Interdiscursive Analysis Research Articles

“This is our country, too”: Embodied Experiences of and Resistance to Neo‐nationalism in a Midwest School District

AbstractNationalist rhetoric is not new to the US political context of transnational migration (Johnson et al., 2018). However, the election cycle of 2016 amplified nationalist rhetoric and policy in new public spaces, including schools and classrooms. In this article, I analyze neo‐nationalist discourse as voiced by the Trump Administration in and adjacent to language classrooms and general education classrooms in a predominantly White, Midwestern school district with growing demographics of students designated as English Language Learners (ELLs). Using intertextual and interdiscursive analysis (Fairclough, 1992) and embodied sociolinguistics (Bucholtz & Hall, 2016), I trace how neo‐nationalist discourses entered the classrooms, homes, and, I argue, bodies of newly arrived, racialized, documented, and undocumented immigrant students. I demonstrate how such rhetoric and policy provoked physical manifestations of trauma coupled with resistance, showing how the circulation of neo‐nationalist ideas contributed to ideological constructions of immigrant student and family identities along lines of race, immigration status, and language. Based on my findings, I center participants' lived knowledge and goals to argue that these moments demand response in schools and language education classrooms and offer implications for research, policy, and practice.

НОВЕЛА В. ДОМОНТОВИЧА «СПРАГА МУЗИКИ» В АСПЕКТІ ІНТЕРДИСКУРСИВНОЇ МЕТОДОЛОГІЇ

The current postnonclassical methodological situation draws attention to interdisciplinary practices in literary texts analysis, revealing a significant number of “interdiscursive configurations”. The purpose of this research is to analyze the short story “Thirst for Music” by one of the great intellectuals of the Ukrainian emigration, Viktor Petrov-Domontovych (1894–1969), in the aspect of interdisciplinary methodology. The research tasks are to outline the specifics of interdiscursive methodology and interdiscursive analysis of a literary text, in order to identify V. Domontovych’s novel interdiscursive codes. The chosen short story determines the author’s idiom: biographism, fragmentation, intermediality, intertextuality. Accordingly, the leading methodology of the study is interdiscursivity. It involves the use of biographical, hermeneutical, intertextual, and intermedial research methods. The study is based on the research of M. Foucault, V. Cherniavska, Y. Shevelev, I. Ilyin and others. The work outlines a set of discourses important for the general concept of the novel and evaluates their interaction in the discursive polyphony of “Thirst for Music”: biographical (a fragment of Rilke’s biography), intermedial (music, sculpture), intertextual (Rainer Maria Rilke’s Stories of the Good God, Rilke’s correspondence with Magda von Huttingberg), and architectural (Biographical novella fragment). This example convincingly proves that postmodernist methodology is productive in analyzing the literature of another cultural epoch, in this case, the modernist one. The article under studies focuses on the influence of postmodernism on literary methodology in terms of the concept of interdiscursivity. The purpose of the interdiscursive analysis is the reconstruction of all the discursive layers involved (hidden) by the author. The methodology suggests the identification of a broad range of significant bibliographical, cultural, artistic (intermedial and intertextual) architextual insertions and allusions. Through decoding the “interdiscursive configurations”, the article lays particular emphasis on the bibliographical, intertextual, intermedial, and narrative specifics of the text by the Ukrainian emigrant writer Victor Petrov-Domontovych “Thirst for Music”. It also reveals the intertextual connection of V. Domontovych’s story with Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Stories of God”, as well as Rilke’s correspondence with Magda von Huttingberg. The imagological portrait of Rilke, reconstructed from the short story, may be regarded as the essential interpretant of “interdiscursive intertextuality”. The interdiscursive analysis makes it possible to trace up directly the peculiarities of the writer’s (Rilke) relationships with his real reader (M. von Huttingberg), as well as to outline the discursive nature of story’s architextuality and its genre marking, both of which form the respective horizons of expectations. A particular attention is drawn to Rilke’s poem “Music” (1918), which condenses a wide range of themes articulated by Domontovych in his short story “Thirst for Music” - music as a special metalanguage and a timeless format of music capable of transmitting human feelings. Therefore, the musical key to reading this novel can be Domontovych’s consonance with Rilke. The “fragmentary integrity” of the short story is substantiated by means of the fragmentary, gender marked narrative, the constellation of passages, subject detail, specific phonetic coloring, tropology, and artistic syntax, all these give the prose text the rhythmic parameters of lyrics. Through synesthesia, the author creatively interprets Rilke’s literary method, leaving some figurative and musical “traces”. The veiled compositions of Handel, Bach, Schumann, and Scarlatti are seen as musical ekphrasis. The author resorts to a kind of “game” with the reader, leaving intertextual and intermedial discourses for him to decode. In this way, several receptive channels of the reader’s imagination are simultaneously activated, including visual (“seeing”), auditory (“hearing”), and kinesthetic (“feeling”).

Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–2021

ABSTRACT This paper studies the role of textbook authors when portraying the Kazakhstani famine of 1931–33 in textbooks printed between 1992 and 2021 for the secondary school subject ‘The History of Kazakhstan’. Drawing on a multilayered and inter-discursive analysis of seven of these textbooks, and after 10 interviews with curriculum developers and textbook authors, this paper argues that authorship agencies have reflected a level of ambivalence: on the cause(s) of the famine; on their evaluation of it as a tragedy or as a genocide; on the identification of the perpetrators and victims; and the people’s revolt against the collectivization. The textbook authors have echoed the narratives from the cautious approach to the famine’s commemoration portrayed in state-led nation-building, to those in Kazakh nationalist narratives and the academic history. The results of this paper oppose the general assumption that textbook narratives are merely constructed from ‘above’ in a non-democratic state such as Kazakhstan.

Direito contra direitos? Uma polêmica do Largo de São Francisco na Folha de S. Paulo: reflexões crítico-discursivas

ABSTRACT In this paper I present results of a project that, in the context of critical discourse studies and the interdiscursive analysis of public policies, focused on representations in online journalism regarding public policies aimed at the homeless population. The research project (CAPES 88881.172032/2018-01) was developed at the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. Considering the main newspaper of the city of São Paulo, in its digital platform, we have compiled a comprehensive corpus of news about homeless situation published in a period of three years. The choice to specifically address data from Folha de S Paulo is justified because it is the city with the largest homeless population in Brazil. Also, because our previous study has shown that this is the vehicle, among those studied, that publishes more news related to territorial issues, our focus of interest to investigate via the discursive categories of metaphor and representation of social actors.

ANÁLISIS INTERDISCURSIVO DE COMENTARIOS REALES (1964) DE ANTONIO CISNEROS

Antonio Cisneros writes Comentarios reales (1964), as part of a poetic initiative of the Generation of 60, which consists of reviewing the official history through irony and demystification (Fernández, 2016). In this article, the rhetorical and comparative analysis is done by interdiscursive analysis (Albaladejo, 2008) in the comparison of two pairs of poems from Comentarios reales, as well as between a poem of said work and another from Marco Martos’ Biblioteca del mar (2012). The development of the analysis will prove the following hypothesis: the two central rhetorical resources in Comentarios reales are demystifying irony and colloquial language.

