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The Turn to Anzac: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prime Ministerial Anzac Entrepreneurship, 1972-2007
Australian Prime Ministers in the 1970s and early 1980s did not incorporate Anzac into their discourse of national identity. However, since 1990 Australian Prime Ministers and their governments have increasingly engaged with Anzac in a manner that has supplanted the traditional role of the Returned and Services League as custodians and drivers of Anzac. This has involved them consistently giving Anzac Day addresses during the last twenty-five years, both at home and at significant sites of Australian war remembrance overseas. But this has not always been the case. Prime Ministerial engagement with Anzac in the past was primarily as a participant, not as a custodian, and was more sporadic, more suburban, and less spectacular. The thesis explains this shift by tracing the increasing use of Anzac discourse by Australian Prime Ministers from 1972-2007. It will be argued that these Australian Prime Ministers have increasingly shown âAnzac entrepreneurshipâ â successfully identifying the publicâs desire to engage with Anzac and facilitating Anzacâs resurgence by employing the power resources of the state in order to amplify Anzac. Critical discourse analysis is adopted to analyse the integration of Anzac discourse into Prime Ministerial language. Such an approach points to the socially embedded nature of language, whilst simultaneously analysing the linguistic construction of this language. The thesis identifies that Prime Ministers have engaged with Anzac in order to both constitutively renovate Anzac as a central Australian identity and for instrumental policy ends. These twin developments have pertained especially to the processes of domestic economic reform in a globalising world and the deployment of Australian troops during the War on Terror. Such a study is important, as recent scholarly interest in Australian politiciansâ role in the resurgence of Anzac from political scientists and historians has not seen systematic investigation of Prime Ministerial Anzac Day addresses that analyses the evolution of these addresses over time or closely examines their language on a sustained basis
'Pauper aliens' and 'political refugees':A corpus linguistic approach to the language of migration in nineteenth-century newspapers
The widespread digitisation of their source base means that historians now face an overwhelming body of material. This historical âbig dataâ is only going to continue to expand, not just because digitisation features prominently on the agendas of institutions, but also because those studying late twentieth, and twenty-first century, history will have to deal with large quantities of âborn digitalâ material as they turn their gaze to the internet age. Although the interfaces currently used to access digital sources have their strengths, there is an increasing need for more effective ways for historians to work with large amounts of text. This thesis is one of the first studies to explore the potential of corpus linguistics, the computer-assisted analysis of language in very large bodies of text, as a means of approaching the ever-expanding historical archive. This thesis uses corpus linguistics to examine the representation of migrants in the British Libraryâs nineteenth-century newspaper collection, focusing specifically upon the discourses associated with âaliensâ and ârefugeesâ, and how they changed over time. The nineteenth century saw an increase in global movement, which led to considerable legislative changes, including the development of many of Britainâs present-day migration controls. This thesis finds that âalienâ migration increased in topicality in the 1880s and 1890s and that âalienâ saw a striking shift in its associations that, significantly, coincided with an increase in, predominantly Jewish, migrants from the Russian Empire. Although only a small proportion of Britainâs âalienâ population, this group dominated newspaper reporting, which became characterised by increasingly negative language, including a strong association between the âalienâ and poverty. Although ârefugeeâ was often associated with more positive language than âalienâ, this thesis finds that the actions of a small number of violent individuals influenced newspaper reporting upon political refugees, who became implicated in the alleged âabuseâ of the âright of asylumâ
Go home? the politics of immigration controversies
"The 2013 Go Home vans marked a turning point in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate control and toughness on immigration. In this study, the authors explore the effects of this toughness: on policy, public debate, pro-migrant and anti-racist activism, and on the everyday lives of people in Britain. Bringing together an authorial team of eight respected social researchers, alongside the voices of community organisations, policy makers, migrants and citizens, and with an afterword by journalist Kiri Kankhwende, this is an important intervention in one of the most heated social issues of our time.
Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic
Stranger Citizens examines how foreign migrants who resided in the United States gave shape to citizenship in the decades after American independence in 1783. During this formative time, lawmakers attempted to shape citizenship and the place of immigrants in the new nation, while granting the national government new powers such as deportation.
John McNelis O\u27Keefe argues that despite the challenges of public and official hostility that they faced in the late 1700s and early 1800s, migrant groups worked through lobbying, engagement with government officials, and public protest to create forms of citizenship that worked for them. This push was made not only by white men immigrating from Europe; immigrants of color were able to secure footholds of rights and citizenship, while migrant women asserted legal independence, challenging traditional notions of women\u27s subordination.
Stranger Citizens emphasizes the making of citizenship from the perspectives of migrants themselves, and demonstrates the rich varieties and understandings of citizenship and personhood exercised by foreign migrants and refugees. O\u27Keefe boldly reverses the top-down model wherein citizenship was constructed only by political leaders and the courts.https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/opentextbooks/1007/thumbnail.jp
WRITING UTOPIA NOW: Utopian Poetics In The Work Of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
This thesis examines Theresa Hak Kyung Chaâs DICTEE (1982), Audience Distant Relative (1977) and ReveillĂ© dans la Brume (Awakened in the Mist) (1977). The premise of the thesis is an exploration of the various ways in which these works both
perform and gesture toward the possibility of a âutopianâ experience of nonalienation. In Chaâs vocabulary, this takes the form of âinterfusionâ and is related to the role of the artist as alchemist. Cha employs formal and linguistic innovations in her text, mail art and performance works to invite active participation from her readers and audience in a gesture toward embodied intersubjectivity. Her grappling with the challenges relating to the articulation of subjectivity place her work at the centre of contemporary critical debates around subjectivity and innovative poetics. In particular, recent scholarship on race and the poetic avant-garde has called for cross-disciplinary approaches to reading DICTEE as a text that explores the intersections of subjectivity and its performance in contemporary innovative poetics. Developing a theory of Utopian Poetics from my reading of Ernst Blochâs utopian philosophy, I explore the ways in which DICTEE and Chaâs other works perform a yearning for non-alienated subjectivity that remains necessarily open and incomplete.
