Construction Of Discourse Research Articles

Modelagem matemática, professor mediador-orientador e construtivismo: entrelaçamentos discursivos na constituição da figura docente

ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to discuss the few conditions that made it possible for the emergence of the statement “the teacher, while developing Modeling activities, is no longer the transmitter but a mediator-mentor in the process of teaching” in the field of Mathematical Modeling from the perspective of Mathematical Education. We make use of the concepts, discourse, enunciate and statement from Michel Foucault's line of thought. The analytical material from which the aforementioned enunciate emerged encompasses theses and dissertations defended in the period between 1987 and 2016, which report, describe, or discuss the development of Modeling activities in the classroom of basic education. The analysis made it evident that the constructivist discourse did not consist only of a possibility for the emergence of the statement mediator-teacher, but also of the crystallization of this teaching representation as a pedagogic truth in the field of Mathematical Modeling.

Boundaries beyond borders: The impact of institutional discourse on the identities of asylum seekers

Previous research has shown how certain language has been used to legitimise political actions against asylum seekers, but a greater examination of how this language might impact the identities of asylum seekers themselves by imposing particular subject-positions, is needed. This paper begins from the premise that social identity change is important in the psycho-social wellbeing of asylum seekers and that discourse within UK asylum guidance enables and obstructs this process. Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was used to explore how certain identity categories were constructed, and asylum seekers were positioned, within 59 official documents. The documents selected were those which directly addressed asylum seekers, providing guidance about UK asylum policy and practice. These included formal UK government guidance documents and documents provided by Non-Government Organisations (NGOs). A discourse of ‘security’ inhabited the UK government guidance, which constructed a moral imperative to protect the UK from outside harm and thus positioned those forced to migrate as morally dubious. Further, the discourse served to infrahumanise asylum seekers, homogenising them as ‘other’ which in turn was used to justify more punitive asylum practices. By contrast, a discourse of ‘compassion’ inhabited the NGO texts, which served to recognise, emotionally connect and respond to the needs of those seeking asylum. It constructed active, multiple identities among those seeking asylum, allowing space for old and new identities to come to the fore and positioning a potential ‘them’ as ‘us’. Within this material, UK asylum guidance acts as a powerful psychological tool in which the two discourses construct seemingly incompatible identities. These identities either open up or close down opportunities for change, thus enabling both a ‘social cure’ and a ‘curse’ in the experience of, and changes within, post-migration life.

Futures and hope of global citizenship education

This article provides a conceptual discussion of the role of hope in promoting global citizenship education (GCED) and argues that a global perspective in education requires a hopeful imaginative ethos to lay the foundations for a new transformative pedagogy. After introducing UNESCO’s recent report Reimagining Our Futures Together, which addresses urgent global challenges and assigns a major role to a global perspective in education, the article discusses the meaning of GCED as a non-neutral transformative approach in education. While this report, as well as previous ones, has been criticised for its visionary over-idealism and lack of attention to the power dynamics governing education, it will be argued that hope has transformational power and can play a political role in education. The article will then highlight contrasting ideas in envisioning different images of the future promoted by international organisations that have a significant impact on global educational policies and the construction of the global discourse on education. Finally, drawing especially on the legacy of Freire’s vision of critical education, radical hope is reviewed by comparing it with two related issues: utopia and optimism.

Writer's Identity Construction in Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Academic Discourse

Writer's Identity Construction in Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Academic Discourse

The Culture of Using Social Media of Environmental Discourse by The Youth in Tangerang City

This study explores the construction of environmental discourse in social media among the youth in Tangerang City, Banten Province, Indonesia, based on the perspective of environmental communication concept and social media perspective. The method incorporated was a case study by interviewing key informants, ten youths from Tangerang City, with qualitative descriptive analysis. The research found that almost all key informants have a common culture of environmental discourse in social media. Also, the research found that the youth socialize with others on social media who feel the need to grow and participate. In addition, the youth think that the discourse on a green environment refers to the desire to create an environment that is clean from garbage and has lots of trees and more plants, creating a peaceful, quiet, spacious environment with and preserving lots of green plants and animals.

