Journal articles: 'Corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis'

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Mahmood Mohammad, Rashid, and Ali Ayed Alshahrani. "Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Saudi Vision 2030." Arab World English Journal 10, no. 2 (June 15, 2019): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol10no2.2.

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Orpin, Debbie. "Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10, no. 1 (March 11, 2005): 37–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.10.1.03orp.

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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has often proved fruitful in providing insights into the relationship between language and ideology. However, CDA is not without its critics. Constructive criticism has been offered by Stubbs, who suggests bolstering CDA by using a large corpus as the basis on which to make reliable generalisations about language use. Taking up that suggestion, this paper reports on a study of a group of words semantically related to corruption. In the study, corpus methodology is used to manipulate the data: concordances and collocational tools are used to provide semantic profiles of the words and highlight connotational differences, and to identify the geographical locations that the words refer to. It is argued that words with a noticeably negative connotation tend to be used when referring to activities that take place outside of Britain, while less negative words are used when referring to similar activities in British contexts. CDA theory is drawn on to interpret the ideological significance of the findings.

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Ademilokun, Mohammed Ayodeji. "A CORPUS-ASSISTED CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF MODALITY IN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN NIGERIA." Discourse and Interaction 12, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 5–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/di2019-2-5.

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This article examines modal resources in the mediatised discourse of social transformation in Nigeria with a view to showing how they are strategically used to code interpersonal meanings for enhanced and impactful delivery of messages of social transformation in the nation. Data for the study comprises texts on aspects of social transformation campaigns in Nigeria in the context of democracy, anti-corruption crusade, insecurity and domestic violence compiled as small corpora. The data comprises texts produced by government and non-governmental actors consisting of speeches, radio commentaries, jingles, printed texts, interviews, tweets and online newspaper comments and covers the period from March 2013 to March 2018. The five-year span was informed by the wide gamut of negative realities in the nation during the time frame which led to increased mediatisation of social transformation messages. Corpus-assisted critical discourse approach was employed for data analysis, using Fairclough’s (1989, revised 2015) dialectical relational approach, the corpus linguistic tool of Antconc, chi-square test on R-Studio and normalised relative frequencies. Data analysis revealed that the different participants in the discourse characteristically used different modal resources to reflect their power on the one hand and resistance on the other and to capture the intensity of their views and feelings on the actions required for Nigeria to experience genuine social transformation. The study concludes that even though the discourse is largely ideational, modal resources are deployed for emphasising the urgency and seriousness of the issues in the ideational contents of the discourse.

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Kirkwood, Hugh. "Critical Corpus Analysis of ALTs’ Online Discourse." JALT Postconference Publication - Issue 2020.1; August 2021 2020, no. 1 (August 1, 2021): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.37546/jaltpcp2020-23.

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Thousands of non-Japanese nationals work as assistant language teachers (ALTs) in schools throughout Japan. To better understand ALTs’ teaching contexts and motivations, the researcher created a corpus of online discourse about ALTs and used corpus software to identify and analyse key words in context. He also asked questions from critical discourse analysis to examine the relationship of these key words to ideology and power. The findings were that while the discourse often described poor employment conditions and problems for ALTs working in Japanese schools, the discourse itself may also be contributing to the reproduction of these conditions. This is because it seemed to both stigmatise ALTs as fundamentally unprofessional and suggest that ALT positions can be a step towards other types of employment in Japan. Such discourse may encourage people to become ALTs and tolerate poor conditions in the short-term instead of engaging in collective actions to make long-term improvements. 日本で外国語指導助手（ALT）として働く外国籍労働者は何千といる。ALTが働く環境と動機付けを理解するため、筆者はALTに関するディスコースのコーパスを構築し、コーパス分析ソフトを用いて文脈中のキーワードの特定と分析を行った。また批判的言説分析を用いて、抽出されたキーワードとイデオロギー及び影響力の関係を検証した。結果、ディスコースにはALTの劣悪な労働環境と日本の学校で働く上での問題が多くみられた一方で、ディスコース自体がこうした状況の再生産に寄与している可能性が示唆された。ディスコースにより、ALTは基本的に高度な専門性を必要としないというスティグマを形成しうることに加え、ALTは日本で他の職を得るためのステップとなりうることが示唆されているようであった。このようなディスコースは長期的な状況改善のための集団的行動を起こすのではなく、ALTが短期的に現状に我慢することを促している可能性がある。

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Yating, Yu. "Media representations of ‘leftover women’ in China: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis." Gender and Language 13, no. 3 (February 12, 2019): 369–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/genl.36223.

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Al Fajri, Muchamad Sholakhuddin. "THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDONESIAN MUSLIMS AND ISLAM IN AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS: A CORPUS-ASSISTED CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS." Discourse and Interaction 13, no. 1 (June 24, 2020): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/di2020-1-5.

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This study aims to investigate the discursive representation of Indonesian Muslims in the Australian press by employing a methodological synergy of corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. It analyses two different corpora of Australian newspapers from two different periods (2002-2006 and 2012-2016). Keyword and collocation analyses were used to reveal recurrent patterns or dominant discourses of Indonesian Muslims. Concordances were then investigated to analyse the data more qualitatively. The findings suggest that dominant discourses around Indonesian Muslims in the Australian newspapers are related to terrorism and extremism and they have not undergone a dramatic shift over the last 15 years. It then can be argued that the media representations of Muslims in Indonesia, a country that is not involved in major conflict and wars, are still primarily negative. While the Australian newspapers canonically portray Indonesian Muslims as moderate, the frequencies for moderate belief words are lower than strong belief words and the term is mainly used in the discussion of terrorism and extremism. Also, a qualitative analysis of the term moderate suggests that in few cases it carries implications that being tolerant of other religions is not a default character of a majority-Muslim country.

