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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach that examines the relationship between language, power, and social context. It analyzes how discourse shapes and is shaped by social structures, ideologies, and power dynamics, focusing on the ways language contributes to the construction of social identities and inequalities.
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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach that examines the relationship between language, power, and social context. It analyzes how discourse shapes and is shaped by social structures, ideologies, and power dynamics, focusing on the ways language contributes to the construction of social identities and inequalities.
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1. How does Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) operationalize the relationship between discourse, power, and social inequality?
This theme focuses on the foundational principles, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches that enable CDA to explore how discourse acts as both a site and medium for the production, reproduction, and contestation of power and social inequalities. It matters because understanding these mechanisms underpins CDA's capacity to critically analyze sociopolitical issues and inform emancipatory endeavors.
Principles of critical discourse analysis
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Editor, University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature
2016
Key finding: This work articulates the core principle that CDA explicitly links discourse to power relations, focusing on how elite groups use discourse to enact and legitimize dominance, producing social inequalities across multiple...
Key finding: This work articulates the core principle that CDA explicitly links discourse to power relations, focusing on how elite groups use discourse to enact and legitimize dominance, producing social inequalities across multiple dimensions including political, cultural, and ethnic domains. It contributes the insight that relating macro-structures like power and dominance to micro-social practices in text and talk requires an intermediary cognitive interface involving social representations such as ideologies and attitudes. This theoretical grounding facilitates CDA's explanatory power in connecting discourse, social structure, and cognition.
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Critical Discourse Analysis as a Research Tool
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Hongyu Guo
2019
Key finding: This paper operationalizes CDA through Fairclough’s three-dimensional model emphasizing interdependent analyses of text, production/reception processes, and socio-historical conditions. It highlights how linguistic features...
Key finding: This paper operationalizes CDA through Fairclough’s three-dimensional model emphasizing interdependent analyses of text, production/reception processes, and socio-historical conditions. It highlights how linguistic features (e.g., juxtapositioning, modality) are not isolated but embedded in socially regulated discourse. The methodological insight is that critical reading involves moving simultaneously between description, interpretation, and explanation, enabling analysts to uncover how texts function within power relations and social struggles.
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Critical Discourse Analysis in Applied Linguistics: A Methodological Review
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Angel M. Y. Lin
2015
Key finding: This review demonstrates that CDA’s methodological approaches are inseparable from its paradigmatic commitments to social theory, especially in applied linguistics. It underscores CDA’s focus on language as social practice...
Key finding: This review demonstrates that CDA’s methodological approaches are inseparable from its paradigmatic commitments to social theory, especially in applied linguistics. It underscores CDA’s focus on language as social practice that both shapes and is shaped by structures like gender and class. The paper specifies methodological strengths, such as interdisciplinary flexibility and reflexive positionality for the analyst, which reinforce CDA's capacity to investigate phenomena such as racism, sexism, and power abuse in institutional discourse.
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Critical Discourse Studies: Where to from here?
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Bernard McKenna
2015
Key finding: This survey reaffirms CDA/CDS’s teleological commitment to emancipatory social change by critically addressing opaque structures of dominance and discrimination. It advances the field by emphasizing the need for robust social...
Key finding: This survey reaffirms CDA/CDS’s teleological commitment to emancipatory social change by critically addressing opaque structures of dominance and discrimination. It advances the field by emphasizing the need for robust social theory integration, multi-dimensional analyses of political economy, race, and gender, and engagement with everyday life and agency. It also situates CDA within transdisciplinary dialogues that enhance its critical explanatory and transformative potential.
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Theories and concepts in critical discourse studies: Facing challenges, moving beyond foundations
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Bernhard Forchtner
2023, Discourse & Society
Key finding: This article critically reflects on the evolution of CDA into a broader Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) field, highlighting the necessity to adapt theories and methodologies to newly complex socio-political challenges of...
Key finding: This article critically reflects on the evolution of CDA into a broader Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) field, highlighting the necessity to adapt theories and methodologies to newly complex socio-political challenges of late modernity. It contributes a meta-theoretical insight that CDS must embrace interdisciplinarity, actor-centered analysis, and multimodal semiotic resources to maintain conceptual and analytical rigor in relating discourse to power and social inequalities.
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2. What are the methodological challenges and strategies in combining multiple qualitative text and discourse analysis approaches?
This theme investigates how different qualitative methodological traditions within discourse and text analysis can be combined to enrich analytical depth and breadth. Addressing such methodological pluralism allows researchers to overcome limitations inherent in singular approaches and better capture the complexity of discourse phenomena across contexts.
Multi-Method Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis: A Methodological Framework
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Longxuan Zhao
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Audrey Alejandro
2023, Qualitative Inquiry
Key finding: This article develops a methodological framework—Multi-Method Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (MMQTDA)—by categorizing four distinct families of qualitative text analysis: Discourse Analysis, Foucauldian Discourse...
Key finding: This article develops a methodological framework—Multi-Method Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (MMQTDA)—by categorizing four distinct families of qualitative text analysis: Discourse Analysis, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, Thematic Analysis, and Qualitative Content Analysis. It analyzes empirical studies combining these methods and identifies benefits such as circumventing methodological blind spots and challenges including coherence and consistency. The framework offers guidance for strategically navigating method combinations to enhance validity and reflexivity in discourse research.
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3. How is Critical Discourse Analysis applied to political discourse to reveal strategies of power, ideology, and resistance?
This theme examines the utilization of CDA frameworks in analyzing political speeches, rhetorical strategies, and institutional discourse to elucidate how language constructs political legitimacy, hegemony, and oppositional narratives. It helps illuminate mechanisms of persuasion, manipulation, and agency within sociopolitical contexts, critical for political communication and discourse studies.
Discourse and Politics
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Christina Schäffner
2024, Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction
Key finding: This work situates political discourse within the interplay of language, power, and social identity, illustrating that political rhetoric functions as both a means of persuasion and a vehicle for ideological contestation. It...
Key finding: This work situates political discourse within the interplay of language, power, and social identity, illustrating that political rhetoric functions as both a means of persuasion and a vehicle for ideological contestation. It traces theoretical evolutions emphasizing the linguistic turn and poststructuralist influences, while detailing how political concepts become meaningfully contested and constructed through discourse. This conceptualization foregrounds the necessity of critical analysis in discerning manipulative and hegemonic language in political domains.
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Language, Diplomacy and Global Governance: Discourse Strategies in a Middle Eastern UN Address
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Mohammad Awad AlAfnan
2025, World Journal of English Language
Key finding: Using CDA, this paper reveals how King Abdullah II strategically employs multilingual discourses integrating humanitarian, legal, and geopolitical rhetoric to frame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a global moral crisis....
Key finding: Using CDA, this paper reveals how King Abdullah II strategically employs multilingual discourses integrating humanitarian, legal, and geopolitical rhetoric to frame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a global moral crisis. It identifies linguistic and rhetorical devices such as emotive language, statistical evidence, and intertextual references to previous UN speeches to enhance diplomatic credibility and critique power asymmetries without overt antagonism, thereby demonstrating how smaller states use discourse to challenge hegemonic global governance structures.
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Dissenting Voices in Cameroon Political Discourse from 2019-2022: A Rhetorical Analysis of some High Profile Politicians
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Budji O M A Nshom
2025, Global Academic Journal
Key finding: This study applies rhetorical and discourse analytical tools to speeches of high-profile Cameroonian politicians, uncovering diverse dissenting strategies that utilize emotional, logical, and ethical appeals. It finds that...
Key finding: This study applies rhetorical and discourse analytical tools to speeches of high-profile Cameroonian politicians, uncovering diverse dissenting strategies that utilize emotional, logical, and ethical appeals. It finds that opposition figures predominately use dissenting voices for political mobilization contrasting incumbent speech styles emphasizing authority. The linguistic analysis reveals how strategic language use undergirds political contestation and shapes public perceptions, exposing complex socio-political dynamics in Cameroon’s discourse environment.
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‘1L=10L for Africa’: Corporate social responsibility and the transformation of bottled water into a ‘consumer activist’ commodity
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Vinicius A Brei
2026, Discourse & Society
In recent years, it has become an increasingly common marketing practice to connect the sale of consumer products to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, such as aid and development projects in so-called ‘developing’...
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In recent years, it has become an increasingly common marketing practice to connect the sale of consumer products to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, such as aid and development projects in so-called ‘developing’ countries. One example is Volvic’s pioneering ‘1L=10L for Africa’ campaign (2005–2010), which linked the sale of each liter of bottled water in ‘developed’ countries with the promise by Danone, Volvic’s owner, to provide 10 liters of drinking water in Africa. In this article, we engage with this ‘cause-related marketing’ campaign, using critical discourse analysis (CDA) to uncover its mechanisms and ideological functioning. We show how Volvic was able to transform an ordinary commodity, bottled water, into a consumer activist brand through which consumers could take part in solving global social problems, such as the access to safe drinking water in ‘developing’ countries. Our analysis of this exemplary case shows the ways that CSR often operates to deflec...
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El análisis del discurso basado en la sociología del conocimiento
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Reiner Keller
2026
Resumen: El artículo discute las bases teóricas, implicaciones metodológicas y realizaciones metódicas del análisis del discurso basado en la sociología del conocimiento (ADSC). La ADSC esboza un enfoque de ciencias sociales para el...
