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Book review: Angela Zottola, Transgender Identities in the Press. A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis 书评:Angela Zottola,《新闻界的跨性别认同》。基于语料库的语篇分析
IF 2.2 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048563c
Miriam Lind
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Book review: Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, British and American Representations of 9/11: Literature, Politics and the Media 书评:Oana Celia Gheorghiu,《9/11的英美再现:文学、政治与媒体》
IF 2.2 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048563
Cătălina Neculai
Reading about representations of 9/11 on the threshold of the 20-year commemoration of the events is a revisitation of sorts that has prompted me to reactivate my personal, urban, political and cultural memory of this ‘rethinking’ moment. I have also approached OanaCelia Gheorghiu’s book with a readerly consciousness mediated by my interest in New York City and its contemporary urbanization, attuned to the various discourses that intersect therein: historical and political geographies, multi-media documentation and theories of urban space. Conjuring up a representational baggage that combines political, critical, creative, mediatic and experiential discourses is key to engaging with Gheorghiu’s book, which makes of this discursive intertextuality its very rationale. The book shows that understanding the 9/11 historical, political and cultural conjuncture is afforded, and made possible, by the porous and intersectional nature of the various discursive fields in which the events exist. The book is framed as a New Historicist/Cultural Materialist project with diverse theoretical insights from Greenblatt, Foucault, Gramsci, Althusser, Genette and Said amongst others, and grounded in the close readings of selected multimodal texts, such as the 9/11 Commission Report, media reports, US and UK presidential and prime ministerial addresses, journalistic and fictional work by American and British writers, ‘the famous [white] men in contemporary literature’ (p. 49): Don DeLillo, Martin Amis, Iain Banks, Ian McEwan, David Hare, with Amy Waldman and Mohsin Hamid as the exceptions. The book’s aim is literary: to define, typify, explore and elucidate the narratological and ideological discourses of transatlantic, neorealist 9/11 fiction as a subgenre in its own right (p. 237). In its demonstration, the 9/11 subgenre at once transcends and incorporates the typology of both trauma and historiographical metafictional, postmodernist narratives, raising questions about historical truth, reality and representation as well as scoping geocultural spaces (East/West, Occidentalism/Orientalism) and identities (the Muslim and the 1048563 DAS0010.1177/09579265211048563Discourse & SocietyBook review book-review2021
在20年纪念活动即将到来之际,阅读关于9/11的表述,是一种重新审视,促使我重新激活了对这一“反思”时刻的个人、城市、政治和文化记忆。我也以一种阅读意识接触了OanaCelia Gheorghiu的书,这种意识是由我对纽约市及其当代城市化的兴趣所介导的,适应了其中交叉的各种话语:历史和政治地理、多媒体文献和城市空间理论。唤起一种结合政治、批判性、创造性、中介性和体验性话语的代表性包袱,是参与Gheorghiu的书的关键,这使得这种话语互文性成为其基本原理。这本书表明,对9/11历史、政治和文化的理解是由事件所处的各种话语领域的多孔性和交叉性提供的,并且是可能的。这本书被认为是一个新历史主义者/文化唯物主义者的项目,具有格林布拉特、福柯、葛兰西、阿尔都塞、杰内特和赛义德等不同的理论见解,并以仔细阅读选定的多模式文本为基础,如9/11委员会报告、媒体报道、美国和英国总统和首相演讲,美国和英国作家的新闻和虚构作品,“当代文学中著名的[白人]男人”(第49页):唐·德利洛、马丁·艾米斯、伊恩·班克斯、伊安·麦克尤恩、大卫·黑尔,艾米·沃尔德曼和莫辛·哈米德除外。这本书的目的是文学性的:定义、典型化、探索和阐明跨大西洋新现实主义9/11小说的叙事和意识形态话语,将其作为一个亚类(第237页)。在其论证中,9/11亚类立即超越并融合了创伤和历史元虚构、后现代主义叙事的类型学,提出了关于历史真相的问题,现实和表征,以及地理文化空间(东方/西方、西方主义/东方主义)和身份的界定(穆斯林和1048563 DAS100.1177/09579265211048563话语与社会书评2021
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Book review: Aurora Donzelli, One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia 书评:Aurora Donzelli,《一两个词:印度尼西亚托拉贾高地的语言与政治》
IF 2.2 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048563b
Nicco A. La Mattina
officer’s non-reciprocal response to it as illustrative of an interprofessional competition between police and academic researchers (p. 87). The assumption behind the research is that bodily conduct does not merely serve as an additional feature to verbal conduct but in fact imposes particular meaning and significance to selective descriptions. Although this is certainly visible in other contexts (such as episodes of police violence, which can later be assessed in court), it does not strike me as an entirely convincing reading of some extracts presented throughout the book. Notable exceptions are the ones presented in chapter 6 and 7, which are powerful examples of how the use of multimodal resources change the perception of participants about the actions being accomplished. One of the limitations of the book is that no matter of how precise the authors’ descriptions are, the absence of video clips hampered this reader’s understanding of some of the analytical points involving the combination of the different modalities (see for example their analysis on gesture and lexical choice, which involves movement pace, p. 76). Some multimodal studies journals have been recently encouraging authors to include video clips or animations of the extracts in their papers. Although the difficulty or impossibility of including these resources in a written analysis is certainly not the authors’ fault, I believe it is important to recognize that readers, especially those not yet familiar with multimodal analysis, would benefit tremendously from the addition of such extra material. Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Group is an insightful reading and offers an original take on how to analyse focus groups, considering them as deeply moral events that have practical implications to participants. In the context of community policing, it helps us to take a step back; before evaluating policing training, we should understand participants’ sense of community and how they achieve this by bringing different kinds of meaning-making resources together. Even though the authors do not explicitly mention a particular audience, the book will certainly benefit discourse scholars in a broader sense as well as those interested in conducting focus groups as part of their research. Additionally, the discussions generated about community and tensions involving police expertise and jurisdiction may appeal to researchers studying police settings and practices, particularly those working closely with law enforcement.
