This paper proposes a methodological framework that integrates poststructuralist Discourse Theory (DT), Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and Corpus Linguistics (CL). While previous research has discussed potential compatibility between combinations of these approaches, there have been few attempts to bring them all together into a cohesive research programme. Fostering dialogue between diverse methodological perspectives can facilitate multi-level analysis to capture the complex dynamics of sociopolitical issues. In this vein, the article presents the methodological tree, an analogy used to illustrate how these traditions may come together to complement one another. This foundation lays the groundwork for practical application in discursive analysis, with a flexible analytical structure proposed and examples provided to illustrate its implementation. It is hoped that the article can stimulate further discussion around how DT, CDS and CL can be brought together to harness their strengths.
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This paper proposes a methodological framework that integrates poststructuralist Discourse Theory (DT), Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and Corpus Linguistics (CL). While previous research has discussed potential compatibility between combinations of these approaches, there have been few attempts to bring them all together into a cohesive research programme. Fostering dialogue between diverse methodological perspectives can facilitate multi-level analysis to capture the complex dynamics of sociopolitical issues. In this vein, the article presents the methodological tree, an analogy used to illustrate how these traditions may come together to complement one another. This foundation lays the groundwork for practical application in discursive analysis, with a flexible analytical structure proposed and examples provided to illustrate its implementation. It is hoped that the article can stimulate further discussion around how DT, CDS and CL can be brought together to harness their strengths.
{"title":"New opportunities for discourse studies","authors":"Katy Brown","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23066.bro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23066.bro","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper proposes a methodological framework that integrates poststructuralist Discourse Theory (DT), Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and Corpus Linguistics (CL). While previous research has discussed potential compatibility between combinations of these approaches, there have been few attempts to bring them all together into a cohesive research programme. Fostering dialogue between diverse methodological perspectives can facilitate multi-level analysis to capture the complex dynamics of sociopolitical issues. In this vein, the article presents the methodological tree, an analogy used to illustrate how these traditions may come together to complement one another. This foundation lays the groundwork for practical application in discursive analysis, with a flexible analytical structure proposed and examples provided to illustrate its implementation. It is hoped that the article can stimulate further discussion around how DT, CDS and CL can be brought together to harness their strengths.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139818169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roma communities remain Europe’s most marginalized and disadvantaged population, facing increasing discrimination, especially after the 2015 refugee crisis. European media often portrays them as criminals or anti-social, furthering misunderstanding and social exclusion. This article examines Swedish news media’s representation of Roma, which, at a surface level, appears much less negative. Using Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, we analyze two Swedish newspapers’ coverage of the controversial law which sought to criminalize begging, which targeted Eastern European Roma migrants. Our findings reveal that ‘Swedish exceptionalism’–a discourse of human rights, equality, colorblindness, characterized by limited racial literacy–serves to obscure and act as a disclaimer for anti-Roma sentiment and government actions which in fact resemble those criticized in other EU countries.
{"title":"Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer","authors":"Petre Breazu, David Machin","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23044.bre","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23044.bre","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Roma communities remain Europe’s most marginalized and disadvantaged population, facing increasing discrimination,\u0000 especially after the 2015 refugee crisis. European media often portrays them as criminals or anti-social, furthering\u0000 misunderstanding and social exclusion. This article examines Swedish news media’s representation of Roma, which, at a surface\u0000 level, appears much less negative. Using Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, we analyze two Swedish newspapers’ coverage of\u0000 the controversial law which sought to criminalize begging, which targeted Eastern European Roma migrants. Our findings reveal that\u0000 ‘Swedish exceptionalism’–a discourse of human rights, equality, colorblindness, characterized by limited racial literacy–serves to\u0000 obscure and act as a disclaimer for anti-Roma sentiment and government actions which in fact resemble those criticized in other EU\u0000 countries.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139685767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Brookes & Baker (2021): Obesity in the news: Language and Representation in the Press","authors":"Xiaoli Fu, Yaoting Zhang","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23161.fu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23161.fu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139605594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses the problem of evaluating socio-political interventions in language at the case of Croatian. From a theoretical point of view, definitions of such interventions, often called purism, are first analyzed and placed in the context of the ‘one standard axiom’ thesis. To determine why only some historical periods of intervention are labeled as purist, a brief comparative overview is provided of conflicting perspectives on interventions in the Croatian language made between 1918 and 1990. The author argues that partial historical analyses will always find that a particular regime pursued a policy of purism. Moreover, proponents of the Yugoslav period as normal adhere to the thesis of the existence of the ‘One Standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian Axiom,’ while their counterparts argue for the distinctiveness of the Croatian language from related South Slavic languages.