My reading of DICTEE, in particular, is primarily informed by my own practices of yoga and meditation, and these practices form the basis of both my scholarly and creative engagements with this research. This scholarly thesis comprises Part 1 of a two-part submission. Part 2 comprises my own creative experiments with UtopianPoetics
Stranger Citizens
"Stranger Citizens examines how foreign migrants who resided in the United States gave shape to citizenship in the decades after American independence in 1783. During this formative time, lawmakers attempted to shape citizenship and the place of immigrants in the new nation, while granting the national government new powers such as deportation.
John McNelis O'Keefe argues that despite the challenges of public and official hostility that they faced in the late 1700s and early 1800s, migrant groups worked through lobbying, engagement with government officials, and public protest to create forms of citizenship that worked for them. This push was made not only by white men immigrating from Europe; immigrants of color were able to secure footholds of rights and citizenship, while migrant women asserted legal independence, challenging traditional notions of women's subordination.
Stranger Citizens emphasizes the making of citizenship from the perspectives of migrants themselves, and demonstrates the rich varieties and understandings of citizenship and personhood exercised by foreign migrants and refugees. O'Keefe boldly reverses the top-down model wherein citizenship was constructed only by political leaders and the courts.
Thanks to generous funding from the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot and the Mellon Foundation the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other Open Access repositories.
Face threats in interpreting : a pragmatic study of plenary debates in the European Parliament
This monograph focuses on pragmatic aspects of simultaneous interpreting, and is
therefore intended both for translation scholars and for linguists interested in interlingual
transfer of pragmatic meaning. Efforts have been made to avoid dense, strictly
scientific language and the use of unexplained specialist terminology in the hope that
the book might also appeal to practicing interpreters and interpreter trainees, although
it should be noted that its character is descriptive rather than prescriptive. The main
problem under discussion is how simultaneous interpreters handle face-threatening
acts and impoliteness directed by politicians at their opponents, and the authentic
material under analysis comes from plenary debates of the European Parliament,
which are routinely interpreted into all the official languages of the European Union.
Chapters 1â4 are meant to set the scene. Chapter 1 presents the European Union
as a multilingual institution, with a special focus on its translation and interpreting
services. Chapter 2 zooms in on the latter, considering such features of plenary debates
of the European Parliament that have direct consequences for interpreting, and also
including an overview of existing research on interpreting for the needs of various
EU bodies. Chapter 3 provides the pragmatic background to the study, shedding light
especially on the crucial notions of âface,â âfacework,â âface-threatening actsâ and
âimpoliteness,â while Chapter 4 reviews existing research on facework performed by
interpreters in various settings and interpreting modes.
The authorâs empirical contribution is presented in Chapter 5, which scrutinises
Polish interpretations of British Euroscepticsâ plenary speeches, in particular ones that
fiercely attack and possibly offend the speakersâ political opponents. Five speeches
undergo detailed discourse analysis covering all identifiable aspects of facework as
performed by the original speaker and the interpreter, whereas a considerably larger
corpus of source texts and the corresponding interpretations is analysed both qualitatively
and quantitatively in terms of personal reference and impoliteness. The interpretations
are searched, first and foremost, for signs of interpreting strategies at play
during transfer of face-threatening input. Many of these strategies result in mitigation
of the originally intended impoliteness. Chapter 6 develops this topic, endeavouring
to find multifarious explanations of the pronounced trend towards mitigation by the
interpreter within the wide framework of modern translation studies. Both this chapter
and the final conclusions devote much attention to avenues for future research that
would offer some possibilities of triangulating and complementing the results of the
present study
Representations of Iran(ians) in Mainstream European News Sites
What role do media play in promoting or impeding intercultural understanding and international relations in times of conflict? With this question in mind, Leyla's research focuses on Iran's coverage in three mainstream European media during a period marked by tensions at home and abroad. Adopting Critical Discourse Analysis as theory and method, the study examines articles published on selected British, French, and German news sites juxtaposed with their attached comments, with the aim of contributing to scholarly work on cross-national comparative examination of foreign news coverage and 'top-down' Othering in journalistic texts in addition to incorporating an investigation into non-institutional discourse and 'bottom-up' Self/Other representations in comment sections.Welche Rolle spielen die Medien bei der Förderung oder Behinderung der interkulturellen VerstĂ€ndigung und internationalen Beziehungen in Konfliktzeiten? Vor diesem Hintergrund konzentriert sich Leylas Forschung auf die Berichterstattung ĂŒber den Iran in drei europĂ€ischen Mainstream-Medien in einer Zeit, die von Spannungen im In- und Ausland geprĂ€gt war. Die Studie ĂŒbernimmt Kritische Diskursanalyse als Theorie und Praxis und untersucht Artikel, die auf ausgewĂ€hlten britischen, französischen und deutschen Nachrichtenseiten veröffentlicht wurden, und stellt sie den beigefĂŒgten Kommentaren gegenĂŒber, mit dem Ziel, einen Beitrag zu wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten zur grenzĂŒberschreitenden vergleichenden Untersuchung auslĂ€ndischer Berichterstattung zu leisten und âtop-downâ Othering in journalistischen Texten, zusĂ€tzlich zur Aufnahme einer Untersuchung des nicht-institutionellen Diskurses und âbottom-upâ-Selbst-/Andere-Darstellungen in Kommentarsektionen
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