Mediatised “Statist Neoliberalism” in Kenya during the Time of Covid-19: The Case of the Standard

The Covid-19 (acronym for the coronavirus disease of 2019) pandemic negatively affected the world economy akin to the global financial crisis of 2008, leading to the revival of the debate about neoliberal rationalities. Although many nations attempted to contain the pandemic through a public goods approach, the authors argue that these state interventions concealed neoliberalism by advancing its governmentalities. Further, they use Norman Fairclough's (1992) interdiscursivity to describe how in Kenya, The Standard newspaper's coverage of the government interventions was dialogical, euphemising neoliberalism through content that seemed to advocate state welfarism while advocating for the free market at the same time. The interdiscursive analysis was enriched by using Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's (1985) concept of chains of equivalence and difference to explain the power relations behind the euphemisation of neoliberalism. The authors also argue that the invisible free-market mechanism becomes hegemonic when it takes over populist demands through the transformation of the chains of difference – the antagonism against neoliberalism – into chains of equivalence, the points of similarity between neoliberalism and people's welfare demands. For the current study, the authors selected articles on Covid-19 that appeared in the Standard, chiefly those written on policy issues and published during the early period of the pandemic. Two regular themes were analysed to illustrate the euphemisation of neoliberalism, namely, corruption watchdogism and unemployment narratives. The authors use interdiscursivity to illustrate how these two themes euphemise neoliberalism.

El Cid canalla. Recepción del mito cidiano en el videoclip de Romance (Amazon Prime Video)

Since the man and the myth entwined in the Middle Ages, the figure of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the Cid Campeador, has survived for centuries by adapting itself to the taste and mentality of the public of each era. The latest manifestation of this evolution is in the Romance music video, which served to promote El Cid series (Amazon Prime Video). This article develops an interdiscursive analysis between this audiovisual work and the medieval written sources where it finds the characters, themes and topics of the Cidian tradition which it adapts to create a plot closer to Tarantino’s films than to Anthony Mann’s Cid.

Trust: interdiscursive analysis of the phenomenon

This article provides a theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of trust from the perspective of basic humanities: sociology, economics, law, etc. The subject of this research is the basic components of trust in the context of vast field of knowledge in social sciences and humanities. Research methodology employs multi-paradigm approach towards analyzing modern transformations of trust from preindustrial to postindustrial society. The author applies cross-disciplinary and comprehensive analysis of various forms and types of trust existing in modern world. The article considers the theoretical approaches towards studying trust that are characteristic to the foreign sociological thought, from the theory of social action and the social system to social and human capital. The novelty lies in determination of the common and specific within the basic divisions of knowledge in the context of the analysis of trust as the framework phenomenon of efficient functioning of modern society through the prism of contemporary domestic and foreign authors. Description is give to indicative components of trust; a;; levels of its efficient functioning are summarized. The author reveals the major barriers that cause crisis and a low culture of trust in the modern post-Soviet space. The conclusion is made that at the macro-level, trust encourages an individual to productive social integration and effective activity for the good of society. The macro-level of functionality of trust substantiated the effectiveness of political and social institutions, which serves as the criterion for the level of the development of democracy and civil society. The persistence of trust is determined by the historical dynamics of social development, as well as depends on its cultural and national components.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

ABSTRACT Dialectical relationship between language and other elements of social life constitute the bases of Fairclough’s (2003) Model of Critical Discourse Analysis. He combines the textual analysis with the contextual analysis, taking discourse as a form of social practice—linked to other discourses and social practices in more than one way. This paper explores how Shamsie’s discourse in Burnt Shadows is interdiscursive in these specific ways. Fairclough’s model of CDA has been used as a research method. His conceptual framework of interdiscursivity is used to explore the relationships between the text and the context in terms of other texts and actual events of human history and their reflection in different literary discourses. Shamsie links War on Terror with World War II to expose the ideology behind the world power structures and power politics in the world where might is the only right. Life moved full circle from Nagasaki on the fatal day of dropping of the second atomic bomb in World War II to taking mere suspects to Guantanamo Bay with the sole objective to ‘save the Americans’ lives.’ This study shows Shamsie’s insightful knowledge of the world history of colonialism, postcolonialism and neocolonialism and how these apparently different movements are intertwined in more than one way. Her fictional discourse bears many examples of Interdiscursivity. Keywords: Interdiscursivity, intertextuality, dialogism, ideology and socio-political practices

Дискурсивна модель перекладу у ракурсі проблеми моделювання перекладацького процесу