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Resumen: El artículo discute las bases teóricas, implicaciones metodológicas y realizaciones metódicas del análisis del discurso basado en la sociología del conocimiento (ADSC). La ADSC esboza un enfoque de ciencias sociales para el análisis de las relaciones sociales del conocimiento y para las políticas del conocimiento. En los últimos años este enfoque se está aplicando de forma creciente en disciplinas vecinas (p.ej. ciencias de educación, historia, ciencias políticas, ciencias de la religión, lingüística, criminología). Traslada conceptos y reflexiones teóricos de Michel FOUCAULT a la tradición socioconstruccionista de la sociología del conocimiento de BERGER y LUCKMANN y posibilita la combinación con los instrumentos metodológicos desarrollados en la tradición analítica interpretativa-cualitativa. En oposición a los enfoques lingüísticos de la investigación de discursos, el ADSC se centra más en el interés científico del análisis de saberes establecido por FOUCAULT y en el interés por las "luchas discursivas". Índice 1. Introducción 2. El discurso y la sociología del conocimiento 3. El análisis del discurso basado en la sociología del conocimiento (ADSC) 4. Metodología, métodos y prácticas del ADSC 4.1 Analítica interpretativa 4.
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHIES OF LANGUAGE UNDERPINNING (AND OPPOSING) CORPUS LINGUISTICS From Aristotle to Artificial Intelligence
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Alan Partington
2026, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHIES OF LANGUAGE UNDERPINNING (AND OPPOSING) CORPUS LINGUISTICS From Aristotle to Artificial Intelligence
3rd Edn. This volume/long essay traces the intertwined histories of linguistic and philosophical thought that shaped—and sometimes resisted—the emergence of corpus linguistics. From Aristotle’s conception of language as a tool for...
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3rd Edn.  This volume/long essay traces the intertwined histories of linguistic and philosophical thought that shaped—and sometimes resisted—the emergence of corpus linguistics. From Aristotle’s conception of language as a tool for persuasion, through the different scepticisms of Plato and the Scholastics, through the systematicism of the Stoics (prefiguring the 19th Century), to Humboldt’s insight that language is a ‘formative organ of thought’, it follows how successive thinkers imagined the relationship between words, meaning and knowledge. It explores the empirical turn of the Enlightenment, the structural revolutions of the nineteenth century, and the ‘language-conscious’ philosophy of the twentieth. It concludes with reflections on Large Language Models and their cohabitation with CL/CaDS. It delves into the tensions between causal and teleological explanations, given that linguistics is both a 'hard' physical science, whose structures were caused by evolutionary pressures and a human science whose artefacts are designed with purposes in mind (though these drift and multiply). It is an adventure story of the sometimes bitter rivalry between the optimists, for whom language was a sort of ‘super-power’ and the pessimists who viewed it as at best flawed and treacherous, at worst dangerous – not forgetting the many ‘transparians’ for whom language was simply a window. Two shibboleths are the attitudes to metaphor and evaluation as action. Written for linguists, thinkers, lovers of wisdom (Sophos)of all kinds  and digital humanities alike, the book argues that corpus linguistics represents a continuation of a long epistemological project: using authentic language data to uncover ‘non-obvious’ meanings and to refine our understanding of mind, society and communication.
New topics presented in the 3rd Edn, include:
·      Metaphorophobia in classical philosophy.
·      How and why CL can fruitfully cohabit and collaborate with AI/LLMs
·      Ontological and epistemological differences between CL, CaDS and LLMs. LLMs: just artefacts or self-organising organisms (Kant)?
·      How AI learns metaphorical usage and evaluation. Are there patterns of creative language (including humour) that AI can acquire then use?
·      CL as a physical and a human science: causality (Bacon) versus teleology (Aristotle)
·      CL/CaDS and the revenge of evaluation, from Hunston to evaluative cohesion.
Wittgenstein and communication as problem-solving
Evaluation as an evolutionary instinct
Whole-text evaluative cohesion
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The construct of mature woman in media discourse — a critical analysis
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Kaja Wójcik
2026, Dziennikarstwo i Media
Rozważania nad pojęciem kobie t y dojr z a łej warto rozpocząć od próby zdefi niowania, czym jest dojr z a ło ś ć. Wielu badaczy podkreśla, że "podstawowymi wymiarami różnicującymi pozycję społeczną jednostki są jej płeć, wiek i klasa...
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Rozważania nad pojęciem kobie t y dojr z a łej warto rozpocząć od próby zdefi niowania, czym jest dojr z a ło ś ć. Wielu badaczy podkreśla, że "podstawowymi wymiarami różnicującymi pozycję społeczną jednostki są jej płeć, wiek i klasa społeczna" 1 . Czy w takim razie pojęcie dojrzałości należy traktować jako tożsame z jednym z tych podstawowych w społecznym konstytuowaniu jednostki wymiarów, jakim jest wiek? Według internetowej wersji Słownika języka polskiego PWN dojr z a łoś ć defi niuje się między innymi jako: stan osiągnięcia pełni rozwoju, stan gotowości do określonych zadań: a) «o organizmach żywych»: Pojęcie dojrzałości jest […] względne, zależy, czego w roślinie szukamy. Zboże jest dojrzałe, gdy wyrosło, okwitło, dało ziarno. […] c) «o zjawiskach społecznych, psychicznych, o działaniu człowieka» […] 2 . Ujęcia defi nicyjne nie są jednoznaczne, a także nie obejmują wszystkich medialnych znaczeń i reprezentacji tego pojęcia. Niejednoznaczność ta odzwierciedla się w analizowanym materiale badawczym, w którym dojrzałość występuje z jednej strony jako synonim starości, implikując charakterystyczne dla jej rozumienia konotacje -infantylizację, wykluczenie, nieporadność. Z drugiej zaś opisuje stan transformacji, pewnego rodzaju metamorfozy o negatywnym nacechowaniu. Wizerunek s t a rej kobie t y był przez polskie badaczki i badaczy już wielokrotnie analizowany, a efektem tych analiz są liczne publikacje. Zagadnieniem zajęły się 1 P. Szukalski, Ageizm -dyskryminacja ze względu na wiek, [w:] Starzenie się ludności Polskimiędzy demografi ą a gerontologią społeczną, red.
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The construct of mature woman in media discourse — a critical analysis
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Kaja Wójcik
2026, Dziennikarstwo i Media
A woman’s maturity places her somewhere between youth and old age. A woman trapped between the two receives advice to help her break free. The aim of the study was to reconstruct the linguistic ways of understanding a woman’s maturity and...
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A woman’s maturity places her somewhere between youth and old age. A woman trapped between the two receives advice to help her break free. The aim of the study was to reconstruct the linguistic ways of understanding a woman’s maturity and its social implications. The analysis was performed with the use of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), a research concept that allows the visualising of inequalities and relations of power. The definition of the concept as well as linguistic strategies representing various ways of striving for youth (reversing, lying, avoiding, fighting) and categories of disciplining such as appropriate appearance, sexuality and fi nancial position, were specified during this analysis.
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في معرفة البلاغة
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Emad Abdul-Latif د. عماد عبد اللطيف
2026, دار كنوز المعرفة
يسد كتاب "في معرفة البلاغة" فراغاً في المكتبة البلاغية العربية؛ إذ يعد الكتاب العربي الأول والوحيد الذي يتخذ من "الحوار" أداةً معرفية ومنهجاً لاستكشاف البلاغة. ينطلق الكتاب من إيمان عميق بأن الحوار هو "نظر من جانبين"، وهو الكفيل بتوسيع...
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يسد كتاب "في معرفة البلاغة" فراغاً في المكتبة البلاغية العربية؛ إذ يعد الكتاب العربي الأول والوحيد الذي يتخذ من "الحوار" أداةً معرفية ومنهجاً لاستكشاف البلاغة. ينطلق الكتاب من إيمان عميق بأن الحوار هو "نظر من جانبين"، وهو الكفيل بتوسيع مدارك العقل وتجاوز حالة العنف الفكري نحو فضاء "الاكتمال المعرفي".
يجمع الكتاب بين جيلين وثقافات متعددة، حيث يتقاطع فيه فكر الأستاذ محمد الولي (المنفتح على الثقافة الفرنسية) مع رؤى الأستاذ سعيد الغانمي والدكتور عماد عبد اللطيف (المنتميين للثقافة الأنجلوسكسونية)، ليرسموا معاً ملامح "البلاغة بوصفها مسؤولية فكرية وإنسانية".
فصول الكتاب (المحاور الأساسية):
يتكون الكتاب من ثلاثة محاور كبرى:
المحور الأول: حوار في مفاهيم البلاغة المتطورة عبر الزمن، والمتباينة عبر الثقافات. أما المحور الثاني فيخص وظيفة البلاغة، وينتقل من التصورات النظرية إلى الممارسة البلاغية؛ لاستكشاف الوظائف الحيوية للبلاغة. يحدد هذا الفصل ثلاث قيم كبرى توجه العمل البلاغي: القيمة الجمالية (الشعرية)، القيمة المعرفية (الفكرية)، والقيمة الإنسانية (الاجتماعية). ويبرز هنا مفهوم "بلاغة الجمهور" و"بلاغة الأعماق" كبدائل حيوية للبلاغة المدرسية التقليدية.
