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Törö, Tuukka. "Cooperation or Aid? A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Finland’s Development Policy." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22715.
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The current Finnish development policy, published in 2016, follows the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 sustainable development goals. With the help of a few tools from corpus linguistics, this study conducts a critical discourse analysis of the policy, using Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional method for CDA as its methodologicalframework and post-development theory as its main theoretical background. The study focuses on the definitions of development and its implementation as put forward by the policy, and how the policy text relates to its production and consumption as well as to the social and political context in which it is situated. Rather than working toward cooperation and participation which it promises, the policy reinforces the image of top-down aid dictated by institutions of the global North. It juxtaposes Finland as a giver and saviour with countries in the global South as vulnerable receivers of aid, granting little agency for the institutions,let alone the people of its development partners.
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White, Sara LuAnne. "Applying Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis to an Unrestricted Corpus: A Case Study in Indonesian and Malay Newspapers." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6478.
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In 2008, Baker et al. proposed a nine-step method that combines quantitative corpus linguistics with qualitative critical discourse analysis. To date this cycle has only been used to analyze a single language with a restricted corpus. Can this method, originally designed for this narrow focus, be applied cross-culturally to an unrestricted corpus? There are two over-arching goals for this paper, one linguistic and one methodological. The first goal is to learn about language ideologies in Indonesian and Malay newspapers; the second goal is to evaluate the efficacy of a mixed-methods corpus-driven approach to discourse analysis using the methods proposed by Baker et al. Our research will be based on the cross-cultural analysis of two 4-million-word corpora of newspaper articles; one Indonesian and one Malay. Malaysia and Indonesia are home to two peoples, living side by side and sharing a common language background, but reacting to the Islamic fundamentalist movement in different ways. Applying Baker et al.'s cycle, we will use keyword analysis, collocation, concordance lines, and qualitative analysis in this study. Whereas Baker employed a corpus restricted to articles about refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, and migrants, our corpus encompasses articles on any topic; whereas their study focused solely on English, ours will compare Indonesian and Malay. To build a "useful methodological synergy" between qualitative and quantitative analysis (Baker, et al., 2008), this corpus-driven study will consider how Islam and related terms are being represented by government, historical, and religious sources. The results of this study will help us discern how these two countries are reacting to the fundamentalist movement. This study will also help evaluate the applicability of Baker et al.'s proposed methods to other types of sociolinguistic research and bring to light any modifications that could be made.
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McGlashan, Mark. "The representation of same-sex parents in children's picturebooks : a corpus-assisted multimodal critical discourse analysis." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.724984.
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This thesis presents a descriptive and critical analysis of a representative corpus of picturebooks (52 picturebooks containing 58 stories with a total of 55,319 words) written for children and published in the English language between 1983 and 2012 that feature representations of families with same-sex - i.e. gay or lesbian - parents/caregivers. The majority of these books were published in the USA and UK, but others were also found published in Canada, Australia, or online without details of the country in which they were published. I refer to this unique corpus of rare and controversial picturebooks as the same- sex parent family (SSPF) corpus. The picturebook is a kind of text produced and socially linked specifically to children that combines written language and images in novel ways in order to construct and convey meaning. In their short history of publication SSPF picturebooks have become some of the most requested-to-be-banned books of modern times and have attracted a great deal of controversy. In this thesis I investigate how gay and lesbian sexualities are constructed and represented in SSPF picturebooks, and how those representations and constructions relate to the wider social situation of gay and lesbian sexualities. In doing so, this thesis gives, for the first time, a representative account of the ways in which lesbian and gay sexualities are represented in SSPF picturebooks. The thesis draws on a range of theory and methods from the areas of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Multimodality, Social Semiotics, and Corpus Linguistics (CL), and proposes a novel multimethodological approach to the study of a fairly large collection of multimodal texts. Combining approaches from CDA, Multimodality and Social Semiotics in the analysis of multimodal texts has already proven extremely effective in the analysis of multimodal texts - especially political texts - and are all rooted in the traditions of critical linguistics. This thesis thus situates itself in relation to Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) and Multimodal Corpus Linguistics as emergent analytical approaches. The major innovation of the thesis is the presentation of cullustration as an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to collocation between semiotic elements in multimodal texts. Whereas the core CL method of collocation is used to analyse consistent co-occurrence between i various linguistic units, collustration aims to widen the focus of CL methods to multimodal texts and take into account consistent co-occurrence of features occurring in several modes in the same text. Findings of the research suggest that SSPF picturebooks attempt to challenge and counter dominant negative stereotypes of gay and lesbian people and related homophobic discourses that lead to social exclusion and opposition to the books. They also include discourses intended to celebrate differences in (family) identity. However, the findings also suggest that SSPFs are represented in largely (homo)normative ways, upholding traditional notions of the nuclear family, as well as perpetuating some gender stereotypes. While the books thus aim to counter homophobia, in presenting gay and lesbian care-givers as 'normal' and barely different from heterosexual care-givers, the books could be viewed as backgrounding a potentially wider range of gay and lesbian identities.
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Ras, Ilse Astrid. "A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of the reporting on corporate fraud by UK newspapers, 2004-2014." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18356/.
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This thesis examines how British newspapers reported corporate fraud between 2004 and 2014. A corpus of approximately 85,000 news articles was collected from seven major daily and three major Sunday British newspapers and examined using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. This analysis follows principles set out by Fairclough (2015). The costs of corporate fraud are financial and intangible (Punch, 1996), including the corporate tax gap (HMRC, 2015), the undermining of democratic processes (Punch, 1996), and global wealth inequality (Slater and Kramers, 2016; Kramers, 2017). This thesis draws on Sykes and Matza’s (1957) ‘techniques of neutralisation’, which asserts that those accused of having committed deviant acts employ a specific set of arguments to negate them. Newspapers’ use of these techniques creates a narrative in which corporations are generally relieved of their alleged responsibility for acts of fraud. Corporations are presented as being forced to perform acts that are not always in line with (the spirit of) the law. Responsibility is transferred to regulators and investigators, who are represented as simultaneously too harsh, potentially stifling business growth, and too lenient, allowing corporations to get away with fraud. My original contribution is primarily methodological and analytical. I linguistically analyse a corpus of corporate fraud news, covering a decade of reporting, using a combination of CDA and corpus methods. Previous work on newspaper representations of corporate crime employs little linguistic analysis and covers at most a year of reporting (see Evans and Lundman, 2009 [1983]; Wright et al, 1995; McMullan and McClung, 2006; Williams, 2008; Cavender and Mulcahy, 1998). A further point of originality is theoretical, as I elaborate on the various ways in which techniques of neutralisation (see Sykes and Matza, 1957; Fooks et al, 2012) are expressed.
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Törmä, Kajsa. "Collocates of trans, transgender(s) and transexual(s) in British Newspapers: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-34339.
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Through their coverage in the mass media transgender people and the trans rights movement have only recently stepped into the public eye. Because this emergence is so recent, it has not been widely studied within the field of linguistics. This thesis aims to explore the representation of transgender people in newspapers using an approach informed by corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. Using collocation and concordance line analysis it identifies and discusses what semantic prosodies exist surrounding transgender people in The Daily Mail and The Guardian during 2015–2017. Many different semantic prosodies were found, and most of them were neither clearly negative nor positive towards transgender people. The prosodies were found to sometimes overlap and reinforce each other, and dominant news stories surrounding transgender people seemed to have great staying power. The overall conclusion is that transgender language in newspapers is still in its formative years and that additional research in this field is necessary.2018-08-21
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Yip, Jesse Wai Chi. "Identity matters in politics: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis on the blogs of the Hong Kong chief executive." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2015. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/149.
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Starting by an illustration of the connection between language, identity and politics, this thesis examines what and how identities are constructed in the blogs of CY Leung, the Hong Kong Chief Executive and accounts for how the identities influence his popularity. With a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis approach, this study investigates the identity roles and identity virtue projected in the biogs, gauging whether there is a clash between the projected identity roles and the social identity of the Chief Executive. Results found that there are three salient identity roles projected, namely, cultivator, problem solver and patriotic coordinator. The role of patriotic coordinator leads to negative impacts on CY Leung's popularity due to recent Hong Kong-mainland contradictions. Rationality is the most manifest identity virtue observed, pervading the blogs and the performance of the identity roles. It is argued that identity clash could be an explanation for the unpopularity of an individual and political blog is one of the possible genres for linguistic identity study 在語吉、身份和政治三者關條的基礎上，運用批判性話語分析的方法，並配合語料庫的輔助，本論文探討香港特別行政區行政長官梁振英如何在網上日誌建立及建立了什麼個人身份，解釋這些身份如何影響其聲望，並分析他所表現的「角色」是否與他的「社會身份」抵觸。研究結果顯示’梁在其網上日誌建構三大主要角色，包括培育者、問題解決者和愛國的協調者。由於近年的中港矛盾，協調者的角色對梁的聲望帶來負面影響。而且，在表現這些角色時，梁的行文理性務實。最後，本文提出「身份衝突」是一可作為解釋梁不得民心的原因，另外，政客的網上日誌是一可作為語言學上身份研究的文體。
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Fotiadou, Maria. "The discourse of careers services : a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of UK university websites." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2017. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/10127/.
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This thesis examines the discourse of careers services in UK university websites. The notion of employability has been presented and promoted by powerful groups, such as governments, organisations, the media, employers, and higher education institutions, as the remedy to the social problem of unemployment. Careers services in UK universities were given the role of ‘expert’ professionals who are there to support and guide students towards developing their employability and skills. This study examined the ideas and messages reproduced and promoted by the careers services, which could affect the students’ understanding of the ‘job market’ and their role in it. The chosen methodology, that is corpus-based critical discourse analysis, combined qualitative and quantitative methods and tools for the analysis of 2.6 million words deriving from 58 UK universities’ websites, and more specifically the careers services sections. In general, this thesis highlights some of the problematic, common-sense ideas that are being promoted by these services and encourages the denaturalisation of the careers services’ discourse. The main argument is that the language used by the careers services in UK universities reproduces and promotes neoliberal ideology. The analysis shows that higher education students are encouraged to develop ‘job-hunting techniques’ and are presented as responsible for their own ‘survival’ in a ‘fiercely competitive job market’. The notion of employability is promoted as the main solution to this highly problematic ‘reality’. The services advertise that they ‘know’ what employers are looking for from prospective employees and claim that they can ‘help’ students with their job search. The close analysis of linguistic data reveals that these services act as the ‘enablers’ of the students’ self-beneficiary action. In addition, besides their role as careers counsellors, the services’ use of language demonstrates their involvement in the therapeutic field. Finally, the language used by post-1992 and Russell Group universities was found to be quite similar. There are, however, some differences that could be viewed as signs of competition between these two university ‘groups’ and a preference of the job market towards a particular ‘group’ of graduates from elite institutions.
