“We”, “They” and the Spaces In-Between: Hybridity in Intercultural Interactions between Portuguese and Chinese Residents in Macau

Multilingua ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Amaro
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Chinese Population ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Functional Integration ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Intercultural Interactions ◽  
Portuguese Immigrants ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThis study seeks to explore the hybrid cultural and linguistic spaces that Portuguese immigrants create in Macau in the process of engaging in intercultural communication with the Chinese local community. I use critical discourse analysis to examine data collected through in-depth interviews and observations in order to arrive at an understanding and provide an explanation of how Portuguese residents in Macau negotiate their interactions with the Chinese host culture. In these interviews participants furnish accounts of how they preserve their own cultural and linguistic space, while at the same time achieving functional integration in Macau when interacting with the Chinese population. Using hybridity as the theoretical framework, my research shows how participants deal with living and communicating within and between two distinct cultures; it also demonstrates how their lack of literacy in Cantonese limits the degree and form of integration that they are able to achieve.

Making privilege palatable: Normative sustainability in chefs’ Instagram discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Gwynne Mapes ◽  
Andrew S. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Class Inequality ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Community Responsibility ◽  
Personal Accounts

Abstract In this article we consider the discursive production of status as it relates to democratic ideals of environmental equity and community responsibility, orienting specifically to food discourse and ‘elite authenticity’ (Mapes 2018), as well as to recent work concerning normativity and class inequality (e.g. Thurlow 2016; Hall, Levon, & Milani 2019). Utilizing a dataset comprised of 150 Instagram posts, drawn from three different acclaimed chefs’ personal accounts, we examine the ways in which these celebrities emphasize local/sustainable food practices while simultaneously asserting their claims to privileged eating. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis, we document three general discursive tactics: (i) plant-based emphasis, (ii) local/community terroir, and (iii) realities of meat consumption. Ultimately, we establish how the chefs’ claims to egalitarian/environmental ideals paradoxically diminish their eliteness, while simultaneously elevating their social prestige, pointing to the often complicated and covert ways in which class inequality permeates the social landscape of contemporary eating. (Food discourse, elite authenticity, normativity, social class, locality/sustainability)*

scholarly journals An Internet Radio from Turkey as an Example of Community Radio: Nor Radyo

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 75-103
Author(s):  
Figen ALGÜL
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Internet Radio ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Article Study

In this article study, community media and community radios, as different kinds of alternative media will be examined under a theoretical framework. Then Nor Radyo, an internet radio which is an example of the community radios from Turkey will be taken into consideration as the field study. Nor Radyo will be examined within the context of the rhizomatic approach and community radios, over the example of Nor Radyo, will be measured as to whether or not they voice the sound of the counter publicity. For the field study, in-depth interviews were made by Nor Radyo programme-makers; and content and critical discourse analysis was applied in relation with the Nor Radyo programmes.

Discourse Analysis for Intercultural Competence Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Communication Education ◽  
Study And Teaching ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Cultural Discourse Analysis

This article aims to explicate the connection between discourse analysis and interculturality in intercultural-communication education. Although communication researchers and students have been using discourse analysis as a method to investigate conversations in intercultural situations for decades, interculturality as a concept has been largely untapped in analysis and applications. Drawing from interdisciplinary insights, this article will discuss how the concept of interculturality and the lens of discourse analysis contribute to the study and teaching of intercultural communication. As examples, two different types of intercultural-communication courses serve to illustrate how educators can apply discourse analysis to facilitate development of intercultural competence. Learning outcomes of the two tested courses indicate that cultural discourse analysis, along with critical discourse analysis and ethnography of speaking, promises to be a useful pedagogical approach for facilitating the development of the competence required for dealing with interculturality.

Dueling discourses, power, and the construction of the recovering addict: When social assistance confronts addiction in Toronto, Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber Gazso
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Work First ◽  
Depth Interviews

In this article, I undertake a critical discourse analysis of policy documents and in-depth interviews with seven caseworkers and 28 benefit recipients to explore how two discourses, ‘work first’ and ‘distance from the labour market,’ inform how persons living with addiction access and then experience social assistance in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Drawing in Foucauldian insights on power, I reveal the conceptualisation of benefit recipients’ eligibility for Ontario Works through these two discourses and how this is replete with ideological assumptions and disciplining power relations, constitutive of a subject position of ‘the recovering addict’, and suggestive of social control implications. I argue that the coercion and regulation of benefit recipients’ lives on Ontario Works has not disappeared but transmuted for Torontonians living with addiction, and conclude by considering the governance of this population as biopower.

scholarly journals Learning language, learning culture: Constructing Finnishness in adult learner textbooks

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-326
Author(s):  
Titus Hjelm ◽  
Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi ◽  
Alessia Lee ◽  
Alina Linnenweber ◽  
Tímea Tárkányi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Adult Learner ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Learning Language

Learning a second language can be considered a primary example of what Berger and Luckmann call ‘secondary socialisation’. Through careful decisions concerning what to include and what to omit, textbooks have the power to direct what a beginner can and should say in their target language. Additionally, textbooks have the responsibility of representing the cultures that speak the language. Much of a language learner’s initial understanding of a national culture in its own language is dependent on the constructions of that culture in their learning resources. This article examines how two widely used series of Finnish language textbooks for adult learners construct ‘typical’ Finnishness and the implications of these constructions for contemporary debates about national identity. Through an application of a version of critical discourse analysis, we show that the hegemonic image of Finnishness conforms to the stereotype of a modern, advanced and nature-loving people. But the image is also middle-class, White and conventional (even conservative) in terms of gender equality and sexuality. We argue that the textbooks have a key role in creating an inclusive sense of the host culture and that this inclusiveness is an asset for language acquisition, although at the moment they fall short of this aim.

