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Discourse & Society
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.921  Citation Impact (citeScore): 2 Number of Followers: 59  Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)ISSN (Print) 0957-9265 - ISSN (Online) 1460-3624 Published by Sage Publications  [1176 journals]
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- Eberhard Kranzmayer’s dovetailing with Nazism: His fascist years and the
‘One Standard German Axiom (OSGA)’-
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Authors: Stefan Dollinger
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Eberhard Kranzmayer is arguably Austria’s most influential German dialectologist. The present article traces Kranzmayer’s Nazi years (NSDAP member number 8.061.495) in archival sources in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Klagenfurt and Berlin. This account reconstructs Kranzmayer’s role in the Nazi machine, especially his directorship of the ‘Institut für Kärntner Landesforschung’ [Institute for Carinthian Provincial Research]. Kranzmayer’s pan-German and völkisch orientations long predate his Nazi years; his studies under the Nazis are congruent with the positions he held pre- and, significantly, post-World War II. The new data presented here show that Kranzmayer’s second denazification proceedings was disingenuous. On the disciplinary level, Kranzmayer’s pan-German stance has had profound influence on the modelling of Austrian German, which today has caused many controversies; indeed, today, it seems tied inter alia to a ‘One Standard German Axiom’ (OSGA). It is argued that any materials that Kranzmayer collected, edited and published would need to be vetted by period historians for pan-German bias and mitigated before use.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-08-07T07:28:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241259094
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- Book Review: Sabine Tan and K. L. E. Marissa (eds), Discourses, Modes,
Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Approach-
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Authors: Ying Ye, Yanyan Chen
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-08-02T07:56:45Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241269211
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- Book Review: I. Theodoropoulou and J. Tovar (eds), Research Companion to
Language and Country Branding-
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Authors: Raymund Vitorio
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-08-02T07:55:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241269208
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- Book Review: Teresa Oteíza, What to Remember, What to Teach: Human Rights
Violations in Chile’s Recent Past and the Pedagogical Discourse of
History-
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Authors: Mary Schleppegrell, Sida Sun
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-08-02T07:53:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241269207
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- Linguistic encoding of women’s agency in the German political discourse
on abortion: A diachronic Critical Discourse Analysis-
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Authors: Marie Irmer, Tanja Mortelmans, Reinhild Vandekerckhove
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This research, rooted in the Critical Discourse Analysis framework, employs a mixed-methods approach to examine debates on abortion legislation in the German Bundestag. Focusing on the attribution of agency to women through semantic role assignment in the context of abortion procedures, the study utilises both qualitative analysis and quantitative data analysis techniques. Five debates spanning the 1970s, 1990s and 2010s were examined using the qualitative analysis tool MAXQDA. Results consistently indicate that arguments referring to women are predominantly assigned semantic roles associated with passivity and relatively low agency. This pattern persists regardless of the ideological stance, transcending divides between pro-life and pro-choice advocates. This perpetuates and reinforces the societal perception of women as passive, upholding a traditional gender stereotype within the discourse. A larger number of arguments referring to women were found in the pro-choice data compared to the pro-life data, indicating a greater emphasis on women within the argumentation of pro-choice speakers. The study underscores the enduring impact of language on shaping perceptions of women’s agency in the context of abortion legislation debates.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-07-30T06:17:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241264877
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- Book review: Tara Coltman-Patel, (Mis)Representing Weight and Obesity in
the British Press: Fear, Divisiveness, Shame and Stigma-
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Authors: Cristina María Tello-Barbé
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-07-26T10:47:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241264691
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- To change or not to change: Transformations of ecological metaphors in
Chinese government microblogs-
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Authors: Kaiwen Yang, Ya Sun
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
In the wake of global environmental change, China’s focus on ecological civilization has intensified. Political leaders’ ecological thoughts are predominantly manifested through language, such as ecological metaphors within ecopolitical discourse, and their authoritative statements are disseminated by other political entities across various platforms. This study presents a refined framework for metaphor change analysis, aiming to examine how the ‘Life Community’ metaphor is communicated in Chinese government microblogs. Results show that the ‘Life Community’ metaphor undergoes transformations on the linguistic level, forming a continuum of metaphor change that spans from incremental change to fundamental change. Furthermore, the beneficial ecological orientation of the metaphor does not change in communication. Two new modes of fundamental changes are identified for the first time, including changing the source domain into the target domain, and integrating the source domain with the target domain. This study offers valuable insights into the role of eco-metaphors in Chinese ecopolitical discourse.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-07-26T10:45:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241265512
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- Book review
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Authors: Yao Guangyuan
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-07-25T09:42:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241266910
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- The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers
on mammoth salaries’: The legitimation contest over a 2013 austerity
measure in the Republic of Ireland-
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Authors: Stephen Gaffney
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This paper provides a discourse analysis of the political and media debate surrounding a 2013 austerity measure that targeted unemployed young people in the Republic of Ireland. Applying Van Leeuwen’s ‘justificatory schema’ it reveals the legitimation of this measure relied on an ‘anti-welfare populist’ framing of the young unemployed as ‘welfare dependent’ and thus ‘undeserving’. Furthermore, this analysis finds that those opposed to this austerity measure sought to de-legitimate it and to re-legitimate the young unemployed. At times by singling out alternative ‘undeserving’ figures to be targeted with austerity in their place. This process thus remained open to contestation and resignification, albeit in a manner that failed to challenge the underlying political-economic logic at play. The antagonistic framings revealed by these findings complicate the emphasis on ‘de-politicisation’ in the pre-existing literature using discourse analysis methods to investigate the legitimation of austerity.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-07-25T09:41:09Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241266020
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- Appified surveillance: TripAdvisor as a site for entextualized surveillant
assemblage-
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Authors: Rania Magdi Fawzy, Amir HY Salama
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Locative media in the context of travel apps alter the representations of space. However, locative media technologies, more specifically travel apps, do not neutrally mediate travelscapes. Rather, they produce a complex surveillance apparatus in which users and the interface algorithm interactionally assembled. To this end, the study argues that travel apps stand as assemblage interventions which regulate the accessibility of travelscapes and reconfigure the travel experience of cities. Informed by this, TripAdvisor touristscape is examined and interpreted in the current study as a surveillant assemblage of technology-human entextualization practices. The surveillance system in TripAdvisor draws upon particular dialectic, ordered and operationalized discourses and their entextualized recontextualization/decontextualization in various social contexts. Such de/recontextualization oscillations are accompanied by a process of semiotic change, which in turn, produces dynamically surveilled spaces and regulated travel experiences. The authors outline three surveillance repertoires that are found to be prevalent in their interaction with TripAdvisor: ‘a decorporealized user’, ‘gamifying the travel experience’ and ‘algorithm performative surveillance’. The analytical approach adopted in current study helps in opening discourse studies to the analysis of the travel apps as surveillant apparatus.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-07-25T09:33:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241266014
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- Decoding intentions in evaluations: A discursive study of disputants’
discourses in Chinese family mediation-
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Authors: Meiqi Li, Ting Jiang, Yuanpeng Zou
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Applying discourse analysis, this paper scrutinizes disputants’ discourses in Chinese family mediation, with an aim to reveal how evaluations are employed to manifest their intentions. By adopting a mixed method combining qualitative and quantitative methods, this article analyzes the transcriptions of six authentic recordings of family mediation sessions in Chinese mainland. The results indicate that, first, three categories of evaluations encoding intentions are identified in disputants’ discourses including ethical evaluation, affective evaluation, and informative evaluation; second, disputants’ particular intentions are decoded by their evaluations expressed through specific semantic forms. Additionally, these evaluations conveying varied intentions, are deeply motivated by Chinese socio-cultural values of mianzi (face), renqing (emotion), and guanxi (relationship).
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-07-25T09:05:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241264884
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- Living with contradictions: A corpus-assisted analysis of grown-up
left-behind children discourses in Zhihu-
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Authors: Linlin Liang, Hongli Wang
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
As the early generation of left-behind children (LBC) in China transition into adulthood and integrate into society, there is a pressing need to understand their experiences beyond the limited scope of existing research. While existing studies have predominantly focused on the short-term and long-term effects of left-behind experiences on children, there exists a notable research gap concerning grown-up LBC. This study addresses this gap by employing the corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) to examine the discourse of grown-up LBC on social media. By utilizing Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling, collocation and concordance analysis, and the ecological systems theory, this study unveils the challenges and opportunities encountered by grown-up LBC, along with their underlying reasons. The findings reveal a myriad of challenges experienced during their left-behind childhood, including material poverty, inadequate parental care, peer bullying, and deficiencies in family and school education. These challenges have been found to contribute to poor psychological well-being, weakened sense of family, distant relationships with parents, and difficulties in forming intimate connections for grown-up LBC. Significantly, the study also uncovers potential positive outcomes, such as the development of self-esteem, independence, and maturity. Moreover, the research highlights the intricate interactions among microsystems, mesosystems, exosystems, and macrosystems, collectively influencing the growth and development of LBC. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the complex factors influencing the lives of grown-up LBC.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-07-25T09:03:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241263969
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- Book review: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Malcolm Coulthard (eds.), Texts
and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis
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Authors: Wenting Zhao
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-07-25T08:50:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241262393