警察对此的非对等回应说明了警察和学术研究人员之间的跨专业竞争(第87页)。这项研究背后的假设是,身体行为不仅是言语行为的一个附加特征,而且实际上赋予了选择性描述特定的意义和意义。尽管这在其他情况下肯定是显而易见的(比如警察暴力事件,稍后可以在法庭上进行评估),但我对整本书中的一些摘录并没有完全信服。值得注意的例外情况是第6章和第7章中介绍的例外情况,它们有力地说明了多模式资源的使用如何改变参与者对正在完成的行动的看法。这本书的局限性之一是,无论作者的描述多么精确,视频剪辑的缺乏都阻碍了读者对涉及不同模态组合的一些分析点的理解(例如,参见他们对手势和词汇选择的分析,其中涉及运动节奏,第76页)。一些多模态研究期刊最近鼓励作者在论文中加入摘录的视频剪辑或动画。尽管在书面分析中包含这些资源的困难或不可能肯定不是作者的错,但我认为重要的是要认识到,读者,尤其是那些还不熟悉多模态分析的读者,将从添加这些额外的材料中受益匪浅。《焦点小组中的多模式表现与互动》是一本富有洞察力的读物,它对如何分析焦点小组提供了独创性的见解,将其视为对参与者具有实际意义的深刻道德事件。在社区治安方面,它有助于我们后退一步;在评估警务培训之前,我们应该了解参与者的社区意识,以及他们如何通过将不同类型的意义制造资源整合在一起来实现这一点。尽管作者没有明确提到特定的受众,但这本书肯定会使更广泛意义上的话语学者以及那些有兴趣将焦点小组作为研究的一部分的人受益。此外,关于社区和涉及警察专业知识和管辖权的紧张局势的讨论可能会吸引研究警察环境和做法的研究人员,特别是那些与执法部门密切合作的研究人员。
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Book review: Rodney H Jones (ed.), Viral Discourse 书评:罗德尼·H·琼斯编,《病毒话语》
IF 2.2 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048563d
Mingzhu Li, Xianbing Ke
the analysis of this material is often flawed. One of the central weaknesses of the study is an interpretation of every occurrence of the terms trans, transgender or transsexual as describing trans identity, as opposed to simply referring to trans people. This precarious conflation becomes especially problematic given the failure to include the search term identity at all. There is thus a mismatch between what the study claims to offer (an investigation of trans identities in the press) and what is actually done (investigating how the term trans and related labels are used in the press). Bridging this mismatch between what the term trans entails in the community, on the one hand, and in which contexts it is used in the press, on the other, could have made for a highly relevant and interesting discussion point, but is never addressed by the author herself. This key issue links to a broader methodological problem arising from the search terms used for the construction of the corpus: Zottola does not discuss why she included and excluded specific terms, and does not reflect on the fact that slurs like tranny or shemale are unlikely to occur with positive prosody. While it is important to highlight the press’ continued use of slurs, it would have been crucial to reflect on how their inclusion skews results with more negative collocates than for neutral descriptors. The issues arising from this decision are further aggravated by inaccuracies and inconsistencies in her definitions of core concepts: Zottola never clearly defines what is and what is not included in her understanding of trans beyond stating that she uses it as an umbrella term. Particularly problematic is that despite the introductory claim to use the term gender ‘to mean non-binary and not heteronormative’, any search terms that would account for gender positionings outside the traditional binary (such as nonbinary or genderqueer) are entirely missing from the study. Overall, the book – which would have benefited from a thorough copy-edit – leaves a mixed impression. It successfully demonstrates the importance of acknowledging the ways in which media and their language use contribute to the societal perception of minority groups and highlights how especially the popular press in Britain continue outdated and sometimes harmful practices of language use. In light of the weaknesses pointed out in this review, however, the analysis undertaken in this monograph should rather be seen as a starting point for more thorough investigations into the topic in the future.
