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Thiesmeyer, Lynn. "The Discourse of Official Violence: Anti-Japanese North American Discourse and the American Internment Camps." Discourse & Society 6, no. 3 (1995): 319–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926595006003003.
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Wemyss, Georgie. "White Memories, White Belonging: Competing Colonial Anniversaries in ‘Postcolonial’ East London." Sociological Research Online 13, no. 5 (2008): 50–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1801.
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This paper explores how processes of remembering past events contribute to the construction of highly racialised local and national politics of belonging in the UK. Ethnographic research and contextualised discourse analysis are used to examine two colonial anniversaries remembered in 2006: the 1606 departure of English ‘settlers’ who built the first permanent English colony in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and the 1806 opening of the East India Docks, half a century after the East India Company took control of Bengal following the battle of Polashi. Both events were associated with the Thames waterfront location of Blackwall in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets, an area with the highest Bengali population in Britain and significant links with North America through banks and businesses based at the regenerated Canary Wharf office complex. It investigates how discourses and events associated with these two specific anniversaries and with the recent ‘regeneration’ of Blackwall, contribute to the consolidation of the dominant ‘mercantile discourse’ about the British Empire, Britishness and belonging. Challenges to the dominant discourse of the ‘celebration’ of colonial settlement in North America by competing discourses of North American Indian and African American groups are contrasted with the lack of contest to discourses that ‘celebrate’ Empire stories in contemporary Britain. The paper argues that the ‘mercantile discourse’ in Britain works to construct a sense of mutual white belonging that links white Englishness with white Americaness through emphasising links between Blackwall and Jamestown and associating the values of ‘freedom and democracy’ with colonialism. At the same time British Bengali belonging is marginalised as links between Blackwall and Bengal and the violence and oppression of British colonialism are silenced. The paper concludes with an analysis of the contemporary mobilisation of the ‘mercantile discourse’ in influential social policy and ‘regeneration’ discourse about ‘The East End’.
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Campbell, D. Grant. "Tension Between Language and Discourse in North American Knowledge Organization." KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION 37, no. 1 (2010): 51–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2010-1-51.
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Campbell, D. Grant. "Tensions Between Language and Discourse in North American Knowledge Organization." NASKO 2, no. 1 (2011): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.7152/nasko.v2i1.12808.
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Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Ashley Hesson, Kali Bybel, and Heidi Little. "Quantifying the referential function of general extenders in North American English." Language in Society 44, no. 5 (2015): 705–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404515000603.
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AbstractDiscourse markers (like, I don't know, etc.) are known to vary in frequency across English dialects and speech settings. It is difficult to make meaningful generalizations over these differences, since quantitative discourse-pragmatic variation studies ‘lack [a] coherent set of methodological principles’ (Pichler 2010:582). This has often constrained quantitative studies to focus on the form, rather than the function of discourse-pragmatic features. The current article employs a novel method for rigorously identifying and quantifying the referential function (set-extension) of general extenders (GEs), for example, and stuff like that, or whatever. We apply this method to GEs extracted from three corpora of contemporary North American English speech. The results demonstrate that, across varieties, (i) referential GEs occur at a comparable proportional rate in vernacular speech, and (ii) referential GEs are longer than nonreferential GEs. Collectively, these findings represent a step towards comparative quantitative studies of GEs' functions in discourse. (Discourse-pragmatic variation, general extenders, methodological approaches, American English, Canadian English)
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Henriksen, Ken. "Hugo Chávez’ de-konstruktioner af det moderne Europa." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 37, no. 108 (2009): 112–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v37i108.22000.
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The Deconstruction of Modern Europe by Hugo Chávez:In recent years many countries in Latin America have undergone profound economic and political transformations, which among many other things have implied a »turn to the left«, a break with neoliberalism, and the upsurge of political viewpoints and discourses that are critical of North American influence in the area. But how is Europe represented in these anti-American discourses? This article is an investigation of Hugo Chávez’ discourse about Europe and European culture and politics. Taking its point of departure in the analysis of how Europe is portrayed in a political campaign which sought popular support for constitutional changes that would pave the way for indefinite re-election of the President, the article argues that Chávez seeks to demolish the image of a democratic and progressive Europe. Chávez’ discourse about Europe emphasizes internal, social problems and poverty in Europe, and he points at double standards of morality and the lack of capacity to solve Europe’s own problems. This means that he attempts to deconstruct the idea of Europe as a privileged centre of modernity, development and democracy. However, his discourse contributes simultaneously to the reproduction of binary distinctions between the »evil North« and the »wounded South«. Despite some important differences, Chávez’ portrayal of Europe therefore bears a resemblance to the negative ideas of the West that are often expressed in occidentalist discourses.
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McKenna, Steve. "A critical analysis of North American business leaders’ neocolonial discourse: global fears and local consequences." Organization 18, no. 3 (2011): 387–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508411398728.
