Critical discourse analysis

. . some groups in society are privileged over others, and this privilege leads to differential access to services, good and outcomes. Halliday’s theory of systematic functional linguistics informed CDA by emphasizing “language as a meaning making process” and transforming the theory to emphasize “on how language as a cultural tool mediates relationships of power and privilege in social interactions, institutions, and bodies of knowledge (Rogers, Malancharuvil-Berkes, Mosley, Hui, & Joseph, 2005). Moreover, CDA aims to find out “unequal relations of power” and “to reveal the role of discourse in reproducing or challenging socio-political dominance” (Garret & Bell, 1998). Fairclough and Wodak (1997) provide another definition of CDA that is popular among…

of great importance both to them and to the country by contributing to the discourses that may shape their nation’s future. There was no risk to participants as the survey and the interviews were conducted anonymously and therefore any potentially sensitive data is not attributable to persons who responded to the survey. The research did not involve any significant…

study is to conduct an analysis of the linguistic features that are characteristic of police statement with women reporting rape cases. This study particularly focuses on the ways in which the victims are linguistically characterized by police officers who are in charge of conducting the victim’s initial complaints. For the analysis, the Critical Discourse Analysis approach was used in the determination of the characteristics of language used by the law enforcement officer, which concerns with…

Option 2 There are different ways through which questions of language and power can be looked at. First, the concepts of language and power can be looked at through analysis of the power play within institutional contexts such as the legal institution (Eades 2006) and the medical institution (Crawford 1999). Language can also be discussed in the context of gender and sexuality. Cameron (2005) points out that when looking at socialization, gender linguistic behavior and gender identities are…

project is discourse analysis. Such methodological approach to the subject of this dissertation, FCKH8.com’s viral activity, would allow me to view the processes that allow the company to construct the identity of an activist-minded ethical consumer amongst their audience. The unity of commercially driven strategy and strife for “good cause” is observed to be a relatively new phenomenon in consumer culture, and the analysed material, being rather explicit and direct in its form of expression, is…

family-community-school partnerships and the experiences that shape People of Color within the community. This essay conceptualizes the value of community cultural wealth for People of Color within the intersections of family-community-school partnerships, through the lens of critical race theory, while incorporating racial microaggressions as a primary factor and employing recommendations for improving this epidemic plaguing our society. Historical Context of Racial Inequalities The issues…

I am applying to York’s Education: Language, Culture and Teaching program to further investigate the role of social pathologies, structural-pedagogical policy frameworks, and the consequential affective and behavioural developments in reaction to (cyber)bullying. Potential supervisors whose current research areas of interest coincide with my intentions are: Professor Sue Winton and Professor Lisa Farley. Professor Sue Winton’s incentive towards policy-making expounds my interests in the…

Methods Section Paper: Discourse Analysis Introduction Traditional forms of mass media, such as print newspapers and broadcast television, were among the first to adopt digital opportunities afforded by the advent of the internet. The first online newspaper appeared in 1980, the same year the first successful personal computer was developed. By the mid-1990s, most news media had a digital presence, with many offering 24-hour access to content. When smartphones grew in popularity, news media were…

Fairclough’s (1995) “Discourse and Social Change” book) 1) Text: The first level of discourse analysis is based on written or spoken text (Fairclough 1995). In this level the researcher identify actually about what the text represent. In this stage the analysis is descriptive, in many ways, the text is described as a form of linguistic analysis, in which usually searching for vocabularies (metaphore, lexical choice), grammar (transitivity, passive and active voice), structure etc… (Fairclough…

bylaw since it is prohibitive to produce, store or sell medical marijuana anywhere in the municipality. Two articles are compared under the logic that Delta Optimist is owned by glacier media, whereas The Leader is under Black Press’s control. From what I have learned in assignment 1, two presses control the majority of the newspaper titles and the power is divided geographically. The fact that two newspaper titles are owned by different newspaper chains may reflect different ideologies…