Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1177/14614456231154724
B. Dancygier
{"title":"Multimodal media: Framing climate change","authors":"B. Dancygier","doi":"10.1177/14614456231154724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231154724","url":null,"abstract":"The paper uses examples of multimodal discourse to show how frame analysis can account for the choices of form in a range of multimodal (image or image-plus-text) artifacts addressing issues of climate change. Relying on the concepts of frame metonymy and blending, the article discusses a selection of artifacts representing emergent frames such as Save the Planet and Hourglass, which are pervasive in multimodal representations of climate change. The article describes the advantages and disadvantages of common multimodal stylistic choices, while addressing issues of ‘persuasive bleaching/overload’. It also uncovers some frame-related specificities of multimodal discourse.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"220 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44135417","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}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155071
C. Hart
{"title":"Frames, framing and framing effects in cognitive CDA","authors":"C. Hart","doi":"10.1177/14614456231155071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231155071","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I provide an account of frames, framing and framing effects from the perspective of cognitive linguistics as it is applied in critical discourse analysis. Frames, here, are understood as structured bundles of concepts accessed by linguistic expressions to constitute the meaning of an utterance or linguistic formulation. I describe frames at two levels: event-frames representing basic patterns of experience in domains like action and motion and frames representing areas of experience cultivated as members of a given culture. I show how the linguistic expressions selected in media discourses of political protests access frames and event-frames to construe the activities of social movements in a particular ideologically vested fashion, including figuratively as familiar frames such as the WAR frame are recruited to provide structure in the apprehension of the target situation. I show how such framing efforts are manifested in visual depictions as well as verbal descriptions of political protests. Finally, I describe recent experimental studies that provide evidence for metaphorical framing effects in audiences.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"247 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47294995","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}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/14614456231154737
S. Vicari
{"title":"Frame semantic grammars: Where frame analysis meets linguistics to study collective action frames","authors":"S. Vicari","doi":"10.1177/14614456231154737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231154737","url":null,"abstract":"After navigating conceptual and empirical developments in frame analysis research, I reflect on cornerstones and weaknesses in its elaboration of a rigorous analytical prism. In the reflection, I discuss how combining the frame analysis conceptual toolkit with linguistics work on semantic grammars can perhaps help heal some of these weaknesses.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"309 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49240756","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}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155073
C. Gordon, D. Tannen
{"title":"Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics","authors":"C. Gordon, D. Tannen","doi":"10.1177/14614456231155073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231155073","url":null,"abstract":"This essay provides an overview of the study of framing in discourse as conducated in the field of interactional sociolinguistics. We review key theorizing on frames and related concepts such as footing, positioning, and speech activity that provides the foundation for this research. We note two basic understandings of frame in our field: interactive frames relate to situational definitions of what is going on in an interaction; knowledge schemas account for participants’ expectations regarding people, objects, and so on. We give examples of how interactional sociolinguists have applied framing to illuminate moment-by-moment constructions of meanings, identities, and relationships across a range of contexts, as well as the role of knowledge and memory in these processes. With examples from studies of cross-cultural communication, everyday conversations among family and friends, and interaction in medical and digital discourse contexts, we emphasize how frames are transformed and laminated (or layered). While social movements have not been a central focus of interactional sociolinguistics research, we note that concern for social justice has been of foundational concern from the inception of this field, and note a number of studies that have demonstrated how micro-level moments of social activism and change are discursively constructed. These studies attest to the relevance of interactional sociolinguistic analysis of framing to researchers interested in social movements.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"237 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47066897","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}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2023-02-25DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155309
Nicolas Irawan
{"title":"Book Review: Binhua Wang and Jeremy Munday (eds), Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting (Linking Linguistic Approaches With Socio-Cultural Interpretation)","authors":"Nicolas Irawan","doi":"10.1177/14614456231155309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231155309","url":null,"abstract":"These updates, together with those discussed above, help align this third edition with discourse studies’ cutting edge. Yet, in other ways, the book remains what it has been: an accessible, introductory guide to discourse analysis, one that, by definition and no doubt design, perhaps succeeds more in breadth than in depth. In his review of the first edition, Meadows (2010) noted the under-theorization of certain conceptual links between conversation analysis and ethnomethodology and between CDA and Marxism. Similarly, I suggest that in future editions Paltridge consider more thoroughly arguing his social constructionist perspective, perhaps contrasting its focus on individuals’ roles and interactions with, for instance, a Focualdian approach that accounts for how individuals interpret and reproduce those interactions (Khan and MacEachen, 2021). Guiding aspiring discourse analysts through this thinking could help further demonstrate the process of choosing and justifying a research approach. Also reviewing the first edition, Timofeeva (2008) noted that the book largely targeted language teachers, citing that focus as both a strength, for how it linked concepts to teaching environments, and a weakness, for potentially excluding social scientists interested in discourse studies. Two editions later – and despite mentions throughout of English as a lingua franca – some might claim of this edition the reverse: that the focus on language teaching has become all but obscured. Yet, if Paltridge’s primary audience has indeed shifted, it is now arguably more inclusive of those learning and using discourse analysis as a research tool. With its diverse illustrative examples, lucid summaries, discussion questions, exercises, sample studies, glossary, and suggested readings, as well as its accessible writing and pedagogical sequencing, this book is ideal for foundational discourse analysis courses in the social sciences and the humanities.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"454 - 456"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45985662","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}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2023-02-25DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155310