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Using a postcolonial analytic frame and critique this article investigates the nature of the discourse used by 24 North American business leaders to describe, understand and make sense of the economic development of China and India and contemporary international encounters. In particular the article investigates how business leaders discursively characterize this ‘threat’, how they (re)present China and India and, how they discursively construct the requirements of a response to this ‘threat’. An analysis of the interviews indicates the persistence of the discourse of (neo)colonialism (Orientalism) in the construction of the Other within the context of a view of China and India as developing and progressing towards a North American ideal. Despite this, North American business leaders also show ambivalence and uncertainty towards China and India. On the one hand they laud their success while damning them for their apparently exploitative social, economic and workplace systems and practices. Moreover, while they promote a Western development discourse concerning China and India, North American business leaders recognize that China and India are becoming centres of global economic power that are increasingly challenging the global hegemony of the United States. The article ends with a conclusion on the contribution of the article and in particular points to the value of Bhabha’s notion of the in-between’ spaces as a way forward for understanding developments in the global business environment.
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Ostendorf, Ann Marguerite. "Racializing American “Egyptians”: Shifting Legal Discourse, 1690s–1860s." Critical Romani Studies 2, no. 2 (2020): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.29098/crs.v2i2.50.
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This article situates the historical “Egyptian,” more commonly referred to as “Gypsy,” into the increasingly racist legal structures formed in the British North American colonies and the early United States, between the 1690s and 1860s. It simultaneously considers how those who considered themselves, or were considered by others, as “Egyptians” or “Gypsies” navigated life in the new realities created by such laws. Despite the limitations of state-produced sources from each era under study, inferences about these people’s experiences remain significant to building a more accurate and inclusive history of the United States. The following history narrates the lives of Joan Scott, her descendants, and other nineteenth-century Americans influenced by legalracial categories related to “Egyptians” and “Gypsies.” This is interwoven with the relevant historical contexts from American legal discourses that confirm the racialization of such categories over the centuries.
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Slater, Tom. "Looking at the "North American City" Through the Lens of Gentrification Discourse." Urban Geography 23, no. 2 (2002): 131–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.23.2.131.
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Loucky, James, and Alan LeBaron. "Introduction: Mesoamerican/North American Partnerships for Community Wellbeing." Practicing Anthropology 34, no. 1 (2012): 2–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.34.1.42qt1153h165vg38.
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Margaret Mead was fond of saying that when speaking about another culture, it would be wise to imagine that someone from that culture was standing next to us. That advice is a good metaphor for what has in fact happened. Global technological and educational advances have brought both readers and writers into what used to be a closed purview of outside "experts." Today discourse across the north-south divide entails challenges to neocolonial approaches and assertions of rights—not only to basic resources and life chances, but also to describe as well as to determine roles, responsibilities, and eventual realities. Growing opportunities for collaboration are evident in a diverse array of cross-cultural partnerships, participatory action research, and community-based development models.
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Joy Porter. ""Primitive" Discourse: Aspects of Contemporary North American Indian Representations of the Irish and of Contemporary Irish Representations of North American Indians." American Studies 49, no. 3-4 (2008): 63–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ams.2010.0020.
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GODEANU-KENWORTHY, OANA. "Fictions of Race: American Indian Policies in Nineteenth-Century British North American Fiction." Journal of American Studies 52, no. 1 (2016): 91–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875816001948.
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This article explores the hemispheric and transatlantic uses of race and empire as tropes of settler-colonial otherness in the novelThe Canadian Brothers(1840) by Canadian author John Richardson. In this pre-Confederation historical novel, Richardson contrasts the imperial British discourse of racial tolerance, and the British military alliances with the Natives in the War of 1812, with the brutality of American Indian policies south of the border, in an effort to craft a narrative of Canadian difference from, and incompatibility with, American culture. At the same time, the author's critical attitude towards all European military and commercial interventions in the New World illuminates the rootedness of both American and Canadian settler colonialisms in British imperialism, and exposes the arbitrariness and constructedness of the political boundaries dividing the continent.
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Lima, José Rosamilton de, and Ciro Leandro Costa da Fonsêca. "O discurso de regionalização no livro didático do Ensino Médio Learn and share in English." Revista EntreLinguas 6, no. 2 (2020): 370–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.29051/el.v6i2.13559.
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In this work is analyzed the discourse of linguistic and cultural regionalization in the textbook Learn and share in English. This work is theoretically based in the studies by Albuquerque Júnior (2011), Foucault (2008a; 2008b; 2008c), PCNs (1998), PCNs+ (2006), DCNEB (2013) among others. The corpus is composed of discourse genres that bring statements in which are materialized discourses referring to linguistic and cultural diversity of the English in the world, observing that regional trends prevail. As analysis categories is used the discourse, the statement, the subject and the discursive formation. It was verified that the discursiveness was built in favor of the standard cultured norm, mainly, British and North American. Therefore, in the contemporary society where England and The United States dominate the world economy, to learn English is a social privilege that allows to situate the student in a global village.
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Braz, Albert. "North of America: Racial hybridity and Canada's (non)place in inter-American discourse." Comparative American Studies An International Journal 3, no. 1 (2005): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477570005050951.
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KEVANE, BRIDGET. "The Hispanic Absence in the North American Literary Canon." Journal of American Studies 35, no. 1 (2001): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875801006545.
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I recently completed a book of interviews (Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers, co-edited with Juanita Heredia, University of New Mexico Press, 2000) with ten of the most prominent Latina writers in the US; Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferré, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago and Helena María Viramontes. These women, Cuban, Dominican, Mexican and Puerto Rican Americans, raised issues that ranged from the craft of writing to the inherent problems of national identities. The themes generated in our conversations with these women – their doubled ethnic identities, their complicated relationship to their communities, their difficulties in representing their communities and, finally, their work as part of the larger American canon – revealed a powerful discourse about what it means to be Latina American in the United States. After spending two years talking with these women, it is evident to me that Latina literature is a vital part of American literature and should be included in any study of comparative American literatures.