{"title":"Examining political influence on language","authors":"Igor Ivašković","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23079.iva","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23079.iva","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article discusses the problem of evaluating socio-political interventions in language at the case of Croatian. From a theoretical point of view, definitions of such interventions, often called purism, are first analyzed and placed in the context of the ‘one standard axiom’ thesis. To determine why only some historical periods of intervention are labeled as purist, a brief comparative overview is provided of conflicting perspectives on interventions in the Croatian language made between 1918 and 1990. The author argues that partial historical analyses will always find that a particular regime pursued a policy of purism. Moreover, proponents of the Yugoslav period as normal adhere to the thesis of the existence of the ‘One Standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian Axiom,’ while their counterparts argue for the distinctiveness of the Croatian language from related South Slavic languages.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140501021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drawing from televised COVID-19 press briefings, this study explicates how the interplay between verbal and visual resources help policy makers restore public trust following organization-level failures by neutralizing unfavorable discourses that threaten the public’s perceptions of their competence, integrity and benevolence and by emphasizing positive aspects associated with these factors. The findings reveal that these mediated multimodal speeches not only prioritize the political interests of the government by apportioning blame for the surveillance failures, while aggrandizing their ad hoc responses without addressing the causes. This trust repair practice serves to frame the pandemic – initially as an external biosecurity threat and subsequently as a natural and expectable characteristic of an infectious disease that can be handled – hinging largely on the creation of “us-them,” which undermines equitable public health objectives and transmission mitigation in the long run.
{"title":"Negotiating trust through COVID-19 press briefings","authors":"Orawee Bunnag, Krisda Chaemsaithong","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23090.bun","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23090.bun","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Drawing from televised COVID-19 press briefings, this study explicates how the interplay between verbal and visual\u0000 resources help policy makers restore public trust following organization-level failures by neutralizing unfavorable discourses\u0000 that threaten the public’s perceptions of their competence, integrity and benevolence and by emphasizing positive aspects\u0000 associated with these factors. The findings reveal that these mediated multimodal speeches not only prioritize the political\u0000 interests of the government by apportioning blame for the surveillance failures, while aggrandizing their ad hoc responses without\u0000 addressing the causes. This trust repair practice serves to frame the pandemic – initially as an external biosecurity threat and\u0000 subsequently as a natural and expectable characteristic of an infectious disease that can be handled – hinging largely on the\u0000 creation of “us-them,” which undermines equitable public health objectives and transmission mitigation in the long run.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139527485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics in Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective","authors":"Xin Zhong, Xiaoyu Ren","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23152.zho","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23152.zho","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139534525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
“One country, two systems” (OCTS) is the constitutional principle that established Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy after the city’s handover from Britain to China in 1997. This study conducts the first systemic, diachronic analysis of the discursive construction of OCTS in Chinese news media, focusing on Beijing’s mouthpiece and public diplomacy newspaper, China Daily. After reviewing the tripartite representation of the principle in the literature, we identify a refocus from the economic to the legal-political aspect of OCTS and an increasing emphasis on the socio-cultural dimension of OCTS in China Daily’s news discourses from 1997 to 2020. These patterns indicated OCTS’s changing status from a ‘legitimating ideology’ to a political principle struggling to be ‘legitimate’ in Beijing’s political discourses. Despite disputes about OCTS, we anticipate that Beijing and Hong Kong’s opposition will continue to abide by this principle in their future interactions.
