Fundamentalist and tolerant islamic discourse in john updike’s terrorist and jonathan wright’s translation the televangelist: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of semantic prosody

This paper studies the core-identity of Al Mustafa (the chosen) in Gibran's book The Prophet (1923) as an individual property by investigating its discursive features as revealed in the words and deeds of the participants in the discourse. The study deals with how Gibran refers to the protagonist and how this portrayal reflects on the identity of the writer. It examines how the prophet refers to himself, his worries and needs, how the interlocutors address him in the discourse and finally how the telling of the on-going actions leads to the perception of Al-Mustafa as a prophetic figure. The results show that the source of the power of such a discursive identity is neither nature, nor certain established institutions, but the people of Orphalese themselves (the participants in the discourse), plus those readers of Gibran's book who discern a prophetic figure in his words. The process through which this power works is that of “recognition”, in that rational individuals recognise Al-Mustafa as a Prophet in the discourse. Such recognition is realised as an active “self-achievement” arising as a deserved property of the ways in which the prophet's words and deeds are recognised by his followers.

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 53%

Self-insertion as discursive and core-identity of Gibran's Al Mustafa

Al-Khazraji

2022

“…If the "Belt and Road" is the external cause of Yiwu's productions reputation abroad, the wisdom of Yiwu businessmen is the internal cause. With this modest wisdom, Yiwu, a rising modern town, will never end up playing a new role in the world pattern (Kholid, 2018;Othman, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

image construction of the City Yiwu in overseas media

Chen

Zhang

2022

Every year, hundreds of thousands of businessmen from all over the world flood into Yiwu, a small commodity town known as “The world's largest small commodity trading market.” As Yiwu’s slogan says, “ Buy from the world, and sell to the world.” This small town has been influencing the world using its own style. This paper extracted 1413 sentences from the Now Corpus using the keyword "Yiwu." We divided data into two time periods: 2010-2015 and 2016-2021, and made an in-depth analysis of Yiwu's overseas image with the change of timeline. The research results showed that with the gradual maturity of projects such as "China-Europe Freight Train" and "Yiwu Fair," Yiwu's oversea image has become more positive during these 12 years. Moreover, Yiwu has gradually become a modern city integrating with the world instead of a world-famous “Christmas factory." Importantly, residents of Yiwu have been influencing the world with their unique wisdom.

“…This reality was evidence that Buton kingdom did hegemony on Muna kingdom by the assistance of VOC/Dutch. La Ode Sirad Imbo (in the interview on 14 th December 2021) stated the kings of Muna in that period rejected loyal to the sultan of Buton, they preferred to resign from the position as the kings than to obey the sultans of Buton (Flowerdew, 1999;Othman, 2019;Putrayasa, 2017).…”

Section: Butonese People Extended a Warm Welcome And Committed Bilate...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Revealing misinterpretation on the meaning of Bharata for political target by Buton to four surrounding kingdoms in the 17th - 20th centuries

Aderlaepe

Ninsiana²,

Tambunan³

2023

Language is not only used as the means of communication, but also the device of achieving dominance. This article aims at describing and analyzing the real meaning of bharata and revealing misinterpretation on the meaning of bharata by Buton Kingdom for political dominance device on four surrounding kingdoms: Muna, Tiworo, Kaledupa, and Kulisusu in the 17th – 20th centuries. The study was designed descriptive qualitativey with four steps of framework: (1) exploring data, (2) data verification, (3) analysis, and (4) writing results of analysis. Data were analyzed by applying Wodak’s critical discourse analysis approach (CDA). Results of the analysis concluded the real meaning of bharata is “front area and center of battle”. The term of bharata was firstly acquainted by Laki Laponto, the king of Buton at the beginning of 16th century when he organized military alliance by involving the four surrounding kingdoms to face Ternate’s threaten. Since at the beginning of 17th century people of Butonese misinterpreted the meaning of bharata subjectively for political interest. Buton kingdom then established their misinterpretation instituonally and performed hegemony to the four surrounding kingdoms by the assistance of Dutch after welcoming and signing bilateral coalition with Dutch at the beginning of 17th century.