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Prince, Michael J. "How Social is Social Policy? Fiscal and Market Discourse in North American Welfare States." Social Policy & Administration 35, no. 1 (2001): 2–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9515.00216.
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Robert, Dana L. "Naming “World Christianity”: Historical and Personal Perspectives on the Yale-Edinburgh Conference in World Christianity and Mission History." International Bulletin of Mission Research 44, no. 2 (2019): 111–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396939319893611.
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This article was originally delivered as the keynote address at the 2019 Yale-Edinburgh Conference on mission history. It charts three phases in the historical development of the interlocking academic discourses of mission studies and World Christianity, with special reference to their context in North American mainline Protestant academia since 1910. It further focuses on the provenance of the Yale-Edinburgh Conference and argues for its importance in the naming of World Christianity as a field of study. The author reflects on her own experiences in the emergence of World Christianity as a contemporary academic discourse.
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Johnstone, Tiffany. "Seeing for Oneself: Agnes Deans Cameron’s Ironic Critique of American Literary Discourse in The New North." Nordlit 12, no. 1 (2008): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.1165.
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In 1908, Agnes Deans Cameron, a schoolteacher, journalist andsuffragist from Victoria, British Columbia, traveled from Chicago to the Arctic with her niece, Jessie Cameron Brown. Cameron followed the original 1789 route of Alexander Mackenzie and was intent on being one of the first white women to explore and document this northern territory (Roy, "Primacy" 56). She wrote about her trip in the popular book The New North, which was published in New York in 1909 by Appleton. While The New North is written by a Canadian author about Canada, it is deliberately aimed at an American audience. Not only was the book published in the United States, but the narrative also begins and ends in Chicago and repeatedly depicts her Canadian surroundings according to American frontier motifs.
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Sovacool, Benjamin K. "Constructing a Rogue State: American Post-Cold War Security Discourse and North Korean Drug Trafficking*." New Political Science 27, no. 4 (2005): 497–520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07393140500371038.
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Cardy, Michael. "The smell of victory: A typology of reification in French discourse on North-American Indians." History of European Ideas 15, no. 1-3 (1992): 393–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(92)90156-7.
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Hinnell, Jennifer. "The Verbal-Kinesic Enactment of Contrast in North American English." American Journal of Semiotics 35, no. 1 (2019): 55–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ajs20198754.
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In this paper, I explore the linguistic and kinesic expression of contrast—the pitting of one position, object, or idea, against another. The archetype utterance for the embodied expression of contrast in English is the bipartite construction On the one hand . . . . On the other hand . . . . in which hand gestures are often performed sequentially along the sagittal axis (first on one side and then on the other side of the body) to depict the two options. However, English speakers have a variety of other linguistic means available to them for expressing contrast. Using data from naturally occurring discourse, I describe a range of linguistic resources that mark contrast and examine the semiotic relationships at play in the dynamic, multimodal signs (i.e. speech / gesture constructions) that accompany them. I demonstrate that, far from being ad hoc, when analyzed across the propositional, cognitive, and discursive domains, the way in which contrast is marked in the body can be viewed on a continuum of highly imageable to more schematically iconic kinesic movements. By placing the primary focus on the multimodal sign, this paper makes clear how speakers of North American English build semiotic environments around the construal of contrast.
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Wang, Kuan-Yun. "Illegally Blonde: The Racialisation of Blondness and Visual Representations of Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi in American and Canadian Media." Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 19, no. 1 (2020): 15–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/hlps.2020.0226.
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Informed by theories of media representation, Orientalism, and settler colonialism, this research endeavours to contribute to the discussion on the impact of media representation within a specific political context. It intends to reveal the power dimensions and ideological positions embedded in dominant media discourses in North America. Five news videos, three from Canadian, and two from American online daily media sources, are selected carefully during December 2017 and July 2018 when the Israeli army arrested Ahed Tamimi. In terms of methodologies, adopts Chouliaraki's (2011) multimodality model to analyse the visual and semiotic choices made by the news editors and draws on Fairclough's (1995) conception of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) for its contextual analysis. The findings suggest that through different discursive and representational strategies, the media frame Tamimi and the Palestinians as violent initiators. Moreover, Tamimi's blondness and her ‘Western’ look are marked as ‘fake’ and ‘propaganda’, thus establishing the new norm of representing ‘Otherness’. These strategies echo accepted values in American and Canadian societies and their foreign policies in the past decade. The results also achieve the purpose of legitimising the use of state violence on colonised bodies, which ultimately reflects settler-colonial history in North America.
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Olson, Todd. "Skeletal Classicism." Representations 151, no. 1 (2020): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2020.151.4.74.
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Modern critics of French Classicism in the visual arts were indebted to a formalism derived from the natural sciences. A nineteenth-century biological discourse identified hidden analogies rather than visual similarities among different specimens, whether animals or paintings. An ambivalence to the use of biological metaphors in North American art history may be traced back to this theoretical genealogy.
