What CDA Is About – A Summary of Its History, Important Concepts and Its
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Wodak, Ruth

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“…I interpreted the interview material according to critical discourse analysis, which recognises that discourse 'constitutes situations, objects of knowledge, and the social identities of and relationships between people and groups of people' (Fairglough & Wodak, 1997, p. 258). It aims to investigate these social identities and relationships and the connection between language and power (Wodak, 2001). …”

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Spatial imaginaries and collective identity in women’s human rights struggles in Honduras

Jokela-Pansini

2016

Gender, Place & Culture

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In recent years, geographic analysis on social movements has emphasised the influence of actors' concepts, lived experiences, and perceptions of space on the emergence of collective action. Cultural approaches to social movements in Latin America as well as feminist scholarship have revealed that women's collective action is shaped by their perceptions of institutional and societal challenges, which are rooted in authoritarian and patriarchal culture prevalent in their society.This article combines geographic and cultural approaches to social movements as well as transnational feminist theories to explore women's human rights mobilisation in Honduras after the coup d'état in 2009. It investigates how a group of urban and rural activists that included feminists, rural women, students and community leaders, adopted human rights discourses and practices to respond to the coup. The article draws on interviews and focus group discussions to suggest firstly, that protests in response to the coup shaped the interviewees' spatial imaginaries and particularly considers how urban feminists' spatial imaginaries were merged with those of rural women under the collective framework of human rights. Secondly, the study demonstrates that a collective identity as women human rights defenders was crucial for the emergence of collective action and also prompted the establishment of a national network. This case study contributes to research on women's collective action to negotiate women's rights, human rights and social justice in changing political processes.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Spatial imaginaries and collective identity in women’s human rights struggles in Honduras

Jokela-Pansini

2016

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…Through this synthesis, we aim to better combine a close linguistic analysis of texts, which is a characteristic of CDA, with a social orientation to discourse, which characterizes FDA, and thus to integrate analysis at the micro-level of social action with analysis at the macro-level of social structure. Although Foucauldian thinking has been recognised as an important influence for CDA, particularly with respect to the concept of discourse and subjectivity (for example, Wodak, 2001), few attempts have been made to bring to dialogue these two discourse analytical strands (for example, Liao and Markula, 2009).…”

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The “competent child” in times of crisis: a synthesis of Foucauldian with critical discourse analysis in Greek pre-school curricula

Pechtelidis

Στάμου

2017

Palgrave Commun

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Late modern children usually have school experiences from a very young age. Therefore, official educational discourses have the potential to shape their everyday life and subjectivity. The objective of this article is to explore the forms of knowledge that were produced around early childhood and schooling by the two most recent curricula of the Greek pre-school educational system in an era of crisis. In this framework, a discourse analytical approach is proposed which combines Foucauldian with critical discourse analysis. From the analysis, it appears that both curricula actively engage in the discursive struggle for hegemony in society, producing a specific understanding of childhood and schooling. In particular, according to the analysis, both curricula echo a neo-liberal discourse, which could exert a specific ideological power upon young children's subjectivity. However, it was found that the most recent curriculum is even more focused on the neo-liberal ideological project. This conceptual shift could be understood in the current context of the hegemony of the neoliberal ideology in the social field. Moreover, it was found that both curricula contain several child-oriented elements, crafting the image of "the competent child". However, these elements could probably function as a subtle instrument for further achieving the aims of the neo-liberal hegemonic discourse for antagonism and entrepreneurship. As children do not passively receive the content addressed to them, future research on the relationship between representations and subjective experiences is deemed necessary.

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“…Being critical here implies not taking things for granted; it means being self-reflective, opening up complexity, challenging reductionism, bias and dichotomies, and then based on these processes, making vague structures of power relations and ideologies obvious (Wodak, 2001; also Pennycook, 2001).…”

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Exploring Rhetorical-Discursive Practices of Rouhani�s Presidential Campaign and Victory of his Prudence-and-Hope Key: a Discourse of Persuasion

Mirzaei

Азизулла²,

Eslami

et al. 2017

Vestn. Ross. univ. dru?by nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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Abstract. Trying to acquire and maintain power, politicians make use of certain rhetorical and linguistic devices to persuade voters in favor of their particular views constructed in the political discourse. The current study was an attempt to investigate Iranian president Hassan Rouhani's use of persuasive rhetorical-discursive devices during his campaign for presidency in 2013. Specific attention was paid to the levels of language that constituted his political discourse through: 1) scrutinizing the level of sound, 2) investigating his selection of lexical elements, and 3) looking into syntactic structures employed to convey political nuances. Additionally, a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, drawing upon Fairclough's three-dimensional analytical framework (2010), was adopted to probe the discourse-power relationship in his discourse, on the one hand, and the socio-cultural, religious, and political values underlying the rhetorical devices, on the other. The results revealed that Rouhani's political discourse was embroidered with different rhetorical-discursive devices such as tripartite constructions, repetition in parallel lines, alliteration, and metaphor to influence the public opinion. Moreover, perhaps, using a concise and succinct message, visual symbols, and dynamic metaphors helped him reach out to the audience with an air of emotion and mobilize significant numbers of the electorate for himself.

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What CDA Is About – A Summary of Its History, Important Concepts and Its Developments1

Cited by 572 publications

References 4 publications

Spatial imaginaries and collective identity in women’s human rights struggles in Honduras

Spatial imaginaries and collective identity in women’s human rights struggles in Honduras

The “competent child” in times of crisis: a synthesis of Foucauldian with critical discourse analysis in Greek pre-school curricula

Exploring Rhetorical-Discursive Practices of Rouhani�s Presidential Campaign and Victory of his Prudence-and-Hope Key: a Discourse of Persuasion

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