Discourse Perspective Research Articles

Transformasi Perempuan dari “Liyan” ke “Diri” dalam Tiga Cerita Rakyat Kulisusu: Analisis Wacana Feminisme

The study examined three female characters in Kulisusu folklore, each titled: Perselingkuhan Istri Lakino Lipu; Putri yang Hilang; Lagumba dan Wa Ure-Ure Ngkamagi. Three of them narrated women in prototype uniformity, in a concept that is more fluid than some kindergarten like Bawang Putih Bawang Merah or Cinderella. Fluidity mean that the liberation of women from all forms of subordination: a class polarization that took shape into archetypes dichotomous construction. The characters are identified as women who are not only clever, but also able to make decisions in determining their fate. This study will address two issues: 1) how women were originally seated as "liyan"; 2) how the plot revolves and places women as "self". Both are implicated by using the feminism discourse perspective. The review will help parents sort out stories that address the values of plurality and gender equality principles, and stories that must be abandoned for internalizing the bias in the eyes of the quality.

Transformasi Perempuan dari “Liyan” ke “Diri” dalam Tiga Cerita Rakyat Kulisusu: Analisis Wacana Feminisme

The study examined three female characters in Kulisusu folklore, each titled: Perselingkuhan Istri Lakino Lipu; Putri yang Hilang; Lagumba dan Wa Ure-Ure Ngkamagi. Three of them narrated women in prototype uniformity, in a concept that is more fluid than some kindergarten like Bawang Putih Bawang Merah or Cinderella. Fluidity mean that the liberation of women from all forms of subordination: a class polarization that took shape into archetypes dichotomous construction. The characters are identified as women who are not only clever, but also able to make decisions in determining their fate. This study will address two issues: 1) how women were originally seated as "liyan"; 2) how the plot revolves and places women as "self". Both are implicated by using the feminism discourse perspective. The review will help parents sort out stories that address the values of plurality and gender equality principles, and stories that must be abandoned for internalizing the bias in the eyes of the quality.

The Researches on the Ideological and Political Education Models of College Students From the Perspective of Network Discourse

The emergence, application and popularization of network discourse bring great challenges to the traditional model of ideological and political education. Network discourse bears the characteristics of material reality, content dominance and discursively by nature. These characteristics cause the changes of the college students’ ideological and political education model, from the subjectivity education model of intersubjectivity education model, from the uniform education content to diverse educational content. The model evolves from a closed and static situation to an open and dynamic education environment. Therefore, the contemporary scholars in the field of college students’ ideological and political education should constantly explore new models of the university students’ ideological and political education, appealing to the demand of the transformations in education conception, the openness of education approaches. They should apply the intersubjectivity education model and enrich the educational content. They should also attach importance to the diversity education model and construct an appealing educational atmosphere. Dynamic education is the direction so the new development and demand of the ideological and political education can adapt to requirements in the network + era.

What it means to be a strategist: occupational background from a discourse perspective

How do strategists use their occupational background in their strategizing work? Traditional answers to this question have emphasized the determinative effects of background based on functional and...

Precedent Names in the Text Field of Marina Tsvetaeva from the Perspective of Free Indirect Discourse

The present study is complied with the topical theme “name in the text” and devoted to the problems of how precedent names as the text-forming elements function in the poems and prose works of Marina Tsvetaeva within the framework of free indirect discourse. The authors study various methods and functions of personal names. The authors make conclusions concerning the frequency of precedent names and the specific character of intertextual elements in Tsvetaeva’s text, which, on the one hand, complicates the perception of the text, but on the other hand, promotes including both the poet and the reader into the world-wide cultural and spiritual environment. The ways of introducing the name and the persona, especially within free indirect discourse, specifies the further existence of the name / or its absence in the text.

Enseigner l’analyse du discours en langue étrangère. En quoi consiste le cours de spécialisation en linguistique destiné aux étudiants du 2nd cycle ?

The paper addresses the two following questions: 1) how should a discourse perspective on specialized communication training course be introduced ? 2) should student’s identity attending a course in specialized communication be taken into account, or, conversely, left out ? Special attention is paid to methodological problems of teaching linguistics. Two MA postgraduate programmes run at Romance Philology are taken as examples La manipulation et ses aspects linguistiques (Linguistic aspects of interpersonal manipulation) and L’image linguistique du monde. Les stereotypes racistes dans la langue et la culture (Racist stereotypes in language and culture).

