Critical Discourse Analysis Studies Research Articles

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

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.

NATIONAL SPEECHES ON NOTABLE POLITICAL FIGURES: A position paper on CDA studies

This study highlighted the value and appropriateness of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in the examination of national speeches of political leaders for policy pronouncements. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interplay among power, ideology, and language and the mechanisms deployed in the national discourses of some notable political leaders to capture reality, manipulate, persuade and shape the audience (citizenry) to action. This study underscored the capability of Critical discourse analysis (CDA) to investigate the manner by which social power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political contexts. The study revealed attempts at ideology legitimization and power dominance through the use of cognitive discourses. We are taken through the empowerment ability of discourse in diverse sociopolitical contexts and how power relies on discourse for multidisciplinary actions that convince the citizenry to acknowledge, sustain and advocate their leaders’ ideologies. The study adopted a conceptual framework and relied on secondary and tertiary sources. The study also made recommendations to scholars on how to adopt discourse-related methodologies to enhance knowledge creation in political addresses. Lastly, the study acknowledged the limitations of the CDA approach.

UNSUR SEMANTIK DEBAT PUBLIK PASANGAN CALON PADA PILGUB JATIM 2018: KAJIAN ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS [Semantic Elements of the Candidate Pair’s Public Debate in the 2018 East Java Governor Election A Study of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

The title of this article is "Semantic Elements / Meaning of the Words of the Public Debate of Candidate Pairs in the 2018 East Java Gubernatorial Election in conveying the East Java development program for the Next Five Years: A Study of Critical Discourse Analysis (AWK)." The issue raised is how the semantic element/meaning of the word public debate of the candidate pairs in the 2018 East Java Pilgub in conveying the East Java development program for the next five years: Critical Discourse Analysis (AWK). The objectives of this study are: to describe, interpret, and explain the semantic elements/meaning of words used by the candidate pairs in the 2018 gubernatorial election in conveying the East Java development program for the next five years. The theories used are public debate, campaign language, pilkada, and critical discourse analysis/awk: public debate, campaign, ideology, election, and critical discourse analysis/AWK. The research method used is the qualitative method. The results showed that the semantic elements/meaning of words (1) experience value: (a) ideologically fought words, (b) presented metaphors, (2) relational values: (a) euphemistic expressions, (b) choice of words formal, and (3) expressive value: (a) words that express positive evaluations, (b) words that express negative evaluations.

Patriarchic Ideology in Rajni Sari's Novel by Andry Chang: Critical Discourse Analysis Study

Patriarchal ideology is the root of male domination over women. The ideology in the novel greatly determines the position or position of a woman. This research aims to reveal how the practice of patriarchal ideology in the novel. The approach used is Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis model. The results of this research indicate that patriarchal ideology operates through the use of words in the text. The content or teachings in the text show the influence of a strong patriarchal ideology. Although it contains support for the patriarchal system, the content of the text also shows complexity. On the one side, this text supports the patriarchal system. On the other side, this text also shows the aspect of taking sides with women, the influence of patriarchal ideology. The data source in this research is the novel Rajni Sari by Andry Chang.

“I Look Mexican, So They Assume I Speak Spanish”: Latinx Teacher Candidates’ Experiences With Raciolinguistic Policing

AbstractThis critical discourse analysis study examines Latinx primary and secondary school teacher candidates’ (TCs) struggles with raciolinguistic ideologies that connect speaking Spanish to being authentically Latinx. Data came from a larger qualitative project, in which these TCs engaged in reflexive language ideology and awareness tasks, as part of an English‐as‐a‐second‐language methods class at a large Hispanic‐serving university in Texas. In this study, we center Latinx TCs’ experiences with and responses to raciolinguistic ideologies framing them as linguistically lacking and/or ethnically inauthentic. Our findings have implications for the ways teacher educators engage Latinx TCs in the interrogation of language ideologies during teacher preparation. We conclude this article by offering pathways for educators to engage Latinx TCs in challenging the practice of marginalizing Latinx individuals via their language practices.

Domination of Culture in Religious Life: The Study of Critical Discourse Analysis by Novel "Puya Ke Puya" Work: Faisal Oddang

Domination of Culture in Religious Life: The Study of Critical Discourse Analysis by Novel "Puya Ke Puya" Work: Faisal Oddang

Comparing Justice Kavanaugh’s Special Hearing Nomination Testimony Directed toward Women and Men: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study

Comparing Justice Kavanaugh’s Special Hearing Nomination Testimony Directed toward Women and Men: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study

Texts influencing the accommodation process of students with disabilities in professional rehabilitation programs: an analysis of discourse

Purpose Students with disabilities have lower enrollment and higher attrition than their non-disabled peers. They identify negative attitudes from educators in their accommodation experiences within professional programs, such as occupational therapy and physiotherapy. Educators in these accredited programs must address a myriad of requirements through curriculum delivery. The documents or “texts” containing program requirements include discourses or dominant understandings of reality. The purpose of this study is to identify these discourses and the resulting positions of educators, to better understand the tensions in accommodating students with disabilities. Methods A critical discourse analysis study was conducted. Key informants and inclusion criteria led to the collection of 9 texts, which were subsequently analyzed using Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional conception of discourse. Results Three discourses were identified. “Rights and responsibilities” was the most salient discourse, followed by “normative assumptions” and then “inclusion and equity.” The associated educator positions are “navigator,” “gatekeeper” and “advocate,” respectively. Conclusions The discourses and resulting educator positions are varied and in conflict with one another. There is a potential for change in the social practices related to accommodating students with disabilities. However, these changes need to be conscious and deliberate to ensure inclusivity within the occupational therapy and physiotherapy professions. Implications for Rehabilitation Critical discourse analysis is a methodology that can raise awareness of implicit assumptions embedded in texts that reflect and potentially perpetuate inequities and power imbalances. Conflicting discourses in the accommodation process provide a valuable opportunity for educators to critically reflect on personal and professional values and beliefs. Critical reflection on unconscious bias while writing policies and practices could ensure a more diverse pool of applicants for professional programs, thereby enriching rehabilitation professions.