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- Resistant discourse strategies in social media in China’s epidemic
prevention context-
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Authors: Yang Li
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
On the night of November 24, in 2022, a fire broke out in a residential building in Xinjiang Urumqi, causing 10 deaths and 9 injuries. Confronted with netizens’ queries about excessive epidemic prevention, local government quickly disclaimed and announced its political achievements in fighting against COVID-19. A participatory discourse of resistance in social media then broke out intensively during the 25–28th, which extended too offline and then back to online again. There are three questions this study aims to investigate: (1) What were the strategic characteristics exhibited by this discourse event' (2) How did the concealed socio-political factors operate' (3) Does a prevailing ideological configuration pattern manifest in practice and what is the role of social media' In order to comply with the digital discourse context deeply embedded by platform’s technology, this study followed KhosraviNik’s three-level theoretical framework, whose SM-CDS model was methodologically employed and 9 actors with 10 samples were grabbed, concluding that an independent space of resistant meaning’s production was opened up at the angle of coding rules operated in social media and by authority, where a special discourse pattern was developed. In phase Ⅰ, it displayed ‘strategized’ consisted of three strategies: (1) obscuring the meaning; (2) applying positive words; and (3) seeking for asylum. In phase Ⅱ, it inclined to be ‘de-strategized’ which eventually shed the dependence on the coding rules of both authority and social media, which is a breakthrough to the previous resistant discourse patterns. Through netizens’ strategic utilization of availability and visibility, the technical ideology of social media fully exposes its constructive significance to the democratic space, making the negotiation of meaning obtain more extension, flexibility, and resilience.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-06-20T07:55:08Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241257950
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- ‘Which would be more democratic' Allowing them the opportunity to change
their mind or pressing on regardless’: A discursive psychological study
of arguments for and against calls for a second Brexit referendum-
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Authors: Alexander R Hunt, Mirko A Demasi
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Parliamentary debates are beneficial political environments to study using discourse analysis and discursive psychology. However, there is limited discursive psychological research analysing arguments for and against the possibility of a second referendum concerning the UK’s EU membership status. We collected our data by transcribing a parliamentary debate where politicians discussed a second referendum and analysed it using a discursive psychological framework. Whether they supported leave or remain, politicians discredit their opposing position for supposedly lacking democratic values. As such, politicians portrayed their stances on Brexit as a requirement to uphold democratic principles. The main implication of the analysis demonstrated that politicians defined democracy depending on the positions they took regarding calls for a second Brexit referendum. The present study contributes to the growing discursive literature on Brexit discourse by showing how the meaning of democracy is contested and used as a tool to manage accountability.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-06-14T07:27:12Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241257629
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- Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse: Towards a
critical religious tolerance-
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Authors: Godswill Uchechukwu Chigbu, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh, John Ganaah
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Religion is a main characteristic of Nigerian identity and influences the algorithm of its public life. The study explores online religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse. The study utilises a critical discourse analytic approach and examines a dataset of over 14,000 Facebook comments from Nigerians from different religious groups. The analysis revealed that religious othering in the electoral discourse was indexed using three major strategies, namely: demonisation, ingroup ostracisation and stereotyping. The study demonstrates, among others, an emergent intra-religious discord in the online electoral discourse, mainly among the Christian group. Members who displayed favouritism to an outgroup cause, in this case, the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket, are framed as Other. They are denied the membership of being a Christian. The study concludes with imperative advocacy for the cultivation of critical religious tolerance, a model and practice for engendering a respectful and inclusive political environment beyond religious affiliations.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-06-12T09:10:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241257628
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- Rags to riches: A critical analysis of social mobility discourse, ideology
and power in neoliberal Indonesia-
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Authors: Jane Louise Ahlstrand
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
The discourse of social mobility has become a central tenet of democratic societies worldwide. Commonly deployed as a panacea for inequality and source of social justice, the discourse can conceal and even perpetuate inequalities. Intertwined with neoliberal ideology, social mobility discourse is contextually contingent, manifesting differently according to local conditions. This paper critically analyses social mobility discourse in the Indonesian context through ‘rags to riches’ stories of female celebrities in media interviews. Applying a contextually sensitive approach to agency within a CDA framework, this paper contributes new knowledge to the study of social mobility discourse in the Global South. The findings illustrate the pervasiveness of neoliberalism and its coalescence with local ideologies of gender, class and place, and how upwardly mobile women deploy ideological resources to create a mobility niche. The discourse strategies they use legitimise their mobility but reproduce unequal relations of power, undermining the objectives of social mobility.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-06-12T09:00:47Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241257627
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- Neoliberalism, alternatives and (de)politicisation: Analysis of political
discourse during the coronavirus crisis-
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Authors: Lucie Němcová