المحور الثالث: حوار في مستقبل البلاغة
يستشرف هذا الفصل مآلات الدرس البلاغي العربي، مناقشاً قضايا القطيعة والاتصال مع التراث (خاصة تجربة عبد القاهر الجرجاني). ويطرح تساؤلات جوهرية حول التحول من المشاريع الفردية إلى "المشاريع الجماعية"، وترسيخ هوية البلاغة بوصفها "معرفة بينية" تتداخل مع شؤون الحياة اليومية والخطابات المعاصرة.
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An analysis of the critical discourse on the work of Eva Hesse
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Michele Millard
2026
This thesis is an analytical study of the various critical approaches taken to the work of Eva Hesse and their underlying methodoIogies and theoretical assumptions. Its purpose 15 to determine in a general way how and why the nature of...
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This thesis is an analytical study of the various critical approaches taken to the work of Eva Hesse and their underlying methodoIogies and theoretical assumptions. Its purpose 15 to determine in a general way how and why the nature of criticism has changed from positions strongly Influenced by Modernism as defined by Clement Greenberg to those that involved a separation of criticism from consideration of artworks as individual phenomena.
For the most part, Chapter One concerns critics' Modernist analyses of Hesse's relationship to Minimalism and their progression towards a criticism based on non-formalist, non-hierarchical theories of style, There Is also a short discussion on the linkage created between Hesse's art and specific psychological traumas in her life Included as well is an explanation of the changing conception of originality and the critic's dilemma in confronting private content through the strictures of public dialogue.
Chapter Two investigates critical discussions of experience, how art was apprehended and how meaning was transmitted.
Chapter Three  involves a feminist debate on the issues of gender The content of Hesse's work was analyzed in psycho-biographical terms and within the framework of her identity as a female artist in western culture.
And finally, the thesis concludes by pointing out the evolution of criticism into a distinct,
independent discipline whereby the critic articulates the theoretical contexts in which the artwork exists, but then extends in into a broader cultural setting where the critic analyzes the significance of such positions taken, its relationship to the past and future implications.
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War ecologies and their seductions: an introduction
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David Henig
2026, War & Society
How can we engage ethnographically with the often overlooked toxic and explosive effects of war and their harmful, frequently multi-generational, legacies? The oversight is notable because war waste insidiously contaminates and transforms...
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How can we engage ethnographically with the often overlooked toxic and explosive effects of war and their harmful, frequently multi-generational, legacies? The oversight is notable because war waste insidiously contaminates and transforms entire environments, making them lethal for humans and non-humans alike at different scales and over different time frames. While anthropologists have critically examined the social, political, material, and emotional effects and experiences, ranging from militarism to large-scale armed conflicts, they have only recently turned their attention to ‘the knotted inextricability of war and ecologies’ (Guarasci and Kim). War ecologies is not simply a capacious concept, however. The concept can also become a seductive form of ethnographic knowledge. We build on the idea of ethnographic seduction (Robben) as a method for problematising the blind spots, omissions, and displacements that may arise in ethnographic research on war and its ecological legacies.
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Narrating the nation and its other: the emergence of Palestine in the postcolonial Arabic novel
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Yahya Al-Wadhaf
2026, 3L; Language, Linguistics and …
The Palestinian novel is one of the most neglected, if not totally ignored, genres in postcolonial and postmodern narrative fiction. As a resistant narrative, this literary form aims at creating 'a nation in words' and constructing 'a...
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The Palestinian novel is one of the most neglected, if not totally ignored, genres in postcolonial and postmodern narrative fiction. As a resistant narrative, this literary form aims at creating 'a nation in words' and constructing 'a country in books' since it has disappeared from maps. There are many Palestinian novelists, both males and females, who are struggling for existence in a world totally hostile to them and to their nation. However, it is Ghassan Kanafani (1939-72) who first gave voice to the voiceless and silent people of Palestine. He wrote many novels in which his sole aim was to narrate his nation. This paper evaluates 'Men in the Sun' as a "national" Palestinian form which aims to represent the Palestinian "nation". Taking and Bhabha (1990)'s theoretical assumptions about the historical relationship between the nation and the novel into account, we would argue that 'Men in the Sun' represents a Palestinian dream of giving expression to the national longing for a form. Edward Said ' s theory about resistance literature is crucial in this context. The discussion concludes by considering the novel as an example of a narrative of resistance.
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The Power of Personal Narrative: Latina Adolescent Youth in a Third Space-Imagined Community
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Michelle C . S . Greene
2026
As a doctoral student and ESL Middle School Teacher, the researcher in this study interviews former students to revisit their reflections on a year-long, student-led inquiry of ‘Immigration in the United States.’ The researcher draws from...
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As a doctoral student and ESL Middle School Teacher, the researcher in this study interviews former students to revisit their reflections on a year-long, student-led inquiry of ‘Immigration in the United States.’ The researcher draws from the thinking of Kris Gutierrez and Chandra Mohanty to propose a hybridized notion of a ‘third space-imagined community,’ a dialogical and collaborative space created in the midst of contestation, in which the voices of participants are privileged to generate understanding and development. Through analysis of instructional artifacts, the class’ self-published personal narratives of immigration, and three student interviews, the researcher unravels the power of personal narrative for first and second generation immigrant Latina adolescents.
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The Portrayal of Working Class People in African Novels: A Study of Festus Iyayi’s Violence
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ABUBAKAR SANI
2026, Advances in Language and Literary Studies
This essay investigates the depiction of the condition of working class people in African novels with particular reference to Violence by Festus Iyayi. The paper examines, first of all, the concept of violence from a Marxist perspective...
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This essay investigates the depiction of the condition of working class people in African novels with particular reference to Violence by Festus Iyayi. The paper examines, first of all, the concept of violence from a Marxist perspective of Franzt Fanon. Furthermore, the paper relates the view of Fanon on violence to what is depicted in the primary text of the paper. The paper argues that the portrayal of the working people in the novel by Iyayi tallies with the view of Fanon in his definition of the concept of violence. The paper exposes how the working people class are presented in the novel as those people who are always in the process of asserting their existence through struggling for survival by selling their labour to the capitalists in order to earn a living. The paper blames this act of suffering on colonialism and neo-colonialism imposed on the African people.
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Reframing the Israeli Government's Narrative and Policies towards the Israeli Diaspora: A Novel Approach based on the Kübler-Ross Grief Theory
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Perla Aizencang Kane
2026, Israel Studies
This article explores the evolving dynamics of the Israeli government's narrative and policies toward the Israeli diaspora from the early years of statehood until the early 2000s. Whereas the term "diaspora" has historically referred to...
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This article explores the evolving dynamics of the Israeli government's narrative and policies toward the Israeli diaspora from the early years of statehood until the early 2000s. Whereas the term "diaspora" has historically referred to Jewish communities outside Israel, the "Israeli diaspora" concept is relatively new, emerging only within the past few decades. This study examines Israeli official political discourse and policies directed toward Israelis living abroad, and how this engagement has redefined the boundaries of Israel's national community beyond its borders. Given the significant changes in the Israeli government's conceptions, perceptions, and attitudes toward the Israeli diaspora over the years, the study employs a comprehensive qualitative longitudinal methodology. A chronological "trajectory" was selected as the primary research tool, enabling the systematic analysis of changes, continuities, and disruptions in governmental narrative and policies concerning emigration. Ultimately, the article presents a novel approach to understanding Israeli state-migrant relations, drawing on Kübler-Ross's stages of grief model. Although originally developed to describe the stages of grief individuals go through, it has been adapted by some scholars to analyze broader societal behaviors, public sentiments, and policy.
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Teacher accounts of parent involvement in children's education in China
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Anna D Kilderry
2026, Teaching and Teacher Education
Early childhood teacher views on parenting in China. Parenting and the role of parents in children's education. Teacher discourse is located within the context of 'glocalization'. Parent modelling and parent learning are important for...
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Early childhood teacher views on parenting in China. Parenting and the role of parents in children's education. Teacher discourse is located within the context of 'glocalization'. Parent modelling and parent learning are important for children's education. Early childhood teacher-parent partnerships in China are changing.
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Strategies of Moral Casting in Political Arenas - Actor Identifications as Assets in Political Persuasion. (2026) Palgrave, Hanna Rautajoki, Richard Fitzgerald.
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Richard Fitzgerald
2026
This collection of chapters contributes to developing methodological concepts and more precise analytic tools to investigate and better understand contemporary strategies in political persuasion. Situated in political dis-course studies,...
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This collection of chapters contributes to developing methodological concepts and more precise analytic tools to investigate and better understand contemporary strategies in political persuasion. Situated in political dis-course studies, the book brings together new theoretical angles and a col-lection of empirical studies focused on political strategies of persuasion operationalized on various public arenas of mediated political communi-cation. The case studies are situated within the wider political currents in the context of six European countries (Finland, Germany, Iceland, Portu-gal, Russia and Hungary), circulating political discourses through an inno-vative analytic framework drawing on the theoretical approach of discursive institutionalism together with the detailed analytic approaches from ethnomethodological sociology. In particular, the studies combine a focus on epistemic governance (viewing political decision-making as a game of discursive persuasion) and cultural membership categorization analysis (viewing cultural actor categories as a means to organize and regulate social orders) to build an analytic approach that focuses on the evaluative use of identifications, namely the moral casting of key actors, in the dramaturgical definition of a political situation.