The article focuses on description of a discursive model of translation in terms of the problem of modeling the translation process. The article uses general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, idealization and modeling. The aim of the research is to offer a discursive model of translation relevant for the tasks of modern translation studies, based on well-known communicatively and discursively oriented models of the translation process. The problem of modeling the translation process is relevant to the latest cognitive-discursive paradigm and is studied in an interdisciplinary framework with the involvement of the work of text theory, discourse analysis and communication studied. Translation strategies are included in the general scheme of interrelation of the concepts "text", "discourse" and "communication" and must be determined on the basis of the analysis of their interconnected components. The discursive model of translation integrates the analysis of different levels of discourse stratification: lingual (multifaceted analysis of the text as a macro-sign component of discourse); motivation-pragmatic (communicative task of the original text and its reproduction in the strategies and tactics of the source text and the translated text), genre; semiotic, based on the study of discourse modules that provide the process of defining the original text by the translator, its retransmission on the basis of a new semiotic form and the intended addressee and the signification of the text by the real addressee. Genre facet of the a discursive model of translation includes the analysis of interdiscursivity , which is perceived in the article as the ability of discourse to manifest its basic system-forming features in a non-typical situation, i . e. one that by its external features belongs to another type of discourse. Analysis of interdiscursivity as an important component of pre-translation analysis of the text correlates with the identification of elements of genre hybridity in the source text and their adequate rendering in the translated text.

Inclusive Physical Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Ontario Secondary School Health and Physical Education Curriculum

Purpose: Education policies require inclusive practices across student learning environments internationally. In Canada, provinces and territories oversee their own curriculum development. This study presents a critical discourse analysis of how inclusive education is addressed within Ontario’s 2015 Health and Physical Education Curriculum, Grades 9–12. Method: Fairclough and Chouliaraki’s approach to critical discourse analysis, which encompasses structural, linguistic, and interdiscursive analysis, was used to show how language is interwoven within ideologies of physical education to represent inclusivity. Results: Three discourses were identified: (a) the discourse of equity and inclusion, (b) the discourse of opportunity, and (c) the discourse of positive outcomes. The curriculum reflects inclusivity through overt language and intention, holding the possibility for choice and opportunities beyond traditional notions of physical education. Discussion: Concerns included whether ideals presented in the curriculum reflect the realities of “discourse in action.” Transformative discourses within physical education should emerge from the student voice.

A genre-based exploration of intertextuality and interdiscursivity in advertorial discourse

Nowadays, it is very difficult to find pure genres in the real world of discourse. Professional writers often appropriate and exploit generic resources to invade other genres in discourse construction in order to achieve social and private intentions. One of the most dominant genres that have invaded other genres is the promotional genre. However, little research has investigated this genre from an intertextual and interdiscursive perspective. This study critically analyzed 80 advertorials from different magazines by examining the use of intertextuality and interdiscursivity references. The results indicate that direct reporting strategies of intertextuality are heavily employed in advertorials. The study also shows that the utilization of intertextual references exhibits some specific interconnection between a particular text and a genre. Meanwhile, through interdiscursive analysis, it demonstrates the ways in which generic resources of one particular genre are skillfully appropriated to create another promotional genre by the specific discourse community. Findings as such have both pedagogical implications and practical insights for ESP practitioners, learners as well as professional writers in various contexts.

One confession, multiple chronotopes: The interdiscursive authentication of an apology in an international criminal trial

AbstractThis paper presents an interdiscursive analysis of a public apology made before the International Criminal Court (ICC) by a Malian Islamist accused of the destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu. It analyzes (a) how the defendant's apology metapragmatically inserts itself into a multiplicity of chronotopes and (b) how the two defense counsels subsequently reformulate that apology as part of a ‘confessional chronotope’, thereby decoupling it from its immediate trial surroundings. The entextualization of this confessional chronotope, and the modifications of the trial's participation framework it proposes, reveal how ICC trial actors navigate the multiple tensions facing this emergent form of globalized criminal justice.