对这种材料的分析常常有缺陷。这项研究的主要弱点之一是,它将每一次出现的“跨性别”、“跨性别”或“变性”等术语都解释为描述跨性别身份,而不是简单地指跨性别者。考虑到根本没有包含搜索词身份,这种不稳定的合并变得尤其成问题。因此,该研究声称提供的内容(调查媒体中的跨性别身份)与实际完成的内容(调查媒体如何使用“跨性别”一词和相关标签)之间存在不匹配。一方面,跨性别一词在社区中所包含的含义,另一方面,它在媒体中所使用的语境之间的不匹配,本可以成为一个高度相关和有趣的讨论点,但作者本人从未解决过这个问题。这个关键问题与语料库构建中使用的搜索词所产生的更广泛的方法论问题有关:Zottola没有讨论为什么她包括和排除了特定的术语,也没有考虑到像tranny或shemale这样的诋毁词不太可能出现在积极韵律中。虽然强调媒体继续使用污言秽语很重要,但反思它们的使用如何比中性描述词更负面地扭曲结果,这一点至关重要。由于她对核心概念定义的不准确和不一致,这一决定引发的问题进一步加剧:佐托拉从来没有明确定义什么是,什么不包括在她对跨性别的理解中,只是说她把它作为一个总括术语。特别有问题的是,尽管在介绍中声称使用“性别”一词“意味着非二元和非异性恋”,但任何可以解释传统二元之外的性别定位的搜索词(如非二元或性别酷儿)在研究中完全缺失。总的来说,这本书给人留下的印象好坏参半——如果彻底修改一下,这本书就会受益。它成功地证明了承认媒体及其语言使用对社会对少数群体的看法的影响的重要性,并突出了特别是英国的大众媒体如何继续过时的,有时甚至是有害的语言使用做法。然而,鉴于本综述中指出的弱点,本专著中进行的分析应该被视为未来对该主题进行更彻底调查的起点。
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Book review: Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian, Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups 书评:Kristin Enola Gilbert和Gregory Matoesian,焦点小组中的多模式表现和互动
IF 2.2 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048563a
Fabio Ferraz de Almeida
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#AllCatsAreBeautiful: Ambient affiliation and the visual-verbal representation and appreciation of cats in online subversive discourses #所有的猫都是美丽的:网络颠覆性话语中猫的环境归属和视觉语言表达与欣赏
IF 2.2 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-10-23 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048727
Daniel Lees Fryer
This paper investigates the topics and affiliations associated with the hashtag #AllCatsAreBeautiful on the social media platform Twitter. Drawing on concepts from social semiotics (systemic functional theory) and critical animal studies, the paper identifies a number of potentially overlapping topics or fields, including anti-policing, the commodification of nonhuman animals, gender and sexism, and body image or body-shaming, as well as a more general positive appreciation or admiration of cats. The paper discusses how people position themselves in relation to those topics, through patterns of ideational and attitudinal meanings, and how cats are represented and appreciated visually, verbally and intersemiotically. Cats, in this context, play an important role in struggles for social justice, symbolizing freedom and resistance as well as love and solidarity. #AllCatsAreBeautiful highlights topics or spaces around which bonds can be made and communities of shared values or interests can be co-constructed.
本文调查了社交媒体平台推特上与#AllCatsAreBeautiful标签相关的话题和从属关系。该论文借鉴了社会符号学(系统功能理论)和批判性动物研究的概念,确定了许多潜在的重叠主题或领域,包括反警察、非人类动物的商品化、性别和性别歧视、身体形象或身体羞辱,以及对猫更普遍的积极赞赏或钦佩。本文讨论了人们如何通过概念和态度意义的模式来定位自己与这些主题的关系,以及猫是如何在视觉、言语和符号间被表现和欣赏的。在这种背景下,猫在争取社会正义的斗争中发挥着重要作用,象征着自由和抵抗以及爱和团结#AllCatsAreBeautiful突出了可以建立联系的主题或空间,以及可以共同构建具有共同价值观或兴趣的社区。
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引用次数: 2
Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage 奈杰尔·法拉奇反移民话语中的姿态与合法性
IF 2.2 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-10-09 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048560
C. Hart, Bodo Winter
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) increasingly recognises the role played by multiple semiotic modes in the discursive construction of social identities and inequalities. One embodied mode that has not been subject to any systematic analysis within CDA is gesture. An area where gesture has been extensively studied, and where it is shown to bear significant semiotic load in multimodal utterances, is cognitive linguistics. Here, we use insights from cognitive linguistics to provide a detailed qualitative analysis of gestures in a specific discursive context – the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage. We describe the gestures that accompany a range of rhetorical tropes typical of anti-immigration discourses and critically analyse their role, alongside speech, in communicating prejudice and legitimating discriminatory action. Our analysis suggests that gesture is an important part of political discourse which is worthy of further investigation in future CDA research.