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A retrospective reading of the journal Yurtseverler Birliği published in Berlin from 1982 to 1989: the decade that transformed Alevism
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Besim Can ZIRH
2026, New Perspectives on Turkey
This article aims to demonstrate that the "Alevi Revival," commonly described as the sudden increase in visibility of Alevis in Turkey in the early 1990s, was actually the result of a decadelong transformation experienced by Alevis in...
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This article aims to demonstrate that the "Alevi Revival," commonly described as the sudden increase in visibility of Alevis in Turkey in the early 1990s, was actually the result of a decadelong transformation experienced by Alevis in Europe since the late 1970s. This historical contextualization is not entirely novel but is typically only framed in reference to certain milestone events. The present article substantiates this approach based on an analysis of nine issues of Yurtseverler Birliği, one of the earliest Alevi political journals, published from 1982 to 1989 in Berlin and not yet studied. The evolving discourse surrounding Alevism in this journal's issues provides the earliest substantial evidence for understanding the emergence and evolution of strategies employed to promote the visibility of Alevism from the 1980s to the 1990s. By the end of this period, the strategy of "making Alevism known" had become dominant in defining Alevism in Europe, in contrast to heterogeneous approaches to framing Alevism in Turkey. In this sense, the "Alevi Manifesto," an open letter published in 1990 in Turkey, and the first Alevi Culture Week, organized a year before in Germany, should be regarded as outcomes of the preexisting context rather than the Revival's initiation.
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Policy and the image of the child: a critical analysis of drivers and levers in English early years curriculum policy
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Zoe Lewis
2026, Early Years
Using a post-structuralist framework, this article seeks to analyse the ways in which English early years curriculum policy has led to different constructions of young children. Although policy is often presented as being logical and...
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Using a post-structuralist framework, this article seeks to analyse the ways in which English early years curriculum policy has led to different constructions of young children. Although policy is often presented as being logical and factual, policy making can also be seen as a value-laden process in which meanings are socially constructed and can therefore be deconstructed and reconstructed. In this article, I analyse the different interests that are served by curriculum policy, the intentions of policy makers and how policy levers and drivers might combine to produce potentially conflicting images of the child. I conclude that these conflicting images create tensions between policy makers' pursuit of cost efficiency and the rights of young children in early years settings. However, poststructural analysis suggests that these are political decisions and things do not have to be this way. Those working in early years can challenge policy makers' constructions of young children, to adopt a more ethical rights-based approach to early education.
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¿ Cambio de década o cambio de época?: lectura de las transformaciones culturales de la sociedad colombiana a la luz de las columnas “Consúlteme su caso” y “ …
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ADRIANA MARCELA LONDOÑO CANCELADO
2026
This thesis looks to analize tensions, contradictions and changes that took place in the familiar structure of colombian society along 60s and 70s decades. The thesis is based on strongly influential press articles "consúlteme su caso"...
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This thesis looks to analize tensions, contradictions and changes that took place in the familiar structure of colombian society along 60s and 70s decades. The thesis is based on strongly influential press articles "consúlteme su caso" and "ventana abierta" that were written by carmelita´s priest Jose Miguel Miranda and were published in Cromos Magazine. The columns analysis, based on postulates of cultural history and mentalities history, permits not only to explore thought and experience of a public figure and in this way to reconstruct particularities of an epoch, but also it permits focus on people's questions in different colombian regions. In this sense, the reserach that sustain the thesis focus on themes of special interest for colombian society, as marriage, women role, relations between parents and children and the prominence that youth had achieved in that historic moment.
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শিরক-বিদ‘আত: উৎপত্তি ও ক্রমবিকাশ
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Dr. Meer Monjur Mahmood
2026, Darul Hikmah Publications Ltd., Dhaka, 2020
তাওহিদ, শিরক ও বিদ’আত নিয়ে বাংলা ভাষায় লেখা একটি সহজ ও সুখপাঠ্য বই। বাংলাদেশের মুসলিম সমাজের রন্ধ্রে রন্ধ্রে মিশে থাকা প্রথা, ঐতিহ্য, অন্ধ অনুসরণ-অনুকরণ, বিশেষ কারো খেয়াল-খুশি, কথা-কাজের মাঝে ইসলামী রীতিনীতি ও কালচারের সাথে সাংঘর্ষিক এবং...
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তাওহিদ, শিরক ও বিদ’আত নিয়ে বাংলা ভাষায় লেখা একটি সহজ ও সুখপাঠ্য বই। বাংলাদেশের মুসলিম সমাজের রন্ধ্রে রন্ধ্রে মিশে থাকা প্রথা, ঐতিহ্য, অন্ধ অনুসরণ-অনুকরণ, বিশেষ কারো খেয়াল-খুশি, কথা-কাজের মাঝে ইসলামী রীতিনীতি ও কালচারের সাথে সাংঘর্ষিক এবং ইবাদতের ক্ষেত্রে তা শিরক-বিদ’আতের মধ্যে পড়ে- সে বিষয়গুলোকে চিহ্নিত করার চেষ্টা করা হয়েছে। এখানে আলোচিত বিষয়গুলো কাউকে সামান্য আঘাত করবে- এমন কামনা থেকে লেখা নয়; বরং একজন বিশ^াসীকে ঈমানদীপ্ত জীবনের সন্ধান দিতে চেষ্টা করা হয়েছে। বইটির দুই মোড়কের মাঝের লেখাগুলো শুরু থেকে শেষ পর্যন্ত শিরক ও বিদ’আতের মতো মহাভ্রান্তি থেকে তাওহিদের আলোকময় মহাসড়কে এনে ব্যক্তি ও সমাজের মুক্তিচিন্তা এখানে বিশেষভাবে কাজ করেছে।
গ্রন্থটির প্রতিপাদ্য বিষয় সুপ্রাচীন, যা অব্যাহত থাকবে পৃথিবীর শেষ সূর্যাস্ত পর্যন্ত। সেজন্য এটি তাওহিদ, শিরক ও বিদ’আতের উপরে লিখিত নতুন কোনো বিশেষায়িত জ্ঞান লাভের জন্য নয়; বরং সহজ-সরল সাধারণ মুসলিমের ব্যক্তি, পরিবার ও সমাজজীবনের স্বাভাবিক পথচলায় শিরক-বিদ’আতের চোরাগলি এড়িয়ে তাওহিদের সুমহান শিক্ষার উপরে টিকে থাকতে সীমিত পরিসরে সহায়তা প্রদানের জন্য লেখা হয়েছে। তাওহিদের মহান ইমাম মুসলিম জাতির পিতা ইবরাহিম আ.-এর উত্তরাধিকার হিসেবে প্রধানতম কাজ এটিই।
গ্রন্থটির পাঠ মুসলিম মানস ও তার জীবনপথে চলতে তাওহিদের বিশুদ্ধ চেতনার জাগরণ, আর শিরক-বিদ’আতের মহাভ্রান্তি থেকে মুক্তিলাভে পথ দেখাবে- এমনটিই আশা করি। মুসলিমের বিশ^াস-চিন্তা ও কর্মের সবকিছুই তাওহিদকেন্দ্রিক হওয়া অনিবার্য, বিকল্পহীন। এর বাইরে কোনো ইসলাম নেই, আলো নেই, শুচি-শুদ্ধতা নেই, মুক্তিদিশা নেই; আছে কেবলই ভ্রান্তি আর গোমরাহী। তাই মানুষের কাছে তাওহিদের জ্ঞান না থাকলে সে তার পরিচয় ও পথ হারাবে, নিশ্চিতভাবেই নিমজ্জিত হবে গোমরাহীতে।
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An Interdiscursive Analysis of Post-The Innocence of Muslims Political Discourse at UN Forum
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Dr. Shazia Ayyaz
2026, International Journal of English Linguistics
This research focusses the interdiscursive analysis of political discourse to expose the hegemonic relations in the world politics. It is backgrounded in the issue of blasphemy that emerged after the release of the movie trailer The...
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This research focusses the interdiscursive analysis of political discourse to expose the hegemonic relations in the world politics. It is backgrounded in the issue of blasphemy that emerged after the release of the movie trailer The Innocence of Muslims. The researcher restricted the context of the study to the UN General Assembly meeting September 2012 where the issue was discussed in the presence of world political leaders. The data of the study contains the speech of the US president Barak Obama and is analyzed by using Fairclough’s (1992) concept of interdiscursivity and hegemony. The analysis is focused on the discourse of the dominant political actor to find out the power relations and hegemony as exposed through the interdiscursive references present in his discourse. The study concludes that the dominant political leader uses different discursive strategies to construct and sustain power relations and hegemony. Interdiscursivity helps him to construct powerful self-image and...
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An Interdiscursive Analysis of Post-The Innocence of Muslims Political Discourse at UN Forum
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Dr. Shazia Ayyaz
2026, International Journal of English Linguistics
This research focusses the interdiscursive analysis of political discourse to expose the hegemonic relations in the world politics. It is backgrounded in the issue of blasphemy that emerged after the release of the movie trailer The...
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This research focusses the interdiscursive analysis of political discourse to expose the hegemonic relations in the world politics. It is backgrounded in the issue of blasphemy that emerged after the release of the movie trailer The Innocence of Muslims. The researcher restricted the context of the study to the UN General Assembly meeting September 2012 where the issue was discussed in the presence of world political leaders. The data of the study contains the speech of the US president Barak Obama and is analyzed by using Fairclough's (1992) concept of interdiscursivity and hegemony. The analysis is focused on the discourse of the dominant political actor to find out the power relations and hegemony as exposed through the interdiscursive references present in his discourse. The study concludes that the dominant political leader uses different discursive strategies to construct and sustain power relations and hegemony. Interdiscursivity helps him to construct powerful self-image and to marginalise the subordinate group by highlighting its negative aspects and suppressing its ideologies.
