Critical Discourse Analysis Studies Research Articles

Critical discourse analysis study of stance taking and positioning in American and Russian political speeches

critical discourse analysis study of stance taking and positioning in American and Russian political speeches

The Representation of Multicultural Content Provided by “World-Class Franchise” English Course Textbook Used in Indonesia: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study

Multicultural values in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks have attracted many researchers, academics, and educators in many studies around the world. However, there is limited literature examining the representation of multicultural content in English course textbooks used in Indonesia, specifically EFL course textbooks from world-class franchise programs. Therefore, this study employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine the impartiality of cultural content representation provided by the EFL course textbook regarding different cultures and ethnic groups. This study provided Halliday’s systemic functional analysis to examine verbal data. While Kress and Van Leeuwen’s visual grammar theory was employed to comprehend, analyze, and explore visual representations from selected EFL course textbooks. This study reveals the EFL course textbook does not reflect the diversity of cultures in Indonesia, as it mainly focuses on the perspectives and traditions of Western and European countries. This creates an unfair and distorted representation of other cultures, especially those from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, whose values and beliefs are not adequately considered or respected within the EFL course textbook. The implications of this study suggest that the inclusion of cultural sensitivity within EFL course textbooks is crucial in fostering cultural awareness, promoting respect among EFL learners, and creating a more equitable and inclusive learning environment.

Tourist Attraction Commodification in the Wayang Topeng Performance in Malang

Wayang Topeng is a drama-shaped performance by dancers wearing masks who hide their faces, carrying essential and symbolic purposes.Wayang Topeng performances are always associated with rites as a medium of worshipping ancestral spirits. Today,Wayang Topeng is undergoing a change, from a routine event to a show for tourists held by one of the hotels in Malang city. This change in the performance’ format from a stage show to a tourism packaging show, made the Wayang Topeng experience a shift in its values and original meaning. It is suspected that it has shifted the cultural values that were once a part of traditional culture to the direction of mass culture. This phenomenon is not only seen as an adjustment to the media format, but as a form of commodification. This research seeks to uncover forms, processes, ideologies, and powers related to the commodification of the Wayang Topeng performance. This qualitative research uses interview data and observations which were analyzed using the interpertation technique.The method used was the art phenomenology research with a study of critical discourse analysis. From this analysis of the Wayang Topeng performance through interviews with several sources and combined with relevant literature, the results show that: (1) content commodification happened in the Wayang Topeng performance, and (2) the ideology behind the process of commodification is capitalism. The power behind commodification is market power.
 Keywords: commodification, mass culture, Wayang Topeng

Political Communication Strategy through Unique Posters: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study

Political Communication Strategy through Unique Posters: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study

ANALISIS WACANA PEMBERITAAN MEDIA ONLINE KOMPAS. COM MENGENAI KASUS RAFAEL TRISAMBODO

The problem to be studied in this research is how the discourse is developed in the online news of Rafael Trisambodo case. This research aims to describe the text structure (macro structure and microstructure, social cognition, and social context in online news discourse). The method used is descriptive qualitative with Van Dijk's critical discourse analysis model with reading and writing data collection techniques. Two strategies were carried out when analyzing the study data, namely identifying, clarifying, and interpreting the data. Researchers analyzed one trending news discourse, the Rafael Trisambodo case. Based on the findings of this study, it is known that the text illustrates the involvement of several discourse elements, namely semantic aspects, syntactic aspects, and lexicon stylistics. So that the description of the critical discourse analysis study is seen from the three discourse structures of Van Dijk's model and its elements regarding the text of the Rafael Trisambodo case. From the whole discourse critically analyzed in the online news text, the dialect in the news related to social cognition is used to influence and emphasize the Rafael Trisambodo case.