批判性话语分析(CDA)越来越认识到多种符号模式在社会身份和不平等的话语建构中所起的作用。一种尚未在CDA中进行任何系统分析的具体模式是手势。认知语言学是一个对手势进行广泛研究的领域,它在多模态话语中承担着重要的符号负载。在这里,我们利用认知语言学的见解,对奈杰尔·法拉奇的反移民话语这一特定话语背景下的手势进行了详细的定性分析。我们描述了伴随着一系列反移民话语典型修辞手法的手势,并批判性地分析了它们与言论一起在传达偏见和使歧视行为合法化方面的作用。我们的分析表明,手势是政治话语的重要组成部分,值得在未来的CDA研究中进一步研究。
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引用次数: 5
Sexism in Facebook discourse about clergy misconduct Facebook上关于神职人员不当行为的言论中存在性别歧视
IF 2.2 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048726
Laurel D. Puchner, L. Markowitz
Sexism and sexist ideology have significant negative consequences for female victims of sexual assault and other crimes. Thus, uncovering how language is used as a discursive tool for maintaining unequal power relations is extremely important in discourses around sexual misconduct and sexualized violence. In this study we used Critical Discourse Analysis and Manne’s theory of the moral economy of patriarchy to analyze Facebook posts supporting a religious leader who had committed sexual misconduct. The analysis reveals the patriarchal ideology underlying some of the Facebook conversation discourses and the discursive strategies used by individuals to try to normalize their sexist arguments. Content of the posts shows the religious leader’s defenders showing sympathy for the perpetrator, ignoring the female victims, and minimizing sexual assault, as they argue that he should not be criticized or held accountable for his actions.
性别歧视和性别歧视意识形态对性侵犯和其他犯罪的女性受害者造成了严重的负面影响。因此,揭示语言如何被用作维持不平等权力关系的话语工具,在关于性行为不端和性暴力的话语中是极其重要的。在这项研究中,我们使用批判话语分析和曼恩的父权制道德经济理论来分析Facebook上支持性行为不端的宗教领袖的帖子。分析揭示了一些Facebook对话话语背后的父权意识形态,以及个人试图使他们的性别歧视论点正常化的话语策略。这些帖子的内容显示,这位宗教领袖的捍卫者对肇事者表示同情,无视女性受害者,并将性侵犯最小化,因为他们认为他不应该受到批评或为自己的行为负责。
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引用次数: 0
The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China 倾斜的横梁:中国反伊斯兰与反穆斯林话语的批判话语分析
IF 2.2 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048704
T. Lan, Gene Segarra Navera
Adopting the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, this study investigates the ideology reflected by the anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China, the power dynamics revealed by such discourse and how social media discourse differs from and utilises the government discourse. Four ways to disguise the anti-Muslims, anti-Islam prejudice are investigated: appealing to patriotism to demand cultural assimilation; claiming to defend secularism; framing Islam as incompatible with mainstream culture; appealing to consumer rights to reject halal food. Non-Muslims and assimilated Muslims (especially the elites) are found to have the prerogative to dictate who belong to the ingroup, what dietary restrictions are legitimate and whom to blame when undesirable situations arise, while Muslim non-elites are at the receiving end of such dictates. This study also argues that social media discourse expresses antagonism of higher intensity than the government discourse does, and may misappropriate the official narratives to express the interlocutor’s hatred towards Muslims.
本研究采用批判性话语分析的视角,考察了中国反伊斯兰教和反穆斯林话语所反映的意识形态,这些话语所揭示的权力动态,以及社交媒体话语与政府话语的区别和利用。研究了四种掩饰反穆斯林、反伊斯兰偏见的方式:诉诸爱国主义要求文化同化;声称捍卫世俗主义;认为伊斯兰教与主流文化格格不入;呼吁消费者权利拒绝清真食品。非穆斯林和被同化的穆斯林(尤其是精英)被发现有权决定谁属于内群体,什么样的饮食限制是合法的,以及当出现不理想的情况时该责怪谁,而穆斯林非精英则是这种决定的接受者。本研究还认为,社交媒体话语表达的对抗强度高于政府话语,并可能挪用官方叙事来表达对话者对穆斯林的仇恨。
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引用次数: 4
Book reviews: Juan Eduardo Bonnin, Discourse and Mental Health: Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical Settings 书评:Juan Eduardo Bonnin,《话语与心理健康:医疗环境中的声音、不平等与抵抗》
IF 2.2 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09579265211025326
Yumin Chen, Siyu Yao
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