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Cultural Representation of Social Status and Power in Short Stories: A Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective
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Hulya Tuncer
2026
Literature is considered to be one of the effective ways to represent cultural images of people, values, norms, social practices and ideologies, thus how culture is represented through literary works has been subject to many studies....
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Literature is considered to be one of the effective ways to represent cultural images of people, values, norms, social practices and ideologies, thus how culture is represented through literary works has been subject to many studies. Within this context, the objective of this study is to describe how Indian culture regarding social status and power relations is represented in short stories through the external conflicts the major characters experience. For this reason, two short stories were chosen: Miss Youghal’s Sais by Rudyard Kipling and The Thakur’s Well by Premchand. While the former story includes a British character the latter one focuses on an Indian character as their major characters. Nevertheless, the setting for both stories is India, elevating the cultural elements embodied in that geography, particularly social status differences and power distribution within the caste system. By following a qualitative research design, analysis of the characters and the external conflicts they are involved in was realized through Fairclough’s three-step Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): textual, discursive and social analysis. Findings indicate that while Kipling’s story reinforces the colonial power structures over Indian characters, Premchand’s story foregrounds the oppression experienced by lower-status characters within the Indian caste system. By comparing colonial and indigenous perspectives, the study demonstrates how conflicts can serve as evidence of underlying social status and power relations within a culture.
Keywords: Cultural Representation, Short Story, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), External Conflict, Social Status, Power Relations, Rudyard Kipling, Premchand
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Akasya Durağı Dizisi Üzerinden TOPLUMSAL CİNSİYET VE MEDYA incelemesi
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Özgün Hakan
2026
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در تقاطع ویرانی و همبستگی: دگردیسی آرایش سیاسی ایران در سایه‌ جنگ‌ بی‌پایان
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Yaser Mirdamadi
2026
در این گفتار کوتاه، قصد دارم با اتکاء به دیدگاه «میهن‌دوستی انتقادی» به واکاوی سه پرسش محوری مرتبط با شرایط کنونی ایران بپردازم. منظورم از «میهن‌دوستی انتقادی» رویکردی سیاسی است که می‌کوشد دفاعِ حقوق‌بشری از کیانِ سرزمین و جانِ شهروندان...
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در این گفتار کوتاه، قصد دارم با اتکاء به دیدگاه «میهن‌دوستی انتقادی» به واکاوی سه پرسش محوری مرتبط با شرایط کنونی ایران بپردازم. منظورم از «میهن‌دوستی انتقادی» رویکردی سیاسی است که می‌کوشد دفاعِ حقوق‌بشری از کیانِ سرزمین و جانِ شهروندان را با نقدِ ساختاری و سازش‌ناپذیرِ شیوه‌ حکمرانی غیر دموکراتیک هم‌آهنگ سازد؛ این دیدگاه به استبداد داخلی نه می‌گوید اما نه به قیمت استیلای خارجی، و هم‌زمان به استیلای خارجی هم نه می‌گوید اما نه به قیمت تحکیم استبداد داخلی، بلکه می‌کوشد موضعی ملی اتخاذ کند که هم منتقد استبداد داخلی است و هم منتقد استیلای خارجی.
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Discourse analysis as ideology analysis
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Teun van Dijk
2026
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REFLECTIONS OF DISINFORMATION IN THE MEDIA IN TÜRKİYE: EXAMPLES FROM SABAH, SÖZCÜ AND YENİÇAĞ NEWSPAPERS IN THE SUMMER OF 2023
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ESİN TANRIKURT
2026, REFLECTIONS OF DISINFORMATION IN THE MEDIA IN TÜRKİYE: EXAMPLES FROM SABAH, SÖZCÜ AND YENİÇAĞ NEWSPAPERS IN THE SUMMER OF 2023
The rapid development of information and communication technologies has profoundly transformed the production, dissemination, and consumption of news. Within this environment, disinformation has emerged as one of the most...
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The rapid development of information and communication technologies has profoundly transformed the production, dissemination, and consumption of news. Within this environment, disinformation has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges for contemporary societies. Unlike misinformation, which refers to the unintentional circulation of inaccurate data, disinformation is defined as the deliberate and systematic manipulation of facts, contexts, and narratives with the aim of shaping public opinion. Its impact is not limited to political communication; rather, it extends to a wide spectrum of public life including social debates, economic reporting, cultural narratives, sports, and even entertainment news. The normalization of disinformation within the everyday news cycle threatens democratic deliberation, undermines institutional trust, and contributes to the deepening of polarization.
This thesis investigates how disinformation manifested within the Turkish media during the summer of 2023. The selection of this period carries deliberate significance. Following the general elections, Türkiye entered a phase of intense political polarization, ongoing economic instability, and a delicate recovery from the major earthquakes that struck earlier that year. Simultaneously, public discourse became increasingly preoccupied with debates on migration and national security. Meanwhile, sports and entertainment coverage maintained strong public engagement through the spread of rumors, speculative stories, and sensational reporting. The coexistence of political tension, societal fragility, and the mass circulation of popular news renders the summer of 2023 a critical moment for understanding the ways in which disinformation infiltrates both political communication and popular culture.
The study employs a qualitative methodology based on critical discourse analysis and framing analysis. Critical discourse analysis makes it possible to reveal the ideological dimensions of language use, the reproduction of power relations, and the strategic deployment of linguistic and visual resources. Framing analysis, in turn, focuses on the interpretive schemes through which the same event is presented differently by different outlets. Together, these two approaches enable a deeper understanding of disinformation not merely as a matter of factual accuracy, but as a discursive practice that constructs meaning through emphasis, omission, exaggeration, and narrative positioning.
The data set consists of news articles published between June and August 2023 in three newspapers: Sabah, Sözcü and Yeniçağ. These newspapers were selected because they represent distinct ideological orientations within the Turkish press. Sabah reflects a pro-government and conservative line, Sözcü represents an oppositional and secular perspective, while Yeniçağ embodies a nationalist orientation critical of both government and mainstream opposition. This diversity provides a fertile ground for comparative analysis, enabling the study to demonstrate how disinformation strategies vary according to ideological positioning.
The findings of the research demonstrate that disinformation is not confined to any single political camp but is rather a widespread practice across the ideological spectrum. In the case of Sabah disinformation frequently appeared in the form of selective reporting and legitimizing discourse that reinforced government narratives while downplaying critical perspectives. Sözcü on the other hand, often relied on dramatization and exaggerated headlines that amplified oppositional critiques, occasionally publishing claims without adequate verification. Yeniçağ distinguished itself by its securitization of migration and foreign policy issues, using othering strategies and unverified statistics to portray migrants as existential threats to the nation. In addition to these political and social domains, all three newspapers displayed lighter forms of disinformation in sports and entertainment news, including transfer rumors in football, speculative celebrity gossip, and sensationalist reports on private lives. Although seemingly less consequential, such practices contribute to the erosion of verification standards and foster a culture of low accountability in journalism.
The comparative analysis reveals that each outlet employs disinformation in line with its ideological orientation: legitimization in pro-government discourse, dramatization in oppositional discourse, and securitization in nationalist discourse.Despite these differences, a common tendency emerges in all three newspapers: the prioritization of immediacy, sensationalism, and partisanship over accuracy and verification. This tendency not only reinforces polarization but also undermines the possibility of a shared public reality, thereby weakening democratic deliberation.
The thesis argues that addressing disinformation cannot be reduced to technical fact-checking mechanisms alone. What is required is a deeper engagement with the structural and cultural dimensions of media production, including the strengthening of journalistic ethics, the development of independent editorial policies, and the promotion of media literacy among citizens. By situating the Turkish case within the global literature on disinformation, the study underscores that the problem is both local and transnational, shaped by the interaction of political, economic, and technological forces.
In conclusion, this research contributes to the literature by providing an empirical, comparative, and period-specific analysis of disinformation in Türkiye. By examining the summer of 2023 across three ideologically diverse newspapers, it demonstrates how disinformation infiltrates multiple domains of public communication and functions as a key instrument in shaping collective perceptions. The findings underline the urgent need to address disinformation not only as a matter of truth and falsehood but as a systemic challenge that affects the quality of public life and the health of democratic societies.
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Mapping Antiglobalist Populism Bringing Ideology Back In
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Manfred Steger
2026
This article argues that the current explosion of right-wing national-populism is intricately connected to shifting perceptions of globalization in the world. I contend that a return to the once dominant but now frequently criticized...
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This article argues that the current explosion of right-wing national-populism is intricately connected to shifting perceptions of globalization in the world. I contend that a return to the once dominant but now frequently criticized ideational approach to the study of populism as ideology or discourse can provide insightful, if incomplete, explanations of the current populist moment. After a brief opening overview of some influential conceptual perspectives on populism, the article offers an appraisal of some major criticisms leveled against the ideological paradigm by advocates of competing approaches. I argue that the widespread portrayal of populism as a "thin-centered" ideology does not capture the ideational constellation of what I call antiglobalist populism. The currently dominant strain is reflected most prominently in "Trumpism" and similar European manifestations. To make my case, I apply the qualitative method of morphological discourse analysis (mda) to key 2016 campaign speeches delivered by then presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and to related public remarks presented by British national-populist leader Nigel Farage on American soil. The research findings presented in this article suggest that globalization-related concepts have moved to the core and adjacent symbolic environment of antiglobalist populism. Thus, the general assumption of a "thin" conceptual core of national-populism no longer holds because its morphology has been significantly enriched. Bringing ideology back into populism studies serves the much-needed rehabilitation of a valuable perspective that has been written off too prematurely by many populism scholars.
