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The urgency of critical race theory in critical discourse studies: a case for critical race discourse analysis Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Danielle Hodge
This article situates critical race discourse analysis (CRDA) as a methodological possibility for critical discourse scholars and critical race scholars curious about the ways our analyses can repr...
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How to study cultures? A dialectic approach for multicultural business environments Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Lara Carminati
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The media and civil protests in Africa: contextualising Nigerian press coverage of #EndSARS Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Tordue Simon Targema, Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Peter Esuh
Within the context of Nigeria’s multiculturalism, the operations of the press revolve around the dynamics of political, economic, and ethno-regional contestations for power which impact the discour...
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Enchronic cultural discourse analysis: a semio-cultural study of national identity discourse of Saudi Founding Day Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Amir H.Y. Salama, Rania Fawzy
Calendrical events can conflate the political with the popular, for example, merging national identity with that of a political community, reflecting characteristics of glocalism. This article seek...
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A rhetorical-political framework for multilingual and translingual scholarship Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Shyam Sharma, Bal Krishna Sharma
Societies around the world are multilingual, but scholarship is increasingly monolingual. Dominant global languages, which serve as link languages for scholars who share them, can restrict access t...
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Interfacing the cultural dialectics of commodification and resistance: Nubian spatial/narrative repertoires as markers of hybrid diaspora culture Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Rania Fawzy, Amany Al-Shazly, Heba Nayef, Lubna A. Sherif
Nubian culture is explored in the current study as a system of symbolic repertoires informed by dialectics. The study has drawn on the cultural approach to discourse (CAD) [Shi-xu. 2005. A Cultural...
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Interdiscursivity through Foucault’s dreams of the plague: discursive constructions of the covid-19 pandemic in The New York Times Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Juan Li
Adopting an interdiscursive approach to text and discourse, this study investigates the complex and interwoven discursive relations between various social and discursive practices in The New York T...
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Reincorporating a bird’s eye view into cultural discourse theory Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Trudy Milburn
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 18, No. 4, 2023)
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Discourses on language teaching, language learning and linguistic diversity in teacher education: the case of English in Iraqi Kurdistan Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Louay Salman Haji, Annika Norlund Shaswar, Åsa Wedin
In this study, we investigate linguistic diversity in teacher education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a setting where discourses on emigration and re-emigration are strong. The aim is to explore...
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Tracking the transmission of culture: a cultural discourse analysis of narratives of circulation in the US undergraduate public speaking course Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 David Boromisza-Habashi
Ethnography of communication studies conducted by communication scholars, including those informed by cultural discourse theory, typically approach the cultural transmission of discursive resources...
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Globalectics, critical discourse studies (CDS) and Southern feminisms Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Waqar Ali Shah
Feminist research in critical discourse studies, like other strands of CDS, has been primarily North-centric. The transdisciplinary nature of this field has led to its theories and methods travel g...
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Sport, media and populism: Why Polish soccer fans matter to European politics Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Andy Ruddock
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2023)
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Banalisation of race through football Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Mateusz Grodecki
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2023)
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Constructing the abortion debate: a comparative news values analysis of print media discourses in Ireland and Argentina Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Muireann Prendergast
Socio-political transitions prompt shifts in public sphere discourses on key issues (Krzyżanowski, Michał, Anna Triandafyllidou, and Ruth Wodak. 2009. ‘Introduction’ in the European Public Sphere a...
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Seeing the unseen: the role of language choices in organizing Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Bradford J. Hall
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2023)
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Communicating the other across cultures and times Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Evgeniya Pyatovskaya
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2023)
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The changing ethnic news media landscapes: implications of technological convergence in multicultural Pakistan and Russia Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Sadia Jamil, Anna Gladkova, Elena Vartanova
Media representation of ethnic minorities and communities is important in multicultural societies that reflect ethnic cultural diversity. Therefore, the role of ethnic news media becomes crucial to...
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Meanings given to race/ethnicity in everyday football talk by young adult Polish audiences: a reception study Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Arne van Lienden, Jacco van Sterkenburg, Mélodine Sommier
A wide body of research has focused on representations of race/ethnicity in sport media content, because of its central location in popular culture. These studies found that sport media content ser...