Study of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) Teun a van Dijk in Jokowi News Sentil Minister Related to Oil Price Increase in Beritasatu.com

The development of the times and technology is giving a big enough influence, especially in the world of information and communication. The existence of information media, both printed and electronic, makes it easier for the public to obtain information and access all circulating news. The public, as recipients of the news or information, must take advantage of the critical thinking process, so that they are able to digest the news they receive until they are close to the truth of the news they enjoy. In line with this statement, this study aims to analyze the news with the headline News on the Increase in Cooking Oil Prices and Pertramax which was published on the beritasatu.com page. This research belongs to the type of descriptive qualitative research. Data collection techniques carried out in this study include documentation techniques, listening techniques, and note-taking techniques. The data analysis technique used in this research is content analysis or content analysis. The object of this research is electronic news on the beritasatu.com page with the news entitled “Jokowi Sentil Menteri Soal Kenaikan Harga Minyak Goreng Dan Pertamax Pada Laman Berita1.com Prices which was published on April 6, 2022. The object of this research was chosen because it has an actual topic, and is still widely discussed. to date. The theory used as the basis for analyzing the data is the theory of critical discourse analysis from Van Dijik's perspective, which includes text, context and social cognition. The results showed that; (1) the topic was raised because the news presenters wanted to present news that seemed to answer some of the questions that existed in the ideology of the community; (2) The meaning shown in the news discourse is to provide information to the public regarding the president's steps in dealing with the problem of rising oil prices and Pertamax; (3) the form of the sentence used is dominated by active sentences and uses a lexicon of foreign language terms; (4) the graphics shown are dominated by graphics in the form of images; (5) Based on the description presented in the news, it can be seen that the news seems to answer the opinion circulating in the community. Regarding the increase in the price of cooking oil and pertamax which are currently circulating

Islamophobia in the Reporting of Siti Elina in Tempo.Co: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study

The mass media constructs events into news. It is not uncommon for the mass media to create a phobia effect in society when constructing certain events. This study aims to describe, interpret, and reveal Tempo.co's strategies in promoting Islamophobia in reporting on Siti Elina, a woman who brandished a gun in front of Istana Merdeka. This is a critical qualitative research. The research data is in the form of diction suspected to contain elements of Islamophobia. The data source is news on the Tempo.co online media that aired from October 25-28, 2022, and five articles were selected. Data collection used the observation method with the free participant observation technique and note-taking technique. After the data was collected, it was analyzed using the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA) model by Norman Fairclough. The results of this study indicate that (a) in the text analysis dimension, Tempo.co constructs Islamophobia towards Islamic clothing and attributes, Islamic organizations, Islamic teachings, and Islamic religious teachers; (b) in the discourse practice analysis dimension, Tempo.co marginalized the issue by reporting on Siti Elina's case in an unbalanced manner; (c) in the sociocultural analysis dimension, the Islamophobic discourse produced by Tempo.co cannot be separated from the political interests involved.

Corpus-Based Metaphorical Framing Analysis: WAR Metaphors in Hong Kong Public Discourse

ABSTRACT This study proposes an operational approach to a metaphorical framing analysis using large-scale data. We conducted a case analysis of how war metaphors are framed to address various societal issues in a corpus of public speeches by Hong Kong government officials. By investigating patterns of lexical choices under the source domain of WAR and the underlying reasons for the source-target domain mappings (i.e. Mapping Principles), we found that the target domain of social issues in Hong Kong is primarily conceptualized in terms of a combat frame, and governmental issues are primarily talked about in terms of a protection frame, both of which are positively evaluated. Additionally, economic issues are primarily addressed in terms of a strategy frame, which is both positively and negatively evaluated. We show that analyzing the Mapping Principles of these conceptual metaphors captures the “selection” process of framing at the dimensions of frame frequency and frame sentiment, allowing for a principled way to propose a metaphorical framing analysis in corpora-based studies. The proposed approach enriches Critical Discourse Analysis studies of metaphorical framing and bridges the link between metaphor analysis at a conceptual level and framing analysis at a communication level.

Critical discourse studies eleven years on in China (from 2011 to 2021): A critical review

Since critical discourse analysis (CDA) was introduced to China in 1990s, it has developed into an influential and thriving field. This article reviews the development of CDA in China from 2011 to 2021, during which CDA had thrived to be a productive field in terms of the in-depth theoretical and methodological explorations and the overwhelming majority of empirical studies which considerably expanded its scope to a much wider range of discourses. It also came to involve a broader array of disciplines including corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, multimodality, translation studies, and eco-linguistics. It can be found that while keeping pace with the international CDA studies, Chinese scholars consistently gear CDA to China’s social, political, and cultural contexts and strive to use CDA to deliberate on and solve social problems in contemporary Chinese society. This brief review endeavors to communicate with the international academia regarding the latest developments of CDA in China.

