Critical Discourse–Ethnographic Approaches to Language Policy

Wodak, Ruth; Savski, Kristof

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“…When exploring the reality, the society organises its own communicative sphere, giving rise to various genres of discourses. "Each genre… is a complex system of means and ways to consciously master the reality" [6], "over hundreds of years of their history, genres are accumulating the forms of appreciation and interpretation of some aspects of the universe" [7].…”

Section: Discourse and Media Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Communicative Strategies of Social Media Discourse

Klemenova

Ereshchenko

2020

E3S Web Conf.

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We have attempted to analyse the features of communicative strategies of a media discourse. The paper describes the notions of “discourse”, “media discourse”, “social media discourse”, and “communicative strategies”. The research is performed using the social media texts collected by the authors. Up to date no linguistic investigations of communicative strategies used in social media discourse have been conducted. We have focused on news texts from information, news, educational, and entertaining platforms, in social networks. The most important thing is to identify the ways of communicative strategies generation and the methods of their association in a social media discourse. The article shows some typical features of a social media discourse. The subject of the research is a set of communicative strategies used during implementation of the communicative functions of texts. The purpose of the paper is to identify and organise communicative strategies, the characteristics of their use depending on the social text topic, and to review the impact of such a text. The main aim of the research is to study the social media discourse as one type of an institutional media discourse; to identify and describe the factors impacting its formation.

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Section: Discourse and Media Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Communicative Strategies of Social Media Discourse

Klemenova

Ereshchenko

2020

E3S Web Conf.

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“…After transcribing the interview data, the research team divided it into different categories using the three-stage systematic analysis (Clarke, 2005;Thornberg & Charmaz, 2014;Wodak & Savski, 2018). We analyzed the data line by line, according to the importance of each word (Thornberg & Charmaz, 2014;Wodak & Savski, 2018). In the first stage, all interview transcripts were reviewed and examined for open coding to trace similarities and differences.…”

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“…This interdisciplinary technique uses perspectives from discourse studies (Barker & Galasiński, 2007;Fairclough, 1992;Halliday, 1994) and ethnography (Agar, 1986;Canagarajah, 1993;Fabian, 1983;Kirk & Miller, 1986). In discourse, this study accepts that language users establish social realities, identities, and relations in interacting with other social groups (Fairclough, 1992;Wodak & Savski, 2018). This connection helps us to portray discourses between language and social control through power (Wodak & Savski, 2018).…”

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Multilingual Language Practices in Education in Pakistan: The Conflict Between Policy and Practice

2021

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This study examines the language practices in educational settings in Pakistan, taking the multilingual groupings in society into account. In Pakistan, each province is linked to the single or multiple identities of its people and the languages spoken by the majority. The national language Urdu is limited to educational settings and its function as a lingua franca. English serves people in authority, in offices, and in educational settings. Through discourse-ethnographic analysis, this study examines the individual and joint actions of policymakers and teachers to understand the role of language in educational policy and its practice in educational settings. The interview data identified issues regarding the relationship between language, identity, nation, region, religion, power, and personal attainment in regional, national, and international settings. Moreover, the power of national education policy to produce adequate results is limited by the regional discourses that policymakers ignore. This study concludes by arguing that policy practices for language-in-education in multilingual societies require thoughtful planning which should be informed by local conditions and requirements for its better implementation.

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“…CDA has been used widely to analyze social processes through language, including critical policy studies, health policy research, and education policy studies (Evans-Agnew et al, 2016;Fairclough, 2013;Lester et al, 2016). Wodak and Savski (2018) argue that the use of critical ethnography and CDA are relevant in current analysis of language policy. Johnson (2014) further argues that CDA actually produces a better understanding of language policy.…”

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confidence: 99%

Making it official: The institutionalization of the hegemony of English

Nieto

2021

EPAA

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Drawing upon Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as theoretical framework and methodological tool, the present paper critically examines the legislation that has established English as official language in 30 states. This study captures the motivation and rationale of the policies, their stated outcomes and educational implications. The analysis situates the discourse embedded in official language policies within its socio-historical context and the conceptualization of race and language in the US. The results indicate that official English legislation responds to a conservative raciolinguistic ideology that seeks to reaffirm the hegemony of English as a mechanism of internal colonization. Official English attempts to establish monolingual educational and governmental practices that serve as an instrument to protect the status quo and, thus, perpetuate the privilege of whiteness and the subordination of immigrants, and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).

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Critical Discourse–Ethnographic Approaches to Language Policy

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Communicative Strategies of Social Media Discourse

Communicative Strategies of Social Media Discourse

Multilingual Language Practices in Education in Pakistan: The Conflict Between Policy and Practice

Making it official: The institutionalization of the hegemony of English

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