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S. Davis, Amanda Deliman, Breanya C. Hogue

This book investigates the alliance between deconstruction and feminism, highlighting some of the subversive strategies employed by both of these discursive modalities to undercut mainstream cultural cliches. Arguably, both types of discourse may be interpreted as synergistic effects of postmodernism, as they join forces to expose the construction of feminine/human nature, identity, and gender through discourses and other semiotic practices. Both lines of argument address some disquieting issues which present themselves as specifically postmodern, especially the cultural construction of nature, which is subjected to deconstructionist and ecocritical analysis. In examining the relation of latter-day feminisms (ecofeminism) to the postmodern project of deconstruction, this book addresses the question whether any kind of feminist discourse is possible, given the "death of the subject". Paradoxically, the very constituency through which any feminist discourse defines itself – i.e. woman or femininity – does seem to hold its position, in spite of its deconstructive "mise sous rature".

Margarethe Olbertz-Siitonen

. The informalization and conversationalization of public discourse in the latter part of the twentieth century is a complex phenomenon that has been well documented in English speaking societies. This article parts from Fairclough’s (1995) premises to analyse how this phenomenon is taking place in Romance languages with a similar technological development in comparison to the discourse practices of a country where the penetration of the Internet in the everyday life of its

J. Gee

language 124 abstract nouns 30 academic social language 30 achievement statements 124 activities 12, 83 activity building 86, 93, 140 adverbial phrases 150 adverbs 101, 150 affective statements 124, 126 African-Americans: children 91, 106–7, 110–14; Hispanic doctors 131; storytelling 147; teenagers 43; Vernacular English 113 agent-patients 19 agreement 95 ambiguity 31, 32 Americans: Native 14–17, 19 see also African-Americans anthropologists 56 applied issues 8 articles 100 asprin bottle warning 23–5 assemblies 46–8 Athabaskans 16–17 ‘atrophied’ term 55–6 bachelors 58–60 background/foreground context 3 Barsalou, L.W. 49 Bellah, R.N. et al 67; Habits of the Heart 67 Bernstein, B. 132 biologists 27–8 biology 27, 55–6 Bloome, D.: and Green, J. 98n Bourdieu, P. 136 brain development 56–7 Brown, J. 37 butterflies (Heliconius) 27–8 Carroll, L.: Jabberwocky 101, 102 case studies: Jane 25–7, 29; Sandra 136–48, 146 see also interviews catalyst 111, 112 child(ren): African-American 106; rearing model 81–2; views about light 44–5; word acquisition 41–2 see also teenagers class see social class clauses 99–100, 149–53, 157–8 coda 112 code: restricted 132; switching 87 coffee 50, 80, 81 cognitive statements 124, 126–7 cohesive devices 159–61 collocational patterns 29, 30 committee meetings 11, 12 communication: grammar in 9, 149–61 complement 33 compound nouns 30 conflict 113 conjunctions 160 connection building 86, 94, 133–4

J. Gee, M. Handford

The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to Discourse Analysis from Critical Discourse Analysis to Multimodal Discourse Analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into six sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Approaches to Spoken Discourse, Genres and Practices, Educational Applications, Institutional Applications, and Identity, Culture and Discourse. The chapters are written by a wide range of contributors from around the world, each a leading researcher in their respective field. All chapters have been closely edited by James Paul Gee and Michael Handford. With a focus on the application of Discourse Analysis to real-life problems, the contributors introduce the reader to a topic, and analyse authentic data. The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis is vital reading for linguistics students as well as students of communication and cultural studies, social psychology and anthropology.

