Pub Date : 2021-12-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.2009487
Robert T. Craig, Bingjuan Xiong
ABSTRACT Multicultural dialogue on communication theory is needed both to de-Westernize the field and to engage it with an emerging global communication culture. The Constitutive Metamodel envisions a pluralistic field of communication theory that invites dialogue among multiple traditions of thought on practical communication problems. Can the Constitutive Metamodel serve as a heuristic framework to facilitate multicultural dialogue on communication theory? Literature on de-Westernizing communication theory is reviewed both to identify potential barriers and to illuminate openings to multicultural dialogue via the metamodel. To illustrate one approach and, we hope, to stimulate further discussion, a partially reconstructed metamodel is presented that incorporates selected Asian (Confucian, Buddhist) and Western (Cybernetic, Spiritual) traditions of communication theory and attempts to place them all in dialogical relations that avoid the false dichotomy of ‘East versus West.’ In conclusion, we reflect critically on this theoretical exploration and the prospect for future work.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.2017442
S. Sugiharto
ABSTRACT Concomitant with the increased pressures on scholars around the globe to publish in top-tiered scholarly indexed English journals, the Indonesian government has imposed a stern policy obliging local scholars to publish in such journals. This policy has serious ramifications for the academic promotions, tenures, research grants and allowances of these scholars. Yet, as it is English that has become the privileged language for global academic publication, there is the tendency that it gives rise to linguistic hegemony in knowledge production and dissemination. Drawing upon in-depth interview results from two Indonesian professors who have ample experiences in writing and publication in the field of linguistics, this study seeks to discover strategies they employed to de-westernize hegemonic knowledge in global academic publishing. In so doing, the article further contributes to the debates over the politics of knowledge production and dissemination amid the intellectual hegemony of knowledge in academic publication.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.2009486
Afrooz Rafiee, W. Spooren, J. Sanders
ABSTRACT In this study, the concept of framing is applied in order to show differences in the conception of crime events in the genre of news texts across socio-cultural contexts. Three aspects of framing at the thematic, lexical and syntactic level are defined: occurrence, marked description and prominence and, accordingly, a corpus of one hundred crime-news articles in Dutch and Iranian national newspapers is analyzed. Taking a systematic and replicable approach, it was found that crime-news narratives in the two countries frame crime and crime-related events in different ways with regard to the representation of participants, actions and circumstantial elements. The implication of these different framing patterns is explained in terms of different socio-cultural contexts and discussed with regard to the discourse culture of journalism. The study has implications for further exploration of the interdependence of discourse, context and cognition.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.1980572
Florencia Reali
ABSTRACT Online media has enabled the representation of important feminist ideas. However, a tendency towards a negative and sexualized construction of feminism in popular culture has been documented. One way to examine opinions and attitudes towards social matters is to explore metaphors as they influence reasoning and decision-making. Previous work has shown that common metaphor patterns for women include comparing them to animals or plants, body parts, commodities or outsiders. Here we use standard methods of metaphor identification to explore the framing of feminism and women in feminism-related news in online popular media in Spanish, using a sample of articles taken from News on the Web (Corpus del Español). The results show that the most common metaphors on feminism and women are warfare ones, highlighting the intention of empowering the movement. However, war metaphors may convey negative connotations such as an increase in fear emotions and political polarization. Other metaphors found for feminism also tend to foreground power and force. In the case of women, many metaphors convey victimization and objectification. Finally, some metaphors used to frame women that are common in other discourses – such as women are animals or farmland – were absent in online articles on feminism.
摘要网络媒体使重要的女权主义思想得以传播。然而，在流行文化中，女权主义倾向于消极和性化。考察人们对社会事务的看法和态度的一种方法是探究隐喻对推理和决策的影响。先前的研究表明，女性常见的隐喻模式包括将她们比作动物或植物、身体部位、商品或外来者。在这里，我们使用隐喻识别的标准方法，使用取自《网络新闻》（Corpus del Español）的文章样本，探索西班牙语网络流行媒体中女权主义和女性相关新闻的框架。研究结果表明，女性主义和女性最常见的隐喻是战争隐喻，突出了赋予运动权力的意图。然而，战争隐喻可能传达负面含义，如恐惧情绪的增加和政治两极分化。女权主义的其他隐喻也倾向于前景权力和力量。就女性而言，许多隐喻传达了受害和物化。最后，一些在其他话语中常见的用来框定女性的隐喻——比如女性是动物或农田——在关于女权主义的网络文章中并不存在。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.1954653
Richard W. Hallett
ABSTRACT This paper provides a Critical Discourse Analysis and a Cultural Discourse Studies analysis of a series of English as a foreign language textbooks produced and used in Lithuanian schools during the Soviet era and into the post-Soviet era. The analysis shows that these books use the English language not to pay homage to linguistic imperialism and concomitantly promote anglophone countries (the Inner Circle), but rather to demote these countries and advance a communist ideology. This paper concludes that the English language per se is not an agent capable of (re)producing inequalities; rather, it is an instrument for other agents – in this case the creators of English language textbooks – to use to mediate any ideology, not just those for whom English is a first language.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-27DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.1932921
Gabriel Simungala, Hambaba Jimaima
ABSTRACT Using data from Zambian Facebook platforms, we argue for the complex intersectionality of the global-local semiotic assemblages for the production and consumption of a contested and unpredictable virtual landscape. While ‘glocality’ is a by-product of an on-going sociolinguistics of globalization, and that the local remains an active partner in the (co-)creation of glocality, the paper sees the virtual platform as a semiotic canvas on which individualized semiotic preferences are expressed within and beyond the pull and push of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The paper takes instances of translanguaging on Facebook as markers of semiotic and linguistic freedoms in which individual agency undercuts the global semiotic flows and goes against the normative expectation to act in an unpredictable way in the face of globalization. We thus argue for the role of assertiveness, spontaneity arising from the shared heritage, bilingualism and ‘play’ as motivation for the ‘messy’ yet meaningful virtual landscape.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-16DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.1941064
