Showing papers on "Discourse analysis published in 2021"
TL;DR: In this article, a poststructural discourse analysis, employing the theoretical ideas of truth, power, knowledge, subjectivity, and normalization, was conducted to explore the mass media's constructions of nurse as hero in the contexts of COVID-19.
86 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine content analysis and discourse analysis to explore patterns of representation on Twitter around the terms ageing, old age, older people and elderly with a sample of 1,200 tweets.
Abstract: Whilst representations of old age and older people in traditional media have been well documented, examinations of such representations within social media discourse are still scarce. This is an unfortunate omission because of the importance of social media for communication in contemporary society. In this study, we combine content analysis and discourse analysis to explore patterns of representation on Twitter around the terms ageing, old age, older people and elderly with a sample of 1,200 tweets. Our analysis shows that ‘personal concerns/views’ and ‘health and social care’ are the predominant overall topics, although some topics are clearly linked with specific keywords. The language often used in the tweets seems to reinforce negative discourses of age and ageing that locate older adults as a disempowered, vulnerable and homogeneous group; old age is deemed a problem and ageing is considered something that needs to be resisted, slowed or disguised. These topics and discursive patterns are indeed similar to those found in empirical studies of social perceptions and traditional media portrayal of old age, which indicates that social media and Twitter in particular appears to serve as an online platform that reproduces and reinforces existing ageist discourses in traditional media that feed into social perceptions of ageing and older people.
41 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how to implement reflexivity in practice and can the knowledge we produce be emancipatory when our discourses recursively originate in the world we aim to challenge.
Abstract: How to implement reflexivity in practice? Can the knowledge we produce be emancipatory when our discourses recursively originate in the world we aim to challenge? Critical International Relations (...
33 citations
TL;DR: Feedback is a term used so frequently that it is commonly taken that there is a shared view about what it means as discussed by the authors. But in recent years, the notion of feedback as simply the provision of informat...
Abstract: Feedback is a term used so frequently that it is commonly taken that there is a shared view about what it means. However, in recent years, the notion of feedback as simply the provision of informat...
31 citations
TL;DR: This article examined the discourse surrounding this emergent flow of students, and the main aim is to offer a new means to conceptualize mobility between non-western nations. But their main argument is that relative structural positions between the sending region and receiving country are mirrored in discourse around international student mobility, which contains examples of civilizational paternalism and pursuit of pragmatic foreign policy goals.
Abstract: China is now the second most popular destination country for African international students. This paper investigates the discourse surrounding this emergent flow of students, and the main aim is to offer a new means to conceptualize mobility between non-Western nations. The article highlights weaknesses in current postcolonial conceptualizations of student mobility. A key contribution to the literature on international student mobility is that it extends and adapts existing work on the unequal and asymmetrical nature of international student mobility by drawing on the concept of semi-peripheral (post)coloniality, to examine how specific modes of integration into the “world-system” result in particular discursive formations around international student mobility. The main argument is that relative structural positions between the sending region and receiving country are mirrored in discourse around international student mobility, which contains examples of civilizational paternalism and pursuit of pragmatic foreign policy goals.
28 citations
TL;DR: This article explored how female victims of sexual violence are portrayed in Internet memes about #MeToo on three social media sites: 9gag, Reddit and Imgur, using discourse analysis.
Abstract: This article explores how female victims of sexual violence are portrayed in Internet memes about #MeToo on three social media sites: 9gag, Reddit and Imgur. Using discourse analysis, the article d...
26 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a challenge for researchers working with multimodal classroom discourse is to be able to describe and discuss the interaction and interplay across various semiotic resources, and they adopt a similar approach.
Abstract: A challenge for researchers working with multimodal classroom discourse is to be able to describe and discuss the interaction and interplay across various semiotic resources. This article adopts th...
25 citations
TL;DR: The authors take account of multimodality when analyzing language textbooks, due to the diversity of multi-modal frameworks used in analyses, and the interdisciplinary nature of language text analysis.
Abstract: Increasingly, studies are taking account of multimodality when analyzing language textbooks. Due to the diversity of multimodal frameworks used in analyses, and the interdisciplinary nature of lang...
25 citations
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06 May 2021
TL;DR: In this article, a thematic discourse analysis of scientific and grey literature to identify prominent applications of AI in frontline health, motivations driving this work, stakeholders involved, and levels of engagement with the local context is presented.
Abstract: There has been growing interest in the application of AI for Social Good, motivated by scarce and unequal resources globally. We focus on the case of AI in frontline health, a Social Good domain that is increasingly a topic of significant attention. We offer a thematic discourse analysis of scientific and grey literature to identify prominent applications of AI in frontline health, motivations driving this work, stakeholders involved, and levels of engagement with the local context. We then uncover design considerations for these systems, drawing from data from three years of ethnographic fieldwork with women frontline health workers and women from marginalized communities in Delhi (India). Finally, we outline an agenda for AI systems that target Social Good, drawing from literature on HCI4D, post-development critique, and transnational feminist theory. Our paper thus offers a critical and ethnographic perspective to inform the design of AI systems that target social impact.