CONSTRUCTION OF TOKOPEDIA SQUAD AD PUBLICITY DISCOURSE: A STUDY OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH

Abstract
 The Tokopedia squad is a group of influencers formed by the Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia in one of its advertisements. The Tokopedia Squad advertisement was uploaded with the headline “Inspirational, update current products & tell you anti-stale promos!”. Having the concept of a Squad or a team consisting of eleven well-known Indonesian influencers, Tokopedia Squad narrates the life of young people who have contemporary needs and can be accessed easily, practically, and instantly through the Tokopedia platform. Advertising publicity intends to promote a product to the intended target market. Advertising publicity that is carried out massively and carried out on a large scale certainly conveys discourse messages that contain ideology in them. The purpose of this study is to dissect the construction of discourse contained in the advertising publicity of Tokopedia Squad with the study of critical discourse analysis by Norman Faircligh, by looking at a textual discourse seen not only as text but as social practice. The method used is to look at three discursive dimensions starting from the text, text production, and sociocultural practices that build the discourse of the text. The results of the analysis found that the birth of text as a social practice was based on the socio-cultural conditions of Indonesia, especially millennial youth who are passionate about updates and technological matters. The ideology of convenience and consumerism aligns millennial youth which can be realized with the Tokopedia platform.
 Keywords: Discourse Construction, Tokopedia Squad, Publicity

Issues of the 2024 Presidential Candidates in Online News Texts: Critical Discourse Analysis of the Teun A Van Dijk Model

The discourse on the 2024 presidential candidate issue is a discourse formed by the practice of power which implies certain goals. Therefore, media discourse that reports on the 2024 presidential candidate issue is an issue or problem that contains critical languages or expressions. This research is important to find out the purpose or intention of the presidential candidate issue which reports on popular figures who have a major influence on social change and the progress of the country in the future. The purpose of this study is to analyze news texts about presidential candidates using the text dimensions of the Teun A. van Dijk model in the form of macro structure, super structure, and micro structure which are modified with the Jufri model. The type of method used is qualitative with a qualitative descriptive design that describes aspects of the text dimensions of the discourse structure, the data used is written text on the online news media CNN Indonesia, Jawapos.com, and Kompas.com. The results of this study are to describe the description and interpretation of the aspects of text dimensions in the form of macro structure, super structure, and micro structure which are then explained in the form of actions or actions that have a specific purpose. This research is useful for making a theoretical contribution and providing a conceptual overview that can inspire researchers or students who focus on the study of critical discourse analysis and can be implemented in critical discourse courses.

An Integration of Moral Values on the English Text Book of Vocational High School. A Case Study of Critical Discourse Analysis

English Textbook of Vocational High School in terms needs to be assessed for their relevance of the hard skills and soft skills. This research aims to cultivate the integration of moral values found on the ELT textbook of Vocational High School at the grade of X, XI and XII. This research method is a qualitative descriptive research method in the Critical Discourse Analysis of the verbal and visual image. The moral values found on book declares that the respect for other of being friendly occurs in 17.5 %. The book tendency occurs on the social sensitivity which occurs in 7%. Furthermore, the moral value in regarding the students’ hard skill depicts the Creativity with 6.8 %. This indicates that, the fifth sense of Pancasila keadilan social bagi seluruh rakyat Indonesia is clearly found on the book. In addition, the are some meanings implied explicitly on the textbook based on the visual image cultivate the character building in social sensitivity which has an effect to human’s daily life. The study conveys that, the respect for other of being friendly is more emphasized in the ELT textbook. Meanwhile, social creativity in this book is more emphasized with the visual image model. The ELT textbook design of vocational high school provides a lot of very significant insight into students' abilities to learn English as a foreign language the content, topics, use of grammar and methodology reflect moral content, conveying many moral messages such as information about culture, beliefs, and social morals

Right Wing Populist Discourse in the European Parliament on Turkish Foreign Policy

Right-wing populism is on the rise all over the world and has led to profound effects and changes in the international system. The European continent, which is identified with democracy and human rights, also sees its share of this trend. Today, right-wing populist parties and actors are gaining strength in many EU countries and come to the fore as a serious political focus. The European Parliament (EP), as an example of direct democracy, has become one of the most visible institutions facing this shift. In this article, the discourses of right-wing populist parliamentarians in the EP toward Türkiye are focused on through a social constructivist perspective. The 2009-2014 and 2014-2019 parliamentary periods are analyzed comparatively to present which discursive strategies MEPs used in their statements about Türkiye and what kind of Türkiye representation they constructed in the EP. The article benefits from critical discourse analysis studies and aims to contribute to the literature on the attitudes of right-wing populist groups on Türkiye.