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Legal professional identity formation and the representation of legal professionals in classroom talk
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Tracy-Lynn Humby
2026
A thesis submitted to the Wits School of Education, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg 2012
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Legal professional identity formation and the representation of legal professionals in classroom talk
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Tracy-Lynn Humby
2026
A thesis submitted to the Wits School of Education, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg 2012
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A sociological approach to Japan's war frames and security threats
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Paul Jobin 彭保羅 ジョバン・ポール
2026, The Sociological Review
The sociology of war has thus far focused on the history of past wars, neglecting ongoing evolution over social attitudes toward the risk of potential wars. In contrast, international relations scholars tend to neglect the legacy of past...
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The sociology of war has thus far focused on the history of past wars, neglecting ongoing evolution over social attitudes toward the risk of potential wars. In contrast, international relations scholars tend to neglect the legacy of past wars in the analysis of the social reception of security discourses. To address these lacunas, this article draws on the notion of war frames and focuses its analysis on the critical voices of the securitization process. Through interviews with leftwing politicians and intellectuals conducted after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as well as polls and media analysis along with ethnographic observation in the southern part of Okinawa, this article explains why Japan's defence budget has dramatically increased while attachment to 'pacifism' remains strong. This apparent contradiction can be partly understood as a response to Russia's aggression, which triggered Japanese people's fear of a conflict over Taiwan and Okinawa, thus challenging the pacifist posture that has prevailed in Japan since the end of World War II. Adopting a sociological perspective, this article shifts the focus from political elites and security experts to opposition parties, intellectuals and civil society.
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Κριτική βιβλίου: Ο Χάρι Πότερ και η φιλοσοφική λίθος
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Argyro Mountaki
2026, fractalart.gr
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Ιστορικός αναστοχασμός για τη νεώτερη Ελλάδα: Οι ιστορίες της Ελλάδας των Θάνου Βερέμη και Γιάννη Κολιόπουλου
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Dimitris Livanios
2026, The Athens Review of Books
ΙστορΙκός αναστοχασμός γΙα τη νεώτερη Ελλάδα: ΟΙ Ιστορίες της Ελλάδας των Θάνου Βερέμη καΙ ΓΙάννη ΚολΙόπουλου Του Δημήτρη ΛυβάνΙΟυ Ο Θάνος Βερέμης και ο Γιάννης Κολιόπουλος ξεκίνησαν την επιστημονική τους πορεία στην Ελλάδα την εποχή της...
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ΙστορΙκός αναστοχασμός γΙα τη νεώτερη Ελλάδα: ΟΙ Ιστορίες της Ελλάδας των Θάνου Βερέμη καΙ ΓΙάννη ΚολΙόπουλου Του Δημήτρη ΛυβάνΙΟυ Ο Θάνος Βερέμης και ο Γιάννης Κολιόπουλος ξεκίνησαν την επιστημονική τους πορεία στην Ελλάδα την εποχή της μετάβασης από την απριλιανή δικτατορία στην Γ' Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, όταν και επέστρεψαν μετά τις μεταπτυχιακές τους σπουδές στην Οξφόρδη (Trinity College) και το London School of Economics αντίστοιχα για να εργαστούν στη σύνταξη της Ιστορίας του Ελληνικού Έθνους της Εκδοτικής Αθηνών. Αποτελεί κοινή παραδοχή ότι η μετάβαση αυτή δεν σηματοδότησε μόνο την έξοδο της χώρας από το δικτατορικό καθεστώς αλλά και την εκκίνηση μιας νέας εποχής για την ιστοριογραφία της νεότερης Ελλάδας: έχει σημειωθεί από τότε μια πραγματική αναγέννηση, ποσοτική και ποιοτική, των ιστορικών σπουδών, στην οποία η συμβολή των δύο αυτών ιστορικών υπήρξε σημαντική. Διαθέτουμε πλέον πλήθος σοβαρών ιστορικών έργων, τα οποία πραγματεύονται με επάρκεια ένα μεγάλο εύρος θεμάτων. 1 Παρατηρείται ακόμη, ωστόσο, μια κάποια ανισορροπία στην ελληνική ιστοριογραφική παραγωγή μετά το 1974: η οικονομική και κοινωνική ιστορία, μια
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TEACHER RECAST AND LEARNER NOTICEABILITY: Abstract: DYNAMICS IN EFL INTERACTIVE CLASSROOMS
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Talal M. Amara
2026, European Journal of English Language Teaching
This study examines learner noticing of teacher recasts in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) interactive classrooms, with a specific focus on comparing the relative effectiveness of explicit and implicit recasts. The research was...
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This study examines learner noticing of teacher recasts in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) interactive classrooms, with a specific focus on comparing the relative effectiveness of explicit and implicit recasts. The research was conducted at the Specific Training Center for Oil Industries in Zawia, Libya, and involved four intermediate-level classrooms comprising learners from diverse academic and professional backgrounds. Data were collected through 540 minutes of classroom observation, during which natural teacher-learner interactions were recorded. A total of 45 teacher recasts were identified, of which 28 were classified as explicit and 17 as implicit. Learner noticing was identified through immediate uptake and repair following each recast. To triangulate the findings, post-observation interviews were conducted with learners who had received recasts, providing further insight into their cognitive engagement with the teacher recasts. Findings revealed a high rate of learner noticing overall, with 96.8% of explicit recasts and 82.4% of implicit recasts being noticed by learners. Moreover, explicit recasts led to successful learner repair in over 90% of cases, compared to 76.5% for implicit recasts. These results suggest that both recast types are effective in promoting learner awareness and language accuracy, with explicit recasts showing a slightly stronger impact. The study highlights the pedagogical value of recasts, particularly in interactive EFL contexts where learners are actively engaged in communicative tasks. Limitations include the context-specific nature of the study and the reliance on observable uptake as the main indicator of noticing. Future research is recommended to explore long-term effects, learner perceptions, and broader classroom contexts.
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Discursive Scenographies and Narrative Regimes of Trump's Leadership in African News Media
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Léon-Martin Mbembo Likongo
2026
This article examines how African news media construct Donald Trump's leadership during the first year of his renewed presidency (20 January 2025-20 January 2026). Drawing on a qualitative, multi-site design, the study analyzes a...
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This article examines how African news media construct Donald Trump's leadership during the first year of his renewed presidency (20 January 2025-20 January 2026). Drawing on a qualitative, multi-site design, the study analyzes a multilingual corpus of nine African outlets using a two-track framework that combines discursive scenography and narrative regime analysis.
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Whaling in the Antarctic and the Power of Public International Law
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James C Fisher
2026
The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and the associated recent litigation before the International Court of Justice reveal a great deal about the status and power of international law in the 21st Century. Japan's...
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The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and the associated recent litigation before the International Court of Justice reveal a great deal about the status and power of international law in the 21st Century. Japan's infamous JARPA II whaling programme has been widely criticised as disguised commercial whaling, contrary to the international moratorium on commercial whaling. The ICJ ruled last year that the JARPA II programme was indeed unlawful because the whaling licences involved had not been granted for purposes of scientific research, as demanded by the Convention. The extensive JARPA II programme therefore shows the continued power of local cultural traditions to obstruct the demands of international law. The ICJ judgment, conversely, shows the intensity of review to which the ICJ feels willing to go in deciding whether a specific State has violated its obligations under public international law. The Court engaged in detailed, factually nuanced analysis of the nature of Japan's JARPA II programme in concluding that it was not being undertaken for scientific purposes. The litigation is also testament to the determination of governments and NGOs to ensure the rules of public international law are enforced. Nonetheless, however laudable the aims of the ICJ, there may be grounds to conclude that its interpretation of the Convention was legally flawed and amounted to an improper expansion of the investigative power of international judicial bodies.
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Whaling in the Antarctic and the Power of Public International Law
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James C Fisher
2026
The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and the associated recent litigation before the International Court of Justice reveal a great deal about the status and power of international law in the 21st Century. Japan's...
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The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and the associated recent litigation before the International Court of Justice reveal a great deal about the status and power of international law in the 21st Century. Japan's infamous JARPA II whaling programme has been widely criticised as disguised commercial whaling, contrary to the international moratorium on commercial whaling. The ICJ ruled last year that the JARPA II programme was indeed unlawful because the whaling licences involved had not been granted for purposes of scientific research, as demanded by the Convention. The extensive JARPA II programme therefore shows the continued power of local cultural traditions to obstruct the demands of international law. The ICJ judgment, conversely, shows the intensity of review to which the ICJ feels willing to go in deciding whether a specific State has violated its obligations under public international law. The Court engaged in detailed, factually nuanced analysis of the nature of Japan's JARPA II programme in concluding that it was not being undertaken for scientific purposes. The litigation is also testament to the determination of governments and NGOs to ensure the rules of public international law are enforced. Nonetheless, however laudable the aims of the ICJ, there may be grounds to conclude that its interpretation of the Convention was legally flawed and amounted to an improper expansion of the investigative power of international judicial bodies.