The construction and collapse of clean cycling discourse : the case of Sir David Brailsford

The construction and collapse of clean cycling discourse : the case of Sir David Brailsford

Revolutionary Culture and Construction of Progressive International Communication Discourse of the CPC Governance

Revolutionary Culture and Construction of Progressive International Communication Discourse of the CPC Governance

Cognitive Turn of International Communication Discourse of Chinese Culture in the Globalization Context

The arrival of the digital communication era marks that human thought is gradually being regarded as a new field of contention. The “contention for concepts” has gradually evolved into the “contention for cognition” now. The contention for thinking patterns and codes of conduct enables communicators under all-media environment to participate in information processing and knowledge production by adjusting more cognitive resources. As the carrier of cultural communication, international discourse is the discourse used in China’s foreign exchanges, which aims to present the real China to foreign audiences and form their correct understanding of Chinese culture. In the globalization context, China is shaping the Chinese context globally, cultivating discourse subjects, producing Chinese international discourse in order to seek global discourse and emotional resonance on Chinese stories. This paper expounds the practical value of construction of cultural cognitive communication discourse in the globalization context, summarizes the characteristics of cognitive communication discourse, and discusses the communication requirements of cognitive discourse communication in Chinese culture, so as to enhance the appeal and acceptance of international discourse in cultural communication, and enhance the soft power of Chinese culture.

Экспериментальный дейксис в пространстве поэтического текста

The article deals with the linguopoetics of deixis as one of the key mechanisms for expressing subjectivity in artistic communication. The aim of the study is to discuss the specifics of deictic words and constructions in experimental poetic discourse. The second part of the article analyzes the functions of personal, spatial, and discourse (textual) deixis in the visual layout of a poetic text (spatial design of verse). The material for analysis encompasses Edward Cummings’ experimental verse, conceptual poetry, US Language Writing, and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s poetic texts. The study has found that the deictic means of language, interacting with the visual space of the poetic text, actualize the dynamic subjec­tivity of the aesthetic utterance. In poetic discourse, the spatiality, length and duration of the utterance (message) as such is a particularly active field of indexicality.

Research on the Construction of Chinese Discourse and Chinese Narrative Systems from the Cognitive Contextual Perspective

Research on the Construction of Chinese Discourse and Chinese Narrative Systems from the Cognitive Contextual Perspective

Фактор адресата в письменном академическом дискурсе

The article examines specifics of construction of reader-oriented academic discourse. Traditions of academic writing are affected by sociocultural factors. However, in order to publish their research in an international journal, authors have to adjust their academic writing to international, usually English-language, requirements. Anglo-American tradition of academic writing is often described as reader-oriented: the author is responsible for information clarity and its proper interpretation by the reader. This kind of academic discourse is described as ex-plicit and carefully structured unlike writer-oriented discourse, which is implicit and often lacking a commonly accepted structure. The aim of this research is to identify the features of reader-oriented academic discourse in academic articles published in two issues of international English-language journal "ESP Across Cultures". The research corpus comprises 15 articles which were analyzed by means of discourse analysis with elements of contextual and interpretation methods. The results were then further examined by means of classification and systematization methods. As a result, it was established that typically when constructing reader-oriented discourse, the authors carefully structure their paper complying with journal requirements; clearly state the aim of their study, describe methodology in detail, and use examples to enhance their arguments; present the results and main features of their research in a concise and comprehensible conclusion; use visual aides to help the reader understand information; employ dialogicity means and link-words to keep the readers focused and to simplify their text perception.

