Search results for "Discourse Analysis"
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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…
Changing Perceptions of Multiculturalism in the British Public Sphere
2017
This paper is devoted to the examination of the evolution of the uses of the term multiculturalism in a corpus of selected speeches by prominent British politicians, officials and diplomats in the United Kingdom within the decade 2001–2011. Britain is considered to be one of Europe’s most multicultural countries and there was a time when its government took pride in its pro-integration policies. That is why within the elite discourses of the Labour governments of the late 1990s, multiculturalism had overwhelmingly positive connotations: it was associated with new opportunities, strength, enrichment, social progress and economic success. However, over the course of the 2000s there was much d…
"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…
Linguistic identities of Finnish students : what has English got to do with it?
2017
Monikielisyys on osa arkeamme. Täten se voi vaikuttaa myös monien identiteetteihin. Koska myös kielellinen identiteetti muuttuu jatkuvasti, on mahdollista, että opitut kielet voivat vaikuttaa sen rakentumiseen. Monikielisyyden vaikutuksia suomalaisten kieli-identiteetteihin ei olla kuitenkaan mittavasti tutkittu, ja monet aiemmista tutkimuksista keskittyvät vain CLIL-oppijoihin. Tässä tutkielmassa halusin tutkia sekä suomella että vieraalla kielellä opiskelevia lukiolaisia, ja samalla myös löytää mahdollisia yhtäläisyyksiä ja eroavaisuuksia näiden ryhmien välillä. Tutkielmaani varten haastattelin yhteensä kahdeksaa lukiolaista tarkoituksenani kuulla, kuinka he puhuvat kielellisestä identite…
“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…
Working with Transcripts and Translated Data
2008
Transcribing talk originating from various interactional contexts into a written form is an integral part qualitative research practice. Transcripts are produced for particular analytic purposes and therefore range in detail, from broad verbatim transcripts in more content-oriented analysis to extremely refined and detailed transcriptions on interaction-oriented analysis of naturally occurring data. Learning to master transcription skills, and solving the practical, technical and theoretical considerations and decisions that go into the process of producing good quality transcripts is something that both students, teachers of qualitative methods and researchers within the field equally stru…
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…
The Role of Sourcing in Discourse Comprehension
2017
This chapter provides a theoretical background by discussing different frameworks relevant for understanding the role of sourcing in discourse comprehension. It reviews empirical work on students' sourcing skills and the role of individual and contextual factors in sourcing and discusses the nature and particular challenges of sourcing in digital contexts and review research on sourcing in such contexts. The chapter analyses intervention work aiming to improve students' consideration and evaluation of source features when dealing with multiple documents and also reviews measures used to assess sourcing skills in the research literature. Developmental psychology research on social cognition …
The resources and obstacles of creative collaboration in a long-term learning community
2008
Abstract In the framework of a subject-centred socio-cultural approach, this study investigates creative collaboration and the resources for and obstacles to it in a long-term learning community of ten teacher students. The study focuses on five different learning situations over a 2-year period. The data were taken from teacher students’ evaluations and accounts (on given criteria) of their videotaped group-learning sessions, and their reports of the obstacles to creative collaboration. Using the students’ evaluations of the five videotaped group learning situations, the sessions they assessed as the least and most creative were compared, the aim being to discover the most important situat…
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…