scholarly journals Drilling for fissures and exploiting common ground in the discourse of oil production

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenge Chen ◽  
Tom Bartlett ◽  
Huiling Peng
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
Alternative Discourses

Abstract This is the second part of a two-part article which proposes an enhanced approach to eco-discourses after weighing the (dis)advantages of mainstream Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA). Part I explored the theoretical grounding for an enhanced PDA, introduced the research method and then, based on the adapted analytic framework of Stibbe (2016), undertook a critical analysis of the discourses of Shell Oil Company (SOC). Part II uses the same analytic framework to analyse Greenpeace USA’s (GPU) discourse and compare it to the SOC discourse. The emphasis in Part II is on the exploration of potential fissures in the discourses across difference, and the possible common grounds upon which to design alternative discourses that are empathetic, comprehensible and legitimate to a coalition of social forces. Practically, Part II finds that the two groups use similar discourse strategies, such as salience and framing, but with different orientations. Methodologically, Part II argues that corpus-aided comparative discourse analysis, with a focus on discourse semantics, will facilitate the identification of ‘greenwashing’ strategies that strengthen and stabilize current hegemonic social order; this part also points to avenues of alternative discourses which exploit the inherent contradictions or fissures within that hegemonic order. Theoretically, the paper suggests that within an enhanced Positive Discourse Analysis approach, it is also important to seek out points of convergence between progressive positions and to articulate these within a hybrid, counter-hegemonic discourse that maximizes its potential for uptake, while it destabilizes the prevailing discourses at precisely the fissure points identified.

scholarly journals The erasure of nature in the discourse of oil production

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenge Chen ◽  
Tom Bartlett ◽  
Huiling Peng
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
Alternative Discourses

Abstract In this two-part article, we analyse alternative discourses of the environment from the Shell Oil Company and Greenpeace USA and suggest ways in which elements of these antagonistic discourses might be combined in a hybrid, innovative discourse that appeals to a broad section of the public while advocating for more environmentally sustainable practices in industry. In order to develop this model we address concerns with regard to both Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which has been said to focus on the negatives and on deconstructing ‘the discourses we dislike’, and Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA), which has been criticized for cherishing ‘the discourses we like’ without due consideration of their potential for uptake. We argue, therefore, that while each approach has its advantages, taken individually they hamper design and, following Bartlett (2018), we propose an enhanced Positive Discourse Analysis that not only identifies points of fissure in the hegemonic discourse but also seeks points of convergence that can be articulated with in a hybrid, counter-hegemonic discourse that maximizes its potential for uptake while destabilizing the prevailing discourses at precisely the fissure points identified. Part I explores the theoretical grounding for an enhanced PDA, introduces the research method and then, based on the adapted analytic framework of Stibbe (2016), makes an eco-discourse analysis of discourses by Shell Oil Company (SOC), with a focus on their discourse semantic patterns, in an attempt to showcase how hegemonic groups employ discourse strategies to serve their interests and what ecological effects such discourses may produce. In Part II (Chen et al. 2021b), a comparative analysis is conducted on the SOC discourses and the Greenpeace discourses. As well as highlighting the points of antagonism between the two discourses, an attempt is made to seek out points of convergence between progressive positions in the discourses. Part II also explores the potential fissures in the hegemonic order and discusses the design of alternative discourses thereupon. It is argued that an enhanced PDA which focuses on solutions rather than problems and collaboration rather than resistance forms a route for positive and interventionist orientations to discourse that promote social change.

The production of broad and strict senses in the discourse on musical creativity and their influences on the self-concept of musicians as creative

2020 ◽  
pp. 030573562097343
Author(s):  
Luciano da Costa Nazario ◽  
Leonardo Roman Ultramari ◽  
Benjamin Pacce
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Musical Creativity

This article presents an analysis of the construction of beliefs/values related to musical creativity. From the perspective of critical discourse analysis, we seek to comprehend how individuals constitute broad and strict senses of creativity and how these senses can influence their perceptions of themselves as creative. Open questionnaires were administered to students in the process of scholarly training and non-scholarly musicians. The results indicate that the presence of both senses of creativity in participants’ discourse reflects a social order that qualitatively and quantitatively produces and reproduces those senses. The broad sense of creativity has a smaller incidence rate (about 31%) and tends to allow participants to form a positive self-concept. In contrast, the strict sense appears more frequently (about 69%) and may lead to a negative self-concept when subjects do not reach the assigned values.

scholarly journals Your home, my refuge: being a refugee in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-233
Author(s):  
HÉLIO ARTHUR REIS IRIGARAY ◽  
RENATA ANDERSON ◽  
FLÁVIO VELLASQUEZ ◽  
FERNANDO FILARDI
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Demographic Profiles ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Textual Practices