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This study denaturalises the prevailing belief that crises bolster neoliberalism. It contends that context matters deeply – particularly in the lead-up to elections – and that not all politicians advocate a neoliberal agenda. Furthermore, it uncovers the cyclical relationship between (de)politicisation and coronavirus crisis in Czechia. The research employs discursive historical approach and critical discourse analysis to answer following research questions: 1) During the coronavirus crisis, did elite and expert discourse reinforce neoliberal hegemony or promote alternatives' 2) How did this manifest in their discourse' and 3) Was the crisis (de)politicised' The results show that the discourse of elites did not deepen neoliberalisation, since other discursive themes appeared. Politicians mostly used strategy of argumentation and intensification to legitimise measures, which the study describes in detail. Regarding (de)politicisation, a cycle occurred where the crisis was not politicised initially, but when vaccines were addressed, the crisis became a source of political conflict. With a new government coming in, the data suggest depoliticisation again.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-05-28T10:05:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241253854
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- Book Review: Michael Farrelly, Discourse and Democracy. Critical Analysis
of the Language of Government-
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Authors: Hendrik Wagenaar
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-05-24T09:15:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241254238
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- ChatGPT-4 as a journalist: Whose perspectives is it reproducing'
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Authors: Petre Breazu, Napoleon Katson
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
The rapid emergence of generative AI models in the media sector demands a critical examination of the narratives these models produce, particularly in relation to sensitive topics, such as politics, racism, immigration, public health, gender and violence, among others. The ease with which generative AI can produce narratives on sensitive topics raises concerns about potential harms, such as amplifying biases or spreading misinformation. Our study juxtaposes the content generated by a state-of-the-art generative AI, specifically ChatGPT-4, with actual articles from leading UK media outlets on the topic of immigration. Our specific case study focusses on the representation of Eastern European Roma migrants in the context of the 2016 UK Referendum on EU membership. Through a comparative critical discourse analysis, we uncover patterns of representation, inherent biases and potential discrepancies in representation between AI-generated narratives and mainstream media discourse with different political views. Preliminary findings suggest that ChatGPT-4 exhibits a remarkable degree of objectivity in its reporting and demonstrates heightened racial awareness in the content it produces. Moreover, it appears to consistently prioritise factual accuracy over sensationalism. All these features set it apart from right-wing media articles in our sample. This is further evidenced by the fact that, in most instances, ChatGPT-4 refrains from generating text or does so only after considerable adjustments when prompted with headlines that the model deems inflammatory. While these features can be attributed to the model’s diverse training data and model architecture, the findings invite further examination to determine the full scope of ChatGPT-4’s capabilities and its potential shortcomings in representing the full spectrum of social and political perspectives prevalent in society.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-05-21T09:17:49Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241251479
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- Discursive pragmatics of justification in terrorist threat texts:
Victim-blaming, denying, discrediting, legitimating, manipulating, and
retaliation-
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Authors: Awni Etaywe
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the under-researched area of discursive tactics employed in terrorist threat texts that exploit moral values to constantly justify violence, fostering a ‘discourse of justification’, disaffiliation and conflict. Employing a discursive pragmatic analysis, it delves into the tactics of violent extremists associated with jihadism and far-right ideologies. Utilising the Appraisal framework and the ‘moral disaffiliation’ strategy, the study uncovers verbal practices shaping a dynamic of justification. Findings reveal threateners’ involvement in regulatory discursive functions – manipulation, deontic-retaliation, and boulomaic effect – and practices of ideologically positioning functions – discrediting, blaming, denying and (de)legitimating. The analysis highlights the construction of negative victim individuals and societies while praising the threatener/in-group, anchored predominantly in values of propriety, capacity, valuation and veracity, as the primary dynamic of threatener-victim disalignment. This study contributes insights into threatener profiling, motivations of violence and future research on threat-genre rhetorical structure analysis.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-05-18T09:39:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241251480
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- ‘The land of your fathers lieth in ruins’: A multimodal critical
discourse analysis of Nigeria’s 2023 pre- election crises-related
internet memes-
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Authors: Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This paper examines political protest in 40 purposively sampled internet memes circulated among Nigerian Facebook and WhatsApp users during the socio-political crises that engulfed the country ahead of the 2023 general elections. It explores the thematic preoccupation as well as the representation of participants and processes in the memes. Data were subjected to qualitative anaysis, and examined from the perspectives of multimodal and critical discourse analysis. The analysis reveals that the memes are used to protest cash crunch, fuel scarcity, socio-political unease and other government’s anti-people policies with their attendant effects. The memes are circulated to instantiate a negative representation of the Nigerian government and resist perceived anti-people ideology of the government.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-05-17T09:29:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241252998
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- Regular selves constructed through genres: A socio-cognitive approach to
the study of positioning acts in Italian rectors’ inaugural speeches-
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Authors: Danni Yu, Carla Vergaro