A Critical Discourse Analysis Study of UNHCR Reports on Internally Displaced Iraqi People

Critical discourse analysis is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice. Thus CDA is considered a theory in qualitative research in which the framework of analysis includes analysis of texts, interactions and social practices at the local, institutional and social levels.The present research paper is concerned with utilizing critical discourse analysis in analysing UNHCR reports that have been selected from internally displaced people of Iraq. The main aim of this on-going study is to investigate the linguistic devices that have been found in UNHCR reports. Thus, five UNHCR reports have been selected randomly from the internet for the reference period of 2014 to 2017. The procedure followed for the analysis of these reports is Norman Fairclough’s Three-layer model (2001). The study has come up with the following concluding points: on the textual analysis level, the reports consist of vocabulary items including synonymy, collocations, hyponymy, Acronyms, etc. On the discoursal analysis level, the reports involve repetitions, conjunctions, articles, and conjunctions. On social analysis level, the reports are said by different UNHCR representatives and happened in different occasions to send different messages.

Speech act-based legitimisation in selected inaugural speeches of British Prime Ministers

This paper offers insight into discursive patterns of the two most recent BritishPrime Ministers’ inaugural speeches from an anthropological pragmatics perspective. The paper employed speech act theory in conjunction with a qualitatively centered critical discourse analysis study to unveil messages within the illocutionary communicative acts in the context of public political speeches. It is argued that both speeches are inherently embedded within threat-based rhetoric whose persuasive effect follows from a predominant use of the pathos and ethos appeals. Advancing the concept of speech acts as a tool for establishing pragma-discursive patterns, this paper demonstrates that generating fear in public discourse is essentially strategic and goal-oriented practice. Most importantly, the strategies used by Rishi Sunak rely heavily on his use of promises and statements, reflecting patterns of legitimisation through building a credibility schema and proximising the frame of fear mongering. Liz Truss on the other hand, develops slightly different narrative patterns, drawing mainly upon promises that help enact ‘collective leadership’ in the times of threat and a socio-economic crisis.

Women’s Stereotypes in “Pretty Girl” Song Lyrics: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study

One of the components in music or song which can be used as an access to the image of women is song lyrics. Woman image presents mental, spiritual, and daily behavior expression by women in many aspects; physical and psychological as women's self-image, family as well as community traits as part of social images. Through language written as song lyrics, a discourse can be expressed according to what the songwriter feels and thinks. The objective of this study is to find out how the image of women which becomes a stereotype is represented in the lyrics of the song "Pretty Girl" by Maggie Lindemann. This study was a qualitative study using the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach with Norman Fairclough's model. The model was used to analyze the feminist discourses contained in the lyrics of the song "Pretty Girl" by Maggie Lindemann. The analysis found that the song "Pretty Girl" sung by Maggie Lindemann contained discourses about Maggie Lindemann's rebuttal of women stereotypes.

Low-hanging fruits, usual suspects, and pure serendipity: towards a layered methodological framework on translators and interpreters’ ideological language use drawing on the synergy of CDA and corpus linguistics

ABSTRACT Following the trends of digital humanities and interdisciplinarity, there is growing interest in exploring the discursive aspects of translation and interpreting (T&I), drawing on the triangulation between Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics. The comparative nature of this line of research means that bilingual discourse analysis differs from monolingual CDA. Despite its usefulness, traditional CDA was designed for monolingual qualitative analysis and applying it systematically to the corpus analysis of bilingual discourses is less straightforward. So far T&I scholars have explored individual discursive categories (e.g., modality) in a few individual studies. However, there is a lack of overall methodological reflections on the likely ideologically salient categories and how to detect translators and interpreters’ mediation comprehensively. Therefore, a stratified framework is proposed, promising to shed light on the question relating to what CDA researchers might look out for empirically drawing on a corpus approach. The various discursive categories/toolkits covered in this framework potentially serve as a starting point for future studies concerning comparative CDA studies at different levels of abstraction. Rather than being prescriptivist, the proposed layered framework is open-ended, flexible and pragmatic, focusing both on propositional and non-propositional contents and both preconceived a priori experientialist categories and serendipitous discoveries. Illustrative examples from various discursive categories are discussed.