Pragmaticalisation et polysémie de la particule așa du roumain contemporain. Une perspective typologique et contrastive

"Pragmaticalization and Polysemy of the Particle așa in Contemporary Romanian Language. A Typological and Contrastive Approach. This article pursues the series of studies we have previously devoted to the pragmaticalization and discursive functioning of (spatial, temporal or modal) adverbs in contemporary Romanian language (atunci, altfel, de altfel, apoi, etc.). This time, our approach aims at outlining the discursive status of the particle așa in contemporary Romanian, in order to emphasize that this lexical item frequently acquires – by itself or in more or less fixed, lexicalized expressions – complex pragmatic and discursive values, often hard to distinguish from one another. This semantic-pragmatic behaviour (which, surprisingly, has not been extensively debated by Romanian linguists) could be explained, from our point of view, by the fact that the deictic and anaphoric core meaning of this lexical item has a much wider abstract content than the temporal or spatial adverbs we have previously analysed, as such a meaning often needs, in the communicative process, a non-verbal informative “addition” (frequently, an indicative gesture). Thus, this core meaning is the one that allows and favours the numerous discursive-pragmatic values of the analysed particle in contemporary Romanian. Keywords: Romanian particle așa, pragmaticalization, discursive and/or pragmatic markers, intradiscursive and interdiscursive analysis"

Interdiscursivity in corporate financial communication: an analysis of earnings videos

PurposeFinancial communication produces various texts, among which are earnings videos. The videos employ language and image in multimodal discourses to convey specific social meanings about corporate performance. The purpose of this paper is to select earnings videos and study their incorporated genres, styles and discourses.Design/methodology/approachInterdiscursivity permits hybridity because it mixes the choice of genres, styles or discourses. An interdiscursive analysis is conducted on earnings videos in English, French and Spanish from corporations in the global finance industry. It involved three sequential stages: (1) to detect the discourses, (2) to name the discourses and (3) to consider the function of the discourses.FindingsEarnings videos are hybrid because interview and presentation genres, formal and casual styles and the discourses of financial accounting, strategic management and public relations are encountered. The genres, styles and discourses are interwoven to create an interdiscursive mix, which constructs earnings through a (pseudo)personal social relation and easified discourses. The multimodal discourses convey robust corporate performance in an interim, and their use is symptomatic of marketization. Corporations may “market” their performance to seem like a worthwhile investment to persuade (potential) investors.Originality/valueThe paper enriches existing research in financial communication because it studies how multimodal discourses in earnings videos are tailored for marketization. The videos have not been analyzed, and their analysis complements earlier studies on other financial communication texts. The analysis examines discourses through language and image features, whose co-deployment conveys meaning about corporations.

Vehicle for inclusion or costly illusion? A critical policy analysis of the Special Needs Assistant scheme in Ireland

The Special Needs Assistant (SNA) scheme has been in existence in Ireland, in various different iterations, since 1979. This article presents a critical policy analysis of two iterations of the scheme, operational between 1998 and 2014, using a hybrid analytical framework. It highlights the contextual factors influencing those iterations, presents an interdiscursive analysis of the key policy texts and highlights the scheme's many consequences using secondary data from two key Irish Government agencies. It is postulated that cyclical analytical frameworks are most effective at evaluating iterative special education policies, like the SNA scheme, because they allow sufficient scope to demonstrate that the consequence of one iteration ultimately becomes the context for the next. This article also shows that, while the provision of inclusive education for children with special educational needs in mainstream classes may have been an objective of the scheme, the extent to which that was realised is arguable.

