Purpose This article aims to describe the role of critical discourse analysis and intersectionality in our analysis and interpretation process and expand on the contribution of members of Black communities in the design of data-collection instruments, recruitment and data-collection procedures. We seek to provide readers with an instance on the utilization of critical social inquiry and how to involve members of communities under study in research procedures. Design/methodology/approach In the last few decades, public health research has experienced a shift in its research designs and methods. An increasing number of studies have focused on examining minority populations’ experiences grounded in critical social inquiry and incorporated members of those communities in roles beyond “participant.” Intersectionality, which is both an approach to critical social inquiry and a form of praxis, was the theoretical lens of a critical discourse study on Black communities lived experience with opioid overdose response. Findings This paper draws mainly of three aspects of qualitative inquiry in public health research. First, it shows how to utilize intersectionality and critical discourse analysis in analysis processes of the experiences and narratives of Black communities. It also demonstrates how members of those communities can be involved in different processes of the research process, making public health research more inclusive and culturally responsive. Moreover, it unpacks the multiple elements that interplay in the data analysis workflow. Originality/value Research in public health today requires the implementation of more holistic and culturally sensitive research designs and analysis frameworks, especially when the subjects under study are underrepresented groups. Critical social inquiry provides researchers with the flexibility and rigor required to thoroughly understand phenomena related to discrimination in all its forms. The authors highlight the importance of the involvement of members of minorities under study in the hope of better research practices and community informed solutions.

This critical discussion paper examines how the International Council of Nurses' (ICN) 2025 definition of "nurse" may shape nursing work by functioning as a discursive artifact and proposes the mid-range concept of discursive burdening to help explain the potential downstream effects on nurses' labor. Grounded in Fairclough's critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the social ecology of nursing, this study analyzes the ICN definition alongside its explanatory report and selectively mapped it to scholarly, policy, and gray sources to illustrate how professional definitions can travel into practice. Using CDA tools, linguistic features of the text were linked to discourse and wider social practices. From the CDA of the ICN definition, the concept of discursive burdening emerges with three interrelated dimensions: (1) deontological dumping, (2) amorphous scope expansion, and (3) intensifying emancipatory labor. Mapped onto nursing's social ecology, these dynamics plausibly cascade through overlapping regulatory, bureaucratic, occupational, gender, and multi-professional systems. The ICN report also names buffers that can diffuse these effects when made co-present with the public definition, which includes legal conditionality, regulator mediation, contextualization, resource support, clarifying and sharing roles, and education/leadership investment.

ABSTRACT This paper presents a discursive analysis of crisis communication by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during COVID-19 pandemic. Employing critical discourse analysis, the study examined 239 speeches delivered between March 2020 and December 2021. It discursively analyzed crisis communication emphasizing tone, the language used, frequency, and consistency, by Modi in communicating with the public through speeches, press conferences and media releases during the key stages of the crisis: the start of COVID-19; the peak of the pandemic in India; and post-peak. These stages help understand his broader responses and assist in analyzing the tone and language used at different stages of the crisis. While Modi effectively communicated through various mediums, expressing national pride and blending persuasive, authoritative, and informative tones, he often did not address inequalities, potentially influencing the pandemic’s impact on different communities within India. While generally most leaders in situations of crisis would focus on unifying populations, Modi used even the pandemic to encourage divisiveness as indicated through the analysis of his communication as often his messages were interwoven with undertones of religious nationalism. The study suggests that Modi could have placed greater emphasis on community building, public engagement, and addressing challenges, including the impact on marginalized communities.

