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Discourse and Practice
01 Jan 2008-
About: The article was published on 2008-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 557 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Civil discourse & Discourse community.
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11 Jun 2007TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce Kongzi and Ruism and early Mohism, and present Mengzi and Pluralistic Ruism (PLR) as well as Mozi and Mengzi.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Kongzi and Ruism 3. Mozi and early Mohism 4. Mengzi 5. Pluralistic Ruism.
158 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pause to identify exactly which concepts, theories and processes of multimodal analysis are involved in the analysis of multi-modality data, and to identify the most important concepts and theories.
Abstract: Given the way multimodality as a field has expanded, becoming more diverse and complex, it is important to pause to identify exactly which concepts, theories and processes of multimodal analysis ar ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, mediated, political and wider public discourses on immigration in Poland since 2015 and exploring these in the context of the country's right-wing populist politics are explored.
Abstract: Looking at mediated, political and wider public discourses on immigration in Poland since 2015 and exploring these in the context of the country’s right-wing populist politics, the paper develops a...
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...…including via authority, morality, path-dependency or alike (see van Leeuwen 2007), or various patterns of representing – textually and visually – social actors by means of, for example, their collectivisation or aggregation, their foregrounding or backgrounding etc. (van Leeuwen 2008)....
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TL;DR: In this article, a discourse-analytic approach to mediated populist discourse can inform and advance the current understanding of populist style by analysing some contextually produced linguistic and discursive choices in populist rhetorical repertoires.
Abstract: This article offers new ways of conceptualising style in right wing populist communicative performances, by foregrounding a structured and conceptually informed use of “style” that moves beyond the descriptive sense routinely employed in political communication. Specifically, it explores how a discourse-analytic approach to mediated populist discourse can inform and advance the current understanding of populist ‘style’ by analysing some contextually produced linguistic and discursive choices in populist rhetorical repertoires—i.e., the communicative strategies that are deployed in mediated contexts for right-wing populist political communication. Taking three illustrative examples of right wing populist party performances on TV news and current affairs broadcasts in Greece (GD), France (FN) and the UK (UKIP), the speakers’ use of a range of rhetorical devices is examined using models from socio-linguistics and discourse analysis: aspects of register shifts by GD in blame attribution speeches, interactional ‘bad manners’ in a French political debate, and Nigel Farage speaking ‘candidly’ in three different contexts of news reporting from the UK. In taking such a qualitative approach, it is argued that populist style cannot be defined in terms of one single feature, or set of features, common to all right wing populists and transferrable from one socio-cultural context to another, but more usefully as a set of motivated choices among alternative semiotic resources (linguistic/discursive, interactional and visual), which have social and cultural resonance. This focus on micro-level features of mediated interaction thus offers a more fine-grained understanding of style than is currently the case, as it shows how right-wing populist politicians’ performative styles are situated within specific (here European) socio-cultural and political communicative contexts; in this study, this is to say, the various television broadcasts in which they occur.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a case study was conducted to locate one potential source of the meanings ascribed to the SA experience, through analysis of multimodal representations on the institutional website of a popular SA program provider.
Abstract: The rise in Study Abroad (SA) participation among college students has increased interest among educationalists wondering about the impact of SA on students, particularly when students return home without evidence of deep engagement and understanding of other cultures and people. The purpose of this case study was to locate one potential source of the meanings ascribed to the SA experience, through analysis of multimodal representations on the institutional website of a popular SA program provider. In this study, Kress’ model of multimodal social semiotic (MSS) communication was employed in the analysis of the ensemble of modes of communication (e.g. written language, layout, visual language) on the website, and their role in the production and dissemination of discourses of SA. Findings indicate that discourses of tourism prevail over discourses of education, and the representations enacted on the institutional website are mirrored in the discursive practices of students.
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