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Slater, Nigel G. "The language of acute pain assessment : a corpus-based critical discourse analysis." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29253/.
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Title: The language of acute pain assessment: a corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis approach Aim: Through use of real time interactions between healthcare workers and patients in an acute hospital setting this study sets out to investigate how health care workers help or hinder patients to express their pain during the pain assessment process. Background: Pain has long been an issue for investigation and there are a multitude of assessment options available. However, despite using an assessment framework, the ability of patients to use language to express pain has been shown to be more problematic than might be first considered. This study sets out to investigate how both patients and healthcare workers use language in this assessment process. Method: Real time data was recorded in an acute hospital in-patient setting. The use of corpus based critical discourse analysis enabled specific instances of word use and phrases related to pain experience to be identified and analysed. Findings: Two key areas were identified in the analysis of these interactions. The first area related to the traditional aspects of pain assessment relating to terminology used, location and function of pain. The second more important area related to how healthcare professionals presented a certain ‘mentality’ about the assessment process in how they appeared to be patient centred but through the use of brevity of interaction and trivialisation of the issues actually presented an opposite view. Conclusion: The primary conclusion is that although healthcare workers apply pain assessment processes, their use of language can show that they are both patient-centred and have their own motivations and agendas.
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Kim, Kyung Hye. "Mediating American and South Korean news discourses about North Korea through translation : a corpus-based critical discourse analysis." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/mediating-american-and-south-korean-news-discourses-about-north-korea-through-translation-a-corpusbased-critical-discourse-analysis(a85fbda5-ca2f-44bd-a882-afb6d9d9f34f).html.
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It is widely acknowledged that mass media play a central role in circulating and disseminating ideas. Particularly in this globalised era, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the role and impact of news media in shaping public opinion worldwide. During the attacks on New York in September 2001, for instance, CNN - the American cable news network - broadcast across the world twenty-four hours, and most of its reports were translated, or interpreted, into other languages, to be aired in other countries in real time. Most people are thus exposed to extensive reporting every day, but they are not necessarily aware that each news institution promotes, or, at least tries to construct, a particular media discourse according to its political or social orientation. Because of the complexity of mass media discourses, however, it is difficult to demonstrate how the language used participates in constructing and disseminating certain ideologies, or to challenge stereotypes and power relationships. This explains why media, news, political and institutional texts are preferred genres for critical discourse analysts. The extensive body of literature on news media discourses and their impact which draws on critical discourse analysis includes Van Dijk (1988), Fairclough (1995b), Al-Hejin (2007), Kim S (2008), among many others. Translation is a major variable that influences the circulation of ideas and ideologies, and translational choices can participate in provoking (or diffusing) political conflict. At the same time, translation may also challenge dominant discourses. Baker (1996: 14) acknowledges the power of translation, arguing that translation and the study of translation have been used as a "weapon in fighting colonialism, sexism, racism, and so on". And yet, most research on news discourse has so far tended to examine monolingual texts, rather than multilingual texts, including translations, despite the fact that numerous news reports are translated from one language into another on a regular basis. Critical approaches to language study have occasionally been used to investigate translation, in order "to reveal how translation is shaped by ideologies and in this way contributes to the perpetuation or subversion of particular discourses" (Olk 2002: 101), but such studies have remained restricted in scope. Drawing on corpus-based methodology and critical discourse analysis, this study examines US and South Korean news stories published in mainstream media with a view to identifying specific discursive practices relating to North Korea and how they are mediated in translation. The study attempts to analyse the relationship between textual features and practices specific to each news outlet. The corpus for this study consists of two separate sub-corpora, designed and compiled according to the same criteria and specifications: one made up of news texts originally written in English, and the other consisting of translated texts which include English source texts and the target texts translated from English into Korean. The texts are drawn from Newsweek/Newsweek Hangukpan and CNN/CNN Hanguel News. It is hoped that this study will enhance our understanding of some of the ways in which particular media discourses are constructed, disseminated and mediated via translation.
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Salama, Amir Hamza Youssef. "Ideological collocation in meta-Wahhabi discourse post-9/11: a symbiosis of critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.652016.
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This thesis attempts to answer the following overarching question: How has Wahhabi Islam been ideologically recontextualized across post-9/11 opposing discourses via collocation? Drawing on a methodological synergy of corpus linguistics and CDA (Baker et al. 2008; 8alama 2011 1 ), I propose a linguistic model for explicating the ideological nature of collocation between two clashing books: Stephen Schwartz's (2002) The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror and Natana DeLong-Bas's (2004) Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad. The two books, produced post-91l1, take diametrically opposing stances towards the same socio-religious practice of Wahhabi IslarnlWahhabism. First, using WorSmith5, keywords were used to identify the different semantic foci in the two texts, along with their relevant 'macropropositions' (Van Dijk 1980, 1995, 2009b). A small number of keywords were selected for further analysis, and their functions in contributing towards ideologies were investigated by examining their collocates, relying on the concepts of textual synonymy, oppositional paradigms and argumentative fallacies. Second, the meta-Wahhabi discourses underlying the two texts are analysed by focusing on the discourse processes of producing, intelpreting and explaining the patterns of collocations in the texts. Contextual information, such as relevant biographical information relating to the text producers, was taken into account. Additionally, a socio-cognitive approach was used to consider ideological coherence and socio-religious schernas which motivated the ideological use of collocations in both texts. Finally, from a social-semiotic perspective, interdiscursive meanings and the symbolic power invested with the collocating words as religious or political signs are queried. The findings offered in the present thesis cover methodological and theoretical aspects. First, on a theoretical level, there are findings that relate to how collocation as a micro textual resource can closely interface with other macro discourse and language processes, e.g. ideology, (social) cognition, semiotics and interdiscursivity. Second, on a methodological level, this study has contributed to the presently well-established 'methodological synergy' of corpus linguistics and CDA in a symbiotic fashion. This can be recognized in two respects: I) compared to pure CDA research, the methodological procedure followed in this study (which goes from the quantitative to the qualitative methods) rcnders the identification of the linguistic phenomenon - collocation - studied in this research far lcss subjectively identified; 2) the possibility of contextualizing the keywords extracted from onc text by conducting a macropropositional analysis (i.e. identifying the topics and themes) in this text.
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Boselli, Camilla. "Corpora e analisi del linguaggio politico: l'esempio di Alternative für Deutschland." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/17844/.
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Il presente elaborato si configura come analisi approfondita del linguaggio del partito tedesco Alternative für Deutschland, la cui comparsa nel 2013 ha cambiato definitivamente lo scenario politico in Germania. Data l'importanza crescente che il partito ha assunto nel corso degli ultimi anni, si pone la necessità di analizzare il linguaggio di questo partito. In particolare questa ricerca si propone di analizzare l'uso che i membri di Alternative für Deutschland fanno della lingua in Parlamento.
Nel caso del presente elaborato, si tratta di uno studio dei discorsi selezionati mediante l'uso di corpora. La ricerca si pone, da un lato, l'obiettivo di fornire una panoramica dei fenomeni linguistici presenti nel corpus preso in analisi basandosi su dati statistici. Dall'altro lato l'analisi si prefigge di rintracciare le strategie discorsive e gli schemi argomentativi ricorrenti. L'approccio integrato fra metodo quantitativo e qualitativo consente di portare alla luce il vero significato dei testi garantendo in questo modo un'analisi dettagliata del discorso in esame.
Il presente elaborato si suddivide in tre sezioni: nel primo capitolo verrà descritto il contesto politico-culturale in cui la ricerca si colloca: nel secondo capitolo verrà illustrata la cornice teorica da cui lo studio prende le mosse. In ultimo, nel terzo capito verrà presentata l'analisi vera e propria. Lo studio si pone come proposta di descrizione delle caratteristiche della porzione di discorso politico presa in analisi. Il presente elaborato rappresenta dunque uno spunto per ulteriori approfondimenti sul linguaggio di Alternative für Deutschland.
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Kandil, Magdi Ahmed. "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in American, Arab, and British Media: Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/alesl_diss/12.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the longest and most violent conflicts in modern history. The language used to represent this important conflict in the media is frequently commented on by scholars and political commentators (e.g., Ackerman, 2001; Fisk, 2001; Mearsheimer & Walt, 2007). To date, however, few studies in the field of applied linguistics have attempted a thorough investigation of the language used to represent the conflict in influential media outlets using systematic methods of linguistic analysis. The current study aims to partially bridge this gap by combining methods and analytical frameworks from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Corpus Linguistics (CL) to analyze the discursive representation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in American, Arab, and British media, represented by CNN, Al-Jazeera Arabic, and BBC respectively. CDA, which is primarily interested in studying how power and ideology are enacted and resisted in the use of language in social and political contexts, has been frequently criticized mainly for the arbitrary selection of a small number of texts or text fragments to be analyzed. In order to strengthen CDA analysis, Stubbs (1997) suggested that CDA analysts should utilize techniques from CL, which employs computational approaches to perform quantitative and qualitative analysis of actual patterns of use occurring in a large and principled collection of natural texts. In this study, the corpus-based keyword technique is initially used to identify the topics that tend to be emphasized, downplayed, and/or left out in the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in three corpora complied from the news websites of Al-Jazeera, CNN, and the BBC. Topics –such as terrorism, occupation, settlements, and the recent Israeli disengagement plan—which were found to be key in the coverage of the conflict—are further studied in context using several other corpus tools, especially the concordancer and the collocation finder. The analysis reveals some of the strategies employed by each news website to control for the positive or negative representations of the different actors involved in the conflict. The corpus findings are interpreted using some informative CDA frameworks, especially Van Dijk’s (1998) ideological square framework.
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Alcantud, Diaz Maria. "A Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis of Violance in the Grimm's Fairy Tales Collection." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de València, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/81535.
