Page v Tuesday‚ May 8‚ 2007 6:13 PM Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Notes on the Contributors viii List of Abbreviations xi 1 Politicizing Gender in Discourse: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as Political Perspective and Praxis Michelle M. Lazar Part I 1 Post-Equality? Analyses of Subtle Sexism 2 Power and Discourse at Work: Is Gender Relevant? Janet Holmes 31 3 The Gender of Power: The Female Style in Labour Organizations Luisa Martín Rojo and Concepción Gómez Esteban 61
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Critical Discourse Analysis on Political Texts Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis (hereafter abbreviated as CDA) concerns power relationships between language and society. Meanwhile‚ politics have influence in many facets around the society. Presenting samples of political texts collected‚ this paper aims at analyzing the power relationships in political texts with CDA. 1. Introduction CDA can be summarized as a study of language use through discourse as well as social problems‚ revealing
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Critical discourse analysis‚ organizational discourse‚ and organizational change A realist view of discourse analysis Discourses is an element of all concrete social events (actions‚ processes) as well as of more durable social practices‚ though neither are simply discourse: they are articulations of discourse with non-discoursal elements. ‘Discourse’ subsumes language as well as other forms of semiosis such as visual images and ‘body language’‚ and the discoursal element of a social event often
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18 Critical Discourse Analysis TEUN A. VAN DIJK 0 Introduction: What Is Critical Discourse Analysis? Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse‚ dominance‚ and inequality are enacted‚ reproduced‚ and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context. With such dissident research‚ critical discourse analysts take explicit position‚ and thus want to understand‚ expose‚ and ultimately resist social inequality
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MLK/Obama Comparative Essay On September 18‚ 1963‚ in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ tragedy struck Sixteenth Street Baptist Church when a bomb planted in the basement detonated and killed four young teenage girls‚ who were changing into choir robes. Nearly 50 years later‚ a similar tragedy occurred in Newtown‚ Connecticut. Twenty-six were shot multiple times at Sandy Hook Elementary school‚ 20 of those killed victims being kindergarteners. After the bombing‚ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a public eulogy
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Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez indicted on murder‚ weapons charges By Graham Winch‚ HLNtv.com‚ and Susan Candiotti and Laura Dolan‚ CNN updated 8:04 AM EDT‚ Fri August 23‚ 2013 (HLNtv.com) -- A Bristol County‚ Massachusetts‚ grand jury indicted former NFL player Aaron Hernandez on a first-degree murder charge and five weapons charges Thursday. Hernandez‚ a former New England Patriots tight end‚ is charged in connection with the slaying of his friend‚ Odin Lloyd‚ 27. Prosecutors say Hernandez‚ 23
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doi:10.4304/tpls.4.6.1178-1187 Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama ’s 2012 Speeches: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetoric Bahram Kazemian Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Somayyeh Hashemi Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Abstract—In the light of Halliday ’s Ideational Grammatical Metaphor‚ Rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis‚ the major objectives of this study
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J Y V Ä S K Y L Ä S T U D I E S I N H U M A N I T I E S 194 Jari K. Kokkinen Racial Discourse in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie (1964): Drama and the Hegemonic Struggle JYVÄSKYLÄ STUDIES IN HUMANITIES 194 Jari K. Kokkinen Racial Discourse in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie (1964): drama and the hegemonic struggle Esitetään Jyväskylän yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan suostumuksella julkisesti tarkastettavaksi yliopiston vanhassa juhlasalissa S212
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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS To truly understand what discourse analysis is‚ it is important to first understand what discourse is. There are three ways in which we can describe discourse; each of which are of equal importance: Firstly‚ discourse can be described as language beyond the level of the sentence. By this we mean that it is a type of language that extends past features such as sounds (phonetics)‚ structures (syntax) and the parts that make up words (morphology). The second description
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discourse analysis Discourse Analysis A discourse is behavioral unit. It is a set of utterances which constitute a recognizable speech event e.g. a conversation‚ a joke‚ a sermon‚ an interview etc. In its historical and etymological perspective the term is used in different perspectives e.g. Verbal communication. All this fine talk. Direct / indirect speech. To chat. In order to narrow down the range of possible meanings‚ the
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