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Chapter 5:Testimony as Resistance: Women’s Resistance in Urdu Digests 1979-1985
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Arooj Alam
2026
In this chapter, I bring forth the contributions of some lesser-known women writers from the late twentieth century to showcase their resistance to gender-based violence in Pakistan. Gender based violence remains a massive obstacle in...
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In this chapter, I bring forth the contributions of some lesser-known women writers from the late twentieth century to showcase their resistance to gender-based violence in Pakistan. Gender based violence remains a massive obstacle in Pakistani society, perpetuated often by husbands, fathers, brothers, male relatives, and even strangers who operate under the assumption that they are women's lords and sovereigns. Given this grim reality, I find it necessary to bring forth Pakistani women’s resistance as they appear in Urdu women’s magazines and digests from late 1970s to mid 1980s.  I specifically trace the continuity of Muslim women’s resistance by analyzing three stories from previously unexamined Urdu women’s digests and magazines namely Hina Digest and Mystery Magazine. Women writers situate their resistance as “testimonies,” speaking out and about gender-based violence across genres in contrast to the norm of staying silent due to fear of shame, social ostracization, and pressures of preserving family reputation.  Therefore, I argue that the women writers I have selected not only reinvigorate the afsana, daastan, and ajeeb o gharib genres in post-colonial South Aisa, but also reconstitute their relations with selves, subjects, and society by pushing the boundaries of these genres’ conventions.
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Percepcija duhovnosti in duhovne oskrbe pri zaposlenih v slovenskih domovih za starejše
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Irena Svab Kavcic
2026, Bogoslovni vestnik
Povzetek: Duhovnost, esenca holistične oskrbe stanovalcev domov za starejše, se izraža v oskrbi hudo bolnih ali umirajočih. Ne glede na njen pomen so duhovnost in z njo povezane potrebe ter stiske pogosto prezrte. Duhovna oskrba lahko...
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Povzetek: Duhovnost, esenca holistične oskrbe stanovalcev domov za starejše, se izraža v oskrbi hudo bolnih ali umirajočih. Ne glede na njen pomen so duhovnost in z njo povezane potrebe ter stiske pogosto prezrte. Duhovna oskrba lahko dopolni nezadovoljivo oskrbo in tako izboljša kakovost življenja stanovalcev ter preprečuje izgorelost zaposlenih. Takšno oskrbo pa lahko zagotovi le osebje, ki svojo vlogo razume. Odgovori na zastavljeno raziskovalno vprašanje: »Kakšna je percepcija duhovnosti in duhovne oskrbe pri zaposlenih v slovenskih domovih za starejše?« so potrdili vpliv dojemanja duhovnosti na percepcijo duhovne oskrbe. Podatki so bili zbrani na vzorcu 20 domov za starejše; izvedena je bila eksploratorna faktorska analiza, ki je bila dodatno preverjena s konfirmatorno faktorsko analizo. Standardizirani regresijski koeficient pri neodvisni spremenljivki zaznavanje eksistencialne komponente duhovnosti 0,854 je s p < 0,001 statistično značilno različen od nič. Pri spremenljivki nereligiozna komponenta duhovnosti je vrednost standardiziranega regresijskega koeficienta -0,025 in nima značilnega vpliva (p = 0,53) na duhovno oskrbo.
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Metáfora Y Discurso / Metaphor And Discourse
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José Ramón Prado Pérez
2026, Cultura Lenguaje Y Representacion Culture Language and Representation
This is a methodological paper which addresses three distinct ways in which metaphor can be found in discourse. The first approach concerns the Pragglejaz method for finding metaphorically used words, which involves the canonical case of...
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This is a methodological paper which addresses three distinct ways in which metaphor can be found in discourse. The first approach concerns the Pragglejaz method for finding metaphorically used words, which involves the canonical case of metaphor identification in cognitive linguistics. The second approach concerns one way in which it is possible to go from words identified as metaphorically used to their related underlying conceptual structures, by means of a five-step procedure. And the third approach focuses on other linguistic forms of expression of metaphor as an underlying cross-domain mapping in conceptual structure, such as simile and analogy. All three approaches are discussed with reference to their application in empirical research on corpus data.
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The neurotic parent: affect, risk and school choice
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Andrew W Wilkins
2026, Journal of Education Policy
To cite: Bertotti, V. & Wilkins, A.W. (2026). The neurotic parent: Affect, risk and school choice. Journal of Education Policy, iFirst. The original neoliberal policy design for school choice is quite straightforward: parents...
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Bertotti, V. & Wilkins, A.W. (2026). The neurotic parent: Affect, risk and school choice. Journal of Education Policy, iFirst.
The original neoliberal policy design for school choice is quite straightforward: parents exercise school choice as rational consumers pursuing competitive familial advantage through cost-benefit analysis and self-interest. In contrast to these narrow, instrumental accounts of school choice, critical education researchers insist that school choice is characterised by complex intransitive preferences and emotions that are deeply personal and social. The idea being that school choice is shaped not only by calculation and clinical detachment but by anxieties and insecurities that evade the standard rationality presupposed by public choice and rational choice perspectives. Adding to this growing body of literature, this paper documents the dynamics of school choice as affectively organised behaviour. We draw on Isin's (2004) concept of the 'neurotic citizen' to show how school choice architecture, such as school websites, appear to overlay and encourage seemingly conflicting orientations to choice: rational calculation and affective insecurity. Through a case study of the South Australian preschool sector, this paper documents how schools create affective atmospheres that work to both soothe and intensify parental fears and anxieties. These insights point to strategies in the management of neurosis or 'governing through neurosis'.
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Ideology, socialization and hegemony in Disciplinary International Relations
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Randolph B Persaud
2026, International Affairs
Most debates in International Relations (IR) have been about epistemology (the process of knowledge production), ontology (the significant entities to be analysed), methodology (that is, techniques of analysis) and theory; more attention...
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Most debates in International Relations (IR) have been about epistemology (the process of knowledge production), ontology (the significant entities to be analysed), methodology (that is, techniques of analysis) and theory; more attention should be given to the relations of power and consequences of knowledge production within the discipline. Accordingly, the focus here is on the broader societal consequences of what IR scholars produce, and especially the relationships among theory, theorists, the state and policy. 1 I use the term Disciplinary International Relations (DIR) more as a symbol than as an acronym: a symbol, that is, of traditional and mainstream IR with strong, but implicit, ideological content. The larger construct, 'Disciplinary International Relations', has a double meaning. First, it refers to that body of knowledge that is recognized as properly belonging to the scholarly field of knowledge. Second, 'disciplinary' is used in a Foucauldian sense, to convey the fact that what is deemed legitimate IR knowledge is conditioned, shaped and delimited through the exercise of institutional power, but also enabled, circulated and rewarded in material, political and cultural terms. In sum, DIR is an effect of what I see as epistemological governance, that is, an 'intercalating of institutions, agents and knowledge production'. 2 The focus of this article goes beyond theory per se; consideration is also given to the theorists themselves most associated with DIR. 3 The reason is that DIR theorists are the organic intellectuals of American global hegemony. Put * This article is part of the January 2022 special issue to mark the 100th anniversary of International Affairs: 'Race and imperialism in International Relations: theory and practice', guest-edited by Jasmine K. Gani and Jenna Marshall. I would like to thank the several external reviewers for their detailed, substantive and insightful critical feedback and many constructive suggestions. I would also like to thank Jasmine Gani and Jenna Marshall, Amitav Acharya, Jordan Tama, James Goldgeier and Carl Levan for the valuable comments they provided.
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ما لا يستطيع الذكاء الاصطناعي كتابته
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Emad Abdul-Latif د. عماد عبد اللطيف
2026, المجلة العربية
في محاضرة مع طلاب دراسات عليا في اختصاص علوم اللغة العربية وآدابها سألني طالب: لماذا نتعلم كيف نكتب بحثًا علميًا إذا كان الذكاء الاصطناعي قادرًا على القيام بالمهمة أفضل منا؟! أليس الأفضل تعلم كيف نطلب من الذكاء الاصطناعي كتابته؟! كانت...
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في محاضرة مع طلاب دراسات عليا في اختصاص علوم اللغة العربية وآدابها سألني طالب: لماذا نتعلم كيف نكتب بحثًا علميًا إذا كان الذكاء الاصطناعي قادرًا على القيام بالمهمة أفضل منا؟! أليس الأفضل تعلم كيف نطلب من الذكاء الاصطناعي كتابته؟! كانت إجابتي أن تعلم البحث العلمي لا يهدف إلى كتابة بحوث فقط، بل بناء عقل بحثي قادر على إنتاج المعرفة. بدا الطالب غير مقتنع بإجابتي، ففكرتُ أن أؤلف مقالا موجزًا حول ما لا يمكن للذكاء الاصطناعي كتابته. فكان هذا المقال الذي نشرته منذ أيام المجلة العربية بالمملكة السعودية. أرجو أن يفتح المقال الباب أمام مناقشات مثرية حول الموضوع. وأرحب بأية تعليقات على الأفكار المقدمة.
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Vulnerable embodiment : a critical analysis of Henri Nouwen’s spiritual formation theology and its possible value for the discourse on Gender and Health
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Adriaan van der Merwe
2026
By presenting this thesis in electronic format, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the authorship owner thereof (unless to the extent explicitly otherwise stated) and that I have...
