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{"title":"Book review: Angela Zottola, Transgender Identities in the Press. A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis","authors":"Miriam Lind","doi":"10.1177/09579265211048563c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048563c","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42600045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, British and American Representations of 9/11: Literature, Politics and the Media","authors":"Cătălina Neculai","doi":"10.1177/09579265211048563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048563","url":null,"abstract":"Reading about representations of 9/11 on the threshold of the 20-year commemoration of the events is a revisitation of sorts that has prompted me to reactivate my personal, urban, political and cultural memory of this ‘rethinking’ moment. I have also approached OanaCelia Gheorghiu’s book with a readerly consciousness mediated by my interest in New York City and its contemporary urbanization, attuned to the various discourses that intersect therein: historical and political geographies, multi-media documentation and theories of urban space. Conjuring up a representational baggage that combines political, critical