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Brøgger, Fredrik Chr. "The Paradoxical Discourse of Language and Silence in Some Contemporary North-American Texts on the Arctic." Nordlit 16, no. 1 (2012): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.2299.
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The Arctic has often been regarded (its various indigenous groups notwithstanding) as a desolate and silent void to be explored and defined by Euro-westerners, usuallyin terms of a masculine competitive ethos and an ethnocentric rhetoric of WesternEnlightenment and progress. Surprisingly, even many Norwegian arctic expeditionsof our own time tend to embody similar narratives of conquest and athletic prowess.Among contemporary North-American writers, however, this kind of discourse isprofoundly questioned, particularly by focusing on the problematic function oflanguage itself in our constructions of the Arctic. This article focuses on three North-American books in which the issue of the Euro-western linguistic appropriation ofthe Arctic, its natural environment as well as its peoples, is a major concern; they areall reflections on the issues of writing and silence with reference to the far north. Thethree books are: Barry Lopez' Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a NorthernLandscape (1987), Aritha van Herk's Places Far from Ellesmere (1990), and JohnMoss' Enduring Dreams: An Exploration of Arctic Landscape (1996). Central in allof them is the following issue: how to make the wordless landscape or the alienculture speak from under, as it were, the enormous compilation of centuries of Eurowesterntext. The article discusses four major strategies by which these three booksattempt to counteract and subvert earlier Euro-western ethnocentric and monologicnarratives of the Arctic: by the inclusion of feminine and indigenous voices; by thelegitimation of the sensuous life-world of the Arctic itself; by the self-reflexivesubversion of the authority of the language of their own texts; and by the use of astyle of paradox and contradiction. By way of such techniques, the books above try to create more open, dialogic and pluralistic readings of the Arctic.
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Mallorquín, Carlos, and Carlos Mallorquin. "El institucionalismo norteamericano y el estructuralismo latinoamericano: ¿discursos compatibles? (North American Institutionalism and Latin American Structuralism: Compatible Types of Discourse)." Revista Mexicana de Sociología 63, no. 1 (2001): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3541202.
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Coury, Ralph. "A Neoimperial Discourse on the Middle East." American Journal of Islam and Society 13, no. 2 (1996): 155–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v13i2.2333.
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The critique of orientalism has had a major impact upon MiddleEastern and Islamic studies and in other areas of western and Americanintellectual life. However, despite this impact, there is no question that traditionalorientalist representations of the Arab and Islamic maintain a strikingvirulence, that they remain deeply marked by imperialist and racistlegacies, and that scholars often recoup and rehabfitate such perspectiveseven when they seem to be challenging them. I would like to illustrate theseobservations through a consideration of the work of the American authorPaul Bowles and of the treatment his work has received by American critics.It is, of course, customary for scholars to justify their work by statingthat their topic has not received the attention that it deserves. However, if Isay that Bowels's representation of the Arab/Muslim has been neglectedstrikingly, I am being honest as well as self-serving. Bowles is America3most prominent expatriate author and is also the only American whose fictionand nonfiction have dealt largely with Morocco and North Africa. It isnatural to assume that his work and its treatment can provide special insightinto the fate and fortune of the critique of orientalism, especially in the presentcontext of a Bowles revival that is becoming a veritable flux.Bowles has reflected, variously and throughout his literary career,many of the standard features that have characterized the representation ofthe Arab/Muslim since the nineteenthcentury. This is apparent in his interviews,nonfiction essays, and travel pieces, but also in the short stories andnovels that have appeared for nearly fifty years; from the 1940s into the1990s. In 1952, for example, he told Harvey Breit in an interview in theNew York Times:I don’t think we are likely to get to know the Muslims very welland I suspect that if we should we would find them less sympatheticthan we do at present and I believe the same applies to theirgetting to know us. At the moment they admire us for our techniqueand I don’t think they would fmd more than that compatible.Their culture is essentially barbarous, their mentality is that of apurely predatory people ...
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Rodney, Lee. "Road Signs on the Border." Space and Culture 14, no. 4 (2011): 384–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331211412250.
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This article considers the political impact of a series of billboards that appeared at the Windsor–Detroit border and the Tijuana–San Ysidro border between 1991 and 2007. While there is a significant asymmetry between the political tensions on the northern and southern borders of the United States, there are remarkable parallels and relays between events that have taken place in major cities on these borders that indicate that generalized border anxiety has spread far beyond the localized territory of the southern borderlands. In this heightened climate of border insecurity, artists and community groups have seized on the geopolitical confusion that has emerged in mainstream American media where issues such as terrorism and illegal migration have often been folded into the same discourse. While border regions are tightly controlled spaces, these projects have served to highlight contradictory narratives of globalization and security, unmasking national insecurities that have been submerged through the bureaucratic discourses of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the more recent Smart Border agreements.
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Barreto, Raimundo. "The Church and Society Movement and the Roots of Public Theology in Brazilian Protestantism." International Journal of Public Theology 6, no. 1 (2012): 70–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973212x617190.