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By presenting this thesis in electronic format, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the authorship owner thereof (unless to the extent explicitly otherwise stated) and that I have not previously in its entirety or in part submitted it for obtaining any qualification.
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El discurso económico de la derecha chicago- gremialista en Chile (2010-2020)
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Fabián Bustamante Olguín
2026, Almanaque Histórico Latinoamericano
Este artículo expone los resultados de una investigación doctoral en sociología sobre la hibridación ideológica y discursiva de la derecha chicago-gremialista chilena entre 1973 y 2020. El estudio analiza los contenidos económicos de su...
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Este artículo expone los resultados de una investigación
doctoral en sociología sobre la hibridación ideológica y discursiva de la derecha chicago-gremialista chilena entre 1973 y 2020.
El estudio analiza los contenidos económicos de su discurso entre 2010 y 2020, aplicando el enfoque del Análisis Sociológico
del Discurso (ASD) en sus tres dimensiones: textual, contextual y
sociológica; en esta ocasión, se presenta únicamente el análisis
textual. Se sostiene que la centralidad del tema económico en el
discurso chicago-gremialista se vincula con la defensa del proyecto económico refundacional instaurado por la dictadura cívico-militar y su proyección en el marco democrático. Asimismo, se argumenta que dicho discurso constituye un tipo ideal caracterizado por la hibridación entre el monetarismo de la Escuela de
Chicago, el corporativismo católico y el nacionalismo de derecha, configurando una síntesis ideológica orientada por un fuerte
anticomunismo.
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¿La historia completa? Versiones en tensión sobre la última dictadura cívico-militar argentina
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Julia Zullo
2026, RETÓRICAS DE LA MEMORIA. APROXIMACIONES INTERDISCIPLINARIAS
La necesidad de narrar y explicar estos sucesos atroces para que no se repitan, sumada al pedido de justicia de las víctimas y sus familias y al deseo de mantener vivo el recuerdo de los desaparecidos, agregan una tensión adicional al...
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La necesidad de narrar y explicar estos sucesos atroces para que no se repitan, sumada al pedido de justicia de las víctimas y sus familias y al deseo de mantener vivo el recuerdo de los desaparecidos, agregan una tensión adicional al proceso de memoria: los procedimientos de recontextualización pedagógica. En esta línea, nos preguntamos hace más de diez años: cómo hacer memoria sobre la última dictadura cívico militar en las escuelas argentinas.
Para responder a esa pregunta general, nos propusimos en ese momento, relevar los materiales producidos para niños sobre la última dictadura cívico militar, especialmente aquellos producidos para el aula. Más concretamente rastreamos cómo se caracteriza y qué episodios se destacan del período; cómo se plantean las relaciones causales y la agencialidad en los acontecimientos; de qué manera se definen los protagonistas, tanto en lo que respecta a sus roles y acciones caracterís-
ticas como a los modos de presentarlos/definirlos; cómo se da cuenta del universo de lo desconocido, qué conceptos se consideran nuevos y cómo aparecen especialmente definidos.
Este trabajo en particular se propone tres objetivos: por un lado, exponer
algunas características del recorrido realizado hasta el momento, sus recurrencias y particularidades, en segundo lugar, sumar el análisis de un material que resulta novedoso en cuanto al tipo de mensaje, a su producción y a sus condiciones de cir-
culación y por último, sistematizar e intentar generalizar los resultados del análisis con algunas características de lo relevado hasta el momento en las etapas previas.
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Review of Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
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Abhishek Kumar Singh
2026, Journal of Polity & Society
Book Review -Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 2024), ISBN: 978-0-374-60822-4 (Hardcover).
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Averroes on the Sharîʿah of the Philosophers
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Richard C . Taylor
2026
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ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS TEORI THEO VAN LEEUWEN DALAM BERITA KRIMINAL TEMA PELECEHAN PADA MEDIA MASSA ONLINE
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Fiah Luthfiah Bani
2026, ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS TEORI THEO VAN LEEUWEN DALAM BERITA KRIMINAL TEMA PELECEHAN PADA MEDIA MASSA ONLINE
Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis penggunaan teori Theo van Leeuwen dalam berita kriminal dengan tema pelecehan pada Media massa online. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui tiga tahap: (1) membaca dan memahami wacana dengan tema...
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Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis penggunaan teori Theo van Leeuwen dalam berita kriminal dengan tema pelecehan pada Media massa online. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui tiga tahap: (1) membaca dan memahami wacana dengan tema pelecehan di media massa online dengan tujuan untuk memperoleh pemahaman yang jelas tentang isi wacana yang akan diteliti, (2) menandai bagian-bagian wacana yang berhubungan dengan teori Theo van Leeuwen dengan strategi exclusion dan inclusion, dan (3) menginventarisasi kalimat dalam wacana yang berhubungan dengan teori Theo van Leeuwen dengan menggunakan format inventarisasi data. Penganalisisan data dilakukan secara deskriptif. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan, strategi Theo van Leeuwen yang ditemukan pada judul berita kriminal dengan tema pelecehan di dalam media massa online berjumlah delapan dari sepuluh yang ada, yaitu eksklusi (pasivasi, nominalisasi) dan inclusion (diferensiasi-indiferensiasi, objektivitas-abstraksi, nominasi-kategorisasi, nominasi-identifikasi, asimilasi-individualisasi, dan asosiasi-disosiasi). Jadi, dapat disimpulkan dalam menulis berita kriminal dengan tema pelecehan wartawan cenderung memarjinalkan korban dengan menonjolkan aspek yang tidak relevan, dan menyembunyikan aktor pelaku.
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Rațiune publică și discurs
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Romulus Brâncoveanu
2026, Editura Universității din București
Rațiune publică și discurs (Editura Universității din București, 2007) este o lucrare dedicată modului în care conceptele de rațiune publică, discursivitate, modernitate și critică a culturii se articulează în filosofia politică...
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Rațiune publică și discurs (Editura Universității din București, 2007) este o lucrare dedicată modului în care conceptele de rațiune publică, discursivitate, modernitate și critică a culturii se articulează în filosofia politică contemporană. Autorul pornește de la dezbateri majore – în special disputa Rawls–Habermas privind caracterul politic sau civic al rațiunii publice – pentru a arăta cum aceste teme globale pot fi înțelese și „naturalizate” în contextul culturii românești, unde modernizarea incompletă și tensiunea dintre forme și fond continuă să modeleze spațiul public. Cartea este structurată în cinci capitole care urmăresc treptat trecerea de la fundamente teoretice la aplicații culturale și politice. Primul capitol propune o ipoteză dialogică a discursului, punând accent pe complexitate, emergență și interacțiune. Urmează analiza comparativă Rawls–Habermas, unde sunt discutate luminismul, liberalismul politic și funcția rațiunii publice. Capitolul dedicat credinței în Dumnezeu examinează statutul argumentelor religioase în spațiul public. Ultimele două capitole mută accentul spre modernitate și critica culturii, interpretând teoria formelor fără fond și rolul societății civile în dinamica politică românească. Importanța lucrării constă în capacitatea ei de a conecta dezbateri filosofice internaționale cu realitățile culturale și politice românești, oferind un cadru coerent pentru înțelegerea discursului public într-o societate aflată între tradiție și modernizare. Brâncoveanu reușește să arate de ce rațiunea publică nu este doar un concept teoretic, ci un instrument necesar pentru funcționarea unei democrații mature și pentru dezvoltarea unei culturi critice autentice.
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Green and its Collocates in the Discourse on Climate Change
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Peter Roux
2026
The international media's coverage of large political gatherings, such as the conferences of the United Nations Committee on Climate Change, typically captures significant governmental and public attention. These debates provide fertile...
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The international media's coverage of large political gatherings, such as the conferences of the United Nations Committee on Climate Change, typically captures significant governmental and public attention. These debates provide fertile grounds for linguistic research seeking to understand some of the ways in which language shapes and maintains ideological forces in society. Utilizing a framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this paper explores and compares the occurrences of the word green in two sub-corpora of the Bank of English. It seeks to understand if, and how, this chosen lexical item functions as a key to discursive activity within the framework of the discourse on climate change. In addition, this paper briefly reviews CDA and its utility in the analysis of corpora as well as offering a short exposition of the discourse on climate change. Findings indicate limited, yet significant linguistic evidence that the word green is either associated with, or clearly involved at sites where certain constructs in the discourse on climate change operate. These findings, although tentative, demonstrate the value of a CDA approach in the analysis of discursive activity as well as the increasing potential of large corpora to support and extend an understanding of the functions of language in society.
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An Initial Intimation of a Yet Banal Discourse: Truck Graffiti
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Yazid Basthomi
2026, K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature
This article provides an initial discussion of truck graffiti. It reviews pertinent literature on graffiti which shows that, despite the fact that graffiti have attracted a number of researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds,...
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This article provides an initial discussion of truck graffiti. It reviews pertinent literature on graffiti which shows that, despite the fact that graffiti have attracted a number of researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, truck graffiti have been under researched. It also specifically presents types of graffiti and approaches to graffiti research which demonstrates that, even though truck graffiti might be classified into "public", they seem to have been overlooked in the realm of graffiti research. This situation insinuates that truck graffiti, particularly those in the Indonesian settings, warrants further exploration.
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