Positioning idealism with the power of Waspada newspaper review of the van Leeuwen theory

This research is motivated by the problem of conspiracy between idealism and power in the context of critical discourse analysis studies. The domination of power makes idealism lose its resonance as a pillar of truth and justice which is marked by resistance and trust from its readers. This needs to be studied academically with The van Leeuwen's theory in the perspective of critical discourse analysis. The purpose of this study is to photograph the relationship between power and idealism, marginalization, and conspiracies of the mass media and their readers. In Theo van Leeuwen's theory, a problem is analyzed by exclusion and inclusion based on ideology. This type of research is a qualitative research that describes descriptively the problems in the Nusantara column in the North Sumatran Waspada newspaper. The source of the research data was obtained from the Nusantara column in the Waspada newspaper by analyzing the items per sentence according to Theo van Leeuwen's theory. Keywords: Idealism, Power, Critical Discourse Analysis

Türkiye’de Eleştirel Söylem Analizi Çalışmaları: İmkânlar, Esaslar ve Kısıtlılıklar

The main subject of this study is a detailed literature review analysis of critical discourse researches made in the Turkish language. As a unique discipline, critical discourse analysis has played an important research tool role in social sciences. Critical discourse analysis, which emerged in the late 1980s, can be considered a relatively new research method in our country. This discipline has developed around the schools of three different academics. One of the leading figures in this field is Teun A. van Dijk (b. 1943). Van Dijk, the founder of the Socio-cognitive Approach, is one of the important names cited in the analysis of political and media discourses. Another name is Norman Fairclough (b.1941). Fairclough's 3-Dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis method also constitutes an important space in discourse studies. Another significant figure in the field of critical discourse analysis is Ruth Wodak (b. 1950). Wodak, the founder of the Discourse Historical approach, first developed this method to analyze the biased anti-Semitic language and imagery in Waldheim's electoral programs in the Austrian presidential election that was held in 1986. Since then, the methodology developed by Wodak has been useful for discourse analysis of cases with an important historical dimension. This study aims to explain the approaches of the discourse experts mentioned above and to compile critical discourse analysis and corpus analysis studies conducted in political and media texts in Turkish academia. As a result of this study, which was carried out within the scope of the qualitative research method, important insights into the basic features, possibilities, and limitations of critical discourse analysis research in Turkish academia have been obtained. Some of the insights obtained can be summarized as follows: It has been determined that the critical discourse analysis studies available in the Council of Higher Education online database include a total number of 54 master’s and doctoral theses published since 2003. Among these theses, the number of the theses prepared in Turkish is 23. As a result of the Google Scholar search, it has been found that the number of Turkish studies conducted since 2003 is more than 90. The most cited research among these studies is the article “Discourse Analysis” published in 2008. The main limitation of most of the critical discourse analysis studies made in the Turkish language is about the usage of the translations of the works authored by the above-mentioned experts who developed this discipline, and this usage limits the number of resources concerning the method because not every major work has been translated into Turkish. In the light of the findings, the ways to improve the discipline in Turkish academia shows the importance of this study.

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in the Perspective of Chinese and Foreign Media A Corpus-Based Study of Critical Discourse Analysis

This research uses corpus as a research tool and critical discourse analysis as the primary theoretical basis to explore the domestic and NOW corpus of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. We found that: China Daily has taken advantage of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics to shape the international image of China as a reliable, trustworthy, friendly, environmentally friendly, and clean power, which reflects the reality of China more comprehensively and objectively. Foreign news reports on the Beijing Winter Olympics are primarily positive, but there are still nearly one-third of negative evaluations. China still has a long way to construct a foreign-oriented publicity system. It is imperative to consider the acceptance of foreign audiences while making positive propaganda for China to optimize the foreign communication system, improve communication effectiveness, and enhance the effect of global communication.