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Thinking and doing otherwise in the academy: drawing lessons from the Global South Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Jesica Franco
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2023)
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Governing superdiversity: a critical commentary on intercultural understanding Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Ronald Walter Greene, Zornitsa Keremidchieva
ABSTRACT The proliferation of models of diversity governance signals not just persistent unease with diversity itself, but also a trend toward increasingly intensive investments in governance and governmentality across political, social, and media platforms. And, following Sara Ahmed (2012 Ahmed, S. 2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham, NC: Duke UP.[Crossref]
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Is there justice in this world? A cross-cultural pragmatic analysis of the conceptualisation of ‘justice’ Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Jesús Romero-Trillo, Irina Rozina
ABSTRACT The present article compares the conceptualisation of the Spanish term justicia and the Russian spravedlivost’ with the English justice to determine the contextual uses and specific cultural features of the concept. The data used in the study is taken from three online corpora – British National Corpus, Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA), and Russian National Corpus. The investigation
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The politics of southern research in language studies: an epilogue Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Sinfree Makoni, Cristine Severo, Ashraf Abdelhay
ABSTRACT In this epilogue we connect contemporary discussion concerning Southern epistemologies and methodologies in language studies with decolonizing Higher Education. This means that we cannot divorce Southern epistemologies from the regimes of truth that guide the modes of production, dissemination and appropriation of knowledge in the global world, which also includes the discussion concerning
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Transcending circulations of southern and northern concepts: introducing mobile and dialogic perspectives on language Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Isabelle Léglise, Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Ana Deumert
This paper constitutes an introduction to our special issue on Transcending circulations of southern and northern concepts: Towards mobile and dialogic perspectives on language puts the spotlight on the hegemonies and marginalizations of mainstream academic productions and the circulations of concepts in the contemporary fields that are labelled Multilingualism, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
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Towards a critical transformative approach to inclusive intercultural education Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Amanuel Elias, Fethi Mansouri
ABSTRACT Education has often acted as a social microcosm that reflects the growing levels of religious and cultural diversity in Australia, with educators facing the daily task of responding pedagogically and interculturally to the challenges this evolving context brings. This paper engages critically with intercultural initiatives and policies and their role in fostering inclusivity and cross-cultural
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From unequal Englishes to the praxis of decolonial fissure: Englishes in the Indonesian periphery Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Setiono Sugiharto
ABSTRACT The idea of unequal Englishes has of late been proposed with vim and vigor to unravel the presence of the unequal spread of the nativized variants of Englishes, especially in Kachurian Outer and Expanding circles. The notion envisions the possibility that any emerging varieties of Englishes in these circles are considered more legitimate than any other emerging variants and are therefore valorized
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Towards an understanding of institutionality, culture, and organization in relation to power in discourse studies Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Jasper Roe
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2023)
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The global north and the global south negotiations of power: a literary discourse study of Angola’s Agualusa and Ondjaki Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Maria Bäcke
ABSTRACT Over the centuries, the contact zones of transculturation moved from colonised land to Portuguese soil and again to that of the former colonised. Power structures are diffuse as Angola again becomes a site of ‘co-presence, interaction understandings and practices within hierarchised systems of dominance’, although Portugal no longer is a colonial power. Mapping transformed relationships by
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Re-voicing conceptualizations of plurilingual education: ‘El plurilingüismo, este concepto de … ¿cómo se puede decir?’ Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Raquel Carinhas, Maria Helena Araújo e Sá, Danièle Moore
ABSTRACT Plurilingual education is usually viewed by its proponents as emancipatory. But is it really, and if so, how? For what kind of learning experiences, what kind of production of knowledge, what sense of identity and of community? In this contribution, we discuss collaborative inquiry and arts-based engagement as public and plurilingual pedagogy. We focus on a partnership between elementary school
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Cultural Discourse Studies as culturalist approach to communication: object, objectives and tasks Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Shi-xu
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2023)
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Linguistic repertoire: South/North trajectories and entanglements Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Marcelyn Oostendorp
ABSTRACT Linguistic repertoire is regarded as one of the foundational concepts of sociolinguistics but despite its prominence during the early years of the discipline, it is commonly believed that for decades scant theoretical development on repertoire occurred. This situation is seen to change in the early 2000s when several (Northern) researchers increasingly advocated that linguistic repertoire
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Troubling circulating discourses on planet earth. Attending to complexities through a mobile-loitering gaze Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta
ABSTRACT This paper highlights the erasures of normal-languaging and normal-diversities that mark the contemporary human condition. Its aim is to make visible North-centric assumptions regarding the nature of language by asking what, when, why and where language exists and how it plays out in global-local, analogue-digital timespaces. In particular, the study presented in this paper troubles the interrelated
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Circulation of concepts, compartmentalisation and erasures in Western academic circles: sumak kawsay/buen vivir and translanguaging Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Isabelle Léglise
ABSTRACT Building on previous studies, this paper addresses the geopolitics of knowledge circulation in an academic field known as sociolinguistics in France, showing firstly the common erasure of research produced in the Global South and in languages other than English, and secondly the need to decolonise entire fields of research, in which analytic frameworks are mostly produced in hegemonic Global
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Reexamining the meaning of ‘space’ in the discourse of globalization and its implications for cultural discourse studies Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Yao Wang, Miaomiao Zuo
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2023)
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Conceptualizing organization: hybridity and the naturalizing of dis/order Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Eric Karikari
This study analyzes how organization is co-constituted by order and disorder through the examination of individuals’ interactions with standardizing discourses – the English language and globalized...
