‘What the papers say’: linguistic variation and ideological difference

Trew, Tony

doi:10.4324/9780429436215-7

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“…Following the syntactic selections made in a text (for example, a process expressed through active or passive syntax, through a verb or a nominalisation), it is possible to foreground or background an agent, by positioning each clause on a "causality scale" (Stamou, 2001). This has been the object of many CDA studies (for example, Trew, 1979;Van Dijk, 1991) examining media accounts of important events. In our case, the construction of childhood and teacher's role will be particularly addressed through transitivity analysis.…”

Section: Governance and Images Of Childhoodmentioning

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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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Section: Governance and Images Of Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…Among the various definitions of the term discourse, I take the view that discourse is involved with linguistic and ideological processes which are inseparably intertwined (Trew, 1979). This means:…”

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A Comparative Analysis of News Discourse

Huang¹

2018

IJEL

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In December, 2012, two Tibetan monks involved in the immolation of a Tibetan were detained by Chinese police. The event drew considerable attention from worldwide news agencies. However, the event was presented differently in terms of the different ways of reporting and the different languages employed. This paper examines the two representations of the event that appeared in Chinese and US news media. Processes of text production and linguistic choices are discussed, along with the possible reasons underlying those choices. In this case, the interplay between discourse and ideology is illustrated. Also, it is argued that the comparative analysis of discourse can be considered as an effective way to decode the ideology embedded in a discourse.

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“…In a similar vein like his fellow CL practitioners, Trew (1979) aspires to extend the CL's analytical tools developed by Fowler and his peers based on the SFL. Trew attempted to contemplate the "isolating ideology in discourse" and established ideology and its beliefs as being perceptible mechanisms of linguistic processes and characteristics.…”

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Insights into CDA: Socio-cognitive Cultural Approach

Al-Khazraji

2017

IJEL

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The overall purpose of the study is to make visible various aspects of CDA. It presents various approaches to discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis to justify the adoption of certain models over others. A general theoretical account of the various influential approaches to the text will be presented first, followed by a critical approach next to arrive at their range of usefulness as a means to an end. Besides the absence of a general terminological consensus among text linguists, the fact is that there is no one generally accepted theory of discourse analysis that undertakes to provide the complete analysis of texts. While all text analysts acknowledge the fact that a text has structure, coherence, function, organisation, character and development, their approaches differ as to how each of these properties is realised and mutually related to other properties, hence the advantages of the eclectic approach which provides for the necessary step of integrating a variety of compatible systems of discourse analysis whenever these are found useful and adaptable to the requirements of each study. Such an approach, while lessening the problems of indeterminacy and partiality, remains just one model yielding one specific interpretation. However, variation in interpretations is resorvable and can ultimately be made definitive given a text and the same vital background information and approache(s).

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‘What the papers say’: linguistic variation and ideological difference

Cited by 23 publications

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

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

A Comparative Analysis of News Discourse

Insights into CDA: Socio-cognitive Cultural Approach

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