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This study aims to provide a socio-cognitive approach to understand how the identity associated with a social category is constructed through regular positioning acts in conventionalized genres. Using genre-based positioning analysis, we analyzed a corpus of 30 Italian rectors’ inaugural speeches and identified six rhetorical moves regularly used in the genre, which revealed three underlying positionings – representative of the university, value disseminator, and advocate – associated with the social role of university rectors in the Italian higher education context. Drawing on the Entrenchment and Conventionalization Model (hereafter ECModel), we analyzed how these positionings are conventionalized through shared conformity profiles of the genre in the onomasiological, semasiological, syntagmatic, and contextual dimensions. This study implies that genres can be important mediums through which the cognitive entrenchment and social conventionalization of positionings contribute to constructing our regular selves to be performed in the social domain.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-05-17T09:25:27Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241252995
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- Book review: Anesa P and Engberg J (eds.), The Digital (R)Evolution of
Legal Discourse. New Genres, Media, and Linguistic Practices-
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Authors: Silvia Cacchiani
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-05-10T10:06:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241249587
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- Denying racial animus: Political discourse in Arizona anti-ethnic studies
legislation-
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Authors: Gloria Howerton
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This paper contributes to the literature on racism denial through an analysis of the political discourse in defense of 2010’s Arizona Revised Statute 15-112 (ARS § 15-112), which can be considered a key antecedent to political moral panics centered on the presentation of history and identity in US schools. ARS § 15-112 was designed with the expressed intent of terminating Mexican American Studies education, and eventually all ethnic studies, in Arizona public and charter K-12 schools. This paper considers the discursive maneuvering used by political actors to simultaneously justify this legislation and dodge accusations of racial animus, both prior to the legislation’s signing and in the years following. It further analyzes the political discourse that allows for racism denial in certain spheres, including the legal realm, despite politically benefiting from the use of the Latino Threat Narrative. This paper discusses four primary forms of racism denial pervasive in this political discourse: 1) Absence discourse; 2) Framing racism around ‘extremes’; 3) Positive self-presentation; 4) Helping discourse. In addition to exploring how all four forms of denial are used in this case, the paper teases out helping discourse from positive selfpresentation, showing how the former focuses on reframing the actor while the latter reframes the action. Importantly, anti-MAS political actors and members of their shielding institutions attempted to frame racism and racial animus as inherently individual rather than systemic in every form of denial discussed.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-04-26T04:47:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241245131
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- Mines, environment, questions, and disagreements: An analysis of the
Turów coal mine disputes-
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Authors: Tomáš Ondráček, Paweł Łupkowski, Mariusz Urbański
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This is a story of costs of 114 million EUR incurred by stubbornness and unwillingness to cooperate, or, in other words, by sticking to dead ends in discussions where parties disagree strongly enough that they cannot find common ground. This paper proposes an approach to analyzing such cases of disagreement by employing a multidimensional model involving deontic, ontological, and ethical axes. We use an example of the Turów coal mine disputes, which, from March 2020 to February 2022, involved the governments of the Republic of Poland, the Czech Republic, and the European Court of Justice. Our model results in a tree-like structure of the consecutive issues being considered, represented by questions, governed by the dependency between questions and external actions and events related to the dispute. We aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics and resolution paths in such complex disagreements.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-04-26T03:43:05Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241247284
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- Distinction within the ‘global north’' A Bourdieusian approach for
analysing development discourse: The case of U.S. and E.U. relations with
the Colombian state (2016–2022): A comparative analysis-
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Authors: Hugo Corten
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
The paper conducts a comparative analysis of EU (91 texts) and US (93 texts) discourses concerning post-peace accord Colombia (late 2016 to mid-2022). Employing a Bourdieu-influenced methodology, our proposal aims to reconcile Post-Development theories with International Relations research. This innovative and multidimensional approach illuminates both discursive continuities within Global North while concurrently providing a framework that allows to identify and interpret internal political divergences. Our findings highlight a shared commitment to a liberal conception of peacebuilding, alongside internal distinction strategies employed to legitimize respective policies towards Colombia.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-04-16T04:07:17Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241245130
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- Ideology and the contextualization of ancient Chinese judicial opinions
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Authors: Zhengrui Han, Vijay K. Bhatia, Xue Fu
