How to Identify Negative Attitudes towards Inclusive Education: Critical Discourse Analysis of Russian Transcripts Using Role and Reference Grammar

Julia Denisova ,Galina Menshikova ,Valentina Kaisarova ,Mariia Rubtcova ,Олег Павенков ,Lidmila Volchkova ,Julia Alexandrovna Varlamova

doi:10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.5n.5p.183

Abstract

This paper presents the Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) analysis that aims to reveal possibilities required for carrying out the interdisciplinary research development within Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). It takes a closer look at conflicts, considering the example of a conflict situation occurred in reaction to the opening of the inclusive academic programme at one of St. Petersburg’s secondary schools. Role and Reference Grammar application demonstrates that the use of different verb types and macroroles has led to the various interpretations. These findings confirm that RRG could influence the increase of objectivity of the transcript analysis in qualitative social research. RRG provides new information which in combination with other methods can help us to understand the positions of participants involved into conflicts

Highlights

In the USSR parents were encouraged to provide institutional care for children with special needs
This paper presents the Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) analysis that aims to reveal possibilities required for carrying out the interdisciplinary research development within Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
· Can RRG analysis be useful as it performs an additional interpretation of discourse features in the conflict situation presented in transcripts?

Summary

Introduction

In the USSR parents were encouraged to provide institutional care for children with special needs. Correctional pedagogy is based on the creation of separate schools for children with special needs and it still has a large number of supporters (Martianova & Rubtcova, 2013). Later on 26 October, 2014 many large Russian cities were already overtaken by the mass demonstrations (MK, 2015), which resulted in working out a petition in defense of Correcting Education in Moscow to Vice Prime Minister Olga Golodets and signing it by 14 thousand people (MK, 2015). There is considerable uncertainty with regard to importance of the mentioned above language differences (Rubtcova et al, 2016; Rubtsova et al, 2015a) This can be explained as Padusheva focuses primarily on distinctive features with the purpose of the other conception development on the RRG basis, which is identified as the main goal of the present paper (Padusheva, 2009b). · Can RRG analysis be useful as it performs an additional interpretation of discourse features in the conflict situation presented in transcripts?

Theoretical framework

Data and method

Discussion and conclusion