T. V. Leeuwen

M. Jørgensen, L. Phillips

R. Wodak

D. Davies, Adam Jaworski, N. Coupland et al.

N. Fairclough

James Paul Gee

S. Mohammed, E. Peter, T. Killackey et al.

Background Nurses have been labelled “heroes” by politicians, the mass media, and the general public to describe their commitment to providing front-line care to people with COVID-19, despite the risks of exposure and lack of clinical resources. Few studies have examined the implications of the hero discourse to nurses’ professional, social, and political identities. Objective To critically examine the effects of the hero discourse on nurses who are contending with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and to consider the political, social, cultural, and professional impact of this discourse on nursing work. Methods A poststructural discourse analysis, employing the theoretical ideas of truth, power, knowledge, subjectivity, and normalization, was conducted to explore the mass media's constructions of nurse as hero in the contexts of COVID-19. Media electronic databases were searched between March 1, 2020 to August 1, 2020 to locate newspaper and magazine articles, corporate advertisements, videos, social media postings, and institutional/corporate websites. Setting Data sources included English language media accounts that originated from Canada, the USA, and the UK. Results Three main elements of the hero discourse include: 1. Nurses as a “necessary sacrifice” - portraying nurses as selfless, sacrificing, and outstanding moral subjects for practicing on the front-line without adequate protective gear and other clinical resources; 2. Nurses as “model citizens” - positioning nurses as compliant, hardworking, and obedient subjects in contrast to harmful individuals and groups that ignore or resist COVID-19 public health measures. 3. Heroism itself as the reward for nurses - characterizing hero worship as a fitting reward for nurses who were unappreciated pre-pandemic, as opposed to supporting long-term policy change, and highlighting how heroism reconfigures nursing work from the mundane and ordinary to the exciting and impactful. Conclusions The hero discourse is not a neutral expression of appreciation and sentimentality, but rather a tool employed to accomplish multiple aims such as the normalization of nurses’ exposure to risk, the enforcement of model citizenship, and the preservation of existing power relationships that limit the ability of front-line nurses to determine the conditions of their work. Our study has implications for approaching the collective political response of nursing in the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and formalizing the ongoing emotional, psychological, ethical, and practice supports of nurses as the pandemic continues.

Eric Msughter Aondover, Ifedolapo Ademosu, Ramson Oloche Acheme

The 2023 general elections in Nigeria were characterised by a surge in hate speech, particularly across digital platforms, significantly shaping the political landscape and influencing voter behaviour. The study highlights how ethno-religious and politically motivated hate speech deepened societal divisions, fostered misinformation, and contributed to voter apathy and fear-driven electoral choices. On social media platforms, individuals and organisations believe that freedom of speech entitles them to speak their minds without any restrictions whatsoever. During elections, this freedom of expression plays out without any hindrance, pervading social media platforms with hate speech rhetoric, misinformation, and disinformation. This study examines how voters’ exposure to political hate speech during the 2023 presidential election campaigns, as disseminated through traditional media, social platforms, and campaign rhetoric, shaped the attitude of voters, their trust in the ability of the candidates to deliver, and their level of electoral participation. Using the Functional Theory of Campaign Discourse, the study analyses the system through which inflammatory language divides public opinion, reinforces divisions in political party groups (among supporters), and destroys the confidence voters have in the Nigerian electoral processes. Based on the pragmatic approach of research design, survey method, and content analysis of hate speech in the 2023 presidential election campaigns will be adopted, and results show pervasive use of hate speech by the political class and how this results in low voter turnout.

Paul L Baker, Ursula Lutzky, Brian Paltridge et al.

How can you carry out discourse analysis using corpus linguistics? What research questions should I ask? Which methods should you use and when? What is a collocational network or a key cluster? Introducing the major techniques, methods and tools for corpus-assisted analysis of discourse, this book answers these questions and more, showing readers how to best use corpora in their analyses of discourse. Using carefully tailored case studies, each chapter is devoted to a central technique, including frequency, concordancing and keywords, going step by step through the process of applying different analytical procedures. Introducing a wide range of different corpora, from holiday brochures to political debates, the book considers the key debates and latest advances in the field. Fully revised and updated, this new edition includes: - A new chapter on how to conduct research projects in corpus-based discourse analysis- Completely rewritten chapters on collocation and advanced techniques, using a corpus of jihadist propaganda texts and covering topics such as social media and visual analysis- Coverage of major tools, including CQPweb, AntConc, Sketch Engine and #LancsBox- Discussion of newer techniques including the derivation of lockwords and the comparison of multiple data sets for diachronic analysis With exercises, discussion questions and suggested further readings in each chapter, this book is an excellent guide to using corpus linguistics techniques to carry out discourse analysis. Using Corpora for Discourse Analysis provides an overview of how to employ methods from corpus linguistics in order to carry out discourse analysis, with chapters devoted to central techniques: frequency, concordancing, collocation, keywords. The book also covers corpus building and annotation and a range of different corpus analysis tools including WordSmith, AntConc, Sketch Engine and #Lancsbox. Key debates in the field are considered and coverage is provided of the latest advances in the field, including the use of triangulatory frameworks, multimodal analyses, collocational networks and reflexivity. The chapters include case studies using different types of corpora including holiday brochures, newspaper articles and political debates. Each chapter contains step by step guides to using different analytical procedures, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading and exercises for students.