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Tarasheva, Elena. "Hate Speech or Divisive Language." Yearbook of the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures 2 (June 16, 2020): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.33919/flcy.19.2.5.

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The article analyses a specialized corpus of texts by a Bulgarian radio host to establish what language items qualify as hate speech. Definitions of hate speech are adapted from the political sphere and given a linguistic dimension within a framework of corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. The concordances of key words in the corpus are searched for labelling, namecalling, denotation-shifting etc.

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Al Fajri, Muchamad Sholakhuddin. "HEGEMONIC AND MINORITY DISCOURSES AROUND IMMIGRANTS: A CORPUS-BASED CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS." Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 7, no. 2 (September 30, 2017): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v7i2.8349.

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This study aims to analyse discourses surrounding the word immigrants in a large collection of naturally occurring language, ‘ukWac’ corpus (Web as Corpus). It employs corpus linguistics as a methodology to carry out critical discourse analysis research. Specifically, collocation analyses were used to identify dominant representations and discourse prosodies (Stubbs, 2007) of immigrants. Concordance analyses were then applied to examine the data in a more qualitative way. The findings suggest that while there are a few instances indicating positive representations of immigrants, hegemonic discourses around them are more negative. They are predominantly constructed as illegal entities, victims and dangerous groups. These constructions are likely to prime people to think that all immigrants are illegal and threatening, and will not be able to integrate into their host society.

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Kitishat, Amal Riyadh, Murad Al Kayed, and Mohammad Al-Ajalein. "A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordanian Newspapers." International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 6 (September 15, 2020): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n6p195.

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The present study employs corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to investigate the attitudes of Jordanian news towards the Syrian refugee crisis. The corpus of the research, which consists of 10140 articles (Word types: 103170 and Word tokens: 1956589), were taken from the Petra news agency between 2016 and 2018. Antconc Tools Version 3.4.4w was used to analyze the data. The study used corpus statistical tools of collocates and concordance. Collocates tool used to create a list of 200 collocates associated with the words: /lad3iʔ/ ‘refugee’, /lad3iʔi:n/ ‘refugees’, /su:ri:/ ‘Syrian’, and /su:ryi:n/ ‘Syrians’. These collocates were organized into two thematic categories: ‘services and resources’ and ‘Jordanians and Syrians’. The study used a concordance tool to unveil the attitudes of newspapers towards the Syrian refugee crisis. The findings of the study showed that Jordanians see Syrians as “brothers” and “guests”. However, Jordanian newspapers overstated the negative effect of Syrian refugees on the Jordanian economy, education, healthcare, etc. Jordanians were frustrated because Syrians compete with them on their resources and governmental services.

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Samaie, Mahmoud, and Bahareh Malmir. "US news media portrayal of Islam and Muslims: a corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis." Educational Philosophy and Theory 49, no. 14 (February 16, 2017): 1351–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2017.1281789.

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Ali, Arshad, Athar Rashid, and Ameer Sultan. "Exploring Identities and Ideologies in Political Parties’ Election Manifestos: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis." Global Political Review V, no. III (September 30, 2020): 44–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(v-iii).05.

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The goal of this study is to use corpus-based methods for the critical discourse analysis of election manifestos. Five election manifestos from five political parties of Pakistan namely PPP, PMLN, PTI, JUI, and JI were used in the corpus compilation. These five Pakistani political parties are selected based on the popularity of these political parties in Pakistan. The election manifestos of the political parties were combined into a complete text file. The corpus was analyzed using ANTCONC 3.5.8 software. Van Dijk's Socio-Cognitive Model (1998) was used as a theoretical framework for this study. The results of the study indicate that the political parties use language to exert cognitive control on the public. The use of nouns, pronouns, and modal verbs allows these political parties to transform peoples' ideologies, create identities, and gain control over them.

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Li, Wei. "Rethinking Critical Metaphor Analysis." International Journal of English Linguistics 6, no. 2 (March 29, 2016): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v6n2p92.

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<p>Critical Metaphor Analysis is concerned with integrating critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics to explore implicit speaker intentions and covert power relations through the analysis of metaphoric expressions. CMA has been a meaningful enrichment of both Critical Discourse Analysis and Conceptual Metaphor Theory. This paper aims to give an overview of the formation of CMA, the research findings, the existing problems and the possible solutions.</p>

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de Beaugrande, R. "Interpreting the discourse of HG Widdowson: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis." Applied Linguistics 22, no. 1 (March 1, 2001): 104–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/22.1.104.

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Nartey, Mark, and Isaac N. Mwinlaaru. "Towards a decade of synergising corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: a meta-analysis." Corpora 14, no. 2 (August 2019): 203–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2019.0169.

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The incorporation of corpus linguistics (CL) methods within critical discourse analysis (CDA) has increasingly gathered momentum over the last decade. This paper surveys studies using this triangulated framework, drawing on a database of 121 studies collected from three citation indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, and Scopus. It presents a meta-analysis of these studies focussing on four variables, namely their chronological development, the domains of engagement, the issues that have been topicalised, and the area/regional coverage of the studies. In particular, the paper accounts for the factors that have contributed to the popularity of corpus-based CDA in the last decade as an approach to discourse analysis, provides insights into the evolution of this eclectic approach, and anticipates the future of the framework by offering suggestions. The paper concludes that corpus-based CDA presents both discourse analysts and corpus linguists with a robust methodology to tackle research questions bordering on discursive reflections of social issues and to identify new sites of public discourse for systematic analysis.

