CHAPTER 2 THEORITICAL FOUNDATION 2.1 Critical Discourse Analysis To understand the concept of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), it is necessary to see how CDA defines discourse. Discourse is not simply an isolated textual or dialogical structure (van Dijk, 1988). It is seen as socially constructed ways that do not only shape but also enable (social) reality (Foucault, 1977; Paltridge, 2006). It involves “a dialectical relationship between a particular discursive event and the situation(s), institution(s)
situated context. Thus, the book is concerned with cultural praxis within the context of religious discourses about wealth and piety. As a piece of ethnography, the work is competent, but draws little attention to the classic anthropological methodology of participant observation, characterized by long-term engagement with local cultural practices. Instead the claims made are gathered through an analysis of publications and dialogues within the Thailand Buddhist community, mostly centered on a
Critical Discourse Analysis Levels of analysis This phrase is applied to social sciences to point to the location, size or scale of a research target. It is unique from the term ‘unit of observation” as the former relates to an integrated set of relationships while the latter is about the distinct unit from which data will be gathered. The levels of analysis are not mutually exclusive but an in critical discuss analysis research generally falls under micro level and the macro level of analysis. Macro
theoretical frames were discussed in this chapter. 1.1. Postcolonialism: Terminology and theories 1.1.1. Terminology Postcolonialism is an investigative disciplinary in literal and cultural studies. The term postcolonial suggests an optimistic stand point relative to the project of political, military, economic, pedagogical and ideological domination over one culture or people by another. It also suggests that the colonial period has ended
valued above detailed and retrospective analysis. Hoskins states that the emphasis on the present or recent past only increased with the sheer number of journalists, also allowing for the embedding of many media networks and their ability to broadcast live pictures simultaneously the using split frames and multiple windows on-screen, may serve to prevent channel switching, but works against a coherent understanding of war. Hoskins also uses a type of frame analysis to demonstrate how the ‘media template’
"The Discourse of the Veil" Ahmed examines Amin’s recommendations regarding women and formed part of his thesis and how/why he believed that unveiling was key to the social transformation, which is important for unraveling the significance of the debate that his book provoked (Ahmed, 145). Ahmed discusses the origins and history as an idea of the veil which informs Western colonial discourse and 20th century-Arabic debate have several implications. The first implication is the evident connection
Harris and Scott on Gender Issues Abstract Drawing on Joan Scott's "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis" and on Alice Kessler-Harris's "Just price, Free Market and the Value of Women", the following questions will be answered, How has the 'equality' of women and men been expressed according to both Scott and Kessler-Harris? Why 'gender' has become a "useful category of historical analysis" for historians? How different (other) historians view 'gender'? What are Kessler-Harris's views
In 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States made a historical decision of legalizing same-sex marriage all across the nation, after years of social, political, and cultural mobilizations of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and allies. However, this achievement is not an end it itself. Leaders of the marriage equality movement, as well as community members, ask: Now what? This proposed project attempts to provide an answer for this question by looking at
My study proposes to examine the New York Times sports pages between 1997 and 2017 as a way of testing some ideas about the nature of the changes in the discourse about baseball as that discourse has evolved over the last 20 years. Although these ideas did not necessarily take hold in professional baseball circles until the 21st century, outsiders like Bill James have been promoting non-traditional baseball statistics as
endorse the notion of a common European historical memory. The main institutions that have dealt with the issue are the European Council, European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education and the Directorate-General for Internal Policies. First I shall discuss the reasons behind the necessity for a “historical memory” in the European context. I will then give an overview of current European Union practices on establishing a pan-European historical memory and of the existing political initiatives