Ut Poesis Historia? A Computational-Hermeneutic Approach to the Renaissance Art of History

This article aims to reopen discussion of the Renaissance ars historica, a genre that has garnered little attention in modern scholarship. It does so by using a set of computational tools to measure the quantitative occurrence of terms related to artistry and cognition in Johann Wolff's collection of historical-method texts entitled “Artis Historicae Penus” (1579). Like the period's historical writing, which amalgamated aesthetics and historiography, the Renaissance artes historicae belonged to a historiographical paradigm in which the skillful construction of discourse went hand in hand with the search for historical truth. The title of Wolff's anthology accordingly draws an overt connection between the concepts of “ars” and “historia,” yet what did sixteenth-century theorists mean by “art”?

中医疗法在英国主流报刊中的话语构建研究——以“针灸”为例

中医疗法在英国主流报刊中的话语构建研究——以“针灸”为例

The Female identity being performed -- Gender rebellion in Cindy Sherman’s photography

Cindy Sherman is a post-modernist artist who uses photography to question and deconstruct traditional images of women. Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills is a female self-portrait “parody”, showing the performative characteristics of “female behavior” in many places. Judith Butler pointed out that the construction of female gender identity comes from “performativity”, which has a connection to Sherman’s work. Based on Judith Butler’s gender theory, this paper analyzes Sherman’s artistic techniques and the content of her works, pointing out how women’s identities and bodies are subtly constructed and disciplined by behavioral language and symbolic chains in the media. In addition, this paper tries to prove that Sherman’s critique of female identity is not radical but derived from a revision of the problem. Starting from the source, she distorts the details of traditional works to make the audience feel dissonance and realize the problem independently, finally achieving the purpose of deconstruction. Cindy Sherman attempts to use the method of parody and distortion (by creating dissonance) to illustrate that the discourse construction process of “gender” features is dominated by lots of symbolic features that people are used to performing, and what Sherman wants to deconstruct is not only the concept and characteristics of female identity, but also the limitations of female identity under the background of “performance”, and more the process of how “performance” culture establishes this concept.

The Discourse Construction of the Image of Medical Workers in News Discourse

The Discourse Construction of the Image of Medical Workers in News Discourse

Analysis of Core Discourse and Discourse Framework on Public Opinion of US-Proposed Human Rights Issues in Xinjiang from the Perspective of Cognitive Communication

With the rise of China in all fields, US with ideological bias has waged a public opinion war against China and seized the international public opinion field through a series of means, trying to win the support from homeland and international community, then to curb China’s development and undermine China’s international image. In order to understand its internal mechanism, it is necessary to analyze the construction mechanism of public opinion discourse from the two dimensions which are core discourse and discourse framework, and meanwhile extract China’s core discourse based on the discourse framework recognized by the international community, aiming to effectively counter the American discourse hegemony, contribute more discourse framework to the international community, and promote the fair distribution of international discourse power. By taking the public opinion on Xinjiang’s human rights issues released by international mainstream medium dominated by US as an example, this paper will study the intervention process of core discourse and discourse framework, and analyze discourse construction logic where concepts hidden behind the discourse provide value support.

THE LIBERAL PROJECT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATION IN THE HORIZON OF THE NEW EUROPEAN “MANAGEMENT PARADIGM”

The purpose of the article is to analyze the “story of the history of the emergence of European nations” as a historical narrative; the variability of “told stories” presented in the form of scientific sociological discourses reveals significant “ambiguities” (E. Balibar) in the representation of the nation, which provides material (objects) for subject thematization in scientific research. The task is to identify and determine the conditions for the possibility of a consistent representation of the nation and the principle of its structure. The article concludes that the representation of the nation as a “new European phenomenon” is due to the ascent of the “activity paradigm” (J. Agamben), in which “function” and “being” reach “indistinguishability” in reality; in the “managerial paradigm” (M. Foucault), the social place of the nation first appears in two interrelated discourses: wars (the nation as the “political form of the people” is the subject of the revolution) and the population (the nation as a “social community” and as a category of scientific sociological discourse). The significance of the normativity of the construction of scientific discourses of the nation in the horizon of liberalism is determined. The first article analyzes the narrative history of the emergence of the first European nation by L. Grinfeld; establishes the reasons why the “republican” “English national identity” is considered exemplary and should be evaluated as the only suitable model for nation-building; reveals the principle of removing the “ambiguity” between the representation of the nation as a “political community” and a “social community” in the horizon of liberal the “republican nation” project.