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Sangeen, Sakhidad. "Image of China in Afghanistan News Discourses: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis." International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 2 (February 5, 2020): 217. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n2p217.

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Afghanistan and China have a long credible history and reliable relationship. Afghanistan-China’s friendship has been verified to be the model of cooperation between two neighboring countries. Both states have strong historical, cultural, social, economic, and political relations together. The relationship emerged in front of the world in 1955, when both the countries signed an economic treaty, known as the “Treaty of Economic and Technical Cooperation.” The study aims to investigate the image of China in the Outlook English newspaper of Afghanistan, whereas China’s recent development in trade and the economic rise around the globe has given new birth to the cooperativeness between both the countries. The current trade has reached up to $700 million between both the countries. Thus the study identifies the facts from the corpus-based analysis that the frequency of economic relations between Afghanistan and China has risen due to a significant trust and friendly relation with each other. Moreover, the success in economic trade depends on the positive perspective of an excellent historical background and political relationship in the history of one’s country in another. Both countries’ good historical friendships reveal a significant positive image of China in Afghanistan’s Outlook English newspaper. The occurrences of development, China, cooperation, economic and industrial cooperation reveal China’s interest and friendly relations moving towards Afghanistan in particular. Therefore, such engagements of China with Afghanistan will bring economic development and make a better security situation in Afghanistan.

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Coimbra-Gomes, Elvis, and Heiko Motschenbacher. "Language, normativity, and sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder (SO-OCD): A corpus-assisted discourse analysis." Language in Society 48, no. 4 (August 21, 2019): 565–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404519000423.

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AbstractThis article presents a case study of the discursive construction of sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder (SO-OCD) as it surfaces in posts to an online mental health forum. SO-OCD is an anxiety disorder that involves having unwanted, intrusive thoughts as a consequence of conflict with normative sexual beliefs. The study focuses on the way normativity regulates communication about sexual identities, desires, and practices in a corpus of online posts by heterosexual men who pathologically doubt their sexual identity. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative corpus linguistic methods, we investigate how writers linguistically orient to normativity in their posts. More specifically, analyses of keywords, n-grams, and concordances are used to uncover linguistic mechanisms that play a central role in users’ orientation to normativity and in the obsessive-compulsive behaviours associated with SO-OCD. (Sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder (SO-OCD), heterosexuality, masculinity, normativity, heteronormativity, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics)

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Sagredos, Christos. "The representation of sex work in the Greek Press." Journal of Language and Sexuality 8, no. 2 (August 20, 2019): 166–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.18012.sag.

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Abstract The representation of sex work in the media has received little to no attention in the field of linguistics and discourse analysis. Given that news discourse can have a huge impact on public opinions, ideologies and norms, and the setting of political agendas and policies (van Dijk 1989), the study adopts a Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis (CACDA) approach (Baker, Gabrielatos, KhosraviNik, Krzyżanowski, McEnery & Wodak 2008), seeking to explore whether journalists reproduce or challenge negative stereotypes vis-à-vis sex work. Examining 82 articles published in three Greek newspapers (Kathimerini, TA NEA, Efimerida ton Syntakton) in 2017, this paper considers the lexico-grammatical choices that are typically involved in the representation of sex work and sex workers in the Press. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics, the Discourse Historical Approach and corpus linguistics, the analysis links the textual findings (micro-level context) with the discourse practice context (meso-context) as well as the social context in which sex work occurs (macro-context). Findings illustrate that although sex work in Greece has been legalised for about two decades, traces of abolitionist discourses can be found in the Press, building barriers in the emancipatory efforts of sex workers who stand up for having equal civil and labour rights as their fellow citizens.

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Przybysz-Polakowska, Kinga. "Polish Catholic Magazines and Bioethical Dilemmas: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 9, no. 3 (December 10, 2020): 368–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10027.

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Abstract This article presents a cad-based analysis of Polish Catholic newspaper discourse regarding bioethical dilemmas. The study corpus consists of materials published by four weekly magazines – Gość Niedzielny, Niedziela, Przewodnik Katolicki, and Tygodnik Powszechny – between 2005 and 2015. The author took into consideration articles that were fully devoted to abortion, in vitro fertilization, or euthanasia. The research methodology was based on critical discourse analysis and delivered both quantitative and qualitative results. The findings suggest that even though all magazines touched on bioethical dilemmas and conjured up similar topics, their discourses were different. It transpired that the key variable was the magazines’ affiliations. Titles directly connected to the Catholic Church (Gość Niedzielny, Niedziela, Przewodnik katolicki) produced different discourses than Tygodnik Powszechny, which has no official bonds with the Catholic Church. Given the structure of the discourses, the author suggests division into two categories: inward-oriented and outward-oriented.

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Berracheche, Anissa. "Appraisal and Party Positioning in Parliamentary Debates: A Usage-Based Critical Discourse Analysis." International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 6 (October 8, 2020): 322. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n6p322.

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This article presents a corpus-driven study of evaluative discourses surrounding asylum seekers in parliamentary debates. It explores how Australian political parties have expressed unfavorable attitudes toward asylum seekers. These attitudes are operationalized by implementing Martin and White’s appraisal framework, which comprises affectual (affect), ethical (judgment), and aesthetic (appreciation) values. The findings reveal that the subcategories of affect, judgment, and appreciation are strategically deployed by both right- and left-wing parties. The right-wing discourse, conveying ethical values, emphasizes the difference between “in” and “out” groups, whereas the left-wing discourse, engaged in affectual values, demonstrates their humanitarian side. The study has also a methodological focus, namely, testing the feasibility of the behavioral profile approach in critical discourse analysis to obtain more replicable and reliable quantitative results. The method consists of the manual annotation of the corpus and multivariate statistical analysis.