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The main objective of the present thesis is to show the results achieved after investigating the presence of violence in the brothers Grimm’s fairy tales collection. After reviewing how the brothers Grimm’s fairy tales collection, a discourse aimed at adults, suffered a transformation and ended up being aimed at children, I explored whether the presence of violence in the brothers Grimm’s fairy tales collection could be empirically demonstrated by means of a Corpus Linguistics analysis. By doing this, I was able to show that classical readings aimed at children might be reclassified empirically and objectively after having analysed their content using a multidisciplinary approach. The framework for analysis is a combination of (i) corpus-based approaches (Biber et al 1998, Scott 2001 and Stubbs 1996, 2002); (ii) Systemic Functional Linguistics (transitivity analysis) (Berry 1977, 1989, Downing 1996:186, Downing and Locke 2006:120-167 and Halliday 1994: 106-175) and (iii) Critical Discourse Analysis (Van Dijk 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, Widdicombe 1998 and Wodak & Meyer 2002-2009). The present study might provide a new insight into the violent content in the brothers Grimm’s fairy tales collection, as well as into the possible effects that these may have on children.
In order to carry out a study of violence I have first paid attention to the type of verbal processes that appear in the corpus in order to find out who is inflicting violence upon who and then, I have studied the transitivity shifts, that is, verbal processes, and the participants and circumstances that are part of the corpus selected for the analysis, The Grimm Corpus. By doing this, it was my intention to find out whether power and violence were intrinsically related in them.
In sum, my main objective was to find out the relationship between verbal processes and socially-constructed meaning related to power in these tales. By doing this, I intended to shed some light on the power relations that may help feature the characters in these tales and the consequences these power relations might have on the potential addressees.
In order to carry out this research, I have divided the current article into five sections: firstly, I have reviewed how the literature aimed at children appeared during the 17th and 18th, centuries as a kind of game for adults in the midst of an aristocratic society where there was no demand for children’s books. The tales, then, became nursery tales by the 19th century; mainly due to an increasing market demand for children’s literature but their violent content remained as this study will demonstrate. In the last part of this stage, we will shed some light on the violent content of the brothers Grimm’s fairy tales collection.
Section two introduces the concept violence and its different types. Sections three and four, presents a theoretical background dealing with the notions related to Corpus Linguistics (CL), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistcs (SFL). Additionally, I present a brief explanation of how the combination of these approaches, have, in my opinion, contributed to clarify the relationship between social identity and the power that features the characters in the tales.
The fifth part provides a concise explanation about the hypotheses and research methodology. The sixth part of my study is devoted to showing the detailed analyses and results achieved in the present thesis.
Finally, chapter 7 depicts the concluding remarks and some pointers for further research. The results confirmed the initial hypothesis and provided some useful and interesting insights into the different kinds of identities related to violence found in fairy tales which come from oral tradition.El principal objetivo de esta tesis es mostrar los resultados obtenidos tras investigar la presencia de violencia en un corpus compuesto por una selección de 22 cuentos pertenecientes a la colección de cuentos de los hermanos Grimm. Después de revisar cómo la colección de cuentos de los hermanos Grimm, una colección que nació como un proyecto filológico destinado a preservar la tradición alemana, se transformó en literatura para niños, he investigado cómo la presencia de violencia en esta colección de cuentos puede ser identificada empíricamente por medio de un análisis multidisciplinar compuesto por un análisis de procesos verbales (Berry 1977, 1989, Downing and Locke 2006 y Halliday 1994), un análisis de corpus (Biber et al 1998, Scott 2010 y Stubbs 1996) y un análisis del discurso (Antaki y Widdicombe 1998a/b, Fairclough 1989-2003, Tajfel 1974, Sacks 1974, Van Dijk 1997-2004 y Wodak & Meyer 2002-2009). Con este estudio, pretendo demostrar que las lecturas destinadas a niños que provienen de tradición oral podrían se reclasificadas siguiendo los mismos criterios de clasificación que se utiliza hoy en día en todas las lecturas destinadas a niños, es decir, criterios relacionados con el contenido y el vocabulario, entre otros valores, tras analizar los resultados obtenidos en este estudio. Por otro lado, mi segundo objetivo ha sido el estudio del papel que representan los principales participantes en los cuentos de los Grimm en relación a los procesos verbales encontrados. Este estudio se ha realizado con el propósito de identificar las categorías (en cuanto a status social y/o familiar) a las que pertenecen dichos participantes con el objetivo de comprobar si hay una relación entre status social, poder y violencia en estos cuentos de tradición oral. Es decir, si los personajes de estos cuentos cometen actos violentos respaldados por su identidad social y/o familiar, lo que les da poder sobre otros personajes. Los resultados obtenidos confirmaron la hipótesis inicial proporcionando datos útiles e interesantes en cuanto a la identidad de los participantes involucrados en el corpus de los hermanos Grimm y, por tanto, de algunos de los valores que se están transmitiendo a los receptores potenciales, es decir, los niños.
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Al-Hejin, Bandar. "Covering Muslim women : a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of the BBC and Arab news." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627632.
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Despite a proliferation of research on Islam and Muslims in the media, very little work has focused on Muslim women, a much-debated social group that clearly merits special consideration. More specifically, no studies have approached the topic with any comprehensive methodologies, certainly not from a critical linguistic perspective. The overall aim of this thesis is therefore to investigate how Muslim women are represented in the BBe News compared to Arab News, as major 'Western' and 'Muslim' news sources respectively. The textual analyses are based on two purpose-built corpora, the BBCC (1.9 million words in 3,269 articles) and the ANC (2.2 million words in 3,111 articles), comprising all available articles mentioning Muslim women in the two news organisations' web sites from 2001 to 2007. Drawing on theory from critical discourse studies, the research employs analytical tools and concepts from the Dialectical-relational, Socio-cognitive, Discourse-historical, and Sociosemantic approaches to critical discourse analysis. These are combined with corpusbased methodologies to investigate linguistic patterns associated with Muslim women across thousands of texts in each corpus. The analysis therefore stands apart from previous studies in two respects. The first is its exhaustive approach to identifying a wide range of salient as well as underreported issues related to Muslim women in news discourse. The second is demonstrating a more integrated approach to conducting the quantitative and qualitative analyses that uniquely enhances the synergy between critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Findings suggest that Muslim women's representations are largely restricted in terms of regional coverage. Semantic macro structures related to conflict and crime are more prevalent in the BBC than Arab News. Muslim women in Arab News also appear in a wider range of contexts reporting their achievements and concerns in areas such as education, business and employment. Another contrast manifests itself in the way the two news sources construct the religion of Islam, especially in the context of women's rights where religious and cultural practices are often conflated. The hijab is a nodal discourse surrounding Muslim women in both news sources, but it was statistically more prominent in the BBe and its discourse prosody was more negative than in Arab News. The function of the hijab as a descriptive feature in some texts is often unclear, raising serious questions about its relevance. Overall, the representations of Muslim women are often problematic. Western 'liberal' narratives supported by 'evidence' from 'moderate' Muslim voices tend to be preferred in the BBe's reporting, especially with regard to the hijab. This results in a marginalisation of a majority of female Muslim voices. A number of recommendations are made for journalists to avoid recurrent misrepresentations of the experiences, hopes and concerns of different Muslim women. Keywords: critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, Muslim women, BBe, Arab News, media, newspapers, online news
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Mncwango, Lungile. "Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of the portrayal of body parts in selected Zulu novels." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65586.
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This corpus-based study examines female and male characters’ body parts in selected isiZulu novels: Indlela Yababi (The path of the wicked; 1946) by RRR Dhlomo Inkinsela yaseMgungundlovu (The tycoon of Pietermaritzburg; 1961) by CLS Nyembezi and Kuxolelwa Abanjani? (Who deserves to be forgiven? 2002) by NG Sibiya. The three selected novels are representative of the three periods that somewhat define South Africa: the pre-apartheid, the apartheid and the postapartheid period. With a focus on gender variation, I look at the use and description of female and male characters’ body parts in the selected texts. Using a combined Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis approach, I investigate the following questions: how do male and female characters use their body parts in the selected texts? Is the use of the body parts in the selected texts indicative of gender differences? How are body parts described in the selected texts? Could it be that the description represents male and female characters in a stereotypical way? Do the uses of and descriptions of body parts reveal aspects of power relations between women and men? Is there any development or change over time in the selected texts with regard to body parts and gender? The following body parts are examined: isandla and izandla (the hand and the hands), amehlo (the eyes), ikhanda (the head) and ubuso (the face). From the findings obtained, it is clear that the use and description of female and male characters’ body parts are indicative of gender differences and gender stereotypes. However, such gendered patterns are less distinct in the novels selected. These findings would have to be measured on a larger corpus of isiZulu novels.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Rajab, Gamaan Muhsen Alzahrani. "A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of the ideological representations and legitimation in the Salafi discourse in Saudi Arabia (1980-2000)." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680524.
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Mulderrig, Jane Mary. "The governance of education : a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of UK education policy texts 1972-2005." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435634.
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Tso, Elizabeth Ann, and Elizabeth Ann Tso. "Discourse, Social Scales, and Epiphenomenality of Language Policy: A Case Study of a Local, Hong Kong NGO." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623063.
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In this multi-methodological (Gee, 2011; Hult & D. Johnson, 2015) study, I examine Richard Ruiz's (2014) original concept of the epiphenomenal nature of language in language policy and planning (LPP) across social scales (Hult, 2013) in Hong Kong. While research in Hong Kong has focused on interactions between schools, teachers, students, parents, business, and the government, the work on non-profits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) remains a neglected social scale. Addressing this gap, I examine the role of a local NGO, Hong Kong Unison (Unison), as a social actor involved in the negotiation of language-in-education policies for the city's ethnic minority students. Through the collection of one decade of publically accessible documents, I created a corpus of Unison's work. Corpus linguistics approaches and a wider-angle perspective to critical discourse analysis (cf. Tian, 2006, 2008) were combined in order to highlight salient patterns and discourses within the data (cf. Baker, 2016). Corpus and discursive analyses indicate that Unison is primarily involved in transforming language policies through their active role in increasing public awareness about the social, political, and educational difficulties ethnic minority students encounter in Hong Kong. Furthermore, the NGO’s ideologies reveal the epiphenomenal nature of LPP. Epiphenomenality reflects how decisions made about language are influenced and shaped by non-linguistic phenomena. Unison's negotiation of LPP demonstrates how their decisions about language are connected to issues of equality, justice, economic opportunity, educational attainment, and social advancement. These ideologies manifest themselves in dialogue across social scales, demonstrating Unison's impact in negotiating LPP in Hong Kong. This study, while providing more insight into LPP research by examining the role of a local NGO, continues to raise questions on how to best understand how multiple scales intersect in the policymaking process, and how the epiphenomenal nature of language shapes decision-making.