Discourse of Women's Body Construction in Advertising and Promotion "Lovely Nia" and "Alitaren"


 
 
 
 The emergence of women who are often the subject of visualization of mass media advertisements is largely due to the perception of the low status of women in the institutions adopted by our society. Ads that standardize women's ideal bodies prove how men (especially in ad production) can create women to fit their "sexy or beautiful" fantasies. Advertising as a mass communication system, now tends to become a parameter and implementation that creates gender biases and preserving the construction of the female body. So that it’s considered not excessive regarding David Crystal's statement that advertising is the most colossal cultural product, when viewed from the perspective of ideology, morals and aesthetics. Using Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, this study explores how 'Lovely Nia' discusses the construction of the female body in advertisements and social media promotions 'Lovely Nia' and 'Alitaren' how the concept of patriarchal ideology plays a role in this construction. The findings of this study are to make the concept of beauty an important asset that must be owned and cultivated by women and the discourse on the construction of the female body makes women still positioned as objects, especially when women have become wives. 'Lovely Nia' and 'Alitaren' still apply the malegaze concept in their advertisements and promotions both offline and online. Even though women place themselves as subjects who have full power over their body shape. The absence of men from advertising and social media promotions does not promise the release of women from patriarchal culture.
 
 
 

Pandemia dezinformacji

Introduction: The continuing pandemic crisis represents a factor of profound destabilization, because it has exacerbated the phenomena already in place. In particular, social distancing, physical immobility have definitively shifted the construction of public discourse on the network, thus, giving rise to what is called “platform society”, where it is the platforms that produce the social structures in which we live. Research Aim: The intervention intends to propose a reflection on how the processes of disinformation, accompanied by the crisis of authority of experts, propagated by a media system that increasingly feeds on information cascades and social propagation, have characterized the institutional communication at the time of the pandemic, its continued loss of authority, too often crushed between drifts induced by sub-politics and social dynamics. This narrative review is based on an analysis of the data collected from the empirical studies on the topic. Evidence-based Facts: The reduction of the spaces of personal freedom, the suspension of rights, have altered the relationship between citizens and institutions, further modifying and weakening the dimension of the public sphere. These dynamics have profoundly altered the circulation patterns of online information that have influenced the choices of users. Summary: The dynamics of proliferation of fake news thanks to the strength of their cross-mediality favor the entrenchment of polarized opinions that are consolidated thanks to a communicative construction centered on the feeling of fear.

Meanings given to (super-)diversity in the Dutch national team by Dutch football commentators: A historical approach

International football can be considered the main site for meaning-making processes related to national and racial/ethnic diversity. Various scholars have argued how international football, with the World Cup as its apex, can be seen as a barometer for understanding dominant attitudes towards societal diversity. A key domain where this diversity is interpreted and given meaning to is mediated football. To provide a wider overview of – often intersecting – meanings given to nationality and race/ethnicity over a longer period of time, this explorative study uses a historical approach to inquire how Dutch-mediated football – especially football commentary on television – has given meaning to a diversifying Dutch national team at three moments in time (the World Cups of 1974, 1998 and 2014). Further, it discusses how mediated football serves as a site for the (re)construction of discourses surrounding nationality and race/ethnicity in the Netherlands. Our findings show that meanings given to nationality and race/ethnicity are fluid, context-dependent and reconstructed in a particular temporal context. Further, it appears that key players have provided a significant role in meanings given to (super-)diversity of the Dutch national football team. Commentary on White Dutch key players was dominated by positive comments (in the World Cups of 1974 and 2014), while comments on Black Surinamese Dutch key players was relatively more negative (in the 1998 World Cup). Moreover, our results contrast with earlier studies in that Dutch commentators did not rely on stereotypical representations of Black Dutch footballers as ‘naturally’ athletic.