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Baker, Paul. "Acceptable bias? Using corpus linguistics methods with critical discourse analysis." Critical Discourse Studies 9, no. 3 (August 2012): 247–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.688297.

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O'Halloran, Kieran. "Inferencing and cultural reproduction: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis." Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse Communication Studies 29, no. 1 (January 2009): 21–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text.2009.002.

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Samsi, Yogi Setia, Iwa Lukmana, and Dadang Sudana. "Teaching Critical Discourse Analysis of Sociocognitive Approach to EFL Learners through Corpus-based Analysis." ELT in Focus 3, no. 1 (July 17, 2020): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.35706/eltinfc.v3i1.3760.

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Many studies have been researching critical discourse analysis, henceforth CDA, in analyzing a numerous contexts, nevertheless, those studies still have lack of contributions such as in pedagogical aspects and lack of incorporations with specialized technology such as corpus tool. However, this study intended to fill a gap that qualitatively aimed to explore on how teaching CDA focusing on sociocognitive approach through corpus analysis and to know learners’ responses about their experience. Then, this study concerns to three elements: corpus based approach, CDA approach, and pedagogical approach. The target of participants were undergraduate students of university in Karawang, Indonesia. It was randomly participated from higher semester, 7th semester, had been studying linguistics and learning media. The study ran for one month and included two training sessions for learners on how to use concordance software in analyzing words, phrases, concordance line, frequencies, and collocations in order to get sociocognitive which specialized by only microstructure couched by Van Dijk (2008). The corpus were made from 2 different newspaper with a specific issue contained a big data. The main findings showed that the participants can be able to use a concordance software independently as it seemed very excited in the exercise. It indicated successful way that students eventually can criticize some discoures through corpus analysis that corroborated by the training and the learners’ responses. However, the further study requires to deepen and incorporate with other approaches such as systemic functional linguistics to strengthen the analysis.

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Magalhães, Célia Maria. "A critical discourse analysis approach to news discourses and social practices on race in Brazil." DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 22, no. 2 (2006): 275–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-44502006000200003.

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In this paper I set out from Brazilian social theories on race to analyse a contemporary corpus of news reports in a Brazilian broadsheet newspaper. The aim is investigating change in mediated discourses on race. Based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and with the help of corpus linguistics methodological tools I focus on lexical items used to categorise race, the semantic relations created and their association with discourse representation in the newspaper. The combined analysis of semantic relations and interdiscursivity has allowed for the perception of tensions over the use of terms from different semantic fields to categorize race and of conflicting discourses of race classification in the paper. The analysis has also allowed for a cautious interpretation of dialogicality and of different orientations to racial difference, following the social research inventories in Fairclough (2003) in the reports.

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Haider, Ahmad S. "Using corpus linguistic techniques in (critical) discourse studies reduces but does not remove bias: Evidence from an Arabic corpus about refugees." Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 55, no. 1 (March 26, 2018): 89–133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2019-0004.

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Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) investigates the relationship between language, power, and society. Corpus linguistics (CL) is the study of language based on examples of real life language use. Over the last two decades, various scholars have combined some approaches and notions of CDA with the analytical framework of CL to examine the representation of several phenomena in relatively large texts. This study follows a corpus-assisted (critical) discourse analysis approach to investigate a 2.5 million word corpus of Arabic news articles by Jordan’s News Agency (PETRA). It demonstrates how some researchers following this approach may make some decisions, at some stages of their analysis, which are likely to affect their findings. These potential decisions may include selecting what statistical measures to use, what threshold to consider, what terms from the frequency, cluster, and collocation results to further investigate, which concordance lines to include in their study, and some others. In this study, I argue that some of these decisions can be made to suit the researchers’ preconceived assumptions and pre-existing hypotheses. The study concludes that using corpus linguistic techniques to discursively analyze large data reduces but not completely removes researchers’ bias.

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Saleh Aluthman, Ebtisam. "A Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of the Discursive Representation of Immigration in the EU Referendum Debate." Arab World English Journal 9, no. 4 (December 15, 2018): 19–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol9no4.2.

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Hou, Zhide. "The Global Image of Shenzhen: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Discourses." International Journal of English Linguistics 9, no. 1 (December 31, 2018): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v9n1p169.

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This article studies the media representations of Shenzhen’s global image by adopting the corpus-based critical discourse analysis. Previous studies mainly analyze the shaping, publicity and construction of Shenzhen’s image from the perspective of urban culture and development and news dissemination. However, media construction on the global image of Shenzhen is empirical and noticeable. The findings demonstrate favorable representations of Shenzhen’s image associated with technology powerhouse, manufacturing heartland, industrial boomtown, jewelry fair advantages and giant headquarters economy in general. Negative representations associated with Shenzhen Stock trading drop, landslide accident and Apple’s Foxconn problems are amplified in media discourses.

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Kim, Kyung Hye. "Examining US news media discourses about North Korea: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis." Discourse & Society 25, no. 2 (January 21, 2014): 221–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926513516043.

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Cohen, Michael Ian. "Education populism? A corpus-driven analysis of Betsy DeVos’s education policy discourse." education policy analysis archives 29 (February 15, 2021): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5868.