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Towards a methodology of cultural discourse studies Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Shi-xu
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2022)
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Voices silenced by written texts: indigenous languages encountering standardization Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Susana Ayala-Reyes, Valeria Rebolledo-Angulo, Elsie Rockwell
ABSTRACT This article examines ways in which Indigenous teachers and students draw on diverse language repertoires while deciphering, writing, and translating texts in multilingual educational spaces. Recent normalization of orthographies tends to homogenize indigenous languages in Mexico, while silencing and excluding actual language repertoires, thus reproducing the colonial asymmetry that has privileged
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Gender, religion and identity: discursive constructions of ‘non-veiling’ among non-veiled Malaysian Muslim women Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Farhana Abdul Fatah
ABSTRACT This paper examines the link between language, identity, religion, and gender through a study of discursive identity construction among non-veiled Muslim women in Malaysia. Informed by Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA), this paper further explores the ways through which these women attempt to negotiate and/or subvert their positions of powerful and powerless within interrelated
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The never-ending challenge of understanding how media discourse portrays women in politics Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Claudia Lagos Lira
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2022)
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Revisiting the true purpose of the discourse on decolonising Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Finex Ndhlovu
ABSTRACT The human and social science communities have over a long time committed themselves to the pursuit of an ever-growing list of new conceptual frameworks, but often only to rob such theories of profundity in the end. Such habits and practices reduce into ‘slogan’ ideas that otherwise hold the promise for robust interrogation of how we came to be where we are. In this article, I extend scholarly
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Re-reading xenophobic discourses from an ubuntu perspective: a study of the plight of ‘makwerekwere’ in Mhlongo’s After Tears Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Esther Mavengano, Tobias Marevesa, Paul Nepapleh Nkamta
ABSTRACT Classification of African migrants in South Africa as undesirable, economic parasites, illegals, among other derogatory terms, characterises current xenophobic discourses and foregrounds frontiers that divide people in Africa. Xenophobia violates the philosophy of ubuntu/Vumunhu/Umunhu and the parable of the Good Samaritan which define humanity as diverse but collective. Drawing from this
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Following the path of otherwise: subalternized subjects, academic writing and the political power of discomfort Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Alan Silvio Ribeiro Carneiro
ABSTRACT This article draws on discomfort as an epistemological tool to rethink about how subalternized subjects have been positioned and can position themselves in relation to academic writing practices and academic spaces. The discussion is organized in four sections: in the first one, drawing on Black feminist thought, it is discussed how language has a role in experiences of being marginalized
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Innovative perspectives on knowledge creation based on arts-related methods and participatory research Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-14 Cláudia Pato de Carvalho
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2022)
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Are media covering while women are campaigning? A study of Mexican municipal elections Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Fernanda Vidal-Correa
ABSTRACT Studies on media coverage have found that female nominees receive unequal treatment regarding their visibility and portrayal of their agendas. To assess how media cover women, municipal elections in Mexico are analysed. By focusing on municipal elections, this research advocate for the study of local phenomena and their discourses. The study questions whether women have received equal media
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Negotiating space for multilingualism in English-medium writing: authors, reviewers, editors Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Maria Kuteeva
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2022)
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Recent research trends on language education: translanguaging and linguaculture perspectives Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Weihua Yu
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2022)
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Reclaiming the indigenous knowledge(s): English curriculum through ‘Decoloniality’ lens Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Syed Abdul Manan, Khadija Tul-Kubra
ABSTRACT When government announced removal of the Goodbye Mr. Chips from intermediate-level English textbooks in one of the provinces of Pakistan, the public and media response was overwhelming. Students in particular took a sigh of relief because many believed it was a boring story by a foreign author, depicting a foreign setting. Drawing on this development as a reference point, this article examines
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Self-othering to power: vilification, ridicule and moral claims in the Israeli right ‘underdog’ discourse Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Eithan Orkibi
ABSTRACT Although the Israeli right holds an equal – if not superior – position of power within the Israeli bi-polar political cleavage, its leaders and spokespersons continue to nurture a group identity of an excluded, marginalized and oppressed ideological movement. This study examines the discursive practice of ‘self-othering’ in Israeli right-wing discourse. Focusing on a particular case study
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Actualizing interculturality through finding de-centred threads Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Yih Ren
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2022)
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Epistemological plurality in intercultural communication knowledge Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Hamza R’boul