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Legal genres are situation-sensitive and one same genre may take different structural and functional patterns according to the historical context within which it is situated. Judicial opinions of ancient China, for example, look like a totally different genre in contrast with the language of modern Chinese judicial documents. It is not uncommon that county magistrates’ (ancient Chinese judges) writing considerably downplays the task of reasoning and argumentation and becomes fully devoted to the provision of emotional narratives regarding defendants’ wrong-doings and to the meta-communication of imperial ideological values to grassroots. This paper looks into why ideology is a key concern of ancient Chinese judicial writing, what concrete ideological values are actually invoked and how they are interactively disseminated. The analytical framework combines the notion of contextualization (Gumperz, 1982), interactive framing (Tannen, 1993), and footing (Goffman, 1981). Through a nuanced interpretation of the relatedness of imperial ideological values and judicial language structures, the authors attempt to reveal how ancient judicial opinions are built as speech activities of performing identities and activities of presenting ideological stances and beliefs.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-04-04T02:40:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241241811
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- In/exclusion in fashion discourse: Are we in or out'
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Authors: Kateryna Pilyarchuk
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article analyzes the conceptual framing of inclusion and exclusion in fashion discourse, discussing how women are denied or restricted the access to the bounded space of fashion based on a part of their identity, be it their race, religion, disability, gender identification, body weight, or social class. It relies on the data corpus is 1061 Vogue articles, collected between July 2019 and June 2020 and analyzed qualitatively. The current study complements ample research on the container metaphor in political discourse and aims to open a debate on the role of this metaphorical model in a so far largely overlooked discourse of fashion. Drawing on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Critical Discursive Psychology, I demonstrate how the container metaphor pinpoints the repertoire of inclusivity, problematizes the dichotomous relationship between the center and periphery of the fashion industry, and normalizes roles of insiders and outsiders in fashion.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-03-30T10:31:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241241074
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- What if migrants were only people and relatives' Designations used to name
people on the move in the Belgian media-
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Authors: Valériane Mistiaen
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article focuses on denominations that are used to name people on the move in Belgian media discourse, but that are not specifically related to migration. It specifically studies the nominal syntagms formed with the noun people (people on the run, people in need) and words of kinship (mother, brother). A Discursive Semantics analysis implemented through Corpus Linguistics is run on a corpus of Belgian news items issued from March 2015 to July 2017. The corpus gathers 13,391 newspaper articles and 3490 TV news items (representing 7,637,986 words). The mention of words of kinship and designations formed with people shows that there is a willingness to humanise media discourses on migration. However, although their mention encourages a humanitarian vision of people on the move, these usually positively connotated designations also foster a vision of people on the move as victims and does not discourage the mention of controversial denominations.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-03-28T04:59:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241235219
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- Book Review: Mike Savage, The Return of Inequality. Social Change and the
Weight of the Past-
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Authors: Sarah Kerr
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-03-18T11:27:24Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241238086
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- TikTok as a site of social protest in Iran’s Gen-Z uprising
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Authors: Tom Walsh
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This paper argues that understanding the power of TikTok’s visual discourse is a crucial part of conceptualising the character, inspiration, and ambition of Iran’s Gen-Z-led uprising, both at home and across the diaspora. TikTok is a social media platform that depends on visuality. As such, it creates its own specific forms of messaging. This paper seeks to apply an innovative methodology of ‘Visual Discourse Tracing’ to the Iranian protests. It uses this carefully devised, process-driven method, to highlight the core ways in which TikTok has amplified the message of the Iranian protests, connecting to the grassroots movement and to the longer history of Iranian women’s struggle for freedom. Visuality and social media have been crucial in shaping the character of these contemporary protests, necessitating proper theorisation when understanding the wider Iranian protest movement.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-03-18T07:32:48Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241234351
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- Fortifying the otherness in Montenegrin political discourse
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Authors: Sanja Ćetković
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Following the 2020 elections, Montenegro has experienced an upsurge in ‘patriotic’ political activism, largely supported by the party that lost control of the parliament after three decades of uncontested rule. The continuity and uniqueness of the Montenegrin dual identity, where the categories of Serb and Montenegrin are not mutually exclusive, have been undermined by nationalist aspirations to portray such duality as a delusion. This study examined strategies for the construction of otherness in nationalist political discourse following the 2020 elections in Montenegro, based on the assumption that a threatened identity seeks to re-establish itself through the search for difference and otherness. The Discourse Historical Approach provides an analytical framework for examining the explicit and implicit construction of social actors used to reinforce the ingroup-outgroup rift and portray the other as different and pathological.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-03-16T04:31:31Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241236963
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- ‘As long as you have the guts’: The discourse of drug
offending-
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Authors: Guo Jing-Ying, Zhou Li-Min
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Despite the harsh punishment and measures taken to crack down on drug-related crimes in China, drug offending presents a growing threat. This paper, based on in-depth interviews with 24 drug offenders who are now under incarceration, explores how drug offending is described and presented. The results reveal that drug offending is not merely simplified as good or evil, but constructed as individuals’ only, attractive, or non-existent option. The implications of the results are briefly discussed in regard to the reduction in drug crimes and policy improvement.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-03-16T04:28:12Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241238021