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Scholars of political economy have raised the question of whether recent populist movements around the world signal the decline of neoliberal hegemony. What would such a decline mean for education policy, an arena that has been dominated by a neoliberal common sense for several decades? This study investigates the policy discourse of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, in order to assess the extent to which it aligns with the neoliberal common sense or draws upon discourses of populism that have been gaining traction in the last few years. Using methods of corpus linguistics, I engage in a critical discourse analysis of 59 of DeVos’s public speeches delivered between 2017 and 2019 in comparison with a reference corpus of speeches delivered by DeVos’s predecessors in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. The findings, informed by Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism as political logic and discourse, suggest that DeVos deploys several features of populist discourse even as she advocates policies that are characteristically neoliberal. I consider the implications of this discourse for education policy in the US.

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António, Ana Sofia, and António Teodoro. "Critical Discourse Analysis: Between Educational Sciences and Journalism." Fronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science 8, no. 1 (February 22, 2019): 18–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21664/2238-8869.2019v8i1.p18-35.

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Abstract This research, in which we used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) applied to the field of Educational Sciences, was developed within the scope of the project of PhD in Education. We submit the question - what relations can be identified between opinion articles concerning Education published in two broadsheet newspapers and the values and aspirations defended by the new middle class? A quantitative methodology was used, and the directors of the newspapers studied were interviewed, as well as parents and teachers. CDA was used on the 20 opinion articles chosen as corpus of this study. It is our belief that it is essential to understand the intentions and the consequences of opinion articles related to the school.

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Samsi, Yogi Setia. "Teaching Critical Discourse Analysis to ELT Learners through Corpus Based Approach." Academic Journal Perspective : Education, Language, and Literature 7, no. 1 (May 29, 2019): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.33603/perspective.v7i1.1814.

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ABSTRACTConcordance is the software that facilitates an unlimited data recognizing the frequency and collocation. It can be used for learning and teaching. This study is qualitative and aimed to know the contribution of corpus tool in teaching CDA and the studentsâ€™ responses through the use of corpus tool, named concordance software, in one of the University. The method in this research is qualitative descriptive with the content analysis. Thus, I employed the frequency and collocation in order to get its sociocognitive contained into three levels of analysis: microstructure, superstructure, and macrostructure couched within critical discourse analysis framework of Van Dijk (2008) through 2 articles taken from different newspaper that has been collected into concordance software. The data can be represented to be mediator in learning and teaching CDA in the class to find out the ideology through frequency and collocation. The findings reveal that concordance has the contribution to the learning and teaching especially in linguistic course. It is questioningly proven by the studentsâ€™ responses that the students seemingly motivate and enthuse to learn CDA through corpus linguistics. Concordance is effective and can help the teacher in their teaching.

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Ruiz Yepes, Guadalupe. "Corpus-based Translation Studies and Ideology." FORUM / Revue internationale d’interprétation et de traduction / International Journal of Interpretation and Translation 7, no. 1 (April 1, 2009): 77–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/forum.7.1.04rui.

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Nous présentons ici un modèle d’analyse de textes à dimension idéologique visant à indiquer comment la langue véhicule diverses idéologies. Ce modèle s’appuie sur les paramètres dégagés par l’Analyse Critique du Discours (Critical Discourse Analysis) et sur les études traductologiques et a recours également au logiciel WordSmith Tools afin de mettre en regard les deux méthodes et d’en dégager les désavantages et la manière dont elles peuvent se combiner.

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Tian, Lirong. "Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Discourse — A Case Study of Trump's TV Speech." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 5 (May 1, 2021): 516–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1105.08.

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Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is an effective method of the discourse analysis. It is aimed at analyzing the special relationship between power and the traditional ideology in implied discourse. Traditional discourse analysis always analyzes the structure and composition of discourse in terms of linguistic features, CDA makes language analysis more creative. It deeply explores the inherent potential of language and systematically interprets the deep meaning of discourse. This paper will take the specific corpus, namely Trump's TV speech, as the language material, Halliday's systematic functional grammar as the theoretical basis, and physicality, modality and personal pronoun as the framework. This paper studies how speakers in political speech use language to shorten the distance between people and win people's affirmation and support from the aspects of transitivity analysis, modality analysis and personal pronoun.

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Xiao, Han, and Lei Li. "A bibliometric analysis of critical discourse analysis and its implications." Discourse & Society 32, no. 4 (June 12, 2021): 482–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926521992150.

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As critical discourse analysis/studies move into the second decade of the 21st century, there is a need to reflect on their evolution and envision their future development. In this paper, CiteSpace and VOSviewer are employed to gain holistic insights into CDA/CDS research and capture the recent research foci. The Web of Science core collection database is a prominent resource for collecting data. It was found that (1) CDA has broadly absorbed the theories of other disciplines and increasingly developed into a super-discipline; (2) corpus building, the advent of computer technology, and the development of linguistic analysis software have provided effective analytical tools for critical discourse research, making it possible for overall and partial analyses to complement each other and for complementary qualitative and quantitative approaches to be used to enhance the thoroughness and precision of research; and (3) the research methods for conducting CDA tend to be diverse and comprehensive.

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Liu, Ming, and Cong Jiang. "Constant fear, but lingering nostalgia: British press representations of post-colonial Hong Kong 20 years on." Discourse & Communication 13, no. 6 (August 7, 2019): 630–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481319868852.