The nursing academy in Canada, motivated by the release of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action in 2015, has declared support for and commitment to Indigenization. This study, framed by the historical context of colonialism in Canadian healthcare and nursing education, aimed to understand the current state of Indigenization within undergraduate nursing programs in Saskatchewan. I explored three areas of inquiry: how strategic plans define Indigenization, staff experiences and practices in implementing it, and how these discourses and practices perpetuate or transform existing power structures. With Spivak's theory of the deconstruction of marginality as the overarching theoretical framework, I examined the strategic plans of three major post-secondary institutions and their respective undergraduate nursing programs using Fairclough's dialectical-relational approach to critical discourse analysis. I also interviewed a total of seven nursing staff members from the three programs to gain an understanding of their practices of Indigenization. The study identified four key constructs of Indigenization within the discourse of the province of Saskatchewan's nursing education strategic plans: Indigenous inclusion, relationship, reconciliation, and decolonization. A critical finding is that presenting these four constructs as interchangeable diminishes their unique, albeit interconnected roles in achieving Indigenization goals. The research further shows how nursing programs are centering marginalized Indigenous Knowledges and systems but also reveals that racism remains a barrier to Indigenization. The study emphasizes the importance of explicitly defining Indigenization and its goals to deconstruct power dynamics and practices within nursing programs, and to continuously examine racism as a persistent issue in nursing education. The study encourages the nursing academy to adopt a decolonial lens in its everyday Indigenization efforts, which will bring about transformation of the academy.

This study examines how Fox News and CTV News presented the 2025 tariffs on Canadian imports by US President Donald Trump. Using Entman’s four framing functions and Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA), the article explores how each media outlet defined the trade conflict, attributed causality, rendered moral judgments, and suggested policy responses. Drawing from fifty-two articles from Fox News and fifty-two articles from CTV News published between January 20 and April 30, 2025, the research employed a qualitative comparative research design that integrates framing analysis with textual-level CDA. This dual-method approach enabled the identification of both surface-level narrative structures and deeper ideological mechanisms embedded in discourse. The findings reveal two sharply divergent media narratives. Fox News framed the tariffs as a moral defense against a national security threat, emphasizing American sovereignty, victimhood, and executive resolve. CTV News portrayed the tariffs as politically motivated and economically harmful, and emphasized diplomatic norms, institutional responses, and measured retaliation. The study contributes to the literature by demonstrating how media framing not only shapes public understanding of trade conflicts but also reinforces divergent national identities, political ideologies, and economic nationalism.

This study employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine a dissenting vote in a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) decision regarding the criminalization of homophobia. The research focuses on Minister Cristiano Zanin's arguments against extending the typification of homophobia to include racial insults. Using Fairclough's three-dimensional CDA model and incorporating Thompson's concepts of ideology and domination and Fiorin´s perspective of rhetorical arguments, this paper analyzes the linguistic strategies and power dynamics embedded in the legal discourse. The methodology involves a detailed examination of lexical choices, grammatical structures, and rhetorical devices in the dissenting vote. Key findings highlight the role of naturalization, reexamination, broadening and exceeding as discursive strategies employed in the vote.

ABSTRACT This article explores the #Boredinthehouse TikTok trend as sonic and visual mediation of domestic boredom during COVID-19 lockdowns. Employing Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis, it examines how the viral sound facilitated collective expressions of boredom while exposing socioeconomic disparities through performative depictions of domestic life. Analyzing more than 4000 TikTok comments, this research focuses on how features like pools and mansions became symbols of class visibility. The findings highlight how TikTok’s music ecologies and platform conventions shaped affective responses, framing boredom as a digitally mediated critique of privilege, productivity, and domestic normality.

This article analyzes the journalistic discourse of the Tacna-based newspaper Sin Fronteras during the migration situation on the Peruvian-Chilean border between February and May 2023. Through a qualitative approach based on Critical Discourse Analysis of 139 press articles, the research examines the linguistic and narrative mechanisms used to construct the figure of the migrant. The results reveal the predominance of a securitization and criminalization frame that presents migrants as a threat to public order and security while legitimizing the state’s response of control and militarization. It is concluded that the media outlet not only reports on the situation but actively participates in its social construction, contributing to a climate of hostility and marginalizing human rights perspectives. This study highlights the ethical responsibility of the local press in shaping perceptions of migration in high-tension border contexts.

