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Political Discourse Analysis
Legitimisation strategies in crisis and conflict.
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- Language: English
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Copyright year: 2024
- Audience: College/higher education;
- Main content: 220
- Other: 11 black and white illustrations, 11 black and white tables
- Keywords: Language & Linguistics
- Published: March 5, 2024
- ISBN: 9781399523202
Framing Hair: A Judicial Analysis of Dress Code Policy in American Public Schools, 1969 – 2023
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- This dissertation traces the way hair is framed in judicial texts about dress code policy in the U.S. between 1969 and 2023. Using 46 court cases from district, appellate, state supreme, and federal supreme courts, the study first considers how dress code is brought to courts over these 54 years, and the kinds of legal claims made in these cases. I find that student plaintiffs primarily leverage the 1st, 14th, and 9th Amendments, as well as Title IX and the Civil Rights Act. The study then traces how courts’ judgments—both the actual decision itself as well as the language used in the disposition—create narratives around student identity, speech, and rights as manifest in hair and dress. I find major themes that emerge include a focus on (White) boys’ hair, student criminal activity, student political speech, and questions around gender. Using a Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Race Feminist approach to analysis, I highlight how the courts’ process and narratives contribute to erasure of students of color, girl students, and other subgroups not represented in the legal data. Findings support the (re)consideration of the CROWN Act. Adopted by 23 states, CROWN (Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural hair) aims to protect and encourage natural hairstyle representation in organizations like schools. Findings also support the nationwide adoption of the CROWN Act.
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- https://doi.org/10.17615/mm5s-7450
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- Houck, Eric
- Cohen-Vogel, Lora
- Hughes, Sherick
- Domina, Thurston
- Horner, Martinette
- Doctor of Philosophy
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
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Jaihyun Park's Dissertation Defense
Jaihyun Park will defend his dissertation “A Computational Approach toward Understanding Political Language of Ideologically Opposing Groups—From Historical Newspapers to Social Media."
The committee includes Associate Professor Ryan Cordell (chair), Professor Ted Underwood, Assistant Professor JungHwan Yang, (Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Communication), and Assistant Professor JooYoung Seo.
Living in a democratic society grants us the freedom to hold and express our beliefs and thoughts, protected under the commonly referred to principle of “freedom of conscience.” As such, individuals act and speak in accordance with their belief systems and values, engaging in conversations to share perspectives, spread information aligned with their beliefs, or even persuade others to support causes they deem just. However, this freedom contributed to creating a polarized society where people find it difficult to unanimously agree with one another. Digital archives with a collection of text from historical newspapers to social media provide an opportunity to study how people of opposing viewpoints engaged in political battles and how they generated discourse around the topic they support. Taking this advantage, the thesis applied a computational approach to examine the political language of ideologically opposing groups using historical newspapers in Chronicling America and contemporary social media such as Twitter and Parler.
For the historical context, the first two sections cover the issue of slavery and racism in the 19th and 20th centuries. (1) The first section examines the discourse around slaves and servants during the period covering the Civil War and studies how newspapers from the South and North used different words to create distinct discourse communities. Methodologically, embedding-based text mining technologies and the method of incorporating possible OCR errors are used. (2) The second section focuses on the derogatory word referring to Asian workers and examines how this word is used. Methodologically, embedding-based text mining technologies, the log-odds-ratio with informative Dirichlet prior, and network analysis to examine the most circulated story are used. For the contemporary context, (3) the third section introduces varied uses of toxic language on different social media platforms during the period of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. A state-of-the-art method for determining the degree of toxicity in the text, a statistical approach to distinguish over-represented words in each platform, and network analysis are used.
By leveraging digital archives and applying computational text analysis, this thesis aims to bridge the gap between the research on historical and contemporary political language thus far divided into two separate fields, Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science.
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There is a long tradition of linguistic research on political discourse, but little attention has been paid to what the concept of political discourse itself encompasses. With this in mind, this article aims to understand what types of discourse are categorized as 'political' in linguistic research and what their characteristics are (form ...
Twenty years of research on political discourse Overall, prior to 2008, an average of 3.5 articles focusing on political discourse were published every year. Starting from 2008 (and until 2018), the average rose up to 11.8 articles a year, indicating a growing interest for political discourse analysis. This increase
Patricia L. Dunmire*. Kent State University. Abstract. This essay overviews the body of research known as political discourse analysis (PDA). I begin by. situating this work within the linguistic ...
Adopting an inclusive conception of politics and discourse, I consider the relationship between PDA and critical discourse analysis (CDA). I close with a review of studies of political discourse in terms of their theoretical and analytic frameworks and the socio-political issues they address.
