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{"title":"‘Trapping my way up’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Black Sherif’s songs","authors":"Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2269276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2269276","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTTaking cognisance of the social and linguistic power of trap music and its song lyrics as crucial avenues for language use in society, this study set out to conduct a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of selected song lyrics of Black Sherif. The study synergised Wmatrix and a socio-cognitive approach to CDA to interpret the song lyrics. The analyses revealed three linguistic strategies: (a) pronouns; (b) Ghanaian Student Pidgin; and (c) metaphors in the song lyrics that served as a means of empowering the youth to survive and strive for success despite social and psychological aggressions in life. Also, the individualistic self-representation in the song lyrics included plural identities of people who share a common experience of struggle, pain, survival, and self-empowerment. Finally, the study highlighted crucial societal issues, such as economic hardship and social injustice, that may otherwise be overlooked or underrepresented in mainstream media or academia. Based on these findings, the study provides recommendations for practice and further research.KEYWORDS: Corpus-assistedidentitiesself-representationsong lyricssurvivaltrapping AcknowledgementI am grateful to the reviewers for their constructive and critical comments that improved the quality of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmmanuel Mensah BonsuEmmanuel Mensah Bonsu is an MPhil candidate at the Department of English, University of Cape Coast. His research interests include Academic Discourse, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, English for Specific/Academic Purposes, and Sociolinguistics. He is a member of the Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) and the West Africa Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group (WASFLIG).","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135855540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘From there everything changed’: conversion narrative in the biomimicry movement","authors":"Fransina Stradling, Valerie Hobbs","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2266513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2266513","url":null,"abstract":"An increasingly influential approach to solving human ecological problems is an innovative design practice known as biomimicry. The Biomimicry Institute, a major stakeholder in the Biomimicry Movement, promotes biomimicry as a practice that mimics nature’s genius to solve human challenges and provides hope of sustainable futures. Despite increasing global interest in the practice, so far little is known about the value placed on biomimicry within practitioner communities. Employing a corpus-assisted discourse-analytic approach, this paper explores the ways video narratives shared by practitioners affiliated with and curated by the Biomimicry Institute position biomimicry as a sacred practice. Drawing on Stibbe’s ecolinguistic approach and Hobbs’ functional religious language framework, we observe an overarching discursive pattern of conversion narrative (incorporating both personal and collective storylines) which highlights the sacred significance of the movement. We explore how the linguistic strategies underlying these conversion narratives centre human experience, mark group identity and attract new converts, while constructing an ecologically ambivalent discourse. In particular, we find that use of vague language obscures the precise nature of involvement in the movement and blurs the lines between member and non-member, contributing to the conversion narratives’ potential as powerful proselytising tools.","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136097380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Vicious, vitriolic, hateful and hypocritical’: the representation of feminism within the manosphere","authors":"Jessica Aiston","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2257816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2257816","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the legitimation of antifeminist ideology within the manosphere, based on qualitative analysis of posts from an antifeminist Reddit community. Taking a discourse-historical approach to CDS, I analyse the nomination and predication strategies used to represent feminists in addition to the argumentation strategies used to convince others of the illegitimacy of feminism. Overall, I find that users typically did not distinguish between ‘good’ feminists and ‘bad’ feminists, instead making negative generalisations about feminists as an entire group. Arguments against feminism typically relied on the topos of justice in order to portray feminism as an illegitimate movement for equality given that it supposedly does not treat men and women in the same way. Alternatively, feminism was argued to be a threat to the ‘natural’ social order and men and women’s historical gender roles.","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The politics of climate change metaphors in the U.S. discourse: conceptual metaphor theory and analysis from an ecolinguistics and critical discourse analysis perspective","authors":"Yang Hu","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2257815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2257815","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135396287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How to ‘decaffeinate’ a legislative report: emerging discourses on the climate change-migration nexus within the European Parliament","authors":"Mert Söyler, Martín Torino Zavaleta, Olivia Jane Whelan","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2258424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2258424","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper examines the different discourses adopted concerning the climate change-migration nexus within the European Parliament (EP). It uses a critical discourse analysis approach to analyse a specific motion for resolution report, its amendments, and plenary debates, as well as an expert interview with the rapporteur to gain further insights into the political dynamics and challenges involved in the process. An own-initiative report is chosen for the analysis to reveal conflicting discourse-making processes between various political groups within the EP and to better understand the role of the EP in the legislative branch of the European Union. It is found that political ideology plays an influential role. Even though political groups agree on the aims of the report, they constantly debate and use amendments to change content and extent. Therefore, we claimed that political discourses in a parliamentary setting should be analysed by specifically evaluating diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational arguments of discourses.KEYWORDS: Climate changemigrationEuropean Parliamentown-initiative procedurecritical discourse analysis AcknowledgementsWe would like to express our sincere thanks to Thomas Faist for his helpful comments and guidance in developing this paper from a research placement on climate change and migration at Bielefeld University. We are also grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their invaluable insights and feedback.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Argentinian and Spanish politician González holds a prominent position within the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and has served as a member of the Madrid Assembly. Since 2019, she has been actively involved in the EP as a member, where she serves as the Co-Chair of the Intergroups for Disability and Anti-Racism and Diversity. Additionally, she has taken on the role of EP Standing Rapporteur for humanitarian aid.2 S&D is the second largest political group in the European Parliament, with 143 members out of 769. This gives the S&D a share of 18.60% of the Parliament's total membership. The S&D is a centre-left and pro-EU political group that is committed to the values of social justice, equality, and social democracy.3 MEP González employed the term ‘decaffeination’ to emphasise how centre-right, and right political groups sought to diminish the report's content, in other words, to dilute or weaken it.4 Draft report – on the impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in developing countrieshttps://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/DEVE-PR-650537_EN.html.5 Amendments 1–309https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/DEVE-AM-657479_EN.pdf.6 Final reporthttps://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2021-0115_EN.pdf.7 The impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in developing countries (debate)https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CRE-9-2021-05-17-ITM-022_EN.html.8 EPP is the large","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134911024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sensegiving doesn't always make sense: framing the implementation of performance-based funding in Ohio","authors":"Amanda (Mandie) Maxwell, Victoria Barbosa Olivo","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2255295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2255295","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135982075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A multimodal and ethnographic approach to textbook discourse","authors":"Shimiao Guan","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2255311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2255311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43596787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘For business it boils down to one thing’: affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse","authors":"Joseph Comer","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2255306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2255306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48338521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intersecting hostilities around the European migration crisis: the case of Carola Rackete and the Sea-Watch 3","authors":"Eleonora Esposito, A. Zottola","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2230600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2230600","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49151376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discourse, intersectionality, critique: theory, methods and practice","authors":"Eleonora Esposito","doi":"10.1080/17405904.2023.2230602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2230602","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46948,"journal":{"name":"Critical Discourse Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48034288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}