ABSTRACT This article investigates how television journalists in Hong Kong have adjusted their lexical choices and discursive practices in response to the 2020 National Security Law (NSL). Drawing on a complete-member ethnographic study of a Hong Kong television newsroom, comprised of participant observation, fieldwork and interviews with current and former journalists, and a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach, the study identifies a set of word-level and framing strategies that journalists employ to navigate a constrained media environment. Key practices include lexical substitutions (e.g., substituting “Mainland” for “China”), cautious referencing of Taiwan, strategic silences or avoidance of politically sensitive terms, and template-based adoption of state media phrasing. These linguistic adjustments are not merely defensive; they reflect a negotiation between compliance and professional identity, allowing journalists to continue reporting while managing legal risks and editorial pressures. The findings illustrate how word choice becomes a critical site of political negotiation, ideological constraint, and journalistic agency in post-NSL Hong Kong. This article contributes to scholarship on media under censorship by highlighting the importance of word choices as micro-level discursive strategies in semi-authoritarian media systems.

Politeness is not merely a pragmatic strategy in interpersonal communication but also a discursive practice shaped by power relations, ideology, and social context. This study examines politeness as a discursive practice in the film “Dear John” (2010) using a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework. The goal of the study is to reveal how politeness strategies are constructed, negotiated, and contested through language in intimate relationships portrayed in the film. Employing a qualitative descriptive method, the data consist of selected dialogues between the main characters, John and Savannah, which contain politeness-related expressions. The analysis integrates Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory with Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of CDA: textual analysis, discursive practice, and social practice. The findings show that politeness strategies in “Dear John” function not only to maintain interpersonal harmony but also to reflect unequal emotional power, moral positioning, and ideological assumptions about love, sacrifice, and gender roles. Positive politeness dominates the interactions, while negative politeness and off-record strategies emerge in moments of conflict and emotional distance. The novelty of this study lies in its integration of politeness theory and CDA to demonstrate how politeness operates as an ideological and discursive resource within romantic narratives. This study contributes to discourse studies, pragmatics, and literary discourse analysis.

This study examines how contemporary maternal identity is constructed through the Instagram account of Indonesian celebrity mother Jennifer Bachdim (@jenniferbachdim). Drawing on Jean Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality, it argues that Instagram produces motherhood as a maternal hyperreality, in which curated representations become more authoritative than lived experience. Using critical discourse analysis, the study identifies four dominant discourses: effortless motherhood as moral achievement, picture-perfect mother–child intimacy, performative wellness as moral competence, and consumerist motherhood. Together, these discourses construct an aspirational maternal ideal grounded in aesthetic coherence, emotional harmony, bodily discipline, and consumer choice. The findings show how Instagram collapses the boundary between authenticity and simulation by transforming care and intimacy into visible moral performances. Maternal success is framed as an individualized project achieved through self-management and market participation, while structural and relational dimensions of care remain obscured. Situated within the Indonesian context, the study demonstrates how global influencer aesthetics intersect with local moral ideals of motherhood, generating new normative pressures on maternal subjectivity.

This article analyzes digital narcoculture in Mexico as a system of symbolic power governed algorithmically that seduces youth through the articulation of necropolitics, hypermasculinity, and platform logics. From a qualitative and interpretive approach, the study combines critical discourse analysis of highly viral cultural products—narco-corridos, corridos tumbados, narco-series, and social media content—with a documentary meta-synthesis of academic literature and technical sources (2000–2025). The theoretical framework integrates contributions from critical violence theory, gender studies, symbolic economy, the neuroscience of adolescence, and platform studies. Findings show that contemporary narcoculture has shifted from a local counterculture to a high-performance symbolic economy in which violence is aestheticized and converted into status capital, amplified by algorithms that prioritize content with high affective impact. Hypermasculinity operates as an ideological engine that organizes hierarchies of prestige, while necropolitics turns death into a legitimizing spectacle. Digital platforms, far from acting as neutral intermediaries, function as active producers of visibility that normalize these narratives among adolescent audiences who are particularly sensitive to immediate social rewards. The article concludes that digital narcoculture not only reflects structural violence but also produces and stabilizes it by offering legible identities, rapid symbolic rewards, and senses of belonging in contexts of institutional exclusion. It proposes implications for platform governance, the design of competitive counter-narratives, and an applied research agenda focused on mechanisms of algorithmic seduction.

