Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2023.2207071
Marcelyn Oostendorp
ABSTRACT Linguistic repertoire is regarded as one of the foundational concepts of sociolinguistics but despite its prominence during the early years of the discipline, it is commonly believed that for decades scant theoretical development on repertoire occurred. This situation is seen to change in the early 2000s when several (Northern) researchers increasingly advocated that linguistic repertoire could be more productive to theorize contemporary communicative practices than language. In this paper, I aim to foreground the South/North entanglements in the coinage and development of linguistic repertoire and present erased, forgotten, or obscured parts of the linguistic repertoire story. I show how Southern thinkers, both linguists and non-linguists came up with precursors to the way in which repertoires are currently conceptualized. By presenting this obscured narrative from the South, I want to offer critical questions about the trajectories of concepts and the kind of knowledge that gets excluded by the sidelining of Southern thinking.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2022.2159418
Shi-xu
One of the new theoretical advances in communication studies is the re-emergence of consciousness of culture, whether or not in human communication in general or specific settings of such as health, business, science, or media in particular. However, owing to difference in theory and research goals, there exists a myriad methods for analysis which, if explicit at all, are incompatible or even at odds with one another. Cultural Discourse Studies takes communication as a global system composed of culturally diversified and competing discourses, where cultures are viewed as constituted in and through those discourses. Therefore CDS aims to find differences as well as similarities, interaction as well as interconnection, of cultural discourses, all with a view to enhancing cultural development, harmony and prosperity on the one hand and achieving scientific innovation on the other hand. To resolve the methodological fragmentation in general and to answer the research questions and achieve the objectives just mentioned in particular, CDS formulates a comprehensive and integrated system of explicit approaches, as follows. Intracultural analysis: To search for identity, distinction, particularity, or peculiarity of a cultural discourse, i.e. that of a geopolitical/historical/ethnic community, through structural and interpretive analysis of the relevant discursive components in the data at hand (e.g. self-image, concepts, values, major themes, strategies of meaning-making); Transcultural analysis: To search for incursionby, influence from,or fusionwithaspectsofother cultural discourses by discovering relevant borrowings, transfusions or recreations of concepts and ideas, norms and values, topics and expressions or else responses and reactions of some sort; Crosscultural analysis: To search for differences, contrasts, variations as well as ambivalence between the cultural discourses in question through comparison of relevant discursive components or aspects (e.g. different representations of the ‘same’ reality, variable attitudes towards the ‘same’ issue, contrary actions taken); Intercultural analysis: To search for self and other representations by and interactions between different cultural discourses in question and so also resultant identities, penetrations, and relations of power (e.g. domination, exclusion, marginalization, resistance, cooperation, synergy); Pancultural analysis: To search for commonalities, similarities, equivalences and interconnections between different cultural discourses in question through analysis of relevant discursive aspects (e.g. communicators, conceptions, objectives, shared experiences); Axiocultural analysis: To make evaluations over aspects or properties of cultural discourse(s) in question and propose new norms and ways of communication to enhance cultural development, unity and prosperity. In this regard, CDS adopts its own culturalpolitical standards, global and local. Whilst the global criterion, subject to conti
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2022.2102640
Fernanda Vidal-Correa
ABSTRACT Studies on media coverage have found that female nominees receive unequal treatment regarding their visibility and portrayal of their agendas. To assess how media cover women, municipal elections in Mexico are analysed. By focusing on municipal elections, this research advocate for the study of local phenomena and their discourses. The study questions whether women have received equal media exposure compared to men. The research analyses how women are portrayed and explores how print news media present stories about women and the narratives included in their stories. Findings suggest that female and male candidates are equally visible, but men are singled out more often as likely winners. News reports focus mostly on ‘male’ issues, but coverage does not focus disproportionally on female candidates’ personality traits.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2022.2155657
C. Lira