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Abstract Brazilian Protestantism in its origins tended to develop a kind of pietistic and individualistic spirituality without much concern with the social structures of Brazilian society. Nevertheless, in its historical relation with a reality marked by poverty, social injustice and oppression, some Brazilian Protestants began to develop a sense of social responsibility and social justice, which has been manifest in different ways. This article is an overview of the first attempt from a Protestant viewpoint to develop a public theological discourse in Brazil, during the 1950s and early 1960s. It focuses on the Religion and Society movement, which not only preceded liberation theology in Latin America, but also dialogued with liberationist thought and influenced it, as well as other later public discourses among Catholics and Protestants in Latin America. Richard Shaull was the first significant organic intellectual who mediated the dialogue between European/North American theologies and the Latin American public theology, which was in the making.
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Beard, David. "How Can You Not Shout, Now That the Whispering Is Done? Accounts of the Enemy in US, Hmong, and Vietnamese Soldiers’ Literary Reflections on the War." Humanities 8, no. 4 (2019): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8040172.
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As typified in the Christmas Truce, soldiers commiserate as they see themselves in the enemy and experience empathy. Commiseration is the first step in breaking down the rhetorical construction of enemyship that acts upon soldiers and which prevents reconciliation and healing. This essay proceeds in three steps. We will identify first the diverse forms of enemyship held by the American, by the North Vietnamese, and by the Hmong soldiers, reading political discourse, poetry, and fiction to uncover the rhetorical constructions of the enemy. We will talk about both an American account and a North Vietnamese account of commiseration, when a soldier looks at the enemy with compassion rooted in identification. Commiseration is fleeting; reconciliation and healing must follow, and so finally, we will look at some of the moments of reconciliation, after the war, in which Vietnamese, Hmong and American soldiers (and their children and grandchildren) find healing.
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McCabe, Allyssa, and Pamela Rosenthal Rollins. "Assessment of Preschool Narrative Skills." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 3, no. 1 (1994): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1058-0360.0301.45.
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The assessment of discourse skills in young children is an important responsibility facing clinicians today. Early identification of problems in discourse skills and, more specifically, narrative abilities is especially important for identifying children at risk for later learning and literacy-related difficulties. Despite this, few tools are available for assessing narrative skills in preschoolers. In this article we provide information concerning preschool narrative development in typically developing, North American, Caucasian, English-speaking children. Methods are suggested for assessing narrative skill of children with language impairment and children developing language normally. Transcripts of narratives from these children are presented, along with specific recommendations for evaluating these narratives.
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Brown, Jason M. "The ‘Greening’ of Christian Monasticism and the Future of Monastic Landscapes in North America." Religions 10, no. 7 (2019): 432. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10070432.
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Christian monasticism has an ancient land-based foundation. The desert fathers and later reform movements appealed to the land for sustenance, spiritual metaphor, and as a marker of authentic monastic identity. Contemporary Roman Catholic monastics with this history in mind, have actively engaged environmental discourse in ways that draw from their respective monastic lineages, a process sociologist Stephen Ellingson calls ‘bridging’. Though this study is of limited scope, this bridging between monastic lineages and environmental discourse could cautiously be identified with the broader phenomenon of the ‘greening’ of Christianity. Looking to the future, while the footprint of North American monastic communities is quite small, and their numbers are slowly declining, a variety of conservation-minded management schemes implemented since the 1990s by some communities suggests that the impact will remain for many decades to come.
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Lo Giacco, Maria Luisa. "Hidden meanings of the words “religion” and “religious” in legal discourse." Semiotica 2016, no. 209 (2016): 341–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0014.
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AbstractThe words “religion” and “religious” are deeply influenced by cultural and social context. The word “religion” could mean to the ears of a North American a social phenomenon that a South American doesn’t consider such. The same thing can happen in a dialogue between an Asian and an European. In fact, in contemporary society, the word “religion” has many meanings, not always understandable, sometimes hidden. The same goes for the adjective “religious.” What do I mean when I define a place, a behavior, a building, a person with the adjective “Religious”? Can I really be sure that what for me is “religious” is so for the man talking to me as well? Do my culture, education, and family traditions lead me to consider as “Religious” something that for other people is not so? Such questions are particularly relevant if we think about the value that many legal systems attribute to “Religion” and “Religious.” The words “religion” and “religious” have hidden meanings that only knowledge of a given culture and tradition may help to unravel. These hidden meanings are often important in legal discourse, especially in case law; which is why it is necessary to reveal them.
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Watkins, Joe. "Working Internationally with Indigenous Groups." Advances in Archaeological Practice 2, no. 4 (2014): 366–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/2326-3768.2.4.366.
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AbstractNorth American archaeologists working with Native American or First Nations communities, whose culture often forms the basis of the archaeological record, are becoming increasingly aware that they face a differing set of concerns and issues than those archaeologists who work with non-Native communities. Although their work is not as widely reported in the literature, North American archaeologists who have been fortunate enough to conduct research with Indigenous communities in other parts of the world are often overwhelmed by the variety of issues that may crop up. They often find that their experiences highlight the challenges but also the fulfillment involved in working with Indigenous groups. In the following paper, I offer suggestions based on practices that helped to alleviate issues I faced when working internationally. By broadening the discourse concerning working with Indigenous groups, I hope that these suggestions may also prove relevant to improving the practice of archaeology in North America as well.
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Hill, Heather, and Marni Harrington. "Beyond obscenity: an analysis of sexual discourse in LIS educational texts." Journal of Documentation 70, no. 1 (2014): 62–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-11-2012-0150.