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- Reporting assassinations in the Ethiopian press
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Authors: Berhanu Asfaw Weldemikael
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This paper aims at analyzing the reporting of assassinations in the Ethiopian press from a discourse analytical perspective. The study attempted to answer three questions: 1) How are assassinations represented in the press' 2) What identities are set up for those involved in the assassinations' And, finally, how is meaning communicated in various discursive structures and communicative events' To that end, the study employed Jeffrie’s critical stylistics as an analytical framework within a qualitative design. The data were collected from five Ethiopian newspapers that were selected purposively in line with predetermined criteria. A corpus of 102 media stories that were published from June 2018 to June 2020 was setup. The findings show that each outlet reported the incidents synonymously, emphasizing a scapegoating process that could ideologically reaffirm the dominant political discourse. In doing so, four naming and labeling strategies were identified: lionizing (making the dead a hero), blaming and demonizing, victimizing (making the dead innocent and martyrs), and ethnification (connecting both the victims and offenders to their ethnic belongings). Polarized representations of actions, space, time, and society were evident in the selected stories. The government, together with its different organs and affiliates, was used as the sole and primary source of information. The voices of the government on the incidents were reported as widely accepted facts, as evidenced by the blurred line between direct and indirect speeches. This in turn helped to reaffirm the existing dominant political discourse – the status quo.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-03-06T10:28:04Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241234026
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- Sustaining or overcoming distance in representations of U.S. drone strikes
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Authors: John Oddo, Cameron Mozafari, Alexandra Kirsch
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article examines how U.S. news reports sustain or overcome distance between domestic audiences and the victims of U.S. drone strikes overseas. More specifically, we explain how language is used to construe distance in two different news stories about the same drone strike, enacting different political and affective relationships between Americans and the Pakistani victims of U.S. war. Drawing on theories of cognitive linguistics, we analyze how distance is negotiated in three overlapping areas of conceptualization: specificity, time, and narrative perspective. We show how lexical and grammatical choices can make victims of drone strikes appear remote, indistinct, and uninteresting – or indeed how they can make victims and their suffering appear close, clear, and dramatic. Simultaneously, we show that minimalist reporting on distant suffering is not natural or inevitable. Despite the obstacles they face, it is possible for journalists to convey what actually happens to the distant victims of U.S. violence.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-03-04T11:23:13Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241230339
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- Thinking different as an act of resistance: Reconceptualizing the German
protests in the COVID-19 pandemic as an emergent counter-knowledge order-
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Authors: Florian Primig
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Massive anti-government protests erupted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. The crisis activated a potential for resistance that has been simmering under the impositions of late-modern knowledge society. Made salient by the pandemic conditions of sudden extreme reliance on scientific (non) knowledge, the corona protestors activated this potential for resistance and constructed their own counter-knowledge order bound by shared resentment of and distrust in the established order and facilitated by digital platforms. Utilising social network analysis and structural topic modeling for digital critical discourse analysis, in this paper I explore how the corona protest counter-knowledge order is constructed with a particular focus on its contexts, roles, and hierarchies. I find that far-right and conspiracy imaginations are used to level out hierarchies and detach epistemic roles from their contexts to reinstate a superior self into interpretative power. The counter-knowledge order’s inherent construction of unwarranted omnipotence points to a more fundamental resistance to the established normative orders of our society that should be addressed more effectively if we want to be prepared for future crises and not lose common ground for making sense of them.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-03-01T06:55:22Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241231593
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- Book review: William Simpson, Capital, Commodity, and English Language
Teaching-
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Authors: Alberto Bruzos
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-02-27T09:34:58Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265241234173
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- Levelling, differentiation and structure of feeling: Address and
interlocutor reference in Indonesian political interviews-
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Authors: Dwi Noverini Djenar
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article discusses the ways in which participants in Indonesian political interviews address and refer to each other. Drawing on Raymond Williams’s concept ‘structures of feeling’, it proposes levelling and differentiation as mechanisms by which interview participants orient to a common feeling. Levelling and differentiation form a dialectical process characterised by tension that emerges through positioning of the self and the addressee relative to social categories and social orders. Such positioning involves exploiting the semantic contrast between kin terms, which denote relationality, and pronouns, which individuate, in addition to mobilising other linguistic resources including names and titles. The article suggests that the differentiation made between how those in the highest office and politicians below them are addressed and referred to is indexical of a shared consciousness about the relevance of rank.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-02-23T09:01:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265231226231