<i>This study explores the complex dynamics of learning analytics within online higher education, focusing on power disparities, ethical implications, and the role of communication in shaping perceptions and responsibilities among institutional members.  Using critical discourse analysis, we investigate how strategic ambiguity in communication enables institutions to navigate uncertainty and sustain control over data practices, drawing on perspectives from 32 participants, including Administrative Leaders, Data Analysts, and Online Students representing eight institutions in the United States. Findings indicate that strategically ambiguous communication practices strengthen hierarchical power structures, reduce transparency, and disable informed consent. Students place blind trust in their institutions and lack ownership over how their learning data is collected, utilized, and governed, suggesting a breach of their privacy and ethical misuse of their information. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of participatory learning analytics frameworks grounded in democratic principles and informed consent. By integrating significant choice and consensual technology, we offer insights that promote collective ethical responsibility, emphasizing transparency, fairness, and accountability in the collection, use, and governance of learning data in higher education. </i>

In the Indonesian post-truth landscape, digital discourse is frequently saturated with misinformation and polarized rhetoric. This study investigates how Gen Alpha and Gen Z employ unique linguistic markers—commonly termed slang—not merely as casual communication but as a subversive tool to navigate and resist dominant socio-political narratives. Using a mixed-methods approach, we analyzed a corpus of 50,000 interactions across TikTok and X between January 2024 and June 2025. Natural Language Processing and Critical Discourse Analysis were integrated with Structural Equation Modeling to establish linguistic subversion indices across different age cohorts. Findings indicate that slang terms such as fufufafa and cek khodam serve as shibboleths that foster community in-grouping while delegitimizing institutional authority. Statistical modeling reveals a strong correlation (r = 0.74) between slang density and the deconstruction of hoax narratives. Specifically, a 1-unit increase in slang versatility predicts a 0.82 increase in a user’s ability to identify astroturfing. In conclusion, the study concludes that youth digital lects function as a form of semiotic guerrilla warfare, providing a mechanism for political agency in an era of truth decay. This linguistic resistance effectively renders misinformation powerless by labeling it as socially irrelevant or cringe.

This study investigates gender representation in the language of nine Independence Day Speeches (IDS) made by King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein (KAII). Since he took power in 1999, KAII delivered nine IDS on May 25th. The speeches were given in 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2022. Aimed at Jordanians, these speeches are concise and relatively short, totalling 6000 words. To analyse gender representation, the study utilises the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach. Gender representation is assessed based on how KAII's language addresses both men and women equally. Findings reveal that KAII has incorporated notably gender-representative language in his political discourse. He adopted three linguistic strategies in these IDS to develop this language: using plural lexical units instead of singular ones, simultaneously referring to both genders, and employing gender-neutral lexical units. From a gender standpoint, the results suggest that the language in the IDS differs significantly from the prevailing androcentric political discourses in Arabic-Islamic societies. The findings also imply that Arabic, usually categorised as a gendered language, can indeed be gender-representative if the users exhibit the right attitudes, determination, and apply suitable linguistic strategies to reshape current Arabic usage. In conclusion, this study's findings make a unique contribution to the areas of language and gender.