The Discourse Perspective of Translation In Representing The Concept of Thā’at: Case Study of The Moral Ethic Book Bidāyatul Hidāyah

Translation is a rendering of form and meaning, but in the other hand, translation also can be defined as the rendering of message ( amanah ) from the source/start text into target text. This research elaborate the Arabic – Javanese translation text. Arabic is the source language (L1) and Javanese is the target language (L2). The material object selected was the book of Bidāyatul-Hidāyah (Islamic Moral Ethic) written by Imam Al-Ghazali. This research investigate the personal image of Imam Al-Ghazali using the discourse perspective of translation. There are two basics problems in this research, (1) the translation of units language in the book of Bidāyatul Hidāyah in representing the concept of loyalty ( thā’at ) using the discourse perspective of translation, and (2) the concept of loyalty based on Imam Al-Ghazali in the book of Bidāyatul Hidāyah . The method had been divided into three basic steps: collecting the data using the observation method, analysis data related with the distributional method, and reporting the data. The result had been concluded that Imam al Ghazali’method to delivering the concept of loyalty ( thā’at ) message was the balancing between fiqh and sufism . Copyright (c) 2017 by KARSA. All right reserved DOI: 10.19105/karsa.v25i1.1180

The management of survivors’ guilt through the construction of a favorable self in Hiroshima survivor narratives

This study examines how Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors linguistically construct favorable selves – that is, selves that they want to present to others – in stories about events where they may feel survivors’ guilt. While discourse analysts started studying Holocaust narratives in the past decade, the field has not yet investigated narratives from Hiroshima survivors, nor has guilt been extensively investigated linguistically. In narrating those episodes where guilt can be attributed, Hiroshima survivors use various prosodic and syntactic devices to maintain their favorable selves by describing their powerlessness in a chaotic situation. Focusing on the telling of the same experience by three different survivors, the analysis reveals that narrators use various linguistic strategies to protect their positions as moral persons. The study contributes to a better understanding of the linguistic management of emotion, especially survivors’ guilt. Furthermore, linguistic examination of Hiroshima stories brings a discourse perspective to the study of global tragedies.

Bosnian multiconfessionalism as a foundation for intercultural dialogue

Muslim communities in the Balkans where the practice of Islam had been developed in the European context, can be used as an exemplification of the bridge between the Islamic East and the Christian West. Although for over 400 years Bosnia was under the Ottoman rule, Muslims became one of the many first Yugoslav, and then Bosnian communities, contributing to the dynamic, yet moderate area of ontological and axiological negotiations within the cultural borderland, sharing the living space with members of the Orthodox church, Catholics, a small Jewish community, and even Protestants. The history of the Muslim-Christian contacts in Bosnia involves both the examples of collisions, as well as encounters, initiated both by Christians, and by Muslims. This article analyzes the religious diversity (multiconfessionalism) in the historical and contemporary cultural and social context of Bosnia-Herzegovina, revealing its specificity, dynamics and (often unsuccessful) attempts to conceptualize it from the perspective of the Eurocentric discourse. The aim is not only to portray this religiously diverse makeup, but also to emphasize its potential for establishing ground for intercultural dialogue.

The jagged edges of multiculturalism in Canada and the suspect Canadian

ABSTRACTAlthough other nation-states have denounced multiculturalism, Canada continues to declare it is a fundamental characteristic of its national identity. However, there is no consensus about how multiculturalism should be defined or how it is implemented in Canada. This paper draws on an analysis of interviews conducted with members of the second-generation Sri Lankan Tamil diasporic community in Toronto, as well as online comments posted in response to articles on protests staged by this community about the end of the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. This paper argues that there are cleavages among Canadians with respect to how multiculturalism is understood. The diverging perspectives of the multicultural discourse in Canada illustrate that while the diaspora sees multiculturalism as a means to maintain their dual identities and engage in homeland politics, non-Sri Lankan Tamil Canadians conceptualize this form of activism in homeland politics as being disloyal to Canada, thereby questioning their Canadian identities.

POPULAR MAGAZINES, NEW LIBERAL DISCOURSE AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, 1890s–1914

The study of the mass circulation “popular magazine” during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era was revived during the 1990s as part of the emerging fields of gender studies, consumer studies, and the study of the new middle class. Richard Ohmann's seminal work viewed these magazines through the lens of the political economy and class relations of an emerging corporate capitalist society and explored the relationship between mass culture and the political economy of capitalism. This paper reexamines the connection between a national mass culture, the new middle class, and an emerging corporate capitalist society through the lens of post-structuralist discourse theory. Corporate capitalism is conceptualized as in part a discourse, the new liberalism, which incorporated or rearticulated populist and socialist discourses and in doing so temporarily won the consent of the capitalist class, middle classes, and segments of the working class. Through the pages of popular magazines readers were offered pieces of a new discourse that embraced corporations rather than the “free market,” women's entry into public life, and new constructions of the self. During the muckraking era, elements of socialism and populism were integrated into mainstream American culture. Overall, the essay argues that a discourse perspective on popular magazines can open up new perspectives on corporate capitalism and the new liberalism. While corporate capitalism marked the decline of the producer–republican tradition, it also marked the emergence of an American social democratic tradition, a mixture of capitalist and socialist social formations.