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Wang, Mengting. "Representation of China's Image on The Globe and Mail: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis from the Perspective of van Dijk’s Ideology Square." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42713.
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In early 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan put China in the spotlight of international news. China’s development in the field of politics, society, and economics still occupies media attention in the context of the global public health crisis. Previous studies have shown that China’s image in the western media, including the Canadian media, adopted a generally negative tone. The objective of this thesis is to investigate China’s image in one of the mainstream Canadian media platforms, the Globe and Mail, during the whole epidemic year of 2020. This research is based upon news reports published in 2020 by the Globe and Mail and is conducted with the support of corpus linguistic methodology and with the guideline of Critical Discourse Analysis, especially van Dijk’s ideology square. In order to discern and identify the image of China as portrayed by the Globe and Mail, the underlying discourse strategies are analyzed. Findings show that “China”, “Chinese government”, and “Chinese citizens” are the main subjects that make up the broad concept of China’s image. And in China’s related news report in the Globe and Mail from 31 December 2019 to 31 December 2020, (1) rhetoric devices, including number game, news source selection, illustration, irony, implication, presumption, vagueness, comparison, and history as lesson, are employed to polarize the image of the Chinese government and the Canadian government. (2) China’s image in the Globe and Mail is generally negative, which can be described via four aspects: China as a threat, callous, dishonest/untrustworthy, and powerful (3) the China-related news as constructed by the Globe and Mail reflects its own particular national ideologies and interests.
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Quinonez, Erika Sabrina. "(UN)WELCOME TO AMERICA: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ANTI-IMMIGRANT RHETORIC IN TRUMP’S SPEECHES AND CONSERVATIVE MAINSTREAM MEDIA." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/635.
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This project makes the empirical assertion that U.S. President Donald Trump and conservative news media outlets contribute to a national narrative of xenophobia that frames immigrants, particularly those of color, as parasitic and dangerous to the American way of life. Through this study, I assert that the use of demagogic and dehumanizing language along with more subtle discursive strategies, such as positive representation of ‘us’, negative representation of ‘them,’ and metaphorical constructions are being used to stoke fear and anti-immigrant sentiment and to strip individuals of their humanity for the purpose of rendering them unworthy of dignity and of the same rights and benefits as those to which groups considered insiders and ‘real Americans’ are entitled.
Through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics, I analyze a collection of transcriptions selected from among 100+ speeches, addresses and remarks delivered by Donald Trump both before and after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections, along with a set of ten news stories featuring issues surrounding immigration collected from FoxNews.com, Breitbart.com, and Bill O’Reilly.com. Concordancing software is used to reveal and quantify discursive patterns that contribute to this national narrative of xenophobia.
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Al, Kharusi Raiya. "Ideologies of Arab media and politics : a critical discourse analysis of Al Jazeera debates on the Yemeni Revolution." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17659.
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Critical discourse analysis investigates the ways in which discourse is to abuse power relationships. Political debates constitute discourses that mirror certain aspects of ideologies. This study aimed to uncover the ideological intentions in the formulation and circulation of hegemonic political ideology in TV political debates that occurred in the 2011-2012 Yemen revolution, examining the question of how ideology was used as a tool of hegemony. The corpus of the study consisted of fifteen debates (73915 words) from four live debate programmes (The Opposite Direction, In Depth, Behind the News and the Revolution Talk) staged at Al Jazeera Arabic TV channel between 2011 and 2012. Al Jazeera was selected as the focus of this study because of its position as the most popular TV in the Arab world and due to its strong presence during the Arab revolutions. Two debate sides were identified: government, representing the president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his regime, and protesters, who represented the discontent populace gathering squares who demanded the abdication of the president. Data were also obtained from interviews conducted with the Al Jazeera staff who managed the debates. Analysis was conducted on the verbal discourse aspects of four debates, one debate from each programme, using critical discourse analysis: aspects from the van Leeuwen's (2008, 2009) Social Actor Network model, supplemented by additional linguistic features. The results were triangulated using computer-assisted corpus analysis for the entire corpus, the fifteen debates. AntConc (version 3.2.4w) was used to process the keyword lists, word concordances and collocations. The results of the analysis were then compared with the interviews with AJ staff. The main research finding was that although results of the critical discourse analysis correlated with those of the computer-assisted corpus analysis, they differed to a marked degree from the perceptions of Al Jazeera staff. Also, evident is that Al Jazeera and the protesters had similar ideological intentions, including glorifying the revolution and inciting protests, which was not the case with the government speakers. Overall, the findings show that Al Jazeera displayed evident bias, excluding the government from its debates in a way that runs counter to its mission statement and the tenets of objective journalism. The findings of this study illustrate the powerful role that language plays in shaping ideological media intentions and influencing the media audience.
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Davidson, Paul. "Metaphor in contemporary British social-policy. A Cognitive Critical Study Of Governmental Discourses On Social Exclusion." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5348.
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This thesis explores the ideological role of metaphor in British governmental
discourses on ¿social exclusion¿. A hybrid methodology, combining approaches
from Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and cognitive theories of
metaphor, is used to address how social exclusion and other metaphors are deployed
to create an ideologically vested representation of society. The data consists of
linguistic metaphors identified from a 400,000+ word machine-readable corpus of
British governmental texts on social exclusion covering a ten year period (1997-
2007). From these surface level features of text, underlying systematic and
conceptual metaphors are then inferred. The analysis reveals how the interrelation
between social exclusion and a range of other metaphors creates a dichotomous
representation of society in which social problems are discursively placed outside
society, glossing inequalities within the included mainstream and placing the blame
for exclusion on the cultural deficiencies of the excluded. The solution to the
problem of exclusion is implicit within the logic of its conceptual structure and
involves moving the excluded across the ¿boundary¿ to join the ¿insiders¿. The
welfare state has a key role to play in this and is underpinned by a range of
metaphors which anticipate movement on the part of the excluded away from a
position of dependence on the state. This expectation of movement is itself
metaphorically structured by the notion of a social contract in which the socially
excluded have a responsibility to try and include themselves in society in return for
the right of (temporary) state support. Key systematic metaphors are explained by
reference to a discourse-historical view of ideological change in processes of
political party transformation.BISA and CSV
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Tęcza, Karolina Katarzyna. "Pronoun Usage in the State of the Union Address and Weekly Addresses by Donald Trump : A Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics Approach." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28242.
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In the modern world of politics, convincing the audience is the key to democratically gain power in society—and the amount of power politicians gain depends on how convincing they are. In this competitive domain, elites use discourse not only to persuade the audience, but also to manipulate the audience. According to van Dijk (2006), persuasion is a legitimate and ethical way to influence the audience, while manipulation is an illegitimate and unethical way of influencing the audience. The present study examines pronoun usage in the political discourse of Donald Trump; it examines the State of the Union Speech and 37 Weekly Addresses. The quantitative approach to the data was taken by incorporating corpus linguistic methods, namely frequency counts, concordances, word list tools, and downsampling. The qualitative approach was taken by using methods from rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis. To analyse the examined phenomenon, the Aristotelian persuasion framework, Fairclough’s theory on the pronouns we and you, van Dijk’s triangulation framework with its focus on manipulation, and Wieczorek’s taxonomy of speakers were used. The study concluded that in both the State of the Union Address and the Weekly Addresses, Donald Trump frequently and interchangeably uses the pronouns we and our to refer to two groups with unequal power relations to one another. The identified patterns placed within the societal context of the examined text persuade the recipients. Pronouns such as we, our, I, and they play a key role in the elements of ethos and pathos. Furthermore, the identified patterns placed within the societal context of the examined text also showed that Donald Trump uses discourse structure to use short term memory and long term memory properties to manipulate the audience.
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Paul, Davidson. "Metaphor in contemporary British social-policy : a cognitive critical study of governmental discourses on social exclusion." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5348.
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This thesis explores the ideological role of metaphor in British governmental discourses on 'social exclusion'. A hybrid methodology, combining approaches from Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and cognitive theories of metaphor, is used to address how social exclusion and other metaphors are deployed to create an ideologically vested representation of society. The data consists of linguistic metaphors identified from a 400,000+ word machine-readable corpus of British governmental texts on social exclusion covering a ten year period (1997- 2007). From these surface level features of text, underlying systematic and conceptual metaphors are then inferred. The analysis reveals how the interrelation between social exclusion and a range of other metaphors creates a dichotomous representation of society in which social problems are discursively placed outside society, glossing inequalities within the included mainstream and placing the blame for exclusion on the cultural deficiencies of the excluded. The solution to the problem of exclusion is implicit within the logic of its conceptual structure and involves moving the excluded across the 'boundary' to join the 'insiders'. The welfare state has a key role to play in this and is underpinned by a range of metaphors which anticipate movement on the part of the excluded away from a position of dependence on the state. This expectation of movement is itself metaphorically structured by the notion of a social contract in which the socially excluded have a responsibility to try and include themselves in society in return for the right of (temporary) state support. Key systematic metaphors are explained by reference to a discourse-historical view of ideological change in processes of political party transformation.
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Kheovichai, Baramee. "Marketization in the language of UK university recruitment : a critical discourse analysis and corpus comparison of university and finance industry job advertisements." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4706/.
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This thesis investigates the marketization of universities’ recruitment discourse, using critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistic methodology. University and financial job advertisements were compared synchronically and diachronically. Synchronic corpus linguistic analyses were executed on 3,000 online university and 3,000 financial job advertisements from the present day. In addition, 60 university and financial job advertisements from newspaper in the 1970s were analysed manually for the diachronic comparison. The results indicate that while 1970s university and financial job advertisements are strikingly different, 2010s university job advertisements are fundamentally aligned with those from businesses. 2010s university job advertisements and financial job advertisements seek to establish the credentials of the employer but this move is rare in 1970s university job advertisements. Universities in 2010s are construed as performing activities that are inherently promotional. Applicants in 2010s university job advertisements are construed as more equal and as benefiting from the job. The evaluative adjectives in university and financial job advertisements are largely similar. Business oriented discourse and ideologies have become conventionalized in the phraseology of university discourse. However, universities do not always adopt business discursive practices and should indeed be more selective about the in-take of business discourse.
