with grey string. Look at their disappearing curved spines. Hunch-backs. Harmed ones. Hold alls. Some stories refuse to be danced or mimed, drop their scuffed canes and clattering tap-shoes, erase their traces in nursery rhymes or ancient games like blind man’s bluff. Excerpt from “Parts of Speech” by Ingrid de Kok

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Atkins, Leslie Jill. "Analogies as categorization phenomena studies from scientific discourse /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2040.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
Thesis research directed by: Physics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Dean, Peter John. "Undergraduate media studies in England : a discourse analysis." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/576440.

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The aim of this research study is to analyse the nature of undergraduate media studies in England, necessarily from the inside, and document the social practices that constitute the subject in the light of its historic and contemporary challenges and the influence of changing public higher education discourses over the period of the fieldwork, 2012-2013. Conceptually, media studies is regarded as socially constructed and enacted through discursive practices that reveal the nature of the power relationships that are the basis of the ways ‘things get done’. This approach is based on Foucault’s (1984, 2002a, 2002b, 2002c) conception of power and discourse and dovetails with a substantial part of the sociology of higher education. The fieldwork consisted of a series of semi-structured face-to-face interviews with a range of participants drawn from media studies lecturers, other university professionals, media studies graduates and a secondary school headteacher with experience of advising university applicants. This provided examples of discursive practices from both ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ media. The thematic analyses of the data show a complex set of interacting oppositional discourses that are skilfully managed by these professional practitioners to maintain a balance of Foucauldian power. This ensures that public policy changes are assimilated and ‘delivered’ whilst sometimes also mitigating their impact and maintaining a prevailing rationale for media studies. The study concludes by contrasting the findings with the emerging discourses of Critical University Studies (CUS). With a declared position (Williams, 2012a) in opposition to higher education public policy reforms, CUS is considered as a set of academic discursive practices that are distinct from the more nuanced balance of oppositional discourses evidenced through the participant responses here.

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Nel, Rossouw. "Myths of rebellion : Afrikaner and countercultural discourse." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10634.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-154).
This study examines tendencies of cultural rebellion by focusing on entertainment that engages with Afrikaner tradition. Examples from music, student films and autobiographies are used to illustrate that artists reclaim signifiers of their cultural heritage in performances of rebellion. New myths are appearing that seem to fulfill a young generation's need for a history outside of apartheid. It is suggested that these myths assist Afrikaners who feel alienated in post-apartheid South Africa to foster a sense of legitimacy and belonging. It will argue that countercultural thinking plays a major role in the discourse of rebellion. Research is conducted within the framework of communication and cultural studies. Popular texts are considered to constitute discourses that formulate and reproduce ideologies. An analysis of Afrikaner and countercultural discourse is conducted by means of texts. The creative output of rebellious Afrikaners is used to illustrate the manifestation of countercultural ideology in entertainment. Examples of the work of Andre P. Brink, Fokofpolisiekar, Karen Zoid, Koos Kombuis, Johan Nel, Bok van Blerk, Anton Kannemeyer and Jack Parow are analysed in order to highlight common features. Despite being positioned on different sides of the political spectrum, countercultural and Afrikaner ideology share similar values. Research on their history demonstrates that oppositional identity formation and the need for distinction were central to their development. This study also shows that rebellion and distinction are central to the development of trends in popular culture. The findings of this research provide some guidance to those interested in maintaining the relevance of Afrikaans language and culture. The discussion of the inner workings of style, taste and popularity may also have implications for strategies in the creative arts. Afrikaner cultural rebellion as a case study is thus relevant in terms of its success in the field of entertainment and as the product of a society in transition.

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