P. Mpofu
ABSTRACT The Nollywood films, Nigeria’s greatest cultural export, have had phenomenal cultural impact in Zimbabwe. Deploying a theoretical gaze grounded in the social learning theory and notions of linguistic diffusion, lexical and pragmatic borrowing, this article explores the manifestation of lexis, accents, semantic and pragmatic elements of Nigerian linguistic and cultural heritage in Zimbabwe’s everyday discourses, as well as cultural productions. The corpus of Nigerian lingo was developed using a combination of qualitative methods that included personal interviews, focus groups and observation methods. The diffusion and use of Nigerian lingo in Zimbabwe proves films’ expediency in extemporaneous foreign language learning. The language acquisition process is induced by the cultural appeal of Nollywood films and the idolisation of people and culture depicted in the films. The adoption and adaptation of Nigerian lingo in Zimbabwe as a result of exposure to Nollywood movies is a significant contribution to discourses of multiculturalism.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-06DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.1934479
M. Abu Bakar, Siao See Teng, Heidi Layne, Sanam Naraindas Kaurani
ABSTRACT Singapore has established a reputation as a country with social harmony. But in recent times, increasing reports on issues of social cohesion have begun to emerge in the media about tensions among its citizenry and between foreigners and migrants. Yet, little is known about youths’ lived experiences of everyday multiculturalism amidst this changing demographic landscape. The discourses on diversities in Singapore classrooms have remained largely within the State’s narrative of race-based harmonious multiculturalism based on inherited colonial racialised categories. This paper investigates the understanding and lived experiences of multiculturalism of students in one secondary school, situating the analysis of everyday multiculturalism within the complexities of local diversities and the structure of schooling in a postcolonial multilingual society.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.1932919
Naoko Hosokawa
ABSTRACT This article examines a recent trend in the Japanese news media of using the term ‘refugee’ as a metaphor. Japan is known for its extremely low refugee admission rate, granting asylum to less than 100 refugees each year. Why so few? In order to provide lexical observations on this situation, this article explores how the term ‘refugee’ (nanmin) is used in the Japanese news media. In 2007, a Japanese journalist popularised the sensational term ‘net cafe refugee’ for those who do not have a fixed address and sleep in 24-hour Internet cafes. The usage of ‘refugee’ in this context provoked a controversy and prompted cafe owners to release an official statement asking journalists to refrain from using the term. Despite the outcry, the term ‘refugee’ remains popular today as a metaphor for those who lack access to particular facilities, services, or experiences – for instance, ‘insurance refugee’, ‘information refugee’ and so on. Based on the analysis of textual data containing these metaphorical expressions, the article suggests that through the refugee metaphor, the term’s implications have shifted from visual to conceptual, and from international to domestic, with the possible effect of diverting public attention from the reality of refugee protection.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.1895180
J. Beetz, Benno Herzog, Jens Maesse
The notion of ideology plays a crucial role in the social sciences in general and discourse studies in particular because it helps us conceptualize, problematize and understand the complex relationship between language use and power structures. In this respect, ideology analysis contributes to a holistic, multilevel and complex understanding of discourse (Shi-xu 2014). The research programs of social scientific approaches to ideology and the still emerging field of discourse studies show several similarities and parallel developments. For both programs, knowledge and power, symbolic realities and their material mediation, as well as the practical production and consequences of knowledge and belief systems are at the very center of interest. During the last century researchers in both fields crossed their way, engaging in debates that enriched the understanding of ideology as a phenomenon as well as of discourse research. It could even be argued that discourse studies were founded on the shoulders of the giants of ideology research. Francis Bacon’s analysis of idola, left Hegelian critique on religion and inverted consciousness fromMarx, to Lukács, and Gramsci’s notion of hegemony have been highly influential when the linguistic turn in social sciences and humanities lead the research agenda to the specific influence of language for the construction of social perception. Here the work of Louis Althusser has to be mentioned. His theory of ideology can be seen as hinge between Marxist notions of ideology and discourse studies. His focus on ideology as representation of an imaginary relationship and a material reality, or the conceptualization of the constitution of subjects through the semiotic practice of interpellation can be understood as a starting point for the arising multidisciplinary research program of critical discourse studies. Finally, Foucault’s work on discourse, power and subjectivation has inspired contemporary scholars analysing knowledge as a political tool that is forming people’s identities (Foucault 1980). Important inputs came also from Fairclough’s work on the relation of ideology and power (1989) as well as from Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) radical stance on hegemony and towards the discursive foundations of realities. Neither discourse nor ideology is a particularly well-defined phenomenon. For both, we can easily find a wide range of definitions (see, e.g. Eagleton 1991; Herzog and Ruiz 2019). In contrast to approaches which perceive ideology as immaterial beliefs, in the last decade we observe a return of ideology critique and theories of ideology in social
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