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This study conducts a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of post-colonial Hong Kong in The Times over the past 20 years. The primary purpose is to reveal its preferential ways of representing Hong Kong and explicate the intricate relations between language use and the historical and socio-political contexts. Through an integration of the methods and theories associated with critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, this study conducts both synchronic and diachronic analyses of the representations of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2017. The findings suggest that The Times’ representations of Hong Kong tend to be crisis- and conflict-oriented. While evoking constant fear about the future of Hong Kong, it still suggests that it is Britain’s duty and moral obligation to protect the former British colony. The same trend can also be identified in The Times’ representations of the mass protests against the proposed extradition bill in 2019.

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Afzaal, Muhammad, Kaibao Hu, Muhammad Ilyas Chishti, and Zahid Khan. "Examining Pakistani news media discourses about China–Pakistan Economic Corridor: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis." Cogent Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 1683940. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2019.1683940.

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Rajandran, Kumaran, and Fauziah Taib. "The representation of CSR in Malaysian CEO statements: a critical discourse analysis." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 19, no. 3 (July 29, 2014): 303–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-02-2013-0011.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how Malaysian CEO Statements represent corporate social responsibility (CSR). Design/methodology/approach – A corpus of 27 CEO Statements was analyzed using Fairclough's three-dimensional critical discourse analysis (CDA) model, which proposes analyzing text, discourse practice and social practice. The analysis emphasized image and language features in text while it explored intertextuality in discourse practice and ideology in social practice. Findings – The analysis revealed that selected image and language features contribute to six themes about CSR, namely achievement, identification, aspiration, disclosure, recognition and appreciation. The analysis also revealed that policies, standards and studies are often cited to reduce a credibility gap. These analyses indicate that CEO Statements represent CSR as a corporation's philanthropic initiatives for stakeholders. This representation reflects the ideology of CEO Statements. It establishes corporations as an agent of positive change in society, which helps to improve the social legitimacy of corporations. Research limitations/implications – Since the corpus was limited to ten corporations in three years, the findings might not be representative of the genre of CEO Statements. The corpus could be extended to include CEO Statements from other years, countries and languages and it can launch a productive enterprise in intercultural studies. Originality/value – This paper demonstrates CDA as an approach to understand CEO Statements. It may be useful to people practicing and teaching corporate communication because it encourages them to consider the meaning implied by image and language features, which can influence the meaning of CEO Statements.

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Baker, Paul. "From gay language to normative discourse." Journal of Language and Sexuality 2, no. 2 (August 2, 2013): 179–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.2.2.01bak.

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A corpus of abstracts from the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference was subjected to a diachronic keywords analysis in order to identify concepts which had either stayed in constant focus or became more or less popular over time.1 Patterns of change in the abstracts corpus were compared against the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) in order to identify the extent that linguistic practices around language and sexuality were reflected in wider society. The analysis found that conference presenters had gradually begun to frame their analyses around queer theory and were using fewer sexual identity labels which were separating, collectivising and hierarchical in favour of more equalising and differentiating terminology. A number of differences between conference-goers’ language use and the language of general American English were identified and the paper ends with a critical discussion of the method used and the potential consequences of some of the findings.

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Bafadhal, Oemar Madri, Nurly Meilinda, Krisna Murti, and Anang Dwi Santoso. "What They Do Not Talk about When They Talk about Radicalism: (A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis on Islamic News Portals in Indonesia)." Mediator: Jurnal Komunikasi 13, no. 2 (December 26, 2020): 178–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.29313/mediator.v13i2.5859.

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The lack of a clear definition of radicalism leads Islamic organisations to feel entitled to interpret it. It results in contention for the meaning of radicalism and forms a different reality for each reader. By taking a case study on two spectra of Islamic organisations, moderate Islamic organisation (NU Online) and Islamic extremist organisation (Portal Islam), this study aims to understand the construction of radicalism in two Islamic news portals. We utilised a dataset of news about radicalism from September 2018-2019 and analysed it using a combination of corpus linguistic (CL) and critical discourse analysis (CDA). While CL helped to reveal emerging discourses, CDA intended to observe the patterns and relate them into socio-political contexts critically. The results indicate that each site was blurring the information function of news portals into a propaganda function. They also generate fragmented knowledge, which leads to a misrepresentation of paradigm towards radicalism. This leads to discriminatory actions against other groups. The meaning of radicalism in the media may encourage group dichotomy, which is counterproductive to countering terrorism in Indonesia. This study contributes to a comprehension of the terrorism phenomenon by providing a closer view of how moderate and extreme Islamic organisations interpret radicalism.

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Ajšić, Adnan. "Capturing Herder: a three-step approach to the identification of language ideologies using corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis." Corpora 16, no. 1 (April 2021): 63–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2021.0209.

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Recent lexical approaches to the identification of language ideologies focus on the application of quantitative corpus-linguistic techniques to large data sets as a way to minimise researcher inference and ensure more objective sampling methods, replicability of analytical procedures, and a higher degree of generalisability ( Fitzsimmons-Doolan, 2014 ; Subtirelu, 2015 ; Vessey, 2017 ; Wright and Brooks, 2019 ; and McEntee-Atalianis and Vessey, 2020 ). Based on two comprehensive, specialised research (11.6 million words) and comparator (22.4 million words) newspaper corpora, this study offers an examination of the effectiveness of the multivariate and univariate statistical techniques, and proposes a three-step approach whereby corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis are combined to identify ( 1) thematic and ( 2) ideological discourses (cf. ‘d’/’D’ discourses; Gee, 2010 ), and ( 3) language ideologies. In contrast to recent contributions, it is argued that item frequency is not necessarily a reliable or effective indicator of language ideologies but, rather, of language-related discourses which can be examined for implicit and explicit language-ideological content. A combination of multivariate and univariate statistical techniques, and the three-step approach are shown to be a highly effective methodological solution for synchronic and diachronic language ideology and discourse research based on topically/discursively heterogeneous corpora.