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Purpose – This research seeks to discover the type of discourse encouraged around controversial materials, particularly those of a sexual nature, in LIS educational texts. Censorship and controversial materials are often issues addressed in the LIS literature, but even with ideals of neutrality it can be difficult to remain balanced on certain issues, particularly those dealing with sex. Design/methodology/approach – A content analysis of 85 LIS texts on collection development, reference, and intellectual freedom was completed using the following thematic elements: sex, pornography, erotica, curiosa, facetiae, obscenity, censorship, and controversial materials. Deeper analysis of individual definitions and usages was informed by Michel Foucault's perspective that education “follows the well-trodden battle lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse” (Foucault, 1972, p. 227). Findings – Findings from the investigation indicate that LIS texts are predominately pejorative when discussing sexual topics such as erotica and pornography. Few texts provide distinctions between different types or genres of sexual materials. Research limitations/implications – The majority of texts analyzed for this study were published in the USA and hence have an American bias. This bias necessitated the use of American legal terminology and a reliance on American Library Association guidelines for examination purposes. The emphasis on American terminology may limit the applicability of the results outside of North America. Originality/value – Sex is one of the most highly cited reasons for challenges to materials in libraries. At the same time the mainstream popularity of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has created a new, widespread interest in the publishing, reading, and collecting of erotica. An understanding of how these texts are defined and identified in the LIS literature provides greater understanding of the discipline's biases.
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Goss, Brian Michael. "“All Our Kids Get Better Jobs Tomorrow”: The North American Free Trade Agreement in The New York Times." Journalism & Communication Monographs 3, no. 1 (2001): 4–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/152263790100300101.
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This investigation examines over 300 articles in The New York Times from 1993 that concern the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In constructing a critical analysis of The Times's discourse on NAFTA, I begin with an overview of the factors that impact on contemporary media-government relations in the United States (e.g., “information subsidy,” stereotyped narrative forms into which news accounts are typically organized). Thereafter, I demonstrate how the private sector's and Clinton government's emphatic support for the agreement was regularly insinuated into The Times's coverage. Despite “legitimate controversy” that surrounded NAFTA, The Times's sourcing patterns distinctly shaded toward pro-NAFTA sources. Moreover, the Clinton government's “market/democracy” and “economic invasion” appeals for NAFTA became prominent storylines in The Times despite their implausibility. Conversely, The Times's treatment of the NAFTA opposition (most particularly, the opposition of unions and Ross Perot) was harsh and encased within personalized narratives that skirted away from substantive analysis. Given the stakes involved in this complex, high profile, and consequential issue, I conclude by theorizing what The Times's NAFTA discourse implies about journalism and U.S. democracy.
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Dholakia, Nikhilesh. "Integration of Markets and the Interplay of Interests: Understanding the Discourse about North American Free Trade Area." Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration 9, no. 2 (1992): 106–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-4490.1992.tb00584.x.
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Hemmilä, Anita. "Ancestors of two-spirits: Historical depictions of Native North American gender-crossing women through critical discourse analysis." Journal of Lesbian Studies 20, no. 3-4 (2016): 408–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2016.1151281.
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Giorgi, Alberta, and Stefania Palmisano. "Women and Gender in Contemporary European Catholic Discourse: Voices of Faith." Religions 11, no. 10 (2020): 508. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11100508.
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Catholic women’s movements, networks and initiatives have a long history of advocating for an equal role in the Church—especially in the North American world. In recent years, their presence and visibility has been increasing in Europe too, also in relation to a series of initiatives and events, such as the Mary 2.0 campaign in Germany, which led to the launch of the Catholic Women’s Council (CWC) in 2019. This article focuses on the emerging discourse on women and gender promoted by the developing network of initiatives related to the role of women in the Catholic Church in different European countries. After reconstructing the map and history of this network, the contribution explores its emerging discourse, drawing on a triangulation of data: key-witnesses’ interviews; the magazine Voices; social network pages and profiles.
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McGroarty, Mary. "Editor's Introduction." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 21 (January 2001): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190501000150.
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As a phenomenon, discourse does not belong only to applied linguistics, although applied linguistics figures among the disciplines in which discourse is a central focus. For approximately the last three decades, applied linguists and scholars in allied disciplines have developed more detailed theoretical foundations, more sophisticated research techniques, and a wider range of applications for discourse analysis. Heterogeneity of theoretical perspectives, contexts of application, and research methods has been a hallmark of contemporary discourse research, as many of the volumes in the influential series Advances in Discourse Processes attest (see, for example, Tannen, 1988). Papers in the 1990 volume of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (Grabe, 1990) similarly testify to the already well-established variety of discourse analytic approaches and applications. The classroom has never been the only setting with which discourse analysts and applied linguists have concerned themselves, although educational applications of discourse analytic techniques have been common in North American scholarship ever since The Language of the Classroom (Bellack, Kliebard, Hyman, & Smith, 1966), Functions of Language in the Classroom (Cazden, John, & Hymes, 1972), and Towards an Analysis of Discourse (Sinclair & Coulthard, 1975). It remains a context of major consequence for many applied linguists because of their connection to the world of teaching practice and assessment. The theme of this year's volume, Discourse and Dialogue, revisits some of the topics discussed in these earlier volumes, adds some new areas of consideration, and captures some of the richness of recent discourse-related work.
