A Critical Discourse Analysis on Implicit Opinion of Russian Dissatisfaction Upon Putin Regime as Expressed in Article “the Civil Archipelago : How Far Can the Resistance to Vladimir Putin Go?”

This research discusses the implicit opinion about Russian people dissatisfaction upon Putin regime as expressed in article The Civil Archipelago: How Far Can the Resistance to Vladimir Putin Go? This article was published by an American popular mass media, The New Yorker. The main goal of this research is to uncover the hidden opinion that it is unable to emerge an ambiguous interpretation. The implicitness is analysed by using Potts's (2005) theory of Conventional Implicature. The domains used are Nominal Appositive and Supplementary Relative. In order to see the relationship between the implication and the ideological effect of mass media, a critical discourse analysis is applied as well. Namely by taking the socio-political relationship of Russia and US into account

Critical discourse analysis: Overview

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a young discipline has a history of only about three decades.postprin

(RE)-READING A KARTINI’S LETTER USING CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Discussing the ideas of Kartini through her collected letters has been done by many scholars. However, they usually come from non-linguistic domain. As a result, the power of language used by Kartini in expressing her ideas almost has not been analysed. This study aims to identify meanings produced in one of her letter. Using the critical discourse analysis approach, the analysis results that by means of her letter, Kartini criticised the custom of Bumiputera society, struggled againts the domination of the custom, and recieved ‘new’ ideology from Western society. The ways she represented the Bumiputera’s and Western’s custom result the way she constructed identities of herself and the others

Nursing care behaviour in interprofessional learning explained by critical discourse analysis

Aim: to demonstrate Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis as a way to understand nurse caring behaviour in asynchronous text-based interprofessional online learning within higher education. Background: asynchronous text-based learning experience of homogeneous nursing groups indicated nurse caring behaviour in a small number of studies. However, positive findings were not found in studies about interprofessional learning undertaken by nurses. Instead, nurses’ dominance which might be a result of professional boundaries was frequently reported as a barrier to interprofessional education, yet little is understood about the phenomenon. Design: a study which employed Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis was used to understand the translation of nurse caring behaviour in text-based online interprofessional learning within higher education. Data Source: the asynchronous online discussions produced by thirteen students undertaking an online interprofessional learning module at master’s level in a University in the North of England were the discourse data for analysis. Findings: By using Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, understanding of the semiotic categories corresponding to genres, discourses and styles yielded information on nurses’ discourse in online learning. Through appreciating the subliminal way in which these three categories relate to social practices and social events, the dialectical relations between semiosis of the online text and its other elements were made explicit. In doing so, the way nurse caring behaviour in interprofessional learning were translated in an asynchronous text-based learning environment was explained. Conclusions: Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis was useful in explaining how nurse caring attributes when displayed online could result in the interprofessional learning space being used as a platform for nurses and allied healthcare professionals to co-construct power-relations. The analysis required researchers’ tacit knowledge, based on an emic (insider) position in healthcare practice and education, which is closely linked to the power-relations that is entangled in the social order and practices in healthcare. This explains why researchers outside of critical discourse analytic work would hold a strong view for an etic (outsider) perspective in discourse analysis. In this regard, one should consider triangulating critical discourse methodology with other qualitative theoretical frameworks

Global capitalism and critical awareness of language.

As the shape of the new global social order becomes clearer, so too does the need for a critical awareness of language as part of language education. I discuss, with a focus on discourse, several key features of late modern society which help make the case for critical awareness of discourse: the relationship between discourse, knowledge and social change in our 'information' or 'knowledge-based' society; what Smith (1990) has called the 'textually-mediated' nature of contemporary social life; the relationship between discourse and social difference; the commodification of discourse; discourse and democracy. I then draw these together by tying the case for CLA to the nature of the new global capitalism, and conclude the paper with discussions of how CLA is anchored in 'critical discourse analysis' (and, through that, in critical social science generally), and of how the question of CLA is framed within the wider question of the nature and purposes of education

The study of metaphor as part of Critical Discourse Analysis

This article discusses how the study of metaphoric and more generally, figurative language use contributes to critical discourse analysis (CDA). It shows how cognitive linguists’ recognition of metaphor as a fundamental means of concept- and argument-building can add to CDA's account of meaning constitution in the social context. It then discusses discrepancies between the early model of conceptual metaphor theory and empirical data and argues that discursive-pragmatic factors as well as sociolinguistic variation have to be taken into account in order to make cognitive analyses more empirically and socially relevant. In conclusion, we sketch a modified cognitive approach informed by Relevance Theory within CDA

Chapter Three: Critical Discourse Analysis

The research is presented in five stages, each set as a chapter. The first chapter outlines a review of image studies conducted by various disciplines and an account of theoretical concepts useful in such a venture. The second chapter presents content analysis as a tool for image studies. Several techniques are exploited to study the media material and the results are discussed with a view of their suitability for the task of establishing the image of a country. The third chapter presents studies which apply Critical Discourse Analysis to media texts. The techniques are based on Systemic Functional Grammar. The Fourth Chapter shows corpus analysis and the contribution it gives to image studies. The Fifth Chapter draws the line summarising the contribution each of the proposed methods gives to establishing images and evaluates the methodology. Theoretically, the research is situated on the interface between Media Studies and Discourse Analysis. The concept of a country’s image created through media is very much within this theoretical domain. The object of the investigation is a medium and the tools are discourse analytical with reference to its critical dimension, inasmuch as the topic applies to a country which has been construed as a pariah on the international scene and issues of inequality and domination are expected