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George, Stephen J. "Community of Inquiry Meets Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): A CDA of Asynchronous Computer-Conference Discourse with Seminary Students in India." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011816/.
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The purpose of this study was to better understand student learning in asynchronous computer-conference discourse (ASD) for non-native speakers of English in India through the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework. The study looked at ASD from an online course taught in the fall of 2015 to 25 students in a seminary in South India. All but one of the students were non-native speakers of English. The class consisted of 22 men and 3 women. Eight students spoke languages from the Dravidian family of languages (Malayalam, Tamil, Telegu and Kannada). Eight students were from the Northeastern states of Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura, where most languages are from the Sino-Tibetan family. Three students were native speakers of Indo-Aryan languages (Odiya and Assamese). Five students were from Myanmar representing several Sino-Tibetan languages. The COI is a framework used to understand learning in ASD, often used in online learning. To study the ASD of this group, critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used with the COI to capture the unique socio-cultural and linguistic conditions of this group.
The study revealed that non-native speakers of English often reach the Exploration phase of learning but rarely show evidence of reaching the Resolution phase. This phenomenon was also observed in native English speakers as reported in the literature. Also, the structure of ASD showed that students took an examination approach to discussion shaped in part by their epistemology. This examination approach shaped how knowledge was constructed. CDA also showed that the discourse acquired an instructor-centered structure in which Resolution and Repair were initiated and finalized by the instructor.
The study advances the COI framework by undergirding it with a theory of asynchronous discourse using critical discourse analysis and capturing cognitive, social and teaching presence phenomena for non-native speakers that were not observed through the traditional COI framework. These phenomena were driven by cultural, epistemological, and linguistic forces and require a rethinking of the COI for contexts outside of North America. The study also demonstrates that learning for non-native speakers in ASD is challenged by these very same forces. Therefore, design for online learning should account for these phenomena.
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Crymble, Leigh. "Textual representations of migrants and the process of migration in selected South African media a combined critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002624.
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South Africa has long been associated with racial and ethnic issues surrounding prejudice and discrimination and despite a move post-1994 to a democratic ‘rainbow nation’ society, the country has remained plagued by unequal power relations. One such instance of inequality relates to the marginalisation of migrants which has been realised through xenophobic attitudes and actions, most notably the violence that swept across the country in 2008. Several reasons have been suggested in an attempt to explain the cause of the violence, including claims that migrants are taking ‘our jobs and our women’, migrants are ‘illegal and criminal’ and bringing ‘disease and contamination’ with them from their countries of origin. Although widely accepted that many, if not all, of these beliefs are based on ignorance and hearsay, these extensive generalisations shape and reinforce prejudiced ideologies about migrant communities. It is thus only when confronted with evidence that challenges this dominant discourse, that South Africans are able to reconsider their views. Williams (2008) suggests that for many South Africans, Africa continues to be the ‘dark continent’ that is seen as an ominous, threatening force of which they have very little knowledge. For this reason, anti-immigrant sentiment in a South African context has traditionally been directed at African foreigners. In this study I examine the ways in which African migrants and migrant communities, as well as the overall processes of migration, are depicted by selected South African print media: City Press, Mail & Guardian and Sunday Times. Using a combined Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis approach, I investigate the following questions: How are migrants and the process of migration into South Africa represented by these established newspapers between 2006 and 2010? Are there any differences or similarities between these representations? In particular, what ideologies regarding migrants and migrant communities underlie these representations? My analysis focuses on the landscape of public discourse about migration with an exploration of the rise and fall of the terminologies used to categorise migrants and the social implications of these classifications. Additionally, I analyse the expansive occurrences of negative representations of migrants, particularly through the use of ‘othering’ pronouns ‘us’ versus ‘them’ and through the use of metaphorical language which largely depicts these individuals as en masse natural disasters. I conclude that these discursive elements play a crucial role in contributing to an overall xenophobic rhetoric. Despite subtle differences between the three newspapers which can be accounted for based on their political persuasions and agendas, it is surprising to note how aligned these publications are with regard to their portrayal of migrants. With a few exceptions, this representation positions these individuals as powerless and disenfranchised and maintains the status quo view of migrants as burdens on the South African economy and resources. Overall, the newspaper articles contribute to mainstream dominant discourse on migrants and migration with the underlying ideology that migrants are responsible for the hardships suffered by South African citizens. Thus, this study contributes significantly to existing bodies of research detailing discourse on migrants and emphasises the intrinsic links between language, ideology and society.
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Elmerot, Irene. "These women’s verbs : A combined corpus and discourse analysis on reporting verbs about women and men in Czech media 1989–2015." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Slaviska språk, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-149414.
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This study aims at analyzing how women and men in five different professions are portrayed and represented through reporting verbs in Czech media over a period of 25 years (end of 1989 to the beginning of 2015). The empirical data consist of entire newspapers and magazines in the source material, a subcorpus from the Czech National Corpus. The theoretical basis is Critical discourse analysis and the methodical is a corpus-based statistical analysis. Binary categories from the Harvard Psychosociological Dictionary are used to classify the reporting verbs. After a quantitative study, the results are clear for some professions and less clear for others, and these results are analyzed. This study could not (at least not without severe adjustments) have been performed in languages like English, where the distinction between the female and male professional concepts is less clear. In the chapter on previous research, special attention is given to the Czech context, and the chapter also explains this study’s contribution to previous research in language, power and corpus studies.
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Blixt, Emely. "Prudes versus sluts : An analysis of how attitudes are expressed through colloquial terminology." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-70008.
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This paper performs a corpus-based critical discourse analysis on the terms“vamp”, “slut”, “prude” and “spinster” and how they are used in context fromthe 1920s to the 2000s. They were categorized according to what attitudeswere connected to them, positive, neutral and negative. An interest was alsotaken in what attributive adjectives were used in context with each term. Theresults showed consistent negative attitudes towards “prude” and “spinster”,while the attitudes towards “Vamp” and “slut” were mixed with negative andpositive.
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Blauenfeldt, Anne. "Violent Rapists and Depraved Paedophiles: Linguistic Representation of Sex Offenders in the British Tabloid Press - A Comparative Corpus-Based Study." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21832.
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Through a combination of corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this paper looks at the hidden ideological discourses surrounding sex offenders in the British media. Corpus linguistics provides an excellent framework to discover such discourse patterns and the critical discourse analysis framework helps contextualise the findings. The specific aim of the paper is to discover and compare the discourse patterns surrounding the specific nominals rapist* and paedophile* in order to see how the representations differ. The analysis uncovered that the representation of both offenders was sensationalised and full of negative and emotionally loaded words. Furthermore, it was discovered that two differing discourses were prominent for each nominal: An animalistic and bodily discourse for rapist* and a discourse of deviance and the mind for peadophile*. Lastly, it is argued that these misrepresentations are problematic as they misinform both the public and the regulation of offenders.
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Fonseca, Luciana Carvalho. "\'Eu quero cesárea!\' ou \'Just cut it out!\': análise crítica do discurso de relatos de parto normal após cesárea de mulheres brasileiras e estadunidenses à luz da linguística de corpus." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-21052015-112432/.