Legitimization in Phishing: A CDA Perspective

This paper mainly aims at analyzing how various discursive strategies legitimizing different requests and assertions in phishing emails are exploited to exercise the social power abuse and influence cognitive knowledge of the users. This study attempts to interlock Van Leeuwen and Wodak’s (1999) four legitimization strategies and Van Dijk’s (1998, 2001, 2006) ‘triangulation approach’ of discourse-society-cognition cycle in order to analyze the legitimization strategies in phishing from a critical discourse perspective. The discursive approach includes the discursive strategies in legitimation, the social approach shows the social power abuse engaged in legitimization, and the cognitive approach presents the manipulation of the user’s beliefs influencing their actions. In order to conduct this study, qualitative method is applied in randomly selected 25 phishing emails as textual data.

Komodifikasi Pariwisata Halal NTB dalam Promosi Destinasi Wisata Islami di Indonesia

Halal tourism destination becomes the new brand for West Nusa Tenggara. Strong local ethnic and religious plurality obtain halal tourism label. It is important to assess if the government saw the domination of the discourse object of power through the economic and tourism sectors. Therefore, this discourse halal tourism can be evaluated using the perspective of post-modern social theory Michael Foucault discourse and power: the power elite that is capable of creating a new discourse (halal tourism) to strengthen its political dominance. Then, using the perspective of Baudrillard's theory of the emergence of consumerist society in NTB as a result of capital commodification and domination of the capitalists. Keywords: Commodification, Discourse, Tourism, Halal

An integrative discourse perspective on positive leadership in public health care

PurposeThis study aims to take a discursive view on positive leadership (PL). A positive approach has gained momentum in recent years as appropriate leadership practices are implemented in organizations. Despite the turn toward discursive approaches in organization studies, there is insufficient evidence supporting PL as a socially constructed experience.Design/methodology/approachThe present study addresses an integrative discourse perspective for capturing the PL concept as a social process within the public health-care context.FindingsFour meanings of PL are highlighted: role-taking, servicing, balancing and deciphering.Research limitations/implicationsThe meanings shift the emphasis of certain PL definitions to a contextual interpretation. For scholars, the perspective demonstrates a multidimensional process approach in the desired organizational context as a counterbalance to one unanimously agreed-upon PL definition.Practical implicationsFor leaders, an integrative discourse perspective offers tools for comprehending PL as a process: how to identify, negotiate and reconcile various PL meanings.Originality/valueAn integrative discourse perspective provides a novel perspective capturing the PL concept within the public health-care field.

Neural networks for deceptive opinion spam detection: An empirical study

The products reviews are increasingly used by individuals and organizations for purchase and business decisions. Driven by the desire of profit, spammers produce synthesized reviews to promote some products or demote competitors products. So deceptive opinion spam detection has attracted significant attention from both business and research communities in recent years. Existing approaches mainly focus on traditional discrete features, which are based on linguistic and psychological cues. However, these methods fail to encode the semantic meaning of a document from the discourse perspective, which limits the performance. In this work, we empirically explore a neural network model to learn document-level representation for detecting deceptive opinion spam. First, the model learns sentence representation with convolutional neural network. Then, sentence representations are combined using a gated recurrent neural network, which can model discourse information and yield a document vector. Finally, the document representations are directly used as features to identify deceptive opinion spam. Based on three domains datasets, the results on in-domain and cross-domain experiments show that our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

Europeizacja top-down w kulturze jako efekt polityki kulturalnej UE

The aim of this article is to analyse how Europeanisation top-down process affects the EU cultural policy. Europeanisation, as an academic concept in political sciences and European studies, became popular if not fashionable in other disciplines during the last two decades, creating new perspectives of scientific discourse. In the case of cultural policy of the UE it influences mechanism of integration in cultural sector as well as process of identification with European community’s values, axiological standards and beliefs. It is also affecting management areas, project management especially, as well as leadership, standardisation, democratisation of political decisions, and methods of administrative governance of the European cities. All those instruments used in Europeanisation processes might help in deeper integration between European nations and make people’s Europe far more aware of a need to participate in cultural transition in Europe.