Critical Discourse Analysis: The Negative Representation of the French President in France's English Online News

There is a scarcity of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) studies on the representation of social actors in news media, thus this study addressed this research gap by analysing the way news represented the French President Emmanuel Macron, regarding his controversial support of Samuel Paty, a history teacher in France who was murdered because he showed a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad in his class. This research aims to see the representation of Emmanuel Macron from the perspective of the French media, The Connexion France, which published their news in English language online to reach world-wide audience. Four articles of the news were purposively selected for this CDA study, which were published from October 18 until November 1, 2020. The French President’s representation was analysed with the nomination and predication strategies. Results showed that the Connexion France uses four nomination strategies to refer Emmanuel Macron. The professional anthroponyms refer to Emmanual Macron as “the President”, proper names as “Emmanuel Macron” to be the centre of the discourse, synecdoche as “Emmanuel Macron”, and deixis as “he” to avoid repetition the subject of the text. Two predication strategies were also used, the explicit predicate of how the President “has promised” action against Islamists and presupposition from the way the news linked pictures of boycotted French supermarket products with the President. This research provides a take on fresh news with CDA and can beneficial for the students who learn English language by showing how the media uses language for political figures.

Representation of Peace Value in Indonesian ELT Textbook: Critical Discourse Analysis

Textbook can be as a medium to convey values, while teachers and learners enact as the values- carrying agents. This present study aims to investigate peace value in national ELT textbook which approved by Indonesian Ministry of Educational and Culture entitled Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas XII [English for Senior High School Grade XII]. Findings show that there are three basic sources of peace value such as inner peace (building learner’s self-concept), social peace (tolerance with differences) and peace with nature (take care of the environment). This critical discourse analysis study indicates that social practice can be identified through language. Thus, it will contribute for both students and teachers in order to be aware as value agent in ELT textbook.

Representation of Muslim Women in Online News: Study of Critical Discourse Analysis

This study mainly investigates the representation of Muslim women in online news. This article analyzes the data using Corpus Linguistics combined with Critical Discourse analysis (CL-CDA) supported by the topic modeling method. The data used are the news articles with approximately 50 thousand-word tokens. The selected news is news published in 2013-2021. The news was chosen because it can represent the social view of Muslim women since the news has the power to influence people’s perspectives. The results show that the direction of media representation towards Muslim women is gradually leading to a better direction. Factors that bring a negative image to Muslim women are generally due to the “black fashion,” which is associated with “terrorism.” However, modernization makes today’s Muslim women more critical. They have the freedom to express their opinion, take important positions, and support feminism and gender equality movements. The use of the niqab is generally prohibited in European countries because it is considered an extremist. But, The COVID-19 pandemic has also changed the image of the niqab to be more accepted in society. Niqab users are now seen as “face covering experts,” which attracts a lot of people.

The Representation of Millenial Hijrah Image in Online Media: Gender and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

This study aims to see how millennial hijrah is represented in images and how men and women are represented in hijrah images. Feminist methodology is used with multimodal and gender as a tool of analysis. This is based on the assumption that a text in the study of critical discourse analysis is not to be value-free and has a specific ideological purpose. Data collection techniques by searching on google images with the keyword 'gambar hijrah'. The results showed that the majority of hijrah in the google image was represented by women. There are indications of the dominance of patriarchal ideology in millennial hijrah and gender inequality in women. In addition to patriarchal ideology, the struggle for the hegemony of signs and gender hegemony in the millennial hijrah cannot be separated from the textual reading of the al-Qur'an and al-Hadith.

Analisis Wacana Kritis Pada Debat Pilwakot Surakarta Putaran Kedua Tahun 2020

This study aims to describe the discourse analysis contained in the second round of the Surakarta pilwakot debate in 2020. In a critical discourse analysis study, the debate can be analyzed using William L. Benoit's functional theory which includes acclaims or claims, attacks or attacks, and defends or defends. This research uses descriptive qualitative research by describing the functional theory contained in the second round of the Surakarta Pilwakot debate. The documentation technique was used to collect data by watching, viewing, and writing the most important points in the second round of the Solo Pilwakot debate live video broadcast. Content analysis techniques were used in this study to obtain the forms of acclaim, attacks, and defends used by candidate pairs in arguing. Based on the results of the analysis, the two pairs of candidates equally made acclaims or claims, recognition as one way to convince their supporters. As for attacks or attacks, candidate pair number 1 is superior in attacking candidate pair number 2. On defends, candidate pair number 1 (Gibran-Teguh) defends based on empirical data or facts as an aspect of knowledge which supports his argument. Another case with candidate pair number 2 (Bagyo-Supardjo) who is not strong enough in doing a defense or defends through answers or responses that are out of the context in question