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No Brasil, a maioria absoluta das primíparas, deseja parto normal logo que engravida, porém, em mais da metade dos casos, os nascimentos são cirúrgicos. O fenômeno da falta de correspondência entre o desejado e o efetivamente alcançado não é exclusividade das mulheres brasileiras, mas ocorre em vários países do ocidente. Por meio da Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD) de relatos de parto normal após cesárea (relatos de VBAC, do inglês, vaginal birth after c-section) à luz da Linguística de Corpus (LC), buscamos elucidar o problema social entre a falta de correspondência entre o tipo de experiência desejada e a experiência obtida. O discurso dos relatos de VBAC nos parece ser o discurso ideal para desvelar os elementos dessa falta de correspondência, pois abordam tanto a experiência da cesárea anterior indesejada e, em regra, mal indicada, como a do parto desejado e alcançado. O recorte teórico-metodológico adotado reúne a ACD (Fairclough, 1989, 1992; Chouliaraki & Fairclough, 1999; Fairclough, 2003); a LC (Stubbs, 1993, McEnery & Wilson, 1997 e 2003, Tognini-Bonelli, 2001) e a Análise Crítica do Discurso Baseada em Corpus (Baker et al 2008; Baker, 2013; Baker & McEnery, 2005; Flowerdew, 2014). Para o estudo, foi compilado um corpus eletrônico em inglês e português. O corpus é composto por textos escritos pelas mulheres que passaram pela experiência de VBAC e não inclui textos mediados (entrevistas e relatos escritos por terceiros não foram incluídos). O Corpus BRABA (Corpus eletrônico de relatos de parto de mulheres brasileiras, estadunidenses, britânicas e australianas) se divide, respectivamente, em quatro subcorpora: Corpus BRA (93 relatos, 250 807 palavras), Corpus EUA (101 relatos, 225 736 palavras), Corpus UK (97 relatos, 92 197 palavras) e Corpus AU (92 relatos, 200 639 palavras. Os primeiros dois subcorpora Corpus BRA e Corpus EUA foram selecionados para esta pesquisa que pretende investigar como as identidades e a experiência do nascimento são representadas nos relatos de mulheres brasileiras e americanas e por meio dessa investigação chegar a elementos que elucidem o problema social. O processamento eletrônico valeu-se do programa AntConc 3.4.0w (Anthony, 2012) e das ferramentas da LC (listas de frequência, lista de palavras-chave, linhas de concordância, padrões lexicais, etc.). A análise foi direcionada pelas palavras-chave que correspondem aos sujeitos envolvidos e pelos colocados mais estatisticamente relevantes dessas palavras. No Corpus BRA, foram analisadas: eu (colocados: desisto, renasci, mamava); bebê (encaixado, morrer/morresse, sexo, batimentos, alto); marido (companheiro, apoiou, cortou); doula (amada, obstetriz, querida, presença); médico (fofa/fofinha, mudar/mudei, cesarista, ginecologista, humanizada); anestesista; enfermeira (obstétrica/obstetra, cadê, soro, chamar); parteira (liguei/ ligar, doula, casa); obstetriz (doula, toque). No Corpus EUA: I (wish, protested, lamented); baby (pound, girl, boy); midwife (certified, asst/assistant, student, assist); doula (hired, friend, called); nurse (practitioner, tells, triage); doctor (office, seen, comes); anesthesiologist; husband (poor, run, children). A análise permitiu que fosse elucidado o problema social em ambas as sociedades e fossem reveladas diferenças discursivas e culturais. A falta de correspondência entre a experiência desejada e a alcançada é representada como tendo sido causada pela sucessão de eventos distintos. Contudo, em ambos os corpora, as experiências são representadas e a autoidentidade e as identidades construídas discursivamente sob a égide dos traços da modernidade, marcadamente, em relação à reflexividade exercida ideologicamente. Porém, a reflexividade é operada, não só como um modo de sustentar, mas principalmente como forma de transformar as relações de dominação.In Brazil the vast majority of primiparous women, on discovering that they are pregnant, hope to have normal deliveries. However, in over half of such cases surgical deliveries ensue. This mismatch between what pregnant women desire and what they actually experience is not exclusive to Brazil, but takes place in several Western countries. Through Corpus Linguistics (CL)-based Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of vaginal birth after c-section (VBAC) stories we seek to shed light on the social problem of a mismatch between the desired experience and the actual experience. VBAC stories seemed to us the ideal discourse for revealing elements of this mismatch, since they address both the experience of an unwanted (and usually wrongly indicated) prior C-section and that of the desired, and achieved, delivery. The theoretical-methodological approach we have adopted brings together CDA (Fairclough, 1989, 1992; Chouliaraki & Fairclough, 1999; Fairclough, 2003); CL (Stubbs, 1993, McEnery & Wilson, 1997 e 2003, Tognini-Bonelli, 2001), and Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis (Baker et al 2008; Baker, 2013; Baker & McEnery, 2005; Flowerdew, 2014). An electronic corpus was compiled in English and Portuguese for this study. The corpus is made up of texts written by women who have experienced VBAC and includes no mediated texts (i.e. interviews and third-party reports). The BRABA Corpus (Corpus of the birth stories of Brazilian, American, British and Australian women) encompasses four subcorpora respectively: Corpus BRA (93 stories, 250,807 words), Corpus USA (101 stories, 225,736 words), Corpus UK (97 stories, 92,197 words), and Corpus AU (92 stories, 200,639 words. The first two of these subcorporaCorpus BRA and Corpus USAwere chosen for this study, which investigates how identities and birth experiences are represented in the accounts of Brazilian and American women, and thus through this investigation uncovers elements that will shed light on the selected social problem. The computer processing used AntConc 3.4.0w (Anthony, 2012) and CL tools (frequency lists, keyword lists, concordance lines, etc.). Analysis was guided by keywords corresponding to the people mentioned in the stories and by the most statistically significant collocates of these keywords. From Corpus BRA the words were: eu (collocates: desisto, renasci, mamava); bebê (encaixado, morrer/morresse, sexo, batimentos, alto); marido (companheiro, apoiou, cortou); doula (amada, obstetriz, querida, presença); médico (fofa/fofinha, mudar/mudei, cesarista, ginecologista, humanizada); anestesista; enfermeira (obstétrica/obstetra, cadê, soro, chamar); parteira (liguei/ligar, doula, casa); obstetriz (doula, toque). From Corpus USA: I (wish, protested, lamented); baby (pound, girl, boy); midwife (certified, asst/assistant, student, assist); doula (hired, friend, called); nurse (practitioner, tells, triage); doctor (office, seen, comes); anesthesiologist; husband (poor, run, children). Analysis enabled this social problem to be laid bare in both societies, revealing discourse and cultural similarities and differences. The mismatch between the desired and the experienced outcomes is represented as having been caused by a succession of discrete events. In both corpora, experiences are represented, and self-identity and other identities are notably constructed in discourse under the aegis of features of modernity, above all, under reflexivity, which, in the discourses of VBAC stories takes place through empowerment, understood as self-actualization through newly gathered knowledge and ensuing courses of action/measures (Giddens, 2002).
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Artero, Paola. "The Chronicles of Narnia de C. S. Lewis : idéologie(s) et point(s) de vue dans les traductions françaises." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MON30063/document.
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The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956) est un célèbre recueil de sept romans, traditionnellement reconnus comme des œuvres de littérature de jeunesse et à l’origine du genre fantasy. L’un des intérêts majeurs de ces livres réside dans leur substrat symbolique, exprimé dans le texte par un double niveau de lecture qui évoque la tradition chrétienne. Notre thèse consiste en l’analyse d’un corpus incluant les originaux en anglais et les traductions françaises, publiées sous le titre de Le Monde de Narnia (2005)Sous l’égide de la traductologie de corpus (Corpus-based Translation Studies) et par une démarche interdisciplinaire empruntant des outils à la pragmatique, à l’analyse critique du discours (Critical Discourse Analysis, CDA) et à la narratologie, notre étude vise à mettre en évidence les marqueurs du point de vue idéologique, à travers une analyse semi-automatique, qualitative et quantitative. Parmi ces marqueurs sont notamment analysés les déictiques, la modalité, la transitivité, les choix lexicaux et la prosodie sémantique. Les parties du discours correspondant à ces marqueurs sont analysées notamment en lien avec l’instance du narrateur, de par son rôle clé pour l’idéologie dans le texte, et de régie dans la focalisation. Notre analyse porte une attention particulière à la dimension du sacré et aux thèmes de la violence, de la mort et du genre en traduction de littérature de jeunesse.La littérature de jeunesse, toujours plus ou moins caractérisée par un but éducatif, tout comme les livres qui constituent notre corpus, s’avère un véhicule axiologique puissant, qui reflète les valeurs qu’une société défend et transmet à un moment donné. L’instance du narrateur est au cœur de cette négociation entre systèmes linguistiques, culturels et axiologiques, qui s’exprime dans une dynamique dialogique impliquant tous les acteurs de la chaîne du livre. Notre travail a montré notamment que les traductions françaises ont tendance à affaiblir le message religieux, éloignant le regard du lecteur ou rendant flous les contours de l’espace. Dans l’ensemble, l’idéologie du texte cible est caractérisée par un certain nombre d’écarts par rapport au texte source et met en avant d’autres valeurs, pourtant présentes, elles aussi, dans l’original.Ce travail de recherche montre une méthode permettant d’aborder le texte dans le but d’une meilleure compréhension des enjeux qui sous-tendent la traduction, et en particulier la traduction de l’idéologie et du point de vue dans les livres pour enfantsThe Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956) is a well-known collection of seven novels, usually seen as belonging to the genre of Children’s literature and Fantasy. One of the main characteristics of the novels lies in their symbolic dimension, which evokes the Christian tradition and is expressed in the text through a second layer of meaning. Our thesis involves the analysis of a corpus including the English originals of The Chronicles of Narnia and their respective French translations, entitled Le Monde de Narnia (2005).The study draws on corpus-based translation studies and uses an interdisciplinary approach, in particular pragmatics, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and narratology. Through a combination of qualitative analysis and semi-automatic, quantitative analysis, it explores the ways in which a number of markers of ideological point of view are used in the translations by comparison with the initial texts. The main markers which make the object of discussion are: deictics, modality, transitivity, lexical choice and semantic prosody. The discourse features related to these markers are analysed with respect to the narrative instance of the narrator, which has a key role in conveying the ideology of the text and which controls the focalization process. Our analysis draws particular attention to the sacred dimension in the texts, as well as to the themes of violence, death and gender in children’s literature.Children’s literature is usually characterised by an educational goal, and the Narnia books prove to be a powerful means to convey values within society, at a given moment in time. The narrator is at the centre of a negotiation between two linguistic, cultural and axiological systems. This negotiation is expressed by a dialogical dynamics involving all the actors taking part in the publication process. Our research reveals that the French translations tend to weaken the religious message of the original texts, distancing the reader or blurring space boundaries. Moreover, the ideology in the target texts is characterised by a number of discrepancies by comparison with the source texts; different values are given prominence, among those already present in the Narnia books.Using a method of analysis of translated texts, the thesis brings a contribution to the understanding of the challenges a translator may face when confronted with the task of translating ideology and point of view in books for children
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Dercenno, Amerigo. "Presidential Language in the Pressroom: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of Trump's Spontaneous Discourse." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/20878/.
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Donald Trump has been the most controversial figure in the recent US political scene. Besides being well-known for his political views and his conduct as President, he has also grabbed people’s attention with his original use of language, which is unlike that of many politicians and former Presidents. But what makes it different? What role is language playing in his unexpected political success? Starting from such questions, and with the fundamental help of two collections of transcripts (corpora), this study analyses a representative sample of Trump’s press conferences to shed light on his spontaneous discourse, that is, the language he employs when he speaks off the cuff, without following any script.
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Malaspina, Marilinda. "How to say sorry: A corpus-assisted discourse study of public apologies." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021.
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In the last twenty years, the exponential increase in public apologies in high-visibility contexts such as politics and show business has led more and more scholars to define this era as the "Age of Apology". Apologies are a type of persuasive discourse which can constitute a flourishing field of study for linguists who wish to study the "language of persuasion". Through skillful use of rhetorical and linguistic strategies, in fact, a speaker can succeed in convincing and even manipulating the reader. The literature on apologies and persuasion is vast; however, the study of public apologies in corpus linguistics is still in its infancy and deals almost exclusively with political figures’ discourse. Therefore, the present study wishes to shed light on the strategies and language used in public apologies by other potentially influential figures such as celebrities and well-known corporations, in the hope of integrating, at least partially, the studies of public apologies. The method adopted in this dissertation falls under corpus-assisted discourse studies. Using a specialized corpus composed of public apologies published online in the last ten years (2010-2020), the aim of this paper is to analyze and unveil the possible linguistic, rhetorical and persuasive strategies present in such texts and to compare the language used with the one proposed and identified by the past literature of apologies. The analysis allowed us not only to observe trends already mentioned in the literature, but also to discover new patterns, like the frequency of words in the semantic field of learning or feelings, as well as to identify differences in the use of the language of public apologies by different categories of speakers.