A controversy in Folha de S. Paulo: Critical discourse reflections on the representation of homelessness and the coloniality of being

In this article, I present some results of a project that, in the context of critical discourse studies and the interdiscursive analysis of public policies, focused on representations of online journalism regarding public policies aimed at the homeless population. The research project ‘Representations of public policies for the homeless population as territory management: spatial metaphors in Folha de S. Paulo’ was developed at the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, throughout 2018 (supported by CAPES 88881.172032/2018-01). Using as a reference one of the leading newspaper of the city of São Paulo, Folha de Sao Paulo in its digital platform, I have compiled a comprehensive corpus of news about homelessness published during 3 years. Besides the panoramic analyses of the corpus, the article analyses more closely four texts that address each other in a sequence, a polemic concerning law and rights. These texts, published during 2 weeks, emerged from the corpus 105 texts on public policies directed to the homeless population, analyzed through a QDA software, focusing on patterns of metaphorical representation of public policies addressed to the homeless population.

A PRODUÇÃO TEXTUAL NA EDUCAÇÃO DE JOVENS E ADULTOS (EJA): VOZES DE RESISTÊNCIA

RESUMO
 Neste artigo, investigamos os discursos materializados em três textos feitos por estudantes da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) de uma escola do Distrito Federal estabelecendo relação entre o material escrito, aquilo que Goffman (2002) denomina “estigma”, o Modelo de Letramento Autônomo (STREET, 1984) e a formação e a transformação identitária discente (CASTELLS, 1999). O texto discute a origem do problema do “estigma” na Educação de Jovens e Adultos atrelada ao modelo de letramento dominante (Letramento Autônomo) e à história da alfabetização de jovens e adultos no Brasil (DI PIERRO; GALVÃO, 2012). A metodologia usada na realização desse artigo está ancorada na Análise de Discurso Crítica (ADC) de linha inglesa. A Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (LSF) também ampara nossa análise interdiscursiva com base investigação de traços semânticos e léxico-gramaticais das produções estudantis. Concluímos, nesse estudo, que os alunos deixam entrever os modos como são afetados por práticas que julgamos discriminatórias, uma vez que ora há contestação ora reprodução de concepções e significados que os subjugam. 
 Palavras-chave: Discursos; letramentos; estigma; EJA; identidades.

Hauntologizing the (un)foreseen present: The 2008 financial crisis in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s La noche de los tiempos and Todo lo que era sólido

This article deals with Antonio Muñoz Molina’s La noche de los tiempos (2009) and Todo lo que era sólido (2013a) and provides an interdiscursive analysis of both works, aiming to highlight their thematic and affective connections. Similarly, I contend that these works belong in the fabric of cultural narratives around the 2008 financial crisis. On the other hand, the spectral nature of the narrators of both La noche de los tiempos and Todo lo que era sólido is scrutinized, departing from Derrida’s notion of hauntology. Finally, the role of metaphors in the construction of reality is examined, paying heed to Muñoz Molina’s lucid analysis of the dominant metaphors that were used during the years prior to the 2008 financial crisis. His analysis leads us to consider the necessity of creating a new narrative for Europe which helps shape and redefine a new sense of Europeanness.

Marketization of universities in China: A critical discourse analysis of the university president’s message

This article focuses on the global phenomenon of the marketization of higher education and how it has shaped the discourses of China’s top universities. By analyzing the university presidents’ messages published in the websites of 36 top-ranked universities in China, the aim is to ascertain the extent to which this institutionalized genre imbricates a marketizing role with other ideological imperatives. Informed by the theoretical principles of Critical Discourse Analysis and adopting a genre analysis methodological approach, we first examined the macro-level rhetorical structure followed by a micro-level analysis of the discursive strategies used in the presidents’ messages. The findings reveal a dynamic interweaving of three distinct discursive strands – bureaucratic, conversational and advertising – constructed in and around the move structure of the presidents’ messages. This interdiscursive analysis reveals competing imperatives and contestations that reflect the dual role of the presidents’ messages to project a globalized, international outlook while maintaining an allegiance to political ideologies and national interests that top-ranked universities in China have to simultaneously negotiate.