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"A 304-year experiment which worked some but not all of the time" : Britain and British identities in three English, Scottish and Welsh newspapers in…
2014
Britannia ja sen eri maat ovat unionin pitkän historian kuluessa kohdanneet lukuisia muutoksia ja haasteita. Viimeaikaisimmat näistä haasteista ovat liittyneet esimerkiksi siihen miten unionia ja sen maita hallitaan: vuonna 1997 unionin valtaa hajautettiin sisäisille paikallishallinnoille, jonka jälkeen muun muassa Wales on saavuttanut laajemmat oikeudet omien lakien säätämiseen ja Skotlanti on syksyllä 2014 äänestämässä mahdollisesta itsenäisyydestä. Tällaiset kehitykset herättävät kysymyksiä siitä, miten unioni nykyään toimii, kuinka vahvasti sen eri maat ovat sidoksissa toisiinsa, ja miltä sen tulevaisuus näyttää. Tämän tutkielman tarkoitus on tarkastella sitä, miten Britanniaa ja britti…
Estudio contrastivo de la representación social del concepto de Sumak Kawsay
2018
The usage of discursive formula in the institutional discourse norms and legitimates the conceptualization of social representations in the service of the current government’s interests. The discourse analysis of the corpus compiled with normative and academic texts evidence that the social representation of the formulae “Sumak Kawsay” follow this principle of normalization and legitimization. Within a contextualism linguistic theoretical framework, the tools of the corpus linguistics can calculate the frequencies of the studied syntagma collocations informing about the discursive contexts of its frequent usages and about the representativeness of the institutional representations establish…
"Unfounded bitchy nagging performed by fools" : discourse analysis of Varusteleka's advertising
2016
Varusteleka on suomalainen armeijaylijäämään ja ulkoiluvarusteisiin erikoistunut yritys, joka on tunnettu omalaatuisesta markkinointityylistään. Varustelekan mainonta on saanut sekä positiivista että negatiivista palautetta, ja myös viranomaiset ovat kommentoineet yrityksen toimintaa. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena oli analysoida diskurssianalyysin keinoin kolmea tapausta, joissa eri tahot ovat kyseenalaiset Varustelekan mainonnan eettisyyden ja hyvän tavan mukaisuuden. Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin alkuperäisten mainosten kyseenalaistettua sisältöä, sekä yrityksen ja sitä kritisoivien tahojen välistä julkista vuorovaikutusta. Analyysissä hyödynnettiin kriittisen diskurssianalyysin lähestymist…
De Montaigne a Lope: distintos resultados de una misma decisión
2009
This essay presents the initial hypothesis of the diversity of cases shown by Lope de Vega’s theatre, that multiply perspectives and different endings from the same basic types of conflicts and designs, and tries to verify them with contemporary thought. This diversity is related with a certain type of discourse that has begun to spread out in the very beginning of the Renaissance and was gradually displacing the pre-eminence of universal principles (neo-platonic, or neoaristotelic and scholastic) for an invitation to casuistic analysis, an ethical modality applied that chose the concrete analysis of the concrete situation in front of the universally required dogmas. A type of discourse tha…
Production of Cultural Policy in Russia: Authority and Intellectual Leadership
2020
The paper discusses different frameworks of knowledge production within the discourses and practices of Russian cultural policy. Russian cultural policy as an administrative sector has been developed in line with two distinctive governmental regimes, more precisely during the period of liberal decentralisation of the 1990s and the conservative centralisation from 2011 up until today. The study focuses on the main changes that have occurred in the framework of policy design and participation in policy-making. An attempt is made to combine Foucauldian analytical frameworks of power and discourse with a Gramscian hegemonic approach to political studies that was mainly advocated by the Essex sc…
“Heaven and Hell on Earth” A critical discourse analysis of religious terms in Norwegian autobiographies describing personal experience of mental hea…
2013
This article explores the use of religious terms in six Norwegian autobiographies written between 1925 and 2005 by people who themselves have been patients in the mental health services. Through a critical discourse analysis, we discuss the functions of religious discourse in the texts and its position in contrast to the medical discourse predominant in today's mental health services. It was found that religious (predominantly Christian) terms were used to varying degrees in all autobiographies as a means to capture the immensity and inherent ambivalence characteristic of mental health problems. Despite the “medical turn” in professional mental health discourse, there is no clear evidence o…
Mutiskās prezentācijas prasmes angļu valodā akadēmiskai un profesionālai izmantošanai
2020
Prezentācijas prasmēm ir liela loma akadēmiskajā un profesionālajā jomā, jo tās palīdz informēt un izglītot, kā arī nodot vēstījumu auditorijai un attiecīgi iespaidot auditorijas reakciju uz vēstījumu. Bakalaura darba galvenais mērķis bija izpētīt kā prezentāciju prasmju apgūšana akadēmiskajā vidē palīdz sagatavoties prezentēšanai profesionālajā vidē. Literatūras analīze, anketēšana un novērošana tika izmantota kā galvenās pētniecības metodes. Prezentāciju un aptaujas analīze atklāja, ka prezentācijas prasmes var tikt izmantotas, lai ieinteresētu, pārliecinātu un izglītotu cilvēkus, un ir spēju kopums, kas palīdz mijiedarboties, nodot vēstījumu un sazināties ar publiku. Pētījumā secināts, k…
Defence strategies in an online community of caregivers
2021
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand caregivers’ discursive constructions and responses to their unwanted (family and social) role as resulting in exchanges on social media. Online group platforms are understood as particularly suitable for the expression of intimate feelings among adults, for meeting and exhibiting stigma issues, and for the circulation of information and support (Suler, 2004; McCormack, 2010; Pounds et al., 2018). Design/methodology/approach This paper draws from digital Conversation Analysis (Giles et al., 2015), and considers data after combining quantitative (corpus analysis) and qualitative methods, from a critical discourse analysis perspective. The St…
Stakeholders’ Attitudes about the Transplantations of the Mediterranean Seagrass Posidonia oceanica as a Habitat Restoration Measure after Anthropoge…
2021
Anthropogenic impacts on Posidonia oceanica meadows have led to a decline of this ecosystem throughout the Mediterranean. Transplantations have often been prescribed as a compensation measure to mitigate the impacts caused by coastal maritime works. Here a Q methodology approach was used to investigate the stakeholders’ attitudes in four case studies of P. oceanica transplants realized in Italian waters. Twenty-two respondents were asked to score 37 statements, and the resultant Q-sorting was analyzed via an inverse PCA using the KADE software. Four discourses, corresponding to the significant axes in the factorial analysis were identified: science and conservation (F1), oriented at a rigor…
Socio-Cultural Power Dynamics and Coping Functions: A Narrative Case Report of a Female Paralympian
2012
Purpose: This case study explores the lived experiences of an elite female Paralympic powerlifting athlete. The focus is on restrictions and coping responses employed to manage the daily hassles within the cultural and ethnic requirements for achieving athletic excellence. Methods: With an unstructured interview, the narrative was acquired which ranged to a total of 75 minutes (approx) and 20 single spaced pages. The data was analyzed using Foucauldian discourse analysis in conjuncture to feminist poststructuralist theory. Results: The results highlight the issues relating to femininity, culture and ethnicity with regard to athletic career. The analysis elicits extracts from the narrative t…