Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2023.2186450
Mario Bisiada
This article applies Bakhtinian dialogism and the concept of centripetal-centrifugal struggle to critical discourse studies to analyse how powerful and marginalised discourses are brought into competition in political language to justify paradigm changes. I analyse German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Zeitenwende (‘watershed’) speech, which he gave as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, announcing a radical armament programme and change in foreign policy, a paradigm shift that had previously been unthinkable in German politics. Based on a qualitative analysis using the Appraisal Theory strategies Attitude and Engagement, I identify how Scholz aligns himself with particular powerful discourses, centring some powerful ones and marginalising others, constructing an existential threat for Germany, the so-called watershed, a new situation which casts his policies of German armament as without alternative. The paper demonstrates the strength of the analysis of dialogically contractive and expansive strategies in critical discourse studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2023.2186449
Vanessa Tafi, B. Coles, Simon L Goodman, S. Yates, C. Elsey
{"title":"Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles","authors":"Vanessa Tafi, B. Coles, Simon L Goodman, S. Yates, C. Elsey","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2186449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2186449","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45929639","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 : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2023.2173626
Khalid Said, T. Jaafari, Belqassem Laghfiri
{"title":"Intensifying resistance through complexification: a positive discourse analysis of the portrayal of Amazighs in a selected Moroccan EFL textbook","authors":"Khalid Said, T. Jaafari, Belqassem Laghfiri","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2173626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2173626","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42809054","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 : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2023.2173625
Anna Islentyeva, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Nadia Schützinger, Andrea Platzer
{"title":"‘Real men score’: masculinity in contemporary advertising discourse","authors":"Anna Islentyeva, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Nadia Schützinger, Andrea Platzer","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2173625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2173625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45798136","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 : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2023.2169726
Yi-fong Chen, Qian Gong
{"title":"Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis","authors":"Yi-fong Chen, Qian Gong","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2169726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2169726","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43083549","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 : 2023-01-18DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2022.2157851
Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera
{"title":"Hierarchies among intertextual references: reading Reggaeton Ilustrado’s digital humour through the colonial matrix of power","authors":"Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2022.2157851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2157851","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42936734","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 : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2022.2164788
Audrey Lucero, Janette Avelar
{"title":"‘It’s probably still written by a white person’: challenging assumptions about racial identity in a critical professional development course","authors":"Audrey Lucero, Janette Avelar","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2022.2164788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2164788","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44393618","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}