ABSTRACT Intercultural communication is one of the primary fields that can deconstruct and unsettle historical and contemporary power structures. However, the demands for decolonizing the field warrant thoughtful and self-critical appraisal of how interculturality theory may fail to fulfill its inherent premises, e.g. equality, the problematization of international relations, reconciliation among cultures
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The dialectics of the securitization and desecuritization of African asylum seekers discourse in Israel Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Elie Friedman
ABSTRACT This study engages in an analysis of the media discourse regarding African asylum seekers in Israel, examining how populist and elite Hebrew language news websites utilize securitized and desecuritized discourses to depict asylum seekers in both a period of perceived acute threat (2011–2012) and a period in which the perceived threat has dissipated (2018–2019). Utilizing a Dialectic Discourse
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Language diversity in academic writing: toward decolonizing scholarly publishing Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Suresh Canagarajah
ABSTRACT This article draws from scalar theory to examine how textual diversification can engage with linguistic and social structures to both pluralize academic writing and facilitate an alternate structuration of publishing policies and practices. It adopts indexical analysis to demonstrate how non-normative linguistic choices can gain uptake for meanings and status in academic communication, leading
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What is next for de-westernizing communication studies? Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Silvio Waisbord
Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2022)
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What makes multicultural dialogue truly multicultural? Rethinking cultural convergence, theoretical globalism, and comparative Eurocentrism Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Yoshitaka Miike
ABSTRACT This commentary article argues that, if we wish to make multicultural dialogue truly multicultural, we must rethink three pervasive and prevailing ideologies that are explicitly and implicitly shaping the current trends of communication theory, namely, cultural convergence, theoretical globalism, and comparative Eurocentrism. Cultural convergence should not be presumed only in light of popular
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Cuts destroy, hurt, kill: a critical metaphor analysis of the response of UK academics to the UK overseas aid budget funding cuts Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Maria Grazia Imperiale, Alison Phipps
ABSTRACT In this article, we analyse the response of UK academics to the UK government decision to cut international development research funding as part of the overseas aid budget reduction, undertaken in March 2021. This decision affects and will have long-lasting effects on any research project involving the UK and international partners, particularly in Global South contexts. We use Critical Metaphor
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De-westernizing hegemonic knowledge in global academic publishing: toward a politics of locality Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Setiono Sugiharto
ABSTRACT Concomitant with the increased pressures on scholars around the globe to publish in top-tiered scholarly indexed English journals, the Indonesian government has imposed a stern policy obliging local scholars to publish in such journals. This policy has serious ramifications for the academic promotions, tenures, research grants and allowances of these scholars. Yet, as it is English that has
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Framing similar issues differently: a comparative analysis of Dutch and Iranian news texts Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Afrooz Rafiee, Wilbert Spooren, José Sanders
ABSTRACT In this study, the concept of framing is applied in order to show differences in the conception of crime events in the genre of news texts across socio-cultural contexts. Three aspects of framing at the thematic, lexical and syntactic level are defined: occurrence, marked description and prominence and, accordingly, a corpus of one hundred crime-news articles in Dutch and Iranian national
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Traditions of communication theory and the potential for multicultural dialogue Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Robert T. Craig, Bingjuan Xiong
ABSTRACT Multicultural dialogue on communication theory is needed both to de-Westernize the field and to engage it with an emerging global communication culture. The Constitutive Metamodel envisions a pluralistic field of communication theory that invites dialogue among multiple traditions of thought on practical communication problems. Can the Constitutive Metamodel serve as a heuristic framework
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Metaphorical framing of feminism and women in Spanish online media Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-23 Florencia Reali
ABSTRACT Online media has enabled the representation of important feminist ideas. However, a tendency towards a negative and sexualized construction of feminism in popular culture has been documented. One way to examine opinions and attitudes towards social matters is to explore metaphors as they influence reasoning and decision-making. Previous work has shown that common metaphor patterns for women
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Towards an appreciation of individual positionality and the global-local interface: Facebook Actorhood in Zambia Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-06-27 Gabriel Simungala, Hambaba Jimaima
ABSTRACT Using data from Zambian Facebook platforms, we argue for the complex intersectionality of the global-local semiotic assemblages for the production and consumption of a contested and unpredictable virtual landscape. While ‘glocality’ is a by-product of an on-going sociolinguistics of globalization, and that the local remains an active partner in the (co-)creation of glocality, the paper sees
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Studying ideology and discourse as knowledge, power and material practices Journal of Multicultural Discourses (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Johannes Beetz, Benno Herzog, Jens Maesse
(2021). Studying ideology and discourse as knowledge, power and material practices. Journal of Multicultural Discourses: Vol. 16, Discursive practice and the role of ideology: Ddiscourse studies meets critical theory guest edited by Johannes Beetz, Benno Herzog, Jens Maesse, pp. 103-106.