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Magra, Christopher P. "Anti-Impressment Riots and the Origins of the Age of Revolution." International Review of Social History 58, S21 (2013): 131–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859013000291.
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AbstractThis essay details the relationship between anti-impressment collective actions, the American Revolution, and the age of revolution. Naval impressment represented the forcible coercion of laborers into extended periods of military service. Workers in North American coastal communities militantly, even violently, resisted British naval impressment. A combination of Leveller-inspired ideals and practical experience encouraged this resistance. In turn, resistance from below inspired colonial elites to resist British authority by contributing to the elaboration of a political discourse on legitimate authority, liberty, and freedom. Maritime laborers stood on the front lines in the struggle for freedom, and their radical collective actions helped give meaning to wider struggles around the Atlantic world.
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Battersby, Christine. "Learning to Think Intercontinentally: Finding Australian Routes." Hypatia 15, no. 2 (2000): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2000.tb00310.x.
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This introductory essay argues that it is a mistake to represent Australian feminist philosophy as a kind of discourse theory that is “downstream” of the French post-structuralists or North American postmodernists. Starting with the local—and the specifically Australian modes of racial exclusion, in particular—and exploring some of the byways of philosophy, what we encounter is a range of ontological, ethical, and political models that allow a reconfiguration of self, community, and social change.
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Casanova, José. "The politics of nativism." Philosophy & Social Criticism 38, no. 4-5 (2012): 485–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453711435643.
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The politics of nativism directed at Catholic immigrants in 19th-century America offer a fruitful comparative perspective through which to analyze the discourse and the politics of Islam in contemporary Europe. Anti-Catholic nativism constituted a peculiar North American version of the larger and more generalized phenomenon of anti-immigrant populist xenophobic politics which one finds in many countries and in different historical contexts. What is usually designated as Islamo-phobia in contemporary Europe, however, manifests striking resemblances with the original phenomenon of American nativism that emerged in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. In both cases one finds the fusion of anti-immigrant xenophobic attitudes, perennial inter-religious prejudices, and an ideological construct setting a particular religious-civilizational complex in essential opposition to Western modernity. Although an anti-Muslim discourse emerged also in the United States after 11 September, it had primarily a geo-political dimension connected with the ‘war on terror’ and with American global imperial policies. But it lacked the domestic anti-immigrant populist as well as the modern secularist anti-Muslim dimensions. This explains why xenophobic anti-Muslim nativism has been much weaker in the United States than in Europe.
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Simour, Lhoussain. "Blurring the Boundaries of Gendered Encounters: Moorish Dancing Girls in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Fair Exhibitions." Hawwa 11, no. 2-3 (2014): 133–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341250.
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Moroccan dancing women appeared as entertainers in 19th and 20th-century American fair expositions. Their physical and epistemological journeys and their performances on the fair midways have been largely missing from the histories of the Moroccan and American entertainment industries. Their experiences and narratives overseas are stimulating and worth recovering, because they offer suitable settings in which to engage with the complexities of cultural and racial contacts between self and other, and add an interesting dimension to the notion of travel and border crossing in which gendered routes contributed to the shaping of discourses about racial difference. This article looks at North African dancing women, often conflated in American international expositions under the term “belly-dancing girls” and in their local countries, pejoratively, as shikhat (public dancers in Moroccan dialect). I begin with a brief discussion of Deborah Kaption’s Moroccan Female Performers Defining the Social Body (1994) as a pretext for moving beyond the rigid ethnographical discourses about cultural difference. This article sheds light on gendered encounters in the historical context of fair expositions, where live performances helped shape a tradition of self-referential knowledge about oriental dancing women as a site of fantasies, sexual prowess, and erotic desires. It then proceeds to deal with some experiences of the dancers themselves as “living exhibits” and how their live performances contributed to forming not only orientalist discourse but also the oriental and Western subjects. These dancers were individualized subjects and performers who challenged the conventional definitions about oriental female roles and subverted the American Victorian model of femininity.
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Dunn, Edmond J. "Book Review: God-Walk: Liberation Shaping Dogmatics: Liberation, Method and Dialogue: Enrique Dussel and North American Theological Discourse." Missiology: An International Review 18, no. 1 (1990): 94–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182969001800126.
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Parker, IsraelD, AndreaM Feldpausch-Parker, and ElizabethS Vidon. "Privileging Consumptive Use: A Critique of Ideology, Power, and Discourse in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation." Conservation and Society 15, no. 1 (2017): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-4923.201395.
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Nicoll, Benjamin. "Bridging the Gap." Games and Culture 12, no. 2 (2016): 200–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412015590048.
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This article recovers the popular imaginaries surrounding an obsolete video game platform, the Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System (AES), through a thematic discourse analysis of British and North American gaming magazines from the 1990s. Released in Japan in 1990, the Neo Geo AES was marketed as a home video game system capable of bridging the gap between the public space of the gaming arcade and the domestic environment of the home. “Imaginaries” in this context refer to the dreams and fantasies that accompanied the Neo Geo AES’s negotiation of arcade and home spaces as well as the discourses, images, ideas, and beliefs that helped mold its identity as a cultural object. Gaming magazines, I argue, help articulate how the system’s failure was tied to its unsuccessful navigation of cultural tensions during a period when gaming culture underwent a rapid relocation from the arcade to the home.
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Engelsrud, Gunn. "Teaching Styles in Contact Improvisation: An Explicit Discourse with Implicit Meaning." Dance Research Journal 39, no. 2 (2007): 58–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014976770000022x.
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Since contact improvisation was “invented” in North America in the 1970s, it has gained widespread acceptance; teachers have been travelling extensively to conduct seminars and workshops. The dance form has been documented and researched from several viewpoints, but, as I see it, there is general agreement among practitioners and scholars—including United Kingdom-based Helen Thomas (2003), Norway-based Hilde Rustad (2006) and Eli Torvik (2005), and Cynthia Novack (1990), who worked in the United States—that contact improvisation is a form of nonhierarchical relations that entails an appeal to accept mutual responsibility for each other and that also implies a specific lifestyle. In her book Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture, Novack, as an anthropologist, perceives contact improvisation as embodied culture where the movements are central constitutional parts. Her position is that through the study of contact improvisation, “the history of the dancing serves as a vehicle for investigating powerful interrelationships of body, movement, dance and society” (8).
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Zhang, Chenchen. "Right-wing populism with Chinese characteristics? Identity, otherness and global imaginaries in debating world politics online." European Journal of International Relations 26, no. 1 (2019): 88–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066119850253.
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The past few years have seen an emerging discourse on Chinese social media that combines the claims, vocabulary and style of right-wing populisms in Europe and North America with previous forms of nationalism and racism in Chinese cyberspace. In other words, it provokes a similar hostility towards immigrants, Muslims, feminism, the so-called ‘liberal elites’ and progressive values in general. This article examines how, in debating global political events such as the European refugee crisis and the American presidential election, well-educated and well-informed Chinese Internet users appropriate the rhetoric of ‘Western-style’ right-wing populism to paradoxically criticise Western hegemony and discursively construct China’s ethno-racial and political identities. Through qualitative analysis of 1038 postings retrieved from a popular social media website, this research shows that by criticising Western ‘liberal elites’, the discourse constructs China’s ethno-racial identity against the ‘inferior’ non-Western other, exemplified by non-white immigrants and Muslims, with racial nationalism on the one hand; and formulates China’s political identity against the ‘declining’ Western other with realist authoritarianism on the other. The popular narratives of global order protest against Western hegemony while reinforcing a state-centric and hierarchical imaginary of global racial and civilisational order. We conclude by suggesting that the discourse embodies the logics of anti-Western Eurocentrism and anti-hegemonic hegemonies. This article: (1) provides critical insights into the changing ways in which self–other relations are imagined in Chinese popular geopolitical discourse; (2) sheds light on the global circulation of extremist discourses facilitated by the Internet; and (3) contributes to the ongoing debate on right-wing populism and the ‘crisis’ of the liberal world order.
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Koksvik, Gitte H. "Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement." International Journal of Cultural Studies 23, no. 6 (2020): 951–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877920924426.
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In this article I offer a critical analysis of the loosely defined death positivity movement. Death positivity presents itself as oppositional and liberating, gaining legitimacy by reference to the narratives of death taboo and death denial. I show how the movement encourages extending continuous, self-reflexive engagement in identity and lifestyle to dying and death, arguing that death positivity employs and advocates a particular enterprising culture and furthers a neoliberal discourse of individual responsibilization. To make my argument, I look more closely at the death-positive discourse as it is furthered by two North American initiatives in particular; Death Over Dinner as presented by its founder Michael Hebb in the 2018 book about the initiative, and selected videos published by Order of the Good Death, spearheaded by mortician, author and YouTube personality Caitlin Doughty.
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Amsler, Mark. "Making a genealogy of “American linguistics” with John Eliot’s Indian Grammar Begun (1666)." Historiographia Linguistica 46, no. 3 (2019): 33–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.00050.ams.
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Summary In the history of linguistics John Pickering (1777–1846) and Stephen Du Ponceau’s (1760–1844) decision to reedit and republish John Eliot’s (ca. 1604–1690) The Indian Grammar Begun is an important but underrecognized event. Eliot’s grammar was first published in 1666, but by the early 1800s had been mostly forgotten. Applying book history and critical discourse approaches, I argue the new 1822 edition assembled by Pickering and Du Ponceau was at the center of a newly emergent knowledge project aimed to establish an ‘American’ mode of comparative linguistics on the world intellectual stage. The grammatical analysis of Native American languages, especially Algonquin, and the critique of current European models and typologies of morphology and syntax, especially von Humboldt’s, were central to Pickering and Du Ponceau’s project. Du Ponceau may be “the father of American philology”, but he was not working alone nor did the concept of ‘Comparative Philology’ derive solely from Du Ponceau. Rather, Du Ponceau was the strategist for a more collaborative, organized approach based on the study of American Indian languages. The new edition of Eliot’s grammar reveals how Du Ponceau and Pickering were establishing an informal research network devoted to North American indigenous languages. The production and arrangement of their book depended on a broad, complex, and ultimately institutionally-supported network of scholars and amateur linguists. Their edition also shows how Du Ponceau and Pickering responded to the underlying ideological debate over “savage” languages with an emergent discourse grounded in Native American languages, ‘facts’, and ‘scientific’ linguistics.