Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2167510
Nguyễn Yến-Khanh
ABSTRACT This paper examines news media coverage on autism, a public health issue in Vietnam. Computational corpus analysis and framing analysis of Vietnamese digital news media of over 580,000 words are deemed useful methods for big data analysis. The language patterns, extracted by WordSmith software, suggest autism is framed primarily as a medical problem and a family issue, not a matter of social policy or an aspect of human diversity. Noticeably, individuals with autism are expected to integrate to fit in with the community, not the other way around, where the society acts as an agent to accommodate autism diversity within an inclusive environment. The study finds the under-represented voices of individuals with autism and family actors, and the dominant voices of healthcare, education, and other professionals, along with the absence of government authorities in the media corpus.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2167513
Juan Liang
ABSTRACT This study explored the communication of Predator Free 2050 (PF2050), a biodiversity conservation programme promoted by the New Zealand government. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and an online survey, the study found that the information about PF2050 was made available by diverse contributing agencies but ineffectively disseminated to the public who believed PF2050 provided insufficient or unclear communication. These were experienced as barriers to public engagement with PF2050. A coordinated approach is judged vital to communicate PF2050 to the public. A key to this coordination is effective engagement with Māori as Treaty partners to ensure the success of PF2050. This study provides valuable insights into the features provoking and sustaining public engagement with biodiversity preservation in Aotearoa New Zealand and highlights the need for environmental movements worldwide to improve communication publicity and visibility. It contributes to our understanding of prioritising both inclusiveness and cultural sensitivity if communication strategies are to inspire collaborative actions of the public.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-30DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2167514
Hagos Nigussie
ABSTRACT This paper examined the use of extension agents in connecting rural people to food security programs in the Irob and Gulomekeda districts, in eastern Tigray, Ethiopia. This study employed qualitative research involving 50 semi-structured interviews, 10 focus group discussions, and 15 hours of personal observation. Extension agents use public meetings to transfer agricultural technologies to rural people. However, results showed that public meetings are ineffective to connect rural people to food security programs. This has limited peoples’ power to voice their concerns and restrained their agency to sanction their choices and negotiate the structures. Besides, the food security implementation procedures are not inclusive limiting people’s participation in the strategy design and strategy implementation procedures. Study results also showed that administrative challenges and personal incompetence have affected extension agents from undertaking their duties effectively. Overall, despite Ethiopia invests in agricultural extension systems, little has been achieved to improve rural food security.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2188693
A. Barnes
ABSTRACT Television drama has implications beyond providing entertainment and beyond immediate audience reactions and responses. Māori focus group participants in my research on local television dramas were acutely aware of how they were represented on screen. As an audience they were deeply affected and worked hard to pre-empt and address what they saw or expected to see. Against a backdrop of colonisation and negative stereotypes that pervade Māori representations, they undertook multiple forms of meaning making and negotiated complex responses. Colonial trauma emerged as a deeply felt response to representations that reminded participants of the effects of colonisation; for example, the denigration of te reo Māori (Māori language) and issues of identity. When viewing troubling depictions, participants deployed strategies of resistance, including a response I termed ‘Imagining Resistance’ where, they created backstories and interpretations for characters’ motivations and behaviours.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2193464
Terence Lee
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2190531
Donald Matheson
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to clarify a methodological agenda for combining discourse analysis with corpus analysis. It details four concerns. Firstly, it argues that corpus-assisted discourse analysis can quite drastically narrow the view on discourse, if used on its own and without accompanying theoretical tools for exploring social practice. Secondly, corpora are of more value in helping researchers identify the symbolic resources that people have available to them than at understanding how they use those resources. Thirdly, they must be approached through a renewed appreciation of communication as a human accomplishment and corpora must, therefore, be reconnected to the producers of that discourse. And fourthly, corpora are of greater value when extended beyond lexical analysis. Underpinning these points is a commitment to discourse analysis as a tool to understand in close detail how people use language to do things in their lives.
{"title":"Discourse analysis after the computational turn: a mixed bag","authors":"Donald Matheson","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2023.2190531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2190531","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper seeks to clarify a methodological agenda for combining discourse analysis with corpus analysis. It details four concerns. Firstly, it argues that corpus-assisted discourse analysis can quite drastically narrow the view on discourse, if used on its own and without accompanying theoretical tools for exploring social practice. Secondly, corpora are of more value in helping researchers identify the symbolic resources that people have available to them than at understanding how they use those resources. Thirdly, they must be approached through a renewed appreciation of communication as a human accomplishment and corpora must, therefore, be reconnected to the producers of that discourse. And fourthly, corpora are of greater value when extended beyond lexical analysis. Underpinning these points is a commitment to discourse analysis as a tool to understand in close detail how people use language to do things in their lives.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":"3 1","pages":"3 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91369636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2188696
Kate Power
ABSTRACT Pacific Island women and girls experience violence at over double the global average rate, partly because violence is often legitimised as an expression of male power. This article presents a critical discourse analytic study of newspaper reporting on violence against women and girls (VAWG) in leading English-language newspapers from 11 Pacific Island nations. Using content analysis, I mapped the relative frequency of reporting on VAWG and gender equality in 870 articles published between June 2017 and May 2019. I then examined how Pacific news reporting frames VAWG, and how VAWG-focused articles (n = 720) use various forms of reporting long considered problematic, including downplaying violence and perpetuating rape myths. This study draws on an extensive body of research into VAWG reporting, but documents for the first time how Pacific news reporting needs to change in order to challenge the norms underpinning VAWG in the region.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-23DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2022.2141862
François Cooren, B. Brummans, Lise Higham
ABSTRACT The accusation that someone is putting words in someone else’s mouth can be heard in everyday conversations, but what does this phenomenon reveal about the ways human beings communicate? This paper aims to show that it is useful to view putting words in someone’s mouth as a form of ventriloquation. By theorising this phenomenon, this paper explicates how people discover a version of what they said in their interlocutors’ mouths, and in turn react to these ventriloquations. Since this phenomenon is especially visible in conflict situations, this paper demonstrates the value of using a ventriloquial lens to study human interactions through a detailed analysis of a public dispute and a conflict mediation session. Thus, this paper shows how this lens can be used to gain insight into the communicative constitution of conflict as well as its resolution. More broadly, it proposes to conceive of interaction as a process of mutual ventriloquation and highlights the methodological, ethical, and political implications of this analytical move.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2022.2137256
Gail T. Fairhurst
ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore the possible declining interest in Organizational Discourse Analysis (ODA) in the organisational sciences. Towards that end, I focus on what some analysts mistake about it, why it is particularly suited to the study of paradox and leadership, and how ODA scholars can sustain interest in these approaches.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2022.2137251
Lucy E Elkin, M. Stubbe, S. Pullon
ABSTRACT In health decision-making, the distinctions between manipulation, persuasion and coercion are easily blurred. Manipulation, viewed through a bioethics lens is problematic only when it affects a person’s ability to make autonomous decisions. In contrast, in critical discourse analysis (CDA), manipulation usually has negative connotations. This article uses childhood MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine information as a case study in manipulative discourse. Online vaccine information across three organisations was analysed using CDA methodology. Each organisation used manipulative discourse in their vaccine information but with varying degrees of transparency. The less transparent an organisation’s motivations are, the less compatible it is with autonomous decision-making. This paper argues for adding further nuance to how discursive manipulation is defined within CDA, particularly in the field of public health. In this setting, manipulation is not necessarily immoral or unfair, but it may be, depending on whether it controls a person’s ability to make an autonomous, informed decision.
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