Nicola Riccardi

Abstract This article investigates the epistemological convergence between French historiography and French Discourse Analysis (FDA), emphasizing their shared focus on language as a vehicle for historical meaning and ideological formation. Tracing the evolution from the Annales School to post-structuralist thinkers such as Foucault and LaCapra, the study highlights how history has increasingly embraced discourse as both a methodological tool and an object of analysis. Through a case study of Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s far-right party Vox, the article illustrates how FDA concepts – such as lexical worlds, interdiscursivity, and discursive ethos – can be applied to political rhetoric in the digital age. Using lexicometric methods (IraMuTeQ, SketchEngine) and qualitative interpretation, the study analyzes a corpus of Abascal’s tweets (2019-2022), focusing particularly on the term golpista as a strategic signifier of ideological antagonism. The findings show how far-right discourse reactivates historically loaded terms to construct binary oppositions and mobilize collective memory. Ultimately, the article argues that FDA offers historians a powerful framework to interrogate the linguistic production of identity, power, and historical continuity in contemporary political narratives.

Pratyusha Kiran

Streamlined production and innovative retail strategies have enabled the fashion industry to experience rapid growth in recent decades, with its complex global supply chain posing serious environmental and social sustainability challenges. Policymakers and advocacy groups have been demanding a transition toward a sustainable fashion system as awareness about the impact of this industry continues to rise. Although multiple initiatives and alternative business models have emerged in the sociotechnical system of fashion, a sustainable transition in this sector has not yet been realized. Conversely, the fashion system exhibits indications of being locked into unsustainable practices. This article aims to understand the barriers preventing the transition of the fashion industry to a sustainable system from the perspective of the actors within the supply chain. Ethnographic interviews with manufacturers and industry experts in India are leveraged to understand the challenges within the supply chain that are reinforcing the unsustainable practices in this industry. This article highlights the perspective of a developing country in the sustainability discourse. The interview analysis demonstrates that in fashion, brands implement various methods to attain sustainability through certifications or compliance standards in the manufacturing regions while lacking an understanding of local circumstances and contexts. This article argues that the disconnect between certifications and their implementation reinforces unsustainable behaviors in the supply chain instead of addressing them. Furthermore, it asserts that compliance efforts should steer away from the Western definition of sustainability and pivot toward sustainability strategies grounded in the local context of the manufacturing country.

Shoaib Ahmed Malik

This article explores Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) theological insights on the metaphysical hierarchy of creation to address the question: Can there be extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) superior to human intelligence? By revisiting a long-standing debate in the Islamic tradition concerning the superiority (afḍaliyyah) of angels versus humans, this article positions al-Rāzī as a pivotal case who diverges from the majority Ashʿarī stance by advocating for angelic superiority. Through a detailed analysis of al-Rāzī’s deconstruction of pro-human superiority arguments and his construction of arguments favoring angels, the article demonstrates how his framework challenges anthropocentric assumptions and broadens theological possibilities. If al-Rāzī’s arguments are deemed successful, his scripturally and rationally grounded framework provides a foundation for envisioning ETI that may surpass humanity in spiritual or intellectual rank. This article contributes uniquely by unveiling al-Rāzī’s underexplored ideas on angelic superiority and integrating them into the context of Islam and ETI, thereby advancing modern discourse on Islamic theological anthropology.

Stephen Wan, Wei Liu, Michael Strube

With the increasing use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods to support science workflows, we are interested in the use of discourse-level information to find supporting evidence for AI generated scientific claims. A first step towards this objective is to examine the task of inferring discourse structure in scientific writing. In this work, we present a preliminary investigation of pretrained language model (PLM) and Large Language Model (LLM) approaches for Discourse Relation Classification (DRC), focusing on scientific publications, an under-studied genre for this task. We examine how context can help with the DRC task, with our experiments showing that context, as defined by discourse structure, is generally helpful. We also present an analysis of which scientific discourse relation types might benefit most from context.

Hansun Zhang Waring

A. Alejandro, Longxuan Zhao

The growing interest in combining different approaches to qualitative text and discourse analysis has so far not been met with adapted methodological resources. This article aims to address this gap by developing a methodological framework for combining qualitative text and discourse analysis. First, we introduce four traditions that we identify as four families of methods of text/discourse analysis with different logics: Discourse Analysis, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, Thematic Analysis, and Qualitative Content Analysis. Second, we review the literature to show how these methods have been combined across disciplines and case studies. Third, we build upon existing literature to unpack the benefits and challenges of multi-method text/discourse analysis, and offer strategies to help navigate the problems that may arise. Overall, this article introduces multi-method qualitative text and discourse analysis (MMQTDA) as a methodological framework to provide guidance and offer solid foundations for an emerging methodological conversation in qualitative text research.