Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17504813231185716
Marina Rospitasari, Narita Pratiwi, Hendra Zebua
the authors admit, one of the limitations of the research is that ‘some important intellectual discussions taking place outside Western academia may still be under-represented, partly reflecting our own limitations’ (2). Their research has thrown up many questions in need of further analysis as to the institutional discourses of international organizations in non-Western languages, such as Chinese and Arabic. The authors call the reader’s attention to other researchers as they argue that ‘in order to actually see how hegemonic this ideology in non-Western documents should be analyzed’ and expressing the hope that ‘other scholars will feel inspired to undertake this investigation’ (18). All that said, the book makes significant theoretical contributions to both discourse and translation studies and will be useful for researchers and students in critical discourse analysis, translation studies and political studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17504813231185714
Polina Mesinioti
those readers who are not familiar with stylistics and its analytical tools, and are also an inspiration and enlightenment for scholars engaged in interdisciplinary research in stylistics, discourse analysis and ecolinguistics. In general, this book discusses the stories we live by focusing on ecocentrism in an interdisciplinary perspective, which will be of interest to linguists, biologists, academic researchers and sustainability officers working in environmental agencies and organizations.
{"title":"Book review: Rein Ove Sikveland, Heidi Kevoe-Feldman and Elizabeth Stokoe, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis","authors":"Polina Mesinioti","doi":"10.1177/17504813231185714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231185714","url":null,"abstract":"those readers who are not familiar with stylistics and its analytical tools, and are also an inspiration and enlightenment for scholars engaged in interdisciplinary research in stylistics, discourse analysis and ecolinguistics. In general, this book discusses the stories we live by focusing on ecocentrism in an interdisciplinary perspective, which will be of interest to linguists, biologists, academic researchers and sustainability officers working in environmental agencies and organizations.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47884870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17504813231185715
Yuan Ping
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1177/17504813231177280
Jonathan Hendrickx, Annelien Van Remoortere, M. Opgenhaffen
Facebook remains the most important platform where social media editors package and try to ‘sell’ media outlets’ online news articles to audiences. In one of the first studies of its kind, we assess how this practice was effectuated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use computational analysis to determine the polarity, subjectivity and use of some linguistics features in the status messages of 140,359 Facebook posts of 17 mainstream and alternative news titles from Flanders (Belgium) between March 2020 and 2021. Among other things, we find that status messages score considerably higher than headlines in terms of polarity and subjectivity, and that they, along with the use of question and interrogation marks, peaked in the first months of the pandemic. We contextualise our findings within existing scholarship and wider trends in increasingly digitised and globalised media societies.
{"title":"News packaging during a pandemic: A computational analysis of news diffusion via Facebook","authors":"Jonathan Hendrickx, Annelien Van Remoortere, M. Opgenhaffen","doi":"10.1177/17504813231177280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813231177280","url":null,"abstract":"Facebook remains the most important platform where social media editors package and try to ‘sell’ media outlets’ online news articles to audiences. In one of the first studies of its kind, we assess how this practice was effectuated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use computational analysis to determine the polarity, subjectivity and use of some linguistics features in the status messages of 140,359 Facebook posts of 17 mainstream and alternative news titles from Flanders (Belgium) between March 2020 and 2021. Among other things, we find that status messages score considerably higher than headlines in terms of polarity and subjectivity, and that they, along with the use of question and interrogation marks, peaked in the first months of the pandemic. We contextualise our findings within existing scholarship and wider trends in increasingly digitised and globalised media societies.","PeriodicalId":46726,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43471774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1177/17504813231174802
Gwen Bouvier, David Machin
At the time of writing, it had become common to find trending social media hashtags where users were expressing their feelings about current social and political issues through a range of symbolic gestures, such as striking a pose, wearing a garment, or changing their personal icon. Scholars had begun to consider such gestures in regard to whether they constitute a meaningful form of civic participation or activism. In the present paper, we seek to contribute to this literature by using multimodal critical discourse analysis to examine the contents of one Twitter hashtag where users participate in this form of activism: #StandWithWomenlnAfghanistan. Aligning with emerging scholarship on the nature of online affective publics, the analysis shows that those tweeting do not align with clear and specific issues, causalities, or solutions based on contextual understanding. On the one hand, symbolic gestures can be thought of as vernaculars that support a heterogeneous, fuzzy, and incoherent set of meanings. Yet on the other hand, across the posts using this hashtag, we find a discourse where injustice and solutions are based on notions of individual identity and freedom of expression rooted in the liberal democratic traditions of the European Enlightenment, here brought to bear on the hugely diverse and specific lives of women in Afghanistan. For many scholars, it is such ethnocentrism that underpins the very imperialist imagining of Afghanistan that led to, and legitimized, the invasion and occupation in the first place.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1177/17504813231171644
Wen Zhao
Aviation English (AE) is a distinct register of English used by pilots and air traffic controllers. As it is one of the contributing factors to aviation safety, ICAO and its Member States’ aviation authorities require the airspace users to have the proficiency in using AE effectively. In recent years, the training and testing have gained more attention, but little work has been done to describe its linguistic features. The study set out to describe AE from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics with an aim to illustrate its linguistic features as compared to conversational English (CE). To achieve this goal, the corpora of CE and AE communications between native English speakers from the United States were respectively constructed and then scrutinized to demonstrate that AE has a significant difference from CE in functional-semantic aspects. The findings of this study reveal how distinct AE with CE in terms of speech functions. Some pedagogical implications were then proposed for enhancing AE training to cultivate the students’ competence in semantics and interaction.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1177/17504813231170579
Chunyan Xing, D. Feng
This paper provides an integrated social semiotic framework for analyzing intertextuality in multimodal advertising discourse. Following the distinction between manifest intertextuality and interdiscursivity, our model entails the three interrelated components of explicating what the intertextual sources are, how they are constructed with multimodal resources, and how they interact with the promotional discourse. Analysis of 30 popular video advertisements shows the fundamental role of character voices and different social semiotic activities in achieving the purpose of promoting products and services. Through intertextual devices, the advertisements construct multiple identities, including authoritative and peer ones, to evoke different reading positions. In particular, the identity of middle-class urbanites sharing their experiences and values with the audience is dominant. The intertextual devices achieve promotional, relational, and entertainment functions, and the promotional function is realized through sharing, recreating, expounding, and reporting activities, while the recommending activities only occupy a very small portion of the screen time of the advertisements. The framework of multimodal intertextuality provides a useful lens for explicating the complex meaning-making resources, their communicative functions, and hidden ideologies in advertising discourse, which can further provide new insight into the social reality.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1177/17504813231171654
Kai Bao
This article presents an analysis of the evolving representations of feminism on Weibo, China’s foremost microblogging platform, employing a corpus-based methodology. The self-compiled corpus comprised 334,871 feminism-related posts from 2019 to 2022. Using the Sketch Engine corpus analysis tool, noun bigrams containing 女权 (feminism) were extracted, categorized, and compared to discern the portrayals and their transformations. The findings revealed a significant shift in feminism’s depiction, with an increased emphasis on its radical and aggressive aspects, and a decline in its portrayal as a quest for female privilege. During this period, the perception of feminism as an emerging social movement expanded, and the distinction between various forms of feminism and feminists based on different attributes became more prevalent, resulting in a marginally reduced representation of them as a unified entity. This research enriches the existing literature by emphasizing the dynamic portrayals of feminism on China’s social media and offering novel insights into its assessment.
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