Abstract The objective of this study was to reveal how refugees who live in Brazil perceive the macro-dynamics of the local society and how their response to them varies in accordance with their different psycho demographic profiles. We interviewed 24 refugees from different countries, genders, ages, and races. The interviews were taped, transcribed, and subjected to critical discourse analysis, resulting in three a priori categories: social, discursive, and textual practices. We found out that social practices did differ in terms of their countries of origin, gender, and race. The analysis of their discourses revealed three different places and roles: hero, victim, or faker. Finally, the textual analysis indicated the choice of words that subverted the hegemonic discourse of refugees, revealing resistance to the place refugees are relegated to in Brazilian society.

scholarly journals Rural as Periphery Per Se? Unravelling the Discursive Node

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianka Plüschke-Altof
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Per Se

Despite often being used interchangeably, the dominant equation of the rural with the peripheral is not self-evident. In order to critically scrutinize the discursive node, the aim of this article is twofold. On one hand, it argues for overcoming the prevalent urban‒rural divide and dominant structural approaches in sociological and geographical research by introducing discursive peripheralization as a conceptual framework, which allows the analysis of the discursive (re-)production of socio-spatial inequalities on and between different scales. On the other hand, this article explores how rural areas are constituted as peripheries within a hegemonic discourse naturalizing the ascription of development (non-)potentials. Following a critical discourse analysis approach, this will be illustrated in the case of periphery constructions in Estonian national print media.

scholarly journals A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GENDER SUBJECTIVITY IN HENRY JAMES’ THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shah Mir ◽  
Saima Jahangir
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Portrait Of A Lady ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
Gender Subjectivity

Reassessment and interpretation of gender dynamics in the current social order has been prevalent theme within gender discourses. The yoke of subordination borne by women as readers, writers or fictional characters in the patriarchal pyramid occupies a central space across the whole spectrum of debates. This study utilizes a qualitative mode of inquiry which is centered on textual analysis. The present study evaluates the instances of gender subjectivity and patterns of subjugation within the textual arena invested with hegemonic ideologies as depicted in the novel The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. The paper employs feminist critical discourse analysis as a tool to analyze The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James in order to dissect the underlying ideologies present in the Victorian time period and investigates discourses of subjectivity. The findings of the study demonstrate that notwithstanding temporal advancements, gender power structures remain intact, and women continue to suffer under patriarchal power structures. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0874/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Quest for Body and Voice: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Shamsie's Broken Verses

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (II) ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Mashhood Anjum ◽  
Iftikhar Baig ◽  
Abdul Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

In contemporary and postmodern literary discourses, feminism has introduced a paradigm change in the sex debates. The plan of feminist critical discourse analysis is to explore different discourses from a feminist viewpoint. The planned study conforms to this field of feminist discourse that will attempt to analyze Kamila Shamsie's selected work, Broken Verses. She, being a famous feminist, has produced discourses in which structural and thematic samples absorb sex debates. Her feminist tendency has established clear expression in all the aspects of her works: body, voice and characterization. The current study shows how she has used feminist discourse strategies in conventionality with her feminist literary position. This research extensively improves the perceptive of Kamila Shamsie's work and pictures how the feministic arrangement and feminist critical discourse analysis have been inventively infused in her famous works.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI KORBAN KEKERASAN DALAM TEKS BERITA DARING TRIBUN TIMUR: ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS [The Representation Victims of Violence in Tribun Timur Online News Text: Critical Discourse Analysis]

TOTOBUANG ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Yusdianti Tenriawali
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Women Victims ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Identification Strategy