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Kwan, Yu Hang. "Assessing pre-service teaching practicum: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of field experience supervision forms." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2014. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/117.
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This study analyses the moves, linguistic realisations and mitigation devices of four teaching practicum supervisors' cmmnents written to eighteen supervisees on fifty- four standard field experience supervision forms. Broadly speaking, the results reveal that the supervisors use evaluative adjectives, modality markers and imperatives to give praise and acknowledge good practice, identify weaknesses, and suggest improvements in relation to teaching and managing learning. As the supervision exercise can be face-threatening, the supervisors demonstrate sensitivity to redress their negative comments through such mitigation strategies as hedging, praise-criticism pairs, rhetorical questions and personal attributions, although the strengths of such devices may vary according to contextual issues. These findings enable readers to understand how the pragma-linguistic resources realise two global communicative purposes, i.e., "Assessment of Learning" and "Assessment for Learning".
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Roe, Jasper. "A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of the representation of the Rohingya minority group in Myanmar." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-322531.
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This paper explores the representation of the Rohingya minority group in Rakhine State, Myanmar, through the methods of corpus-assisted discourse studies. The research is based on the NOW Corpus, curated and designed by Mark Davies at Brigham Young University. On the basis of concordance and collocation analysis, this paper draws several important conclusions, arguing that online media have in general depicted the Rohingya people as a homogenous, passive group of victims, while minimizing agency of the Myanmar Security Forces and Government of Myanmar, their persecutors. In addition, the data reveals that the representation of the Rohingya people focuses heavily on depicting them as Muslims and creating a sharp dichotomy between Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar. This in turn neglects opportunities for Buddhist and non-minority supporters of the Rohingya people to be heard. This suggests that more should be done to counteract the homogenous representation of the Rohingya people, and provide more well-balanced online journalism which accepts the divisiveness of creating such religious dichotomies.
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Zanelli, Elisa. "Il concetto di "presidentialness" nell'era di Trump: un'analisi corpus-assisted." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/15364/.
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The aim of my dissertation is to study the language used by the current President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, by applying a corpus-assisted approach. Over the last two years, the President has become a permanent fixture in the news. The media have analyzed not only his political agenda, but also his appearance and his language. Oftentimes, neither has been judged “presidential enough”, although there are no established criteria to identify “presidentialness”. In the first two chapters, I provide a theoretical background to the main arguments of the dissertation. The first chapter focuses on the meaning of political discourse analysis and corpus-assisted discourse analysis. The second chapter then contextualizes the speaker (President Trump) and his relationship with the media. In the third chapter, I explain how the two corpora (containing speeches produced by Donald Trump during rallies or during presidential events) were built; I will subsequently conduct an analysis of the said corpora to identify certain linguistic traits of the President’s language. These expressions will serve as a starting point for my observations. I finally sum up my findings and attempt to evaluate the “presidentialness” observable in the President’s language, with respect to the typical features observed in the candidate’s language. In the conclusion I also suggest topics for further analysis. These include the building of additional corpora formed of transcriptions of other candidates’ speeches, that could be used to rule out linguistic phenomena that could have been erroneously ascribed to President Trump, but are really typical of the genre of institutional speeches at large.
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Tsirigotis, Anthimos Alexandros. "Discourse on war in the Information Age : Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis of the British Defence and Security policies from 1957 to 2011." Thesis, University of Reading, 2015. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/76519/.
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Are future wars between states going to be waged in cyberspace without the necessity of mobilisation of armed forces? In the literature, on the one hand, pundits argue that cyber attacks against the critical infrastructure of states resemble war operations and consider these as the new face of bellicosity. On the other hand, it is argued that cyber weapons do not change the conduct of war because targeting critical infrastructure or defacing web pages is not sufficient to make adversary states comply. For this school of thought, war remains always a mixture of chance, passion and rationality. In this work, cyberspace is considered not as a mere technological product introduced in military operations but as discourse; the cyber discourse narrates life and social activity as a network of entities each one of which develops relationships with what threatens their existence instead of fighting against it. The objective of this work is to examine how the cyber discourse has influenced the British discourse on war from 1957 to 20 II. A corpus of defence and security policies was processed by means of Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies in order to unearth changes in the use of linguistic and semantic resources. This thesis argues that the use of cyberspace for military purposes presupposes the cybemetisation of war, namely the construction of a new conceptualisation of war and military power. This new meaningful construction conceives war as the process of adaptation to an inherently insecure and complex world system, and military power as the capacity to radiate to the world the feeling that Britain is a trustworthy power. The cybemetisation of war does not depend on the technology of cyberspace; it is a new understanding about war and power whereas cyberwarfare is the way that this understanding is put into practice i.e. how it is materialised.
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Moustafa, Basant Sayed Mohamed [Verfasser]. "Linguistic gender identity construction in political discourse : a corpus-assisted analysis of the primary speeches of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton / Basant Sayed Mohamed Moustafa." Mainz : Universitätsbibliothek Mainz, 2015. http://d-nb.info/107018652X/34.
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Triantafillou, Hariklia. "Investigating Professional Film Critics’ Stance towards Commercial and Art House Cinema: : A Corpus-Based Comparative Study on the Use of Evaluative Axiological Adjectives and Engagement Devices in Professional Film Reviews of Two Film Types." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37765.
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Evaluative stances are common in narrative and realized at all levels of linguistic structure. In film reviews, evaluation has been recognized as one of the most important stages alongside description (Taboada, 2011). Following Martin & White’s Appraisal Theory of Evaluation, the present comparative study focuses on two sub-systems of Appraisal, namely Appreciation and Engagement. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: a) to compare the way in which film critics use evaluative, axiological adjectives to evaluate two different film types and b) to study how professional film critics use of two types of engagement devices, namely epistemic and opinion devices, to position their own claims towards other potential viewpoints. The study is also influenced by two previous claims: Holbrook’s claim that, in contrast to consumers who seem to prefer American-made, commercial films, expert critics usually appreciate complex cinematography and culturally diverse films; and Carretero’s claim that in professional film reviews opinion devices are an almost absent feature, since these tend to be replaced by epistemic devices. To further explore these claims, this comparative, corpus- based study focuses on the frequency of evaluation adjectives and engagement devices used by expert film critics for the positive or negative evaluation of two different films: the 2020 box office hit “Bad Boys for Life” and the 2018 art film “Cold War”. The study used a mixed-method design, first subjecting the realizations of Appreciation and Engagement to a quantitative analysis and following this with a qualitative discussion of results. The results indicate: a) that in the case of both films positive evaluations clearly surpass negative evaluations; however, individual examples seem to express a mildly deprecatory attitude towards commercial cinematography and b) that although the number of epistemic devices in the reviews clearly surpasses that of opinion devices, the frequencies of opinion devices is greater than that observed by Carretero.
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Björck, Therese, and Amanda Hägg. "”HON KAN ÅKA TILLSJUKHUSET OCH FÅ BEBISFRÖN DÄR” : hur barn till frivilligt ensamstående mammor och till olikkönade sammanboende föräldrapar pratar om tillblivelse." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Psykologi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-108604.
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Denna studie kan ses som en del av barndomsforskningen, där barn betraktas som kompetenta aktörer vars rösterförtjänar att lyftas fram. Syftet var att undersöka hur barn i olika familjeformer pratar om tillblivelse. Intervjuer har genomförts med sammanlagt 22 barn varav elva kom från familjer med en sammanboende mamma och pappa som har fått barn genom samlag (relationsbarn) och de andra elva kom från familjer med en ensamstående mamma som har fåttbarn på egen hand med hjälp av assisterad befruktning (femmisbarn). Barnens ålder varierade från tre år och tio månader till nio år och nio månader. En semistrukturerad intervjuguide låg till grund för intervjuerna där barnen ombads prata om tillblivelse, den egna tillblivelsen, tidigare kunskap om tillblivelse, känslor och åsikter inför ämnet samt kunskapskällor kring tillblivelse. Barnens berättelser har analyserats utifrån kritisk diskursiv psykologi.Resultatet visar att både femmisbarnen och relationsbarnen pratar om befruktning i olika former. De flesta pratar om en eller flera förutsättningar att bli till på, vilka alla var bundna till familjeform. Majoriteten av relationsbarnen och en del av femmisbarnen pratar utifrån en heteronormativ tvåsamhet. Många femmisbarn pratar även utifrån sitt eget tillblivelsesätt, assisterad befruktning, och talar dels utifrån att detta sätt är ett fullgott förstahandsalternativ och dels utifrån att det är ett andrahandsalternativ till att få barn genom den heteronormativa tvåsamheten. Flera av både femmisbarnen och relationsbarnen pratade kring att få barn på ett sätt som att det är en självklarhet för vuxna.De flesta av barnen pratade om förlossning och nämnde då vården som något centralt, vilken beskrivs antingen som en fixare eller en hjälpare. För femmisbarnen var vården självklar både vid befruktningen och vid förlossningen, medan vården är självklar för relationsbarnen vid förlossningen. De barn som pratar om pappors roll vid förlossningen gör det utifrån att pappor antingen är sekundära och passiva eller att de är hjälpare. Resultatet visar även att det inte finns någon skillnad kring var barnen från de olika familjeformerna har fått sin kunskap om tillblivelse ifrån samt var de skulle ta reda på mer kunskap. Barnen nämner sina mammor, men även skola, kompisar och olika former av media är kunskapskällor för barnen. Många barn pratar utifrån att kunskapen tillhör vuxenvärlden och att barn inte behöver ha kunskap om tillblivelse. Det är ungefär lika förekommande att barnen oavsett familjeformger uttryck för att tillblivelse och tillhörande ämnen på olika sätt är svårt att prata om, som att det är lätt att prata.Utifrån dessa resultat dras slutsatsen att eftersom den heteronormativa tvåsamheten framställs som det självklara, får det till följd att andra tillblivelsesätt betraktas som mindre eftersträvansvärda. I kontakt med barn blir det därför viktigt att förhålla sig till detta och sträva mot att inkludera fler likvärdiga tillblivelsesätt i sitt prat. Mammor beskrivs av barnen från de båda familjeformerna som de primära kunskapsbärarna, medan pappor nästintill helt saknas. Detta tyder på att femmisbarn, i de undersökta åldrarna, har samma tillgång till kunskap om tillblivelse som relationsbarn har. Slutligen konstateras att sexualitet till viss del fortfarande är tabubelagt i samhället, då flera av barnen på olika sätt uttrycker att det finns aspekter av tillblivelse som var svåra att prata om. Denna syn, som också återfinns i samhället, håller troligtvis på att förändras då ungefär lika många barn gav uttryck för att tillblivelse var lätt att prata om.