23 citations
TL;DR: A number of studies have reported the cultural representations in English textbooks in many contexts, especially those in Asia as mentioned in this paper, but these studies relied on a small data set and the findings su...
Abstract: A number of studies have reported the cultural representations in English textbooks in many contexts, especially those in Asia. However, these studies relied on a small data set and the findings su...
TL;DR: In the early days of social media, social scientists speculated that it could support democracy because large media conglomerates could not dominate it as discussed by the authors, and they also pointed out that social media could support climate change.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tackle the critical question: "to what extent can online higher education be open and innovative at the same time?" To provide a more comprehensive answer to the question, the autho...
Abstract: This article tackles a critical question:‘to what extent can online higher education (HE) be open and innovative at the same time?’ To provide a more comprehensive answer to the question, the autho...
TL;DR: In this article, the future university and how digital technologies disrupting wider societal activities can be leveraged in higher education are discussed. But the authors focus on the future of higher education.
Abstract: Technology has dominated discourse on the future university and how digital technologies disrupting wider societal activities can be leveraged in higher education. To gain an insight into UK instit...
TL;DR: The authors examine premium as a floating signifier and identify three key rhetorics underpinning premium economy: extraction, excess, and comparison, and locate them as a quintessential form of symbolic violence.
Abstract: Aligned with renewed commitments to class critique in sociolinguistics and discourse studies, I examine premium as a floating signifier. My initial semiotic landscape analysis demonstrates how this word is attached to any number of goods/services, coaxing people into a sense of distinction and superior status. These language games occur most vividly in my second analytic site—Premium Economy—where status is fabricated as tangibly but not too obviously distinct from Economy while preserving the prestige of Business. From a corpus of over forty international airlines’ promotional materials, I pinpoint three key rhetorics underpinning Premium Economy: extraction, excess, and comparison. My analysis locates premium as a quintessential form of symbolic violence (Bourdieu 1997/2000) deployed for controlling people by seducing, flattering, and enchanting them. The anxious bourgeoisie are thereby ‘joyfully enlisted’ (Lordon 2014) into the aspirational logics of elitism, all animated by the tenacious neoliberal ideologies of a supposedly post-class world. (Elite discourse, post-class ideology, floating signifiers, Frederic Lordon ‘premium’, Premium Economy)*
TL;DR: Language in education for children and youth from low-income communities of color, including those learning English as an additional language, has been fraught for decades with ideological entangle as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Language in education for children and youth from low-income communities of color, including those learning English as an additional language, has been fraught for decades with ideological entangle...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how Spanish universities must guarantee optimum accessibility to facilitate the teaching-learning process of students with disabilities in order to support them in their studies, and find that they do not do so well.
Abstract: Spanish universities must guarantee optimum accessibility to facilitate the teaching-learning process of students with disabilities. The objective of this study was to investigate how Spanish stude...
TL;DR: The discourses of information literacy practice create epistemological assumptions about how the practice should happen, who should be responsible and under what conditions instruction should be given as mentioned in this paper, and the conditions under which the instruction must be given.
Abstract: The discourses of information literacy practice create epistemological assumptions about how the practice should happen, who should be responsible and under what conditions instruction should be gi...
TL;DR: This paper cast light on contemporary migration rhetoric by integrating historical discourse analysis, focusing on continuity and change in conventionalised metaphorical framings of emigrati. But they do not consider the history of emigration.
Abstract: This paper aims to cast light on contemporary migration rhetoric by integrating historical discourse analysis. I focus on continuity and change in conventionalised metaphorical framings of emigrati...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how an environmental education policy text comes to be constituted by discursive strategies that reproduce or challenge particular ideologies of environmentalism in relation to environmental education text.
Abstract: This article explores how an environmental education policy text comes to be constituted by discursive strategies that reproduce or challenge particular ideologies of environmentalism in relation t...
TL;DR: While there is a growing body of scholarship on the neoliberal content of global English textbooks, the ways in which these commercial materials come to life in teaching and learning practices are not explored as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: While there is a growing body of scholarship on the neoliberal content of global English textbooks, the ways in which these commercial materials come to life in teaching and learning practices are ...
TL;DR: Regarding an already consolidated tradition in discourse studies in Latin America, with featured importance in graduate programs in the field of Linguistics and a busy calendar of annual events in....
Abstract: Regarding an already consolidated tradition in discourse studies in Latin America, with featured importance in graduate programs in the field of Linguistics and a busy calendar of annual events in ...
TL;DR: In this article, a discourse analysis of a public institutional document on intangible cultural heritage in Scotland is presented, which demonstrates how Foucault's power/knowledge dyad unfolds at one of its points of application.
TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between three discourse synthesis skills (i.e., quotation, summarization, and connection) and students' overall integrated writing performance in Chinese, students' first language, and English, their second language.
Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between three discourse synthesis skills (i.e., quotation, summarization, and connection) and students’ overall integrated writing performance in Chinese, students’ first language, and English, their second language. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that 63.6% of the variance in students’ overall Chinese integrated writing performance was accounted for by the three discourse synthesis skills, with connection and summarization contributed almost equally to the overall scores. In the English test, the three skills explained 47.9% of the variance. Cross-linguistic facilitation of the L1 discourse synthesis skills to the overall L2 integrated writing performance was observed, although the predictive strength of the three skills was comparatively low. Eye-tracking data together with subsequent stimulated-recall interviews illuminated the differences in students’ approaches to discourse synthesis. Findings of the study support the decisive role of discourse synthesis abilities in both L1 and L2 integrated writing assessments. Implications for writing instruction are discussed.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take the inquiry into semiotic repertoires beyond their classifications and inventories to analyse their interactions with each other and the way they gain indexicality in situated communication.
Abstract: This article takes the inquiry into semiotic repertoires beyond their classifications and inventories to analyse their interactions with each other and the way they gain indexicality in situated communication. As previous theorisation suggests that semiotic repertoires are deployed by agentive individuals, this article draws from New Materialism to focus on how social agents, semiotic repertoires, and material ecologies work together in distributed practice for meaning making. Expanding sociolinguistic constructs for this purpose, the article defines the relevant units and objects of analysis, and illustrates the framing of activities in indexing the values, meanings, and relationships of semiotic repertoires. The role of these repertoires in the interaction of an international community of scientists is analysed through the research group meeting of a team of microbiologists. The article demonstrates that though the focal participant from Korea claims limited English grammatical proficiency in his personal repertoire, he draws strategically from the repertoires in the physical setting and those of his disciplinary community to communicate successfully.
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative synthesis using discourse analysis methods was used to identify qualitative studies exploring the perceptions of people with knee osteoarthritis, their carers, and/or clinicians.
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To explore the ways in which people talk about knee osteoarthritis and how this may influence engagement in physical activity and activity-based interventions as recommended by clinical practice guidelines. DESIGN: A qualitative synthesis using discourse analysis methods. METHODS: Systematic review methods were used to identify qualitative studies exploring the perceptions of people with knee osteoarthritis, their carers, and/or clinicians. Methodological quality was evaluated through the use of the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme. Raw quotes extracted from each study were analyzed with inductive discourse analysis. RESULTS: A search of five electronic databases from inception until August 2019 yielded 778 articles. Sixty-two articles from 56 studies were included, reporting data (1,673 direct quotes) from people with knee osteoarthritis, carers, and clinicians in 16 countries. Two overarching discourses were identified-impairment and participation. The overarching impairment discourse prevailed in all participant groups and study settings. In this discourse, knee osteoarthritis was likened to a machine that inevitably wore down over time and required a doctor to repair. The overarching participatory discourse almost always coexisted alongside an impairment discourse. According to this discourse, a "busy body" was perceived as "healthy," and people could remain active despite knee osteoarthritis. CONCLUSION: The prevailing impairment discourse may potentially discourage people from using knees that have passed their "use-by date" and increase reliance on doctors to repair joint damage. Consistent with recommendations in clinical practice guidelines, a participatory discourse may provide an alternative way of communicating that may encourage people with knee osteoarthritis to continue to engage in physical activity by focusing on what they can do, rather than what they cannot do.
TL;DR: The authors assesses the current state of play of the poststructuralist and post-Marxist discourse theory associated with Laclau and Mouffe and the "Essex school" and identifies ways forward at the level of theory development, research practice and critique.
Abstract: This article assesses the current state of play of the poststructuralist and post-Marxist discourse theory associated with Laclau and Mouffe and the ‘Essex school’, and identifies ways forward at the level of theory development, research practice and critique. The article starts by disentangling the different meanings of the notion of ‘discourse’ in ‘discourse theory’, clarifying the specificities of discourse theory as a theoretical and analytical framework and situating discourse theory in, but also beyond, critical discourse studies. It then moves to an assessment of the current state of discourse theory, its main contributions, and the identification of shortcomings and ways forward. This discussion is organized around five topics: methodology and the theory-analysis dialectic; the logics approach; the discursive-material relation; the role of fantasy and other psychoanalytic categories; and populism.
TL;DR: Harmonious Discourse Analysis (HDA) as discussed by the authors is a new approach to ecolinguistic studies, which is based on traditional Chinese philosophy and contemporary Chinese development trajectories.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that digital peddling of fake news is influential to persuasive political participation, with veritable social media platforms, and that social media, with their instantaneous and widespread usage have been exp...
Abstract: Digital peddling of fake news is influential to persuasive political participation, with veritable social media platforms. Social media, with their instantaneous and widespread usage, have been exp...