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Gustara, Restu Anggi. "A Critical Discourse Analysis: The Representation of ‘Homosexual’, ‘Lesbian’, and ‘Gay’ Collocates Words in Cola and BNC Corpus." Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities 2 (2019): 00018. http://dx.doi.org/10.29037/digitalpress.42269.

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This is a Critical Discourse Analysis of the collocation of ‘homosexual’, ‘lesbian’, and ‘gay’ terms in the corpus data of Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and British National Corpus (BNC). By conducting Halliday’s theory, this study aims to find out the representation of three terms, ‘homosexual’, lesbian’, and ‘gay’, also the ideology, from the collocation words. As a combined study between Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics, a qualitative and quantitative data were used. By using corpus analysis as the method, the researcher analyzes the ideology based on the collected collocates words. The result of the analysis shows that ‘homosexual’, ‘lesbian’, and ‘gay’ has a linier relationship. Those three terms are used in different area of public text, which are ‘homosexual’ is more acceptable in academic term and ‘lesbian’ and ‘gay’ are mostly used in the non-academic term. Even though COCA and BNC show the different amount of their existence, they are share the same collocation: rights, relationship, lifestyle, identity, activist, and couple.

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Wang, Guofeng. "A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of news reporting on China’s air pollution in the official Chinese English-language press." Discourse & Communication 12, no. 6 (May 9, 2018): 645–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481318771431.

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This corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of news reports on air pollution published from 2008 through 2015 by China Daily, China’s largest official English-language newspaper, reveals a significant attitudinal shift around the end of 2011 as regards public awareness of increasing air pollution levels in China and related public criticism. It also constructs a clear image of the increasing determination and resolve of the Chinese central government over the course of this 8-year period to take action to effectively reduce air pollution. This study highlights the submissive role played by the official Chinese press in their reporting on air pollution under the strict censorship system of the Communist Party of China (CPC), as well as the socio-political role that international sporting events such as the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games played in raising both public and governmental awareness of environmental issues.

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Prentice, Sheryl, and Andrew Hardie. "Empowerment and disempowerment in the Glencairn Uprising." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10, no. 1 (February 2, 2009): 23–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.10.1.03pre.

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The Glencairn Uprising (1653–1654) was a military rebellion by Scottish Highlanders under the leadership of William, Earl of Glencairn, against the English government of Oliver Cromwell. This paper investigates the presentation of actors and groups on both sides of the Uprising — but most especially Glencairn himself — in the contemporary London press. The theoretical framework of the analysis is Critical Discourse Analysis (modelled especially on the approach of van Dijk 1991); however, a corpus-based methodology, and a partially-quantitative analysis, are employed. The documents in question — a corpus of newsbooks published in late 1653 and the first half of 1654 — are analysed by a process of assigning concordance lines extracted using a wide set of search terms to particular categories of discourse-semantic meaning. The newsbooks are shown to make use of greatly contrasting discourses in their representations of Glencairn and others, resulting in “discourses of empowerment and disempowerment” (the latter being associated secondarily with a “discourse of disunity”). By employing these discourses, the newsbook journalists discredit Glencairn and his associates, whilst crediting the English and their associates.

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Smith-Carrier, Tracy, and Andrea Lawlor. "Realising our (neoliberal) potential? A critical discourse analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Ontario, Canada." Critical Social Policy 37, no. 1 (September 20, 2016): 105–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018316666251.

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We examine the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) launched in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province. Using corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, we explore the dominant discourses that emerge in a genre chain produced by the Government of Ontario, including the initial 2008 PRS, annual reports and the 2014–2019 recontextualised PRS. Six key discourses surfaced: social exclusion, social inclusion, economic benefit or social investment, expert knowledge, community engagement and requisites for the PRS’ success – typically involving investments from the federal government and a favourable economic climate. No discourse of human rights, or of the rights to food, housing and an adequate standard of living is present in the PRS texts, absolving the government from its responsibility to ensure these rights. Without the accountability mechanisms attached to a rights-based approach, the PRS has little chance of ‘breaking the cycle’ of poverty, and will not likely ‘realise its potential’ to do so.

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MULDERRIG, JANE. "Manufacturing Consent: A corpus‐based critical discourse analysis of New Labour's educational governance." Educational Philosophy and Theory 43, no. 6 (January 2011): 562–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00723.x.

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Brookes, Gavin, and Tony McEnery. "Correlation, collocation and cohesion: A corpus-based critical analysis of violent jihadist discourse." Discourse & Society 31, no. 4 (February 5, 2020): 351–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926520903528.

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This article explores the language of violent jihad, focussing upon lexis encoding concepts from Islam. Through the use of correlation statistics, this article demonstrates that the words encoding such concepts distribute in dependent relationships across different types of texts. The correlation between the words cannot be simply explained in terms of collocation; rather, the correlation is evidence of other forms of cohesion at work in the texts. The variation in patterns of cohesion across a spectrum of texts from those advocating violence to those which do not promote violence demonstrates how these concepts are contested and redefined by violent jihadists and the role that collocation and other forms of cohesion can play in the process. This article concludes that the terms, and their redefinition, are a key part of the symbolic capital used by groups to create identities which licence violence.

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Agbo, Isaiah I., Goodluck C. Kadiri, and Blessing Ugo Ijem. "Critical Metaphor Analysis of Political Discourse in Nigeria." English Language Teaching 11, no. 5 (April 21, 2018): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v11n5p95.