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Chang, Tzu-An, and 張慈安. "A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of the journalistic construction of pension reform policies in Taiwan." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96uz42.
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The research investigates Taiwanese news outlets’ discursive strategies in their reports on pension reform policies. I choose straight news, features, and editorials that included the keywords “pension reform” from 2016 to 2017 in the United Daily News and the Liberty Times, two major newspaper outlets that positioned rivalry political stances. I use a corpus assisted critical discourse analysis, especially the discourse-historical approach, to analyze the selected reports. I discover that two news outlets broadly support the policies while the United Daily News had shifted position twice during policies forming periods. Two news outlets perform objective and separated attitudes in straight news by nominating identical terms with judicial and official ones and predicating few adjectives in titles. Two news outlets argue, frame, intensify and mitigate in features and editorials to perform their positions towards pension reform policies. To safeguard their positions, two news outlets refer to different meanings using identical terms including politicians, stakeholders, and related political institutions performing terminological conflicts because of policies’ forming periods, reports’ issuing timing and reports’ texts. The United Daily News refers to pension reform as policies mending defects in our old age economic security systems. The Liberty Times refers to pension reform as policies mending pension differences between military personnel, public servants, educators and labors.
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Dufek, Ondřej. "Kritická analýza jazykových ideologií v českém veřejném diskurzu." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-383154.
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The thesis deals with language ideologies in Czech public discourse. After introducing its topic, motivation and structure in the opening chapter, it devotes the second chapter to a thorough analysis of the research field of language ideologies. It presents various ways of defining them, two different approaches to them and a few key features which characterize language ideologies. The relation of language ideologies and other related notions is outlined, possibilities and ways of investigation are surveyed. Some remarks focus on existing lists or glossaries of language ideologies. The core of this chapter is an original, complex definition of language ideologies grounded in a critical reflection of approaches up to now. The third chapter summarizes relevant existing findings and on that basis, it formulates the main aim of the thesis - to make a contribution to knowledge on the foundations and ways of conceptualizing language in Czech public discourse. The fourth chapter elaborates the methodological frame of the thesis. Critical discourse analysis is chosen as a basis - its basics are summarized, main critical comments are considered and a partial solutions are proposed in use of corpus linguistics' tools. Another part of this chapter concerns with keyness as one of the dominant principles used...
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Novák, Vladimír. "Ekokritická analýza korporátního diskurzu o životním prostředí." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-397958.
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This thesis investigates corporate environmental discourse by focusing on the language of corporate environmental reports. It seeks to find out more about how corporations talk about environmental problems and how they position themselves in relation to these. The theoretical underpinning draws from ecolinguistics, specifically ecocritical discourse analysis, which critically evaluates discourses on the environment. Environmental reports published by the company Toyota are analysed through corpus linguistic techniques which help to identify the salient concepts and then further scrutinize their textual environment to uncover the dominant discourse patterns. The analysis reveals that the aim of the reports is portray Toyota as a company which actively protects the environment, which confirms the PR nature of the reports. As a result, negative information or data are downplayed and the company distances itself from these by obliterating its role (through devices such as nominalisation, passive voice or intransitive verbs). Ecological problems as such are addressed rarely and serve more as a background for the company to improve its public image. If they occur in the reports, the link between the problems and human activity is not explicitly stated. The ecological problems are also discussed as...
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Kopf, Susanne. "Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Studies? Marrying Critical Discourse Studies and Corpus Linguistics/Über den Brückenschlag zwischen Kritischen Diskursstudien und Korpuslinguistik." 2019. http://epub.wu.ac.at/7021/1/document.pdf.
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Dieser Artikel behandelt die Verbindung der Kritischen Diskursstudien (KDS) und der Korpuslinguistik im Zuge eines Forschungsprojektes zu Repräsentation der EU auf den Diskussionsseiten der englischen Wikipedia. Hinsichtlich dieses Brückenschlags werden Synergieeffekte, aber auch potentielle Schwächen und damit verbundene Lösungsansätze aufgezeigt. Dabei wird u. a. dargelegt, wie korpuslinguistische Ansätze der Gefahr des cherry-picking entgegenwirken und die Kritischen Diskursstudien wiederum kritische Reflexion der traditionell quantitativen Korpuslinguistik fördern.
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Makamani, Rewai. "Linguistic and discursive strategies in media representations of HIV and AIDS healthcare policy in Zimbabwe : a critical analysis of selected printed discourse in Shona and English." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13228.
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This study sought to examine linguistic and discursive strategies used to construct messages reflective of the implementation of the HIV and AIDS policy for Zimbabwe of 1999 by government and private newspapers. Such analysis was perceived to be important since media content has a bearing on Zimbabweans‘ perception and attitudes regarding HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and control. The study was aimed at comparing messages from newspapers with views by the people of Zimbabwe regarding the implementation of the policy. Findings reveal that empowerment programmes particularly those targeting women and children are lagging behind as Zimbabweans, literature and newspaper data sources testify. In addition, information sources concur that cultural (For example, stigmatisation, polygamy, religious practices, spouse inheritance) and structural (For example, patriarchy, masculinity, bureaucracy, politics) are stumbling blocks that negatively affect the implementation of the policy. Further, even though private and government newspapers do not fully agree on the portrayal of human agents, there is a general consensus between newspaper reports and Zimbabweans that people still face socio-economic and econo-political challenges that militate against the smooth implementation of the HIV and AIDS policy. Government newspapers tend to downplay aspects which reveal inadequacies of government activities. The study notes this as betrayal of use of ideological squares both by government and private newspapers whereby certain aspects regarding the implementation of the policy are either downplayed or highlighted to influence perception. The study reveals that newspaper reports used nominalisation, quantification, positive politeness, thematisation, rhematisation, intertextuality, euphemism, proverbs, idioms, action verbs, metaphors and citation of experts as linguistic and discursive strategies both for agenda setting and building purposes regarding the implementation of the HIV and AIDS policy. Other devices used particularly in the encoding of Operation Murambatsvina are, claptraps, deictic referencing, personal pronouns, adjectives and direct speech. The study attributes problems regarding the Zimbabwean HIV and AIDS intervention model to the top – down approach inherent in the policy. Hence, the call for an adoption of an unhu/hunhu/ubuntu inspired bottom – up HIV and AIDS intervention model in Zimbabwe. This would inculcate pro-family, pro-village, pro-nation/people and ―servant leadership‖ (Mangena and Chitando, 2011) values in the fight against the pandemic through the embracing of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS). Unfortunately, such values largely continue to elude the radar of the current top – down HIV and AIDS intervention model cuurently in use in Zimbabwe.African Languages
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"A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis of Music-related Practices Discussed within Chipmusic.org." Doctoral diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.51757.
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abstract: This study examined discussion forum posts within a website dedicated to a medium and genre of music (chiptunes) with potential for music-centered making, a phrase I use to describe maker culture practices that revolve around music-related purposes. Three research questions guided this study: (1) What chiptune-related practices did members of chipmusic.org discuss between December 30th, 2009 and November 13th, 2017? (2) What do chipmusic.org discussion forum posts reveal about the multidisciplinary aspects of chiptunes? (3) What import might music-centered making evident within chipmusic.org discussion forum posts hold for music education? To address these research questions, I engaged in corpus-assisted discourse analysis tools and techniques to reveal and analyze patterns of discourse within 245,098 discussion forum posts within chipmusic.org. The analysis cycle consisted of (a) using corpus analysis techniques to reveal patterns of discourse across and within data consisting of 10,892,645 words, and (b) using discourse analysis techniques for a close reading of revealed patterns.
Findings revealed seven interconnected themes of chiptune-related practices: (a) composition practices, (b) performance practices, (c) maker practices, (d) coding practices, (e) entrepreneurial practices, (f), visual art practices, and (g) community practices. Members of chipmusic.org primarily discussed composing and performing chiptunes on a variety of instruments, as well as through retro computer and video game hardware. Members also discussed modifying and creating hardware and software for a multitude of electronic devices. Some members engaged in entrepreneurial practices to promote, sell, buy, and trade with other members. Throughout each of the revealed themes, members engaged in visual art practices, as well as community practices such as collective learning, collaborating, constructive criticism, competitive events, and collective efficacy.
Findings suggest the revealed themes incorporated practices from a multitude of academic disciplines or fields of study for music-related purposes. However, I argue that many of the music-related practices people discussed within chipmusic.org are not apparent within music education discourse, curricula, or standards. I call for an expansion of music education discourse and practices to include additional ways of being musical through practices that might borrow from multiple academic disciplines or fields of study for music-related purposes.Dissertation/Thesis
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Lu, Bao-Sheng, and 陸寶笙. "Corpus-Assisted Multimodal Discourse Analysis on Winston Churchill’s Public Speaking in the film Darkest Hours." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2ad972.
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Pavlíčková, Tereza. "Mediální zobrazení řecké dluhové krize: korpusová analýza diskurzu v online zpravodajství deníku "the Guardian"." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-343150.
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The thesis deals with discourse surrounding the topic of the Greek debt crisis (GDC) in the online version of the British daily newspaper the Guardian (www.theguardian.com). The study builds on a bilateral division of the EU public discourse on the economic crisis, distinguishing between two opposing perspectives: "the Northern diagnosis" (DeGrauwe 2011: 5) prevailing in Germany and other creditor states, and 'the Southern opinion' on the situation held mainly by the debtor countries. The thesis examines the position of the Guardian in relation to this bilateral discourse framework. The Guardian represents a liberal, socially aware and traditionally EU-supportive newspaper that is published in a country which counts among the Europe's leading economic and political powers, a country that is also characterized by strong Eurosceptic tendencies. These aspects form a complex background with regard to the EEC/GDC discourse framework. There are factors supporting both "the Northern diagnosis" of the GDC and those suggesting inclination to 'the Southern opinion'. The analysis, dealing with a self-collected corpus (altogether 349 texts, 277 973 words) consisting of the Guardian online news on the GDC is situated - both theoretically and methodologically - in the field of Corpus- assisted discourse studies...