Hatim and Mason (1997) argue that insights provided by CDA studies contribute to understanding "the way ideology shapes discourse, and the way discourse practices help to maintain, reinforce or challenge ideologies" (p. 119). Schäffner contributes significantly to the study of political discourse analysis from the perspective of translation. ...
Summary. This chapter considers "political discourse" as the linguistically grounded analysis of political language. While there are many other areas that focus on political discourse, for example, "rhetoric," there is limited concern with language theory and the role of language in the construction of the "political" itself.
Abstract. From an interdisciplinary framework anchored theoretically in Critical Discourse Analysis and using analytical tools from Systemic Functional Linguistics, this article accounts for a crucial use of language in society: the process of legitimization. This article explains specific linguistic ways in which language represents an ...
Political Discourse Analysis addresses the challenges facing political actors at all levels of society and across a range of regimes. It shows how discursive legitimisation strategies can vary on a continuum ranging from the stabilising effects of institutional discourse and the management of destabilising factors inherent in new types of media ...
Political discourse is an expression of the entire complex of relationships between a person, society and the state, and thus influences the formation of the recipients' picture of the world.
The dissertation will try to understand how language is influential in politics and how ... elements, since political discourse concerns the function of political speeches, whereas political terminology mainly focuses on their topics. 1.2 The main features of the language of politicians
Political Discourse. John Wilson, John Wilson. Search for more papers by this author. John Wilson, John Wilson. Search for more papers by this author. Book Editor(s): Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Schiffrin. Search for more papers by this author. Deborah Tannen, Deborah Tannen.
Political discourse heavily relies on persuasive and manipulative functions of language. This has been echoed well by Chilton (p. x) when he maintains that "[T]he analysis of political discourse is scarcely new. The western classical tradition of rhetoric was in its various guises a means of codifying the way public orators used language for ...
way political discourse is created in the U.S. 1.1 Rationale for Study Since the 1970s, critical discourse analysis (CDA) has drawn from linguistic and social theory in an attempt to reveal the power structures that imbue all language (Fairclough 1995). It has branched into many sub-disciplines of which political discourse is just one of many.
Overall, the findings show that political discourse is generally limited to the discourses of (institutionalized) political elites and most specifically to oral monological speeches. The review ...
This dissertation is a Critical Discourse Analysis of the representations of social actors within political discourse. To understand how specific discourse structures affect different mental processes or enable the development of distinct social representations, Critical Discourse Analysis endeavors to detail and explain the ways in which ...
In the first sections of this article I give a simple and general account of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and how it might contribute to the theoretical and methodological repertoire of political studies through its discourse-dialectical theory of how discourse figures as an aspect of social practices without reducing those practices to discourse.
political systems including: anti-partyism and anti-party politics, anti-political-establishment politics, and populism (Barr, 2009). These concepts: deal with a specific rhetorical appeal, where political actors attempt to gain support through an "us versus them" discourse, opposed to the entire class of individuals wielding power.
Revised on June 22, 2023. Critical discourse analysis (or discourse analysis) is a research method for studying written or spoken language in relation to its social context. It aims to understand how language is used in real life situations. When you conduct discourse analysis, you might focus on: The purposes and effects of different types of ...
Jenna Norosky is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Their dissertation investigates the trajectory of conflict-related sexual violence against men and boys from a "silenced" issue to an increasingly present feature of global sexual violence discourse.
For example, discourse analysis of political speech might mark all statements on a specific topic and ... in his doctoral dissertation analyzed the use of the transitivity process in different ...
The document discusses the challenges of writing a dissertation on political discourse. Some of the primary challenges are the large volume of information available on the topic, selecting a specific focus from within political discourse's wide scope, and conducting extensive research and analysis. Navigating these intricacies demands meticulous work, critical analysis, and understanding of ...
definitions and an overview of the thesis. Critical Discourse Analysis as a Linguistic Research Tool Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has become prominent and influential over ... revealing how language is used for the exercise of socio- political control. According to Blommaert and Bulcaen (2002), discourse which is an opaque power object in ...
Ideological manipulation in the translation of political discourse: A study of presidential speeches after the Arab Spring based on corpora and critical discourse analysis (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Salford, Manchester.
In bibliographical part of the thesis modern literature on metaphor, political discourse and metaphor in political use is used in a wide range. Discover the world's research 25+ million members
This dissertation traces the way hair is framed in judicial texts about dress code policy in the U.S. between 1969 and 2023. ... (White) boys' hair, student criminal activity, student political speech, and questions around gender. Using a Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Race Feminist approach to analysis, I highlight how the ...
Jaihyun Park will defend his dissertation "A Computational Approach toward Understanding Political Language of Ideologically Opposing Groups—From Historical Newspapers to Social Media.". The committee includes Associate Professor Ryan Cordell (chair), Professor Ted Underwood, Assistant Professor JungHwan Yang, (Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Communication), and Assistant ...