This study discusses the representation victims of violence in the online news text in Tribun Timur online news. The purpose of this study is to identify the form of discourse strategies used journalists in positioning victims of violence in the news text on Makassar.tribunnews.com site. This research is a qualitative research using descriptive method. The approach used in this research is critical discourse analysis approach. Sources of data in this study is a text of violence news in the online news site Tribun Timur with data in the form of news text that is considered to represent victims of violence. Data collection in this research using documentation technique and record technique. The results showed that the form of language news is a word containing inclusion discourse strategy in the form of strategy of nomination and identification. In the news texts, victims of male violence tend to be featured with a nomination strategy that displays the victim for what it is. However, women victims of violence seem to be shown with an identification strategy that displays the victim as a powerless party. Male victims in the online news text tend to be more protected than female victims. This may indicate that Tribun Timur journalists still tend to embrace the ideology of patriarchy.Penelitian ini membahas tentang representasi korban kekerasan dalam teks berita daring Tribun Timur. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengidentifikasi bentuk strategi wacana yang digunakan wartawan dalam memosisikan korban kekerasan dalam teks berita pada situs Makassar.tribunnews.com. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan analisis wacana kritis. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah teks berita kekerasan dalam situs berita daring Tribun Timur dengan data berupa teks berita yang dianggap merepresentasikan korban kekerasan. Pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan teknik dokumentasi dan teknik catat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa bentuk kebahasaan berita adalah kata yang mengandung strategi wacana inklusi berupa strategi wacana nominasi dan identifikasi. Pada teks berita, korban kekerasan laki-laki cenderung ditampilkan dengan strategi nominasi yang menampilkan korban dengan apa adanya. Namun untuk korban kekerasan perempuan terlihat cenderung ditampilkan dengan strategi identifikasi yang menampilkan korban sebagai pihak yang tidak berdaya. Korban laki-laki dalam teks berita daring Tribun Timur cenderung lebih dilindungi dibandingkan korban perempuan. Hal tersebut dapat mengindikasikan bahwa wartawan Tribun Timur masih cenderung menganut ideologi patriarki.

scholarly journals Mengulik Akar Kritis dalam Analisis Wacana Kritis dan Implementasinya Terhadap Teks Berita (Exploring Critical Roots in Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Implementation on News Text)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Aswadi Aswadi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Critical View ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Praxis ◽  
Language Meaning ◽  
Language Text

Paradigma atau pemikiran kritis memandang bahwa individu tidaklah dianggap sebagai subjek yang netral yang bisa menafsirkan secara bebas sesuai dengan pikirannya karena dipengaruhi oleh kekuatan sosial yang ada di masyarakat. Bahasa/teks merupakan representasi yang berperan dalam membentuk subjek tertentu, tema wacana tertentu, maupun strategi di dalamnya. Reproduksi realitas dalam suatu teks pada dasarnya sangat dipengaruhi oleh bahasa, simbolisasi pemaknaan dan politik penandaan. Praksis sosial memerlukan makna dan makna tidak bisa lepas dari bahasa. Makna mempertajam serta memengaruhi segala sesuatu yang dilakukan seseorang, maka semua praktik sosial tidak bisa lepas dari dimensi wacana.Analisis wacana termasuk dalam kategori paradigma kritis.Oleh karenanya, istilah analisis wacana kritis hadir untuk membedah kuasa-kuasa dalam teks. Analisis wacana kritis digunakan untuk membongkar kuasa yang ada dalam setiap proses bahasa, batasan yang diperkenankan menjadi wacana, perspektif yang digunakan, dan topik yang dibicarakan, yang dalam berupa teks berita. Analisis wacana kritis yang digunakan mengacu pada model Van Dijk. Kata kunci: kritis, analisis wacana kritis, teks beritaABSTRACTParadigm or critical view considers that an individual is not considered a neutral subject who can interpret freely according to his mind because it is influenced by the social forces that exist in society. Language/text is a representation that plays a role in shaping a particular subject, a particular theme of discourse, as well as a strategy in it. Reproduction of reality in a text is basically strongly influenced by language, meaning symbolization, and political tagging. Social praxis requires meaning and meaning cannot be separated from language. Meaning can strengthen and influence everything that a person does, all social practices cannot be separated from the dimensions of discourse. Discourse analysis belongs to the category of critical paradigms. Therefore, the term critical discourse analysis is present to analyze the powers in the text. Critical discourse analysis is used to uncover the power that exists in each language process, the boundaries that are allowed to become discourse, the perspectives used, and the topics discussed, which in this study are news texts. Critical discourse analysis used refers to the Van Dijk model.

scholarly journals THE REPRESENTATION VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE IN TRIBUN TIMUR ONLINE NEWS TEXT: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Yusdianti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Women Violence ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Identification Strategy

This study discussed about the representation victims of violence in the online news text of Tribun Timur online news. The purpose of this study was identifing the form of discourse strategies which was used by journalists to positioned the victims of violence in the news text on Makassar.tribunnews.com site. This research wasqualitative research by using descriptive method. this research used critical discourse analysis approach. Sources of the data in this study was taken from the text of violence news- that represented the victims of violence- which had written in the online news site Tribun Timur. The data collection in this research were using documentation and record technique. The results showed that the form of news language was the word that contained inclusive discourse strategy such asstrategy of nomination and identification. In the news texts, the nomination strategy appeared in male violance victims as natural while identification strategy appeared in women violence victims as weakness one.e. Male victims,in the online news text,tended to be more protected than female . It had indicated that Tribun Timur journalists tended to adhere the ideology of patriarchy.

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