In the last decades, women have entered the public arena, particularly institutional politics, as appointed officials and elected representatives, at both national and local levels. It has been a long way from the movements pushing for guaranteeing women the right to vote and to get educated since the late nineteenth century. A wide range of feminist agendas and movements globally has contributed to widening human rights for girls and women, including the access to education, to vote, and to participate as candidates in elections. There are places, however, where such basic rights are still under attack and women have been struggling to make their way into schools, local and national political organizations, and even to have their own voice. The protests of women in Iran in 2022, the shrinking of rights for girls and women in Afghanistan, the lack of autonomy for women in many societies around the world demonstrate that it is still fundamental to expose discrimination against women and improve their status everywhere. Cultural issues are key to better understanding the scope and nature of status of women in different societies. Indeed, the uneven field for many of them depends on a set of key dimensions, such as class, race, ethnicity, and age, to mention a few. In other words, the visibility and the features framing women in the public sphere are heavily situated. Consequently, the experience of entering the political arena is not the same for a white, well-educated, and upper-class women in an industrialized country than for a non-white, with an indigenous background, and a trajectory of grassroots activism located in an underdeveloped country, for instance. The way as the society as a whole, the costumes, the media, the State, and even other women signify the role of female politicians varies from country to country. It even varies from national to local level. Media, at large, is a field of cultural struggle for what is worthy to represent and how must be portrayed. It has been particularly aggressive for female politicians along history. The role of media in enhancing (or shrinking) women’s rights has been at the center of intellectual concern of feminist activism and research. By the late 1970s, Gaye Tuchman (1978) raised questions that still resonate in this matter:
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2022.2116449
Esther Mavengano, Tobias Marevesa, P. Nkamta
ABSTRACT Classification of African migrants in South Africa as undesirable, economic parasites, illegals, among other derogatory terms, characterises current xenophobic discourses and foregrounds frontiers that divide people in Africa. Xenophobia violates the philosophy of ubuntu/Vumunhu/Umunhu and the parable of the Good Samaritan which define humanity as diverse but collective. Drawing from this philosophy and parable as prisms through which xenophobic discourses can be analysed, we interrogate notions of African/ness and neighbour/liness in contemporary South Africa. African humanity is heterogeneous and existing xenophobic attitudes and practices provide sites for academic inquiry to generate deep understanding. Mhlongo’s After Tears identifies fault lines which need to be sutured vis-à-vis the current fear and hatred of strangers. The varied forms of xenophobia reflect nuanced but interconnected dynamics, such as historical legacies and socio-economic divisions that mask differences, which feed into makwerekwere metadiscourse. African immigrants become imagined as real sources of problems in South Africa today.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2022.2119990
F. Ndhlovu
ABSTRACT The human and social science communities have over a long time committed themselves to the pursuit of an ever-growing list of new conceptual frameworks, but often only to rob such theories of profundity in the end. Such habits and practices reduce into ‘slogan’ ideas that otherwise hold the promise for robust interrogation of how we came to be where we are. In this article, I extend scholarly conversations in cultural discourse studies (CDS) that trouble and unsettle Westcentrism as a global discursive practice that overlooks and eclipses non-Western intellectual legacies. In contributing to the project of CDS, I discuss four key points that draw attention to a deeper understanding of the history, genealogy, contours and foundational goals of decolonising in the search for strategies we can use to redeem the field from the pitfalls of ‘sloganisation’. I invite all of us to engage in reflexive thought-work about how best to advance decolonising in ways that are committed to the pursuit of the anti-colonial and counter-hegemonic agendas advanced in CDS scholarship. I posit that decolonising is not a universal concept that can be expressed in terms of a universal academic language because there are various loci of enunciation from which to do decolonisation in praxis.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2022.2155656
Farhana Abdul Fatah
