A critical discourse analysis of the debates between Republicans and Democrats over the continuation of war in Iraq

Rashidi, Nasser; Souzandehfar, Marzieh

doi:10.29302/jolie.2010.3.4

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“…(The Nation: Response to India) Editorials from the Pakistani side used the strategy, i.e., Example/Illustration, because examples have more emotional impact, so they are more persuasive. Every group, according to their ideologies, gives illustrations (Rashidi & Souzandehfar, 2010). In the examples given below, once again, India is being illustrated negatively that it is not the first time that she is blaming Pakistan (us-group) for the Pulwama attack, such allegations Pakistan has already faced in Uri attack in 2016.…”

Section: Negative Other Presentationmentioning

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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Discursive Reproduction of Ideologies in Pakistani and Indian Press Media in the Aftermath of Pulwama Attack

Khan

Rahman

Sajid

2020

GSSR

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The present study, based on Van Dijk (2005) ideological square model, aims to show how the two countries, i.e., Pakistan and India, represent each other through their newspaper's discourse. Using Van Dijk's (2005) framework (positive self-presentation, negative other-presentation) for discourse analysis, this study examines linguistic features in fifty editorials of three Pakistani and three Indian English newspapers. The aforementioned model adopted from Politics, Ideology and Discourse is used to detect discursive structures within editorials and to discover the hidden ideologies. Besides, the researchers have used different discursive strategies such as actor description, euphemism, evidentiality etc., for microanalysis. Moreover, the macro analysis has been done by using the macro strategies, i.e., positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation. The study revealed that Pakistani editorials used micro strategies more than that Indians. The study also revealed that Pakistani editorials relied mostly on positive self-presentation, while Indian editorials focused on negative other-presentation.

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Section: Negative Other Presentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Discursive Reproduction of Ideologies in Pakistani and Indian Press Media in the Aftermath of Pulwama Attack

Khan

Rahman

Sajid

2020

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“…Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is mainly concerned 'with analyzing opaque as well as transparent structural relationships of dominance, discrimination, power and control as manifested in language' (Reisigl and Wodak, 2009). Commenting on the efficiency of CDA, Rashidi and Souzandehfar (2010) remark that CDA is the right place to perform autopsy on discourse, either written or spoken, so as to uncover the ideologies underlying it. For its suitability, van Dijk's (2004) model of CDA is adopted for analysis in this study.…”

Section: Theoretical and Analytical Tools: Van Dijk's Critical Discoumentioning

confidence: 99%

Ideologies and Impoliteness Strategies in Online Ethno-Religious Conflict Among Nigerians

Ajayi

Bamgbose

2019

Ghana J. Ling.

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Nigeria is a multilingual country comprising peoples of different ethnic, political and religious inclinations, hence the incessant ethno-religious conflicts that lace her trajectory. Different scholarly works have examined ethno-religious conflict in the Nigerian space from the religious, sociological, historical and political perspectives. However, little attention has been given to the phenomenon from the linguistic perspective. This study, therefore, drawing inputs from van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis and Culpeper's Impoliteness Theory, investigates how Nigerians deploy language in engaging in ethno-religious conflict as evident in their online comments on issues of national interest in the country. Different online comments and reactions of Nigerians to four recent national issues-Apostle Suleman's alleged 'sex scandal', the Southern Kaduna killings in Kaduna, the Yoruba-Hausa crisis in Ife, Osun State, and the issues surrounding the arrest, detention and clamour for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, a strong agitator for the Biafra State, as reported by three online platforms, Sahara Reporters, Vanguard Newspaper and Nairaland.com are purposively selected as data for this study. The findings of the study reveal elements of they (them) versus we (us) ideology and different forms of impoliteness strategies permeate the discourse of online ethno-religious conflict among Nigerians. This is a development that portends a bad omen for the continued peace and unity of the country.

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“…There was also, the use of "these" in reference to Facebook as a tool "we didn't do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm ..."). It could be an attempt to create a distance, a polarisation (Rashidi & Souzandehfar, 2010), between the people of Facebook and their creation, casting suspicion over the legitimacy of its ownership.…”

Section: Legitimacy Of the Senate Speechmentioning

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Context-Aware Technology Public Discourses and (Un)-informed Use: The Case of Users in a Developing Country

Barrett

Matthee

2019

SACJ

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There is a move towards a future in which consumers of technology are untethered from the devices and technology use becomes subliminal. With this increasing device opacity, loss of user control and increasing device autonomy, there are calls for more research on users' privacy and freedom of choice. There are, however, key figures in the creation of modern technologies who suggest that consumers are informed of the implications of the use of these technologies or, that consumers use the technologies willingly. This paper examines, using Critical Discourse Analysis, two genres of IT-related communication viz. a speech made by the CEO of Facebook, the largest social-networking site and, the privacy policy document of Truecaller, said to be the most-downloaded app in Africa. Furthermore, 25 Sub-Saharan African users were interviewed on their use and understanding of smartphones. The analysis reveals concerns of consumers regarding the absence of choice, a lack of knowledge and information privacy erosion are not unfounded. The results show also that with the speech and policy document alike, there was information that was distorted or omitted. The conclusion was that the discourses surrounding context-awareness, through confusion, misrepresentations, false assurances and illegitimacy, contribute to information imbalances and asymmetry but most importantly, an uninformed consumer.

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A critical discourse analysis of the debates between Republicans and Democrats over the continuation of war in Iraq

Cited by 30 publications

References 32 publications

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Discursive Reproduction of Ideologies in Pakistani and Indian Press Media in the Aftermath of Pulwama Attack

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Discursive Reproduction of Ideologies in Pakistani and Indian Press Media in the Aftermath of Pulwama Attack

Ideologies and Impoliteness Strategies in Online Ethno-Religious Conflict Among Nigerians

Context-Aware Technology Public Discourses and (Un)-informed Use: The Case of Users in a Developing Country

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