From LCT to Power Trio - The Cooperation Between SFL and Sociology

Over the past decade, systemic functional linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) has been cooperating to offer insight into education, especially knowledge building. In the special issue of Linguistics and Education in 2013, Karl Maton highlights the significance of semantic waves in knowledge building. These semantic waves involve recurrent movements in the semantic gravity and semantic density. Based on this theory, considering the technicality and abstractness of high stake reading and writing expected from students, the functional linguist J. R. Martin put forward the practical concepts of power trio, including power words, power grammar and power composition as tools for teachers to use for purposes of knowledge building from the perspective of lexicon, clause and discourse. In this paper, specific attention is first paid to introduce the development of LCT to power trio. Finally, the paper will move on to raise important issues regarding the problems lies in the theories.

基于语料库的学术语篇方式话语视角标记对比研究

本研究基于自建语料库，对比研究方式话语视角标记在母语学者和中国高级英语学习者的学术语篇中的话语表现和分布规律。研究发现：中国高级英语学习者使用方式话语视角标记的频次和频率皆高于母语专家作者；在综括类、确切类和详细类方式话语视角标记上的使用频率呈现由高到低的下降趋势。由此可得，中国高级英语学习者在学术写作中基本达到了母语作者使用方式话语视角标记的能力。 Based on the self-established comparable corpus, this study examines the performance and dis-tribution of style-of-speaking discourse perspective markers in academic discourses composed by the Chinese advanced EFL writers and native English-speaking writers. It is found that Chinese L2 writers tend to use style-of-speaking discourse perspective markers more frequently than the expert English writers and the frequencies of general, accurate and specific style-of-speaking discourse perspective markers used by both L1 writers and L2 writers are on the decline, which suggested that the Chinese advanced EFL writers are able to use style-of-speaking discourse perspective markers properly as writing academic discourses.

Learning from the Periphery in a Collaborative Robotics Workshop for Girls

This study investigates how students who are peripherally positioned in computer science-based, collaborative group work meaningfully engage with the group activity in order to learn. Our research took place in the context of a one-day, all-girl robotics workshop, in which the participants were learning to program robotic devices. A total of 17 girls, ages 8 - 13 (M = 11.725) participated in the workshop. Participants were recruited from local middle schools, through the technology teacher. Data collection consisted of video and audiotaping all group interactions over the daylong workshop. The group discussions were then fully transcribed. In this study, we focus on two students from different groups who had less direct contact with the materials, and were thus positioned peripherally. We used microgenetic learning analytic techniques to analyze discourse patterns in order to characterize the engagement of both the two groups of which the students were a part, as well as the two students themselves. One of the groups demonstrated stronger coordination from a discourse perspective and the focal student in that group exhibited meaningful engagement, while the other group demonstrated weaker coordination from a discourse perspective and the focal student exhibited marginal engagement. This contrast allows us to begin to build a picture of the factors that support learning from the periphery. Our results indicate that agency exhibited in well-coordinated group discussions is a key aspect of meaningful engagement.

‘Alcohol short-circuits important part of the brain’: Swedish newspaper representations of biomedical alcohol research

The media has a central role in communicating and constructing health knowledge, including communicating research findings related to alcohol consumption. However, research on news reporting about alcohol is still a relatively small field; in particular, there are few studies of the reporting of biomedical alcohol and drug research, despite the assumed increasing popularity of biomedical perspectives in public discourse in general. The present article addresses the representational ‘devices’ used in Swedish press reporting about biomedical alcohol research, drawing on qualitative thematic analysis of the topics, metaphors, and optimist versus critical frames used in presenting biomedical research findings. In general, the press discourse focuses on genetic factors related to alcohol problems, on the role of the brain and the reward system in addiction, and on medication for treating alcohol problems. Metaphors of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘reprograming’ of the reward system are used to describe how the brain’s function is altered in addiction, whereas metaphors of ‘undeserved reward’ and ‘shortcuts’ to pleasure are used to describe alcohol’s effects on the brain. The study indicates that aspects of the Swedish press discourse of biomedical alcohol research invite reductionism, but that this result could be understood from the point of view of both the social organization of reporting and the intersection of reporting, science, and everyday understandings rather than from the point of view of the news articles only. Moreover, some characteristics of the media portrayals leave room for interpretation, calling for research on the meanings ascribed to metaphors of addiction in everyday interaction.