scholarly journals Author Identity and the Struggled for Power in Seratus Hari Keliling Indonesia, Kompas TV

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
syahrul Ramadhan ◽  
Vani Afrilia
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Key Words 2 ◽  
Framework Model ◽  
National Ideology ◽  
The Government

This study is a discourse-based work which analyses the author identity construction in the novel Seratus Hari Keliling Indonesia (Seratus HKI) Kompas TV in order to reveal the authors’ struggle for power. The data of this study is obtained from f the vocabulary found in the Seratus HKI Kompas TV. Using the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this study applies the framework model of Norman Fairclough critical discourse analysis with the focus on the textual level. The finding shows that the identity (self-identification) of the author as a part of the government, local community, and foreigners are very much influenced by the interest of the nation, Indonesian citizens, conservation, environment, humanistic values, nationalism and patriotism. The analysis on the vocabulary found in HKI is emphasized on : (1) the vocabulary as a key words, (2) the usage of pronouns, and (3) rhetorical language’s style. Self-identification on Seratus HKI Kompas TV is relevant with the slogan of Kompas TV inspiring Indonesia by enlighting people and as a documentary journey that insert the national ideology.

scholarly journals Rethinking Polanyi’s Fictitious Commodities Based on the Brazilian Nuclear Segment

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-403
Author(s):  
Márcio Moutinho Abdalla
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Decolonial Theory ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
Fictitious Commodities ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show evidence of the undetermined expansion of Polanyi’s fictitious commodities within the Brazilian nuclear context. The issue of the marketification of social agendas has drawn a lot of attention to the data, collected through in-depth interviews. The analytical process was guided by the decolonial theory approach and by critical discourse analysis. Among the analysis’ main findings, it is possible to point out the elaboration of a framework which reveals the mechanisms employed by the Brazilian nuclear segment as a way of exercising parallel power and silencing social agendas. The main contributions are the temporal and geopolitical updating of Polanyi’s thesis; and the definition of the mechanisms used by the company Eletronuclear and by institutions as a way of co-optation, naturalisation and marketification of social and political agendas.

scholarly journals IDENTITAS LOKAL RADIO BERJARINGAN MNC TRIJAYA FM MELALUI PROGRAM NGADU BOKO

DIALEKTIKA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-187
Author(s):  
Slamet Parsono
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Sociocultural Practices ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which MNC Trijaya FM as a networked radio in the city of Bandung is able to represent the values of local identity of a region. This research uses a descriptive qualitative methodological approach, and a theoretical approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (AWK) from Norman Fairclough. The data of this study are fragments of the Ngadu Bako MNC Trijaya FM program discourse and key informant in-depth interviews. Based on the research, the following results are obtained: first, the efforts made by MNC Trijaya FM are not interpreted as an ideology that the characteristics of local identity are a culture that must be raised, not imaged as a weak culture. Second, the analysis of the practice of discourse focuses on how the discourse is produced and consumed. The production of this discourse is closely related to the ideology of the management of Trijaya FM MNC, talkshow resource persons, and actions to be achieved. As a networked radio, MNC Trijaya FM has not been able to fully represent local identity through the Ngadu Bako program. Third, the discourse produced is influenced by the textual dimension, the practice of discourse, and sociocultural practices.

Context Matters: Contextual Factors Informing Mentoring in Art Initial Teacher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 477-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayelet Becher ◽  
Lily Orland-Barak
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Stimulated Recall Interviews ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article explores the contextual factors that shape mentoring practice in Art Initial Teacher Education. Based on in-depth interviews, nonparticipant observations and stimulated recall interviews with participants, we examine how various factors related to the context of mentors’ work influence their approaches to subject matter mentoring. Adopting a discursive stance to mentoring, we use critical discourse analysis to expose connections between mentors’ language, ideas, and beliefs and the broader context of subject matter mentoring. In each mentoring setting studied, the analysis surfaces distinctive contextual factors that are grounded in mentors’ interpretations of the roles and functions of their subject matter domains. We show how these factors inform mentors’ perceptions of the purposes and processes of mentoring and their enactments in practice. Our findings offer an extended perspective to subject matter mentoring and new directions for thinking about context in mentoring. Implications for mentor preparation and selection are discussed.

A virtual gender asylum? The social media profile picture, young Chinese women’s self-empowerment, and the emergence of a Chinese digital feminism

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiang Chang ◽  
Hailong Ren ◽  
Qiguang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Harmonious Society ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Profile Pictures ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article applies the framework of critical discourse analysis to the in-depth interviews of 73 young Chinese women residing in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. It examines their discursive practices of choosing and editing their profile pictures on social media, which is in turn placed in the unique sociocultural context of contemporary China for interpretation. This article argues that Chinese women’s self-empowerment through using social media is derived not from a straightforward struggle against the patriarchy or for woman power, but from a gentle, rational yet resolute stance that incorporates a new female identity into the ‘harmonious society’ enshrined in Confucian ideals, thus creating a new digital feminism with Chinese characteristics.

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