Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) of Social Media—Taking a Political Interview about China’s Issues on YouTube as a Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 06 (05) ◽  
pp. 827-844
Author(s):  
峻晨 张
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies

scholarly journals Online hate, digital discourse and critique: Exploring digitally-mediated discursive practices of gender-based hostility

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid KhosraviNik ◽  
Eleonora Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
Online Misogyny

AbstractThe communicative affordances of the participatory web have opened up new and multifarious channels for the proliferation of hate. In particular, women navigating the cybersphere seem to be the target of a disproportionate amount of hostility. This paper explores the contexts, approaches and conceptual synergies around research on online misogyny within the new communicative paradigm of social media communication (KhosraviNik 2017a: 582). The paper builds on the core principle that online misogyny is demonstrably and inherently a discourse; therefore, the field is envisaged at the intersection of digital media scholarship, discourse theorization and critical feminist explications. As an ever-burgeoning phenomenon, online hate has been approached from a range of disciplinary perspectives but has only been partially mapped at the interface of meaning making contents/processes and new mediation technologies. The paper aims to advance the state of the art by investigating online hate in general, and misogyny in particular, from the vantage point of Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM-CDS); an emerging model of theorization and operationalization of research combining tenets from Critical Discourse Studies with scholarship in digital media and technology research (KhosraviNik 2014, 2017a, 2018). Our SM-CDS approach to online misogyny demarcates itself from insinuation whereby the phenomenon is reduced to digital communicative affordancesper seand argues in favor of a double critical contextualization of research findings at both digital participatory as well as social and cultural levels.

Towards a Discourse Approach to Critical Lexicography

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-388
Author(s):  
Wenge Chen
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
International English

Abstract Ideology and power, the vital concerns of critical lexicography, are aspects of a dictionary that a lexicographer and a discerning dictionary user have to encounter in any serious lexicographical enterprise (Kachru 1995); however, critical lexicography as a theme did not receive much attention until Kachru and Kahane (1995). This term later appeared in Hornscheidt (2011) and Moon (2014). However, to date there has not been any systematic theoretical exemplification of what critical lexicography is and how critical lexicographical research is done. Additionally, the scope and function of critical lexicography is relatively limited when we consider the global context, since it fails to take into account theoretical and methodological inspirations from other disciplines such as Critical Discourse Studies and/or Postcolonial Studies, which would make it more theoretically robust and analytically explanatory. With this gap in mind, this paper proposes a discourse approach to Critical Lexicography, termed Critical Lexicographical Discourse Studies (CLDS), as a response to the call for lexicographers’ ‘social accountability’. Specifically, the article puts forward a definition of CLDS and its key concepts, denotes its ontological, epistemological and methodological orientations, delineates its principles, proposes a tentative analytic framework and demonstrates a simplified case study. The article argues that a discourse approach to critical lexicography opens up space to understand different meaning-making practices and contestation in lexicography. In doing so, this article contributes to the development of international (English) lexicography and the language(s) it represents.

Conceptualising force in the context of the Arab Revolutions: A comparative analysis of international mass media reports and Twitter posts

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Ullmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Force Dynamics ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Arab Spring

The events surrounding the ‘Arab Spring’ have attracted an enormous amount of attention by the international press as well as on social media platforms, especially in its initial phase in early 2011. This article investigates how violent and forceful (inter)actions during the ‘Arab Revolutions’ were conceptualised linguistically by incorporating notions of Cognitive Semantics in a critical comparative study of press reports and Twitter posts. Focus is placed specifically on combining Talmy’s theory of Force Dynamics with methods of Critical Discourse Studies in order to investigate diverging forms of schematisation of forceful interactions among protest participants. The most frequently recurring opposing force-dynamic patterns identified are defying a hindrance, prevailing stability and causation of action as well as inaction. Notable differences may be observed between mass media and social media in regard to the representation of dynamic power relations between police and protesters.

The media of the ultra-right

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cinzia Padovani
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Studies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Media And Communication

Abstract In light of the rise of ultra-right ideologies in Europe, this article offers an in-depth analysis of the discourse on immigration presented by CasaPound Italia (CPI), a self-defined fascist organization in Italy. This case study illustrates the importance of media and communication activism for the promotion of contemporary ultra-right movements. Specifically, the analysis focuses on how CPI reported one of the first widely covered immigration-related disaster in the Mediterranean, on 3 October 2013, and on the audience interactions that followed on the organisation’s website. In this article, I argue that CasaPound Italia’s online communiqué and its members’ comments need to be considered as one discursive event in which the encoding/decoding processes at play can be explored in detail. The examination, which draws from critical discourse studies, reveals audiences’ contributions in unpacking the implicit message contained in the original communiqué and underlines the active role that “rank and file” members play in the promotion of ultra-right ideologies.

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