Xi Li
{"title":"Book Review: Neda Chepinchikj, Interactional Approach to Cinematic Discourse: How Do Woody Allen’s Characters Talk?","authors":"Xi Li","doi":"10.1177/14614456231155310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231155310","url":null,"abstract":"stereotyping prevents male teachers from being visible in the primary school age setting. Chapter 10 (Howard) examines geopolitics, gender, and intersectional identities in the UK parliament as a masculinized space. The volume concludes with an Epilogue (Chapter 11 by King) that provides a discussion and critical reflection on the results presented in the different chapters with a focus on the geopolitical aspect of the book. Overall, the book provides an original approach and an in-depth analysis of the different gender issues which affect all women in the workplace, especially when gender intersects with class, race, and religion. Thus, the volume effectively fills a gap in scholarly knowledge about the experiences of women from different geopolitical regions from a linguistic perspective. Given its wide-ranging scope, the volume would be intriguing to Discourse Studies readers who are interested in the intersection between gender, geopolitics, and professional contexts. In addition, I would also recommend the volume to lay people to raise awareness of the aforementioned issues and help eradicate gendered power relations and gender-specific challenges in the workplace.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"458 - 460"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44226543","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}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2023-02-25DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155316
Jinhai Zheng
{"title":"Book Review: Maria Sidiropoulou, Understanding Im/politeness Through Translation: The English-Greek Paradigm","authors":"Jinhai Zheng","doi":"10.1177/14614456231155316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231155316","url":null,"abstract":"significance of investigating cinematic discourse from a linguistic perspective and the applicability of a multimodal conversation analytic method of analysis. In sum, as films reflect human behaviour, sociality, language use and multimodality in the real life, social interaction adds another dimension to the study of cinematic discourse. This book offers engaging and lucid style analyses and describes a segment of Woody Allen’s cinematic discourse, focusing specifically on the performed (or diegetic) interactions between actors in various roles in some of his films. The analysis focuses on speech (film dialogues), in both its verbal and prosodic forms, as well as non-verbal types of interaction including gaze and gesture, taking a social interactional approach and using multimodal conversation analysis as a theoretical framework and analytical tool. Furthermore, the work offers an insightful, up-to-date analysis of scripted conversation in cinematic discourse, through illustrating how fictional figures construct the narrative and paying attention to embodied nuances of the characters’ on-screen interactions. Finally, the book aims to bridge the gap between the disciplines of applied linguistics and cinema studies and offer linguistic insights into performed interactions from a multimodal point of view, and contribution to the methodology of research on cinematic discourse.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"460 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41353554","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}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2023-02-25DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155311
Patricia Palomino-Manjón
{"title":"Book Review: Louise Mullany and Stephanie Schnurr (eds), Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication","authors":"Patricia Palomino-Manjón","doi":"10.1177/14614456231155311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231155311","url":null,"abstract":"lens of the Chinese multilingual news website Xinhuanet in Chapter 9 (p. 170). It looks at how the media retells the story of China. The embedded attitude shift and posture reconfiguration in reframed news reports are analyzed. NVivo 11 was utilized to construct a corpus of 91 Xinhuanet news stories for this investigation. A quantitative and qualitative examination reveals a shift in Xinhuanet’s news coverage. To end the last part of the book, Xi Chen’s Chapter 10 (p. 189) explores how the appellative function manifests itself in translating public notifications in Macau using visual social semiotics (Kress and van Leeuwen, 2006). The chapter investigates how language and images combine to create a multimodal communication system—finally, a perspective on multimodal and intersemiotic conversation from a different aspect. In Chapter 11, Marina Manfredi examines how multiethnic/multicultural identities are represented in dubbed Italian versions of multicultural sitcoms (p. 212). This chapter uses a practical, user-centered approach to investigate identity through Italian-dubbed multicultural comedy. Additionally, it applies to a vast number of language pairs and contexts. Translation and interpretation research uses a variety of discourse analysis techniques, including systemic functional analysis, pragmatic and conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, narrative analysis, and corpus-based discourse analysis. Through contrastive discourse analysis, this book gives helpful empirical insights about translating and interpreting processes. Additionally, it provides conceptual and methodological frameworks for translation and interpreting studies, discourse analysis, linguistics, and multimodal studies. Translating and interpreting between languages such as Chinese and English necessitates a distinct view of data. Historically, discourse analysis has relied on monolingual methodologies and techniques. This book will benefit anyone interested in discourse studies.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"456 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65517005","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}
Discourse StudiesPub Date : 2023-02-16DOI: 10.1177/14614456231153578
Beatrice Szczepek Reed
{"title":"‘Go on keep going’: The instruction of sustained embodied activities","authors":"Beatrice Szczepek Reed","doi":"10.1177/14614456231153578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231153578","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the instruction of sustained embodied activities, that is, activities that require a continuous, sustained embodied effort. The context is horse-riding lessons. Riding instructors are shown to teach sustained embodied activities in orientation to four temporalities. Most fundamentally, they co-construct these activities as an ongoing and continuing timeline, for example, by giving action-continuing directives and by projecting continuation prosodically. In addition, instructors attend to the temporal organization of individual component actions of the activity. They situate actions in the past, present, or future along the timeline of the sustained activity; they co-construct the duration of individual actions as flexible; and they orient to individual actions as brief and transient. The analysis reveals practices that do not initiate or respond to specific actions but that accompany an activity as such, treating progression itself as a target for instruction and calling into question the often-assumed sequential adjacency of action pairs.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"692 - 717"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47902783","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}