ABSTRACT This paper examines the link between language, identity, religion, and gender through a study of discursive identity construction among non-veiled Muslim women in Malaysia. Informed by Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA), this paper further explores the ways through which these women attempt to negotiate and/or subvert their positions of powerful and powerless within interrelated religious and gendered Discourses, which are collectively grouped under the ‘Discourses of non-veiling’. As the veil is regarded as an important signifier of a Muslim woman’s identity, the discussions revolving around this symbolic piece of clothing and the identity of the wearer elicits responses that showcase a diversity of perspectives. By utilising a discursive and linguistic lens, this study therefore seeks to contribute to the emerging body of work on language, religion, and identity.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2022.2092118
Maria Kuteeva
The role of the individual agency in the shaping of academic discourse cannot be under-estimated. The Oxford English Dictionary contains 788 citations from the writings of the seventeenth-century doctor and polymath Sir Thomas Browne, who drew on his knowledge of Latin to coin numerous neologisms which are used today in both scienti fi c and everyday English (e.g. electricity, medical, suicide, compensate, prairie, coexistence, coma, hallucination, carnivorous, migrant , ferocious , etc.). Brown ’ s (trans)linguistic creativity was truly exceptional, but resorting to classical languages, such as Latin and Ancient Greek without providing translations, used to be commonplace among humanities scholars well into the twentieth century. We do not need to go far in search for examples: Chal-mers (1936) article titled ‘ Sir Thomas Browne, true scientist ’ contains numerous examples of such code-meshing. Likewise, mixing di ff erent varieties of English has exercised a rhetorical function in academic discourse. In his seminal paper ‘ Beowulf : The Monsters and the Critics ’ (1936, reprinted 1983), J.R.R. Tolkien, then Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and creator of multilingual Middle-Earth, resorts to Chaucer ’ s Middle English to make a self-e ff acing remark comparing himself to his learned audience: and though it may seem presumption that I should try with swich a lewed mannes wit to pace the wisdom of an heep of lerned men , in this department there is at least more chance for the lewed man . (Tolkien 1983, 5 – 6) Such rhetorical strategies used to be markers of elite multilingualism 1 , indexical of huma-nistic scholarly traditions and knowledge of the canonical authors and texts. From the perspective of western scholarship, elite multilingualism in academic writing has involved the use of classical or high-prestige modern languages (e.g. French and German), which the authors acquired strati
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2022.2079649
Eithan Orkibi
ABSTRACT Although the Israeli right holds an equal – if not superior – position of power within the Israeli bi-polar political cleavage, its leaders and spokespersons continue to nurture a group identity of an excluded, marginalized and oppressed ideological movement. This study examines the discursive practice of ‘self-othering’ in Israeli right-wing discourse. Focusing on a particular case study – op-ed articles and commentaries published by right-wing opinion makers during the military crisis of summer 2006 – the study analyzes the Israeli right’s rhetoric of polarization in terms of movement-countermovement competitive framing process. Drawing on frame theory and historical discourse approach, the analysis shows how victimage discourse is employed by the Israeli right to delegitimize the left as being an oppressive elite, and to frame right-wing affiliation as a social identity of a popular movement whose members are mobilized to a continuous struggle against the ‘hegemonic control’ of the left.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2022.2113886
Alan Silvio Ribeiro Carneiro
ABSTRACT This article draws on discomfort as an epistemological tool to rethink about how subalternized subjects have been positioned and can position themselves in relation to academic writing practices and academic spaces. The discussion is organized in four sections: in the first one, drawing on Black feminist thought, it is discussed how language has a role in experiences of being marginalized and feeling uncomfortable in these spaces and the ways in which these feelings have been theorized. In the second section, based on a personal account, I narrate my own journey of discomfort in the process of learning how to become a researcher in the field of applied linguistics, considering the practices of academic writing. In the third section, I review a few contemporary trends in Humanities, to evaluate their potential as alternatives to change the metapragmatics and the pragmatics of knowledge production systems and avoid their misrecognition effects on subaltern subjects. Finally, I consider how subalternized subjects can position themselves in relation to these systems, proposing a transhistoric and transtopical way of positioning that could be a path to avoid assimilation and opening up possibilities for new modes of producing knowledge.
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