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Metaphor is an important figure of speech copiously deployed in political discourse. In this study, we adopted the framework of Charteris-Black’s (2004) Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) which derives from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).This framework is interested in exploring the implicit intentions of language users, the ideological configurations and the hidden power relations within socio-political and cultural contexts. It captures the ideological and conceptual nature of metaphor, and transmits truth alive into the hearts of the people by passion. The thrust of this study is the identification, analysis and interpretation of the ideological and conceptual metaphors in the speeches we studied that create a particular linguistic style, conceptualize the speakers’ experiences and transmit their ideologies for rhetoric and argumentation purposes. The corpus of this study is limited to the political speeches of Brigadier Sani Abacha in 1984 and 1993, General Ibrahim Babangida in 1985 and 1993, M.K.O. Abiola in 1993 and 1994, and Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in 2013. The study reveals that the speakers use metaphors as tools to enact power and wield influence on their audience. There is further the use of metaphors for the purpose of argumentation thereby promoting self-ideologies and power asymmetric. Furthermore, the study shows that the speakers in the speeches we analysed use metaphors as a strategy to identify with the people so as to create a bond between them. Finally, our speakers use metaphors to manipulate their audience both mentally and conceptually, polarize between them and the conceived enemies, and dominate their audience; and conceal and conceptualize experience in order to reframe realities to suit their interests.

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Wilkinson, Mark. "‘Bisexual oysters’: A diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis of bisexual representation in The Times between 1957 and 2017." Discourse & Communication 13, no. 2 (January 9, 2019): 249–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481318817624.

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Recent decades have witnessed an increase in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) visibility in the British media. Increased representation has not been equally distributed, however, as bisexuality remains an obscured sexual identity in discourses of sexuality. Through the use of diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis, this study seeks to uncover how bisexual people have been represented in the British press between 1957 and 2017. By specifically focusing on the discursive construction of bisexuality in The Times, the results reveal how bisexual people are represented as existing primarily in discourses of the past or in fiction. The Times corpus also reveals significant variation in the lexical meaning of bisexual throughout the 60 years in question. These findings contribute to contemporary theories of bisexual erasure which posit that bisexual people are denied the same ontological status as monosexual identities, that is, homosexuality and heterosexuality.

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Oppelt, Camila. "Discourse Analysis of (Power) Struggles in the Classroom." Revista Gatilho 18, no. 01 (October 20, 2020): 170–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.34019/1808-9461.2020.v18.27327.

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Perceptions about the relationship between teacher and student refer to the confidence, motivation and interest of the students, and to the expectations and attitudes of the teachers. With the aim of arousing and encouraging discussions about these aspects that can, eventually, improve the relationship between teachers and students through the study of a teacher’s perceptions about this relationship, this article was carried out in the light of Critical Discourse Analysis and studies focusing on teachers’ expectations. The corpus – answers to a questionnaire applied to a high school teacher at a San Diego/CA suburban school – was submitted to the analysis of the author’s position regarding her role as teacher. The willingness to engage in a good relationship with students was present in the corpus as expected. However, there were a few unexpected occurrences: predominantly dominant attitude about problem solving, heterogeneity in the division of responsibilities, and explicit citation of power struggle in the classroom.

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Chen, Wenge, Tom Bartlett, and Huiling Peng. "Drilling for fissures and exploiting common ground in the discourse of oil production." Pragmatics and Society 12, no. 2 (June 3, 2021): 167–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.20033.che.

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Abstract This is the second part of a two-part article which proposes an enhanced approach to eco-discourses after weighing the (dis)advantages of mainstream Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA). Part I explored the theoretical grounding for an enhanced PDA, introduced the research method and then, based on the adapted analytic framework of Stibbe (2016), undertook a critical analysis of the discourses of Shell Oil Company (SOC). Part II uses the same analytic framework to analyse Greenpeace USA’s (GPU) discourse and compare it to the SOC discourse. The emphasis in Part II is on the exploration of potential fissures in the discourses across difference, and the possible common grounds upon which to design alternative discourses that are empathetic, comprehensible and legitimate to a coalition of social forces. Practically, Part II finds that the two groups use similar discourse strategies, such as salience and framing, but with different orientations. Methodologically, Part II argues that corpus-aided comparative discourse analysis, with a focus on discourse semantics, will facilitate the identification of ‘greenwashing’ strategies that strengthen and stabilize current hegemonic social order; this part also points to avenues of alternative discourses which exploit the inherent contradictions or fissures within that hegemonic order. Theoretically, the paper suggests that within an enhanced Positive Discourse Analysis approach, it is also important to seek out points of convergence between progressive positions and to articulate these within a hybrid, counter-hegemonic discourse that maximizes its potential for uptake, while it destabilizes the prevailing discourses at precisely the fissure points identified.

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Gilmore, Alex. "Research into practice: The influence of discourse studies on language descriptions and task design in published ELT materials." Language Teaching 48, no. 4 (September 8, 2015): 506–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444815000269.

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Discourse studies is a vast, multidisciplinary, and rapidly expanding area of research, embracing a range of approaches including discourse analysis, corpus analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, genre analysis and multimodal discourse analysis. Each approach offers its own unique perspective on discourse, focusing variably on text, context or a range of semiotic modes. Together, they provide foreign language teachers and material designers with new insights into language, and are beginning to have an observable impact on published English Language Teaching (ELT) materials. This paper examines the ways in which the four approaches with the strongest links to the ELT profession (corpus analysis, conversation analysis, discourse analysis and genre analysis) have found their way into language learning materials, and offers some suggestions on how discourse studies may influence ELT classrooms in the future.

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