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- Book review: Joseph Comer, Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the
Mediatization of Equality-
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Authors: Maureen Kosse
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-02-12T03:28:27Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265231220896
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- Book review: Robert Poole, Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics
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Authors: Ivy Gilbert
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-02-06T04:45:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265231219341
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- Speech act of flaming: A pragmatic analysis of Twitter trolling in
Pakistan-
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Authors: Kiran Rabbani, Muhammad Asim Mehmood, Areej Areej
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This study analyzed twitter trolling as a speech act of flaming. Trolling are deliberate disruptive practices of individuals or of particular group to sensationalize, commoditize, or intensify the reaction in online communication. Twitter API account was used to collect the tweets generated in Pakistan in English. The tweets were manually annotated with the help of a framework proposed by the Nitin, et al., 2011. and Lingam in UAM corpus tool. The finding revealed that tweets are trolled to flame by criticizing, name-calling, speculating, defaming, and degrading. The direct or intentional flaming showed derogatory behavior based on assumptions and aimed at inciting degenerative polarized responses. Moreover, this study also implies that there are serious moral and social implications of Twitter trolling.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-02-06T03:51:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265231222589
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- To share vulnerability is to show strength: A discursive study of
self-disclosure by Chinese cancer patients on short-form video platforms-
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Authors: Yue Zhao, Yansheng Mao, Shuang Wei
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
The widely-used social media have offered Chinese cancer patients online sites for self-disclosure. Collecting self-disclosing discourses from 200 Chinese cancer patients on TikTok and SnackVideo, this study systematically analyzes the discursive strategies employed by Chinese cancer patients and their emotions expressed during self-disclosure, with the help of NVivo 12 and LIWC 2015. As a result, it is found that: (1) Chinese cancer patients display self-disclosure oriented toward facts, relationships, desires, and experiences discursively; (2) Chinese cancer patients showed a higher proportion of positive emotions than negative emotions, with female patients being more conservative and stable than their male counterparts when disclosing positive emotions. To some extent, the findings above would shed insights into the provision of psychologically inclusive support for the cancer patients in Chinese culture and beyond.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-02-02T09:37:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265231225434
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- Book review: Raili Marling and Marko Pajević, Care, Control and COVID-19.
Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature-
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Authors: Andrey Makarychev
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-01-31T07:43:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265231219340
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- Understanding emotions in hate speech: A methodology for discourse
analysis-
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Authors: Manuel Alcántara-Plá
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
In recent years, emotions have been receiving considerable attention in discourse analysis, identified as a defining feature of contemporary political discourses. However, most of the previous studies in the field have focused on the categorization of emotions and on how these are present in texts. This approach fails if we want to understand the mechanisms that underpin the relevance of emotions in political discourse, because emotion categories do not tell us much about how and why an emotion is constructed as such. The purpose of this article is to propose a new framework for a more comprehensive analysis drawing upon previous studies on emotions from sociocognitive and constructivist perspectives. Taking into account that emotions are constructed by the addressee -and not by the speaker or the discourse itself-, I present a methodological approach that includes all the elements in play when an emotion arises. Example analysis of hate speech messages are provided to show the contributions that can be made to discourse analysis using this method.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-01-29T04:41:19Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265231222013
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- Book review: Montesano Montessori N, Farrelly M and Mulderrig J (eds.),
Critical Policy Discourse Analysis-
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Authors: Michael Kranert
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-01-08T06:53:04Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265231214106
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- Toward integrative triangulation in discourse-historical approach
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Authors: Xuri Tang, Jing Li
Abstract: Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This paper proposes a novel mode of Discourse-Historical Approach that features integrative triangulation of quantitative and qualitative analyses. The integrative triangulation is achieved by following a rule-bound and systematic discourse analytic procedure with rules derived from a diachronic discourse model that is constructed by explicating premises in the Discourse-Historical Approach, and by using data-driven inductive inference with three supra-lexical quantifiable components – propositions, sinsign topics, and discursive strategies. The case study with American identity construction as the macro-topic and the U.S. presidential inaugural addresses as the discourse corpus shows that the integrative mode produces explicit and sufficient evidence that not only complements, validates, and expands existent findings, but also reveals novel insights on the macro-topic, proving that integrative triangulation of quantitative and qualitative analyses promotes credibility, explicitness, transparency, and replicability in the Discourse-Historical Approach.
Citation: Discourse & Society
PubDate: 2024-01-03T05:00:48Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265231215473
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