{"title":"The construction of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” in China Daily","authors":"Jiange Deng, Zhongxuan Lin","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22021.den","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22021.den","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 “One country, two systems” (OCTS) is the constitutional principle that established Hong Kong’s high degree of\u0000 autonomy after the city’s handover from Britain to China in 1997. This study conducts the first systemic, diachronic analysis of\u0000 the discursive construction of OCTS in Chinese news media, focusing on Beijing’s mouthpiece and public diplomacy newspaper,\u0000 China Daily. After reviewing the tripartite representation of the principle in the literature, we identify a\u0000 refocus from the economic to the legal-political aspect of OCTS and an increasing emphasis on the socio-cultural dimension of OCTS\u0000 in China Daily’s news discourses from 1997 to 2020. These patterns indicated OCTS’s changing status from a ‘legitimating ideology’\u0000 to a political principle struggling to be ‘legitimate’ in Beijing’s political discourses. Despite disputes about OCTS, we\u0000 anticipate that Beijing and Hong Kong’s opposition will continue to abide by this principle in their future interactions.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139444581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article comparatively analyses the rise of anti-LGBT rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey in the 2010s and early 2020s. In both countries, periods of greater public visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the early 2000s were followed by waves of severe anti-LGBT rhetoric, violence, and legal measures. This analysis focusses on the rhetoric that conservative state and non-state actors use to other non-heteronormative people and to exclude them from the nation or “the people”. My main argument is that state and non-state actors conduct othering of LGBTQ+ people and construct them as dangerous threats to the nation and to the structure of the family. The anti-LGBT narratives are integrated into larger conspiracy narratives of foreign powers undermining the nation.
本文比较分析了 2010 年代和 2020 年代初印度尼西亚和土耳其反 LGBT 言论的兴起。在这两个国家，2000 年代初 LGBTQ+ 在公众中的能见度有所提高，但随之而来的是一波又一波严重的反 LGBT 言论、暴力和法律措施。本分析侧重于保守的国家和非国家行为者对其他非异性恋者的言论，以及将他们排除在国家或 "人民 "之外的言论。我的主要论点是，国家和非国家行为者将 LGBT+ 人另类化，并将他们视为对国家和家庭结构的危险威胁。反 LGBT 的叙事与外国势力破坏国家的更大阴谋叙事融为一体。
{"title":"Political homophobia","authors":"Saskia Schäfer","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22050.sch","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22050.sch","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article comparatively analyses the rise of anti-LGBT rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey in the 2010s and early 2020s. In both countries, periods of greater public visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the early 2000s were followed by waves of severe anti-LGBT rhetoric, violence, and legal measures. This analysis focusses on the rhetoric that conservative state and non-state actors use to other non-heteronormative people and to exclude them from the nation or “the people”. My main argument is that state and non-state actors conduct othering of LGBTQ+ people and construct them as dangerous threats to the nation and to the structure of the family. The anti-LGBT narratives are integrated into larger conspiracy narratives of foreign powers undermining the nation.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139443645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article addresses the narrative and discursive structures underlying popular Peruvian political phrases disseminated through social media, word-of-mouth communication and mainstream media between 2016 and 2022. One goal is to reveal how these constructions suggest patterns of interaction and societal weaknesses. Another goal is to propose a qualitative approach using a narrative semiotics perspective to analyze the structure of these types of objects of study. Four relevant interconnected structures were distinguished: (1) structures of generalized and (2) compartmentalized distrust and (3) structures of vertical and (4) horizontal shame. They all serve to understand how the generalization of distrust and the rise of horizontal shaming in Peru expose the incoherence between a publicized democratic image and a reality characterized by deep social fractures.
{"title":"Rickety democracies","authors":"Kate S. O’Connor-Farfan","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22065.oco","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22065.oco","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article addresses the narrative and discursive structures underlying popular Peruvian political phrases\u0000 disseminated through social media, word-of-mouth communication and mainstream media between 2016 and 2022. One goal is to reveal\u0000 how these constructions suggest patterns of interaction and societal weaknesses. Another goal is to propose a qualitative approach\u0000 using a narrative semiotics perspective to analyze the structure of these types of objects of study. Four relevant interconnected\u0000 structures were distinguished: (1) structures of generalized and (2) compartmentalized distrust\u0000 and (3) structures of vertical and (4) horizontal shame. They all serve to understand how the\u0000 generalization of distrust and the rise of horizontal shaming in Peru expose the incoherence between a publicized democratic image\u0000 and a reality characterized by deep social fractures.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138971810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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