The representations and receptions of gender and sexuality borderline-crossing actions, such as cross-dressing, or homosexuality and homosexual narratives, have always sparked negative reactions among Nigerians in real-life or digital spaces. This paper approaches the discourse from another perspective by paying attention to the ‘minorities within a minority,’ which are MtF cross-dressers. We examined public engagements and reactions to a video of one of Nigeria’s famous cross-dressers and self-proclaimed drag queen, James Brown, which was posted on a Facebook platform. We sampled 20 of the comments to examine the perspectives of Nigerians concerning MtF cross-dressing. Through the comments, we examined how opposition to MtF cross-dressing is communicated through various linguistic tropes or markers by the commenters, using Critical Discourse Analysis as a framework. The reception of Mtf cross-dressing in Nigeria is negative, and in line with the findings of previous studies, Nigerians draw upon culture, religion, and standards of sanctity to substantiate their opposition against cross-dressing.

This study aims to analyze an online news article titled “Responses of Coordinating Minister Muhaimin, the House of Representatives, and the Minister of Social Affairs to the Resignation of 160 Public School Teachers.” This study uses Teun A. Van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis approach. It uses the documentation method to find discourse in the news and the content analysis method to collect data within the discourse. This study shows three aspects of Teun A. Van Dijk's critical discourse model, namely macro structure, superstructure, and micro structure, as follows 1. In the macro structure of the Tempo newspaper, it describes the theme of the mass resignation of public-school teachers due to distant work placements, accompanied by subtopics referring to the government's response regarding the availability of replacement teachers.

Translated literature serves as both a valuable research resource for scholars and a source of enjoyment for readers. The translation process typically emphasizes quality, the social implications in the source country, and the potential for market acceptance. A pertinent example is Yu Hua's short story collection, “Nyaliku Kecil Seperti Tikus”, which encapsulates the struggles of marginalized communities in a poignant manner. This study employs critical discourse analysis and narrative inquiry to conduct a thorough examination of the texts, following Fairclough's methodology to explore three layers of meaning. The findings reveal that Yu Hua's narratives of poverty, social injustice, alienation, and resistance poignantly mirror the societal conditions in China during the Cultural Revolution. The narrative techniques employed illustrate the interplay between social structures and individual agencies, highlighting how literature can serve as a reflection and critique of broader societal issues. Additionally, the study suggests the importance of comparative analyses between Yu Hua's works and those of authors from other nations facing similar social challenges, such as Indonesia during the New Order era, to enhance the understanding of literature's role in critiquing diverse social contexts

ABSTRACT This study examines how a Swedish government directive regarding professional language support for welfare professionals is implemented and recontextualised at departmental and local levels. The government has consequently allocated resources to strengthen language proficiency, identifying preschool staff as a key target group. Using critical discourse analysis, we investigate this government directive through a specific language support programme carried out by two private education facilitators. These facilitators invite preschools across Sweden to participate. The results show that this directive is implemented through discourses that partially undermine its own intentions. For example, the language programme is characterised by ambiguities regarding its objectives, pedagogy and practical implementation, which could reinforce hierarchies among staff groups rather than reduce them. Furthermore, the programme reflects an emphasis on individual responsibility and educational values based more on professional “know-how” than scientific knowledge.

This article explores how ideologies and discourses of school safety and policing operate within the U.S. educational system and shape broader understandings of safety, punishment, and mass incarceration. Guided by corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), it examines three questions: how different educational community members define safety (and for whom), how policing is constructed as safe or unsafe, and how these narratives position certain students as threats. Analyzing school board meetings, online public comments, and conversations with students within the context of a 2020 local decision to remove School Resource Officers from Eugene, Oregon, public schools, the study identifies common and contested discursive strategies about policing and youth across social and historical contexts. A central finding is the role of adultism in sustaining links between schools and prisons, normalizing compliance, silence, and the disappearance of youth who challenge adult authority. These adultist discourses position students as belonging to adults and construct dissent as danger, enabling surveillance, policing, and incarceration to circulate as commonsense approaches to “community safety.” From these findings, the article introduces YouthCrit as an emergent conceptual framework grounded in youth analyses of adultism. In turn, YouthCrit offers a framework for scholars, educators, and practitioners to challenge deficit narratives about students while centering youth presence and perspectives in school-based research and within social movements for community safety.