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Discursive bridges: a socio-hermeneutical analysis of meaning shifts Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Marc Barbeta-Viñas
This study explores discursive bridges in a new way, with the aim of presenting a methodological tool for the analysis of meaning shifts. This tool is within the socio-hermeneutical current, whose ...
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Discourses of disruption in Asia: creating and contesting meaning in the time of COVID-19 Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Baoqin Wu
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The ethnocratic shikun: housing discourse in support of nation-building Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Matan Flum
This research critically analyses the Israeli housing block (‘shikun’) discourse, as presented in cultural representations during 1948–1961, and its contribution to the evolution of the Israeli-Pal...
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Support group or transgender lobby? Representing Mermaids in the British press Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Aimee Bailey, Jai Mackenzie
This article examines representations of Mermaids, a charity that supports trans young people and their families, in the British press. Using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, we identif...
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‘So they hit each other’: gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Kerry Reidy, Keeley Abbott, Samuel Parker
This study presents a critical discourse analysis of YouTube comments below five videos of the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard trial, which was live streamed by the platform in April and May 2022. The an...
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Audience labour, discourse dynamics and challenges for analysis Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Phil Graham
This paper theorises and exemplifies the place of audience labour in the propagation of Discourse and discourses. Audience labour is simply the work of people engaged in mediation processes as they...
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Phil graham: critical insights into the futurity of discourse and the discourse of futurity Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Patricia Dunmire
This essay examines Professor Phil Graham's contributions to the critical study of “futurology,” that is, the creation and use of projections of the future by elite social actors and institutions. ...
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Saying ‘Criminality’, meaning ‘immigration’? Proxy discourses and public implicatures in the normalisation of the politics of exclusion Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Hugo Ekström, Michał Krzyżanowski, David Johnson
This article explores political discourse in the context of an online-mediated 2021 rapprochement between Swedish ‘mainstream’ and far-right parties paving the way for their eventual 2022 electoral...
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Dual discursive articulation: languages of persuasion and resistance in street library community Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Yasraf Amir Piliang, Tri Sulistyaningtyas, Ghina Zoraya Azhar
This study examines the dual discursive articulation in the Instagram posts of the street library community, Literasi Trotoar (LIAR), in Purwakarta, Indonesia. The study focuses on two groups of po...
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Languaging, human projects, selves, and societies of selves Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Paul J. Thibault
Focusing on the self as a normative construct, I consider how and why the self, not the group, is ontologically fundamental. Selves live in communities or societies of selves. The intrinsic normati...
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Rethinking ethics in AI policy: a method for synthesising Graham’s critical discourse analysis approaches and the philosophical study of valuation Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Nadira Talib
Here I use aspects of Phil Graham’s discourse analytical work to examine forms of e/valuations and critically analyse the formulation of truths in the constitution of Artificial Intelligence (herea...
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Phil Graham and axiological discourse analysis: after neoliberalism Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Allan Luke
This is an essay introduction to a special edition of Critical Discourse Studies on the work of Phil Graham. It is a critical overview and reappraisal of his major interdisciplinary contribution to...
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Abrogating Article 370 and Kashmir’s exceptionalism: a critical analysis of India’s bodies politic Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Aditi Bhatia
In 2019, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took the historic decision of abrogating Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, revoking Kashmir’s special...
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Redescribing fossil-fuel investments: how hegemony challengers ‘invert’ arguments in the Norwegian public discourse on climate risk Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Tine S. Handeland, Liv Sunnercrantz
This article introduces the concept of inversion as a rhetorical-political strategy used to redescribe climate concerns from being sacrificed in favour of profitability to seeing that profitability...
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Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Yaru Zhao
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Settler colonialism and therapeutic discourses on the past: a response to Burnett et al.’s ‘a politics of reminding’ Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Rafael Verbuyst
In ‘A politics of reminding: Khoisan resurgence and environmental justice in South Africa’s Sarah Baartman district’, Burnett et al. scrutinize the memory activism of the Gamtkwa Khoisan Council, w...
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Responding to questions at press conferences: confrontational maneuvering by Chinese spokespersons Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Mila Ida Nurhidayah
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‘Trapping my way up’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Black Sherif’s songs Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu
Taking cognisance of the social and linguistic power of trap music and its song lyrics as crucial avenues for language use in society, this study set out to conduct a corpus-assisted discourse anal...
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‘From there everything changed’: conversion narrative in the biomimicry movement Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Fransina Stradling, Valerie Hobbs
An increasingly influential approach to solving human ecological problems is an innovative design practice known as biomimicry. The Biomimicry Institute, a major stakeholder in the Biomimicry Movem...
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‘Vicious, vitriolic, hateful and hypocritical’: the representation of feminism within the manosphere Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Jessica Aiston
ABSTRACT This paper examines the legitimation of antifeminist ideology within the manosphere, based on qualitative analysis of posts from an antifeminist Reddit community. Taking a discourse-historical approach to CDS, I analyse the nomination and predication strategies used to represent feminists in addition to the argumentation strategies used to convince others of the illegitimacy of feminism. Overall
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The politics of climate change metaphors in the U.S. discourse: conceptual metaphor theory and analysis from an ecolinguistics and critical discourse analysis perspective Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Yang Hu
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How to ‘decaffeinate’ a legislative report: emerging discourses on the climate change-migration nexus within the European Parliament Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Mert Söyler, Martín Torino Zavaleta, Olivia Jane Whelan
ABSTRACT This paper examines the different discourses adopted concerning the climate change-migration nexus within the European Parliament (EP). It uses a critical discourse analysis approach to analyse a specific motion for resolution report, its amendments, and plenary debates, as well as an expert interview with the rapporteur to gain further insights into the political dynamics and challenges involved
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Sensegiving doesn't always make sense: framing the implementation of performance-based funding in Ohio Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Amanda (Mandie) Maxwell, Victoria Barbosa Olivo
ABSTRACT Organizational sensegiving is a framework that details influencing others in an organization’s process of making meaning of new information. In this study, we examined sensegiving through performance-based funding (PBF) discourse of state actors to Ohio citizens. Utilizing critical discourse analysis, 14 media releases were analyzed, focusing on linguistic construction to examine discursive
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A multimodal and ethnographic approach to textbook discourse Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Shimiao Guan
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‘For business it boils down to one thing’: affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Joseph Comer
ABSTRACT This paper underscores how articulations of/about affect establish the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of what is authorized, encouraged, redeemed, or prohibited within discourses that legitimate neoliberal governmentality. Through an exemplary analysis of LGBTQ diversity discourse data, I demonstrate how institutionalized ‘endorsements’ of diversity frame employees’ selves entirely as resources for capital
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Discourse, intersectionality, critique: theory, methods and practice Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Eleonora Esposito
ABSTRACT For the past thirty years, Critical Discourse Studies has been consolidating as a form of linguistically-oriented, critical social research which is characterized by a deep interest in actual social issues and forms of inequality, such as racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and sexism, both in terms of the asymmetries between participants in discourse events and their unequal capacity to control
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Intersecting hostilities around the European migration crisis: the case of Carola Rackete and the Sea-Watch 3 Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Eleonora Esposito, Angela Zottola
ABSTRACT On June 29, 2019, Carola Rackete docked the rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, in defiance of a ban imposed by Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. The migrants rescued by the Sea-Watch 3 had been blocked at sea for the previous two weeks, making it to international headlines and sparking a heated debate around sovereignty and humanitarianism in the face of the
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Examining gendered discourses from an African locale: towards an intrasectional feminist critical discourse analysis Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Nancy Henaku
ABSTRACT Following calls for transnational and decolonial perspectives in [feminist]CDA, this paper considers what it means to do a critical analysis of gendered discourses from a Global Southern perspective. It highlights how discourses from an African locale, with its complex local-global intra-action, provide another instance of the complexity of discursive and identitarian power in late modernity
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‘Sorry, You're Not A Winner’: considering critical relativism, competing interests and lateral power struggle in ethical critique Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Lexi Webster
ABSTRACT Critical discourse studies do not often consider lateral power struggles between social groups with competing and intersecting interests, ideas and identities. As such, there is often little to no consideration of potentially detrimental outcomes or unintended consequences when proposing radical and transformative change. This paper therefore argues for critical relativism in CDS, considering
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Intersectionalisation as meta-discursive practice: complicated power dynamics in Pink Dot’s movement-building Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Michelle M. Lazar
ABSTRACT This article adopts the combined perspectives of critical discourse studies and (critical) intersectionality studies to examine efforts at movement-building by Pink Dot SG, an LGBTQ group, which has developed within the illiberal geopolitical space of Singapore. The term ‘intersectionalisation’ is introduced to refer to a reflexive meta-discursive strategy which mobilizes the intersectionality
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Gender equality in the name of the state: state feminism or femonationalism in civic orientation for newly arrived migrants in Sweden? Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Simon Bauer, Tommaso M. Milani, Kerstin von Brömssen, Andrea Spehar
ABSTRACT This article contributes to ongoing discussions in the social sciences about how to interpret the incorporation of gender equality into integration policies – is it a form of state feminism or femonationalism? Drawing upon intersectionality, we analyse how gender equality is presented, discussed and negotiated in relation to ethnicity and nationality in Sweden. Methodologically, we employ
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The discursive construction of intersectionality in public policy implementation Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 MariaCaterina La Barbera, Laura Cassain, Paloma Caravantes
ABSTRACT After three decades of intensive debate in academic and activist circles, intersectionality has progressively been adopted in public policies. Yet, the challenges of its application are still largely unexplored. This article adopts a discursive approach to study the process of policy implementation of an intersectionality-informed plan in Madrid City Council, Spain. The analysis of materials
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‘A threat to national unity, an emancipator’: discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Ayo Osisanwo, Richard Akano
ABSTRACT The recently resurged Yoruba Nation (YN, henceforth) agitation joins some socio-political movements, social protests, and resistance group discourse in Nigeria that continue to gain traction in (critical) discourse studies. Guided by the theoretical paradigms of van Leeuwen’s representational strategies and Martin and White’s appraisal framework, 24 representative posts out of a thousand posts
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Critical Discourse Analysis: a practical introduction to power in language Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Huihui Jiang
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The hybrid discourse of the ‘European Green Deal’: road-mapping economic transition to environmental sustainability (almost) seamlessly Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
The ‘European Green Deal’ (EGD) is a set of communications from the European Commission that outlines EU roadmap to climate neutrality by 2050. The policy envisions that, with the facilitation of s...
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Politicized or popularized? News values and news voices in China’s and Australia’s media discourse of climate change Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Changpeng Huan
Despite worsening material realities of the climate, discursive tensions between a need to popularize climate issue and an increasing politicization trend in climate change communication continue t...
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Negotiating climate change in public discourse: insights from critical discourse studies Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Guofeng Wang, Changpeng Huan
This Special Issue collects five articles that are located in the present global context, and draw on methods from across critical discourse studies (CDS) to examine the interaction between materia...
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How tick list sustainability distracts from actual sustainable action: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 David Machin, Yueyue Liu
The United Nations ‘Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ lays out 17 Sustainable Development Goals to address a range of global issues related to the future of the p...
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Positioning as discursive struggle for equity: a critical discourse analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of African countries Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Xufeng Zhu, Xin Shang
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are critical climate policy documents formulated by the Party countries, under the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, to communicate their goals and commitments to r...
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Linguistic polyphony in UN speeches on climate change: an analysis of implicit argumentation Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Guofeng Wang, Xiuzhen Wu, Yupei Xiang, Yingzi Qu
This study employs quantitative and qualitative methodologies mainly to examine how UNFCCC Executive Secretaries use concessive but-constructions and linguistic polyphony to implicitly argue points...
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Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Nana Pang
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The discursive construction of a new reality in Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Mario Bisiada
ABSTRACT This article applies Bakhtinian dialogism and the idea of centripetal and centrifugal forces in struggle to critical discourse studies to analyse how powerful and marginalised discourses are brought into competition in political language to justify paradigm changes. I analyse German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende (‘watershed’) speech, which he gave as a response to the Russian invasion
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Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Vanessa Tafi, Bryn Alexander Coles, Simon Goodman, Scott Yates, Christopher Elsey
ABSTRACT This paper addresses responses to news about the imposing of a local lockdown in a UK city. The opposition to the measure shows it to be controversial as does the associated rejection of the grounds for taking action against covid more generally, which comes alongside the devaluing of expertise, resistance to public health responses, a proliferation of conspiracy theories and misinformation
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‘New’ Dutch Civic Integration: learning ‘Spontaneous Compliance’ to address inherent difference Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Nadine Blankvoort, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Margo van Hartingsveldt, Anja Krumeich
ABSTRACT In January 2022 the new Dutch Civic Integration programme was launched together with promises of improvements it would bring in facilitating the ‘integration’ of newcomers to the Netherlands. This study presents a critical discourse analysis of texts intended for municipalities to take on their new coordinating role in this programme. The analysis aims to understand the discourse in the texts
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Conspiracy theory discourses Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Richard J. Whitt
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Intensifying resistance through complexification: a positive discourse analysis of the portrayal of Amazighs in a selected Moroccan EFL textbook Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Khalid Said, Taoufik Jaafari, Belqassem Laghfiri
ABSTRACT Although critical discourse analysis (CDA) sets out to investigate both oppressive and progressive discourses, the vast bulk of published studies seem to prioritize the former. This paper is a response to scholarly calls to engage with (non)oppressive discourses by integrating positive impulses in critical discourse analysis, and thus contribute to the growth of positive discourse analysis
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‘Real men score’: masculinity in contemporary advertising discourse Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Anna Islentyeva, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Nadia Schützinger, Andrea Platzer
ABSTRACT This study investigates the strategies employed in the representation of masculinity in a sample of 50 advertising campaigns launched between 1999 and 2020. The chosen posters advertise products targeted at men that fit into five categories: beverages, food, daily care products, male fragrances, and clothing. Among the brands advertised are American Apparel, Clinique, Coca-Cola, Dove, Givenchy
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An ‘attractive alternative way of wielding power’? Revealing hidden gender ideologies in the portrayal of women Heads of State during the COVID-19 pandemic Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Carolin Debray, Stephanie Schnurr, Joelle Loew, Sophie Reissner-Roubicek
This paper explores the gendered discourses of the – seemingly favourable – media coverage that certain Heads of State received for their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at media reports...
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Hierarchies among intertextual references: reading Reggaeton Ilustrado’s digital humour through the colonial matrix of power Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera
ABSTRACT This article examines intertextuality in digital humour through a combination of tools from pragmatics and decoloniality. The study draws on a dataset of Spanish image macros that intertwine highbrow and lowbrow intertextual references. The analysis is framed by key theoretical concepts at the discursive and hierarchical levels. Specifically, three domains of the colonial matrix of power (knowledge
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‘It’s probably still written by a white person’: challenging assumptions about racial identity in a critical professional development course Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Audrey Lucero, Janette Avelar
ABSTRACT In this article, we present a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the online discussion board posts of a group of elementary educators as they discussed their interpretations of four historical timelines that presented different – sometimes complementary and sometimes contradictory – information about the goals of the Lewis & Clark expedition and its effects on Native populations. This activity
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Textbooks as ‘Neoliberal artifacts’: a critical study of knowledge-making in ELT industry Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Asma Nizamani, Waqar Ali Shah
ABSTRACT The present study examined the traces of neoliberal ideology in O-level English language textbooks taught in elitist private schools in Pakistan that follow the UK-based international educational system administrated by the University of Cambridge under the General Certificate of Education (GCE). Analysis in the study was informed by Fairclough's CDA writings. Moreover, Bourdieu's views on
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Anti-populist fantasies: interrogating Veja's discursive constructions, from Lula to Bolsonaro Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Sebastián Ronderos, Jason Glynos
In this paper we draw on the concept of fantasy and the principles of political discourse theory to develop an analytical framework for the study of Veja's anti-populist discourse. As one of Brazil...
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Scroll culture and authoritarian populism: how Turkish and Greek online news aggravate ‘refugee crisis’ tensions Critical Discourse Studies (IF 1.642) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Lyndon C. S. Way, Dimitris Serafis
News consumers are more likely to inform themselves through digital news outlets and social media ‘newsfeeds’ than physical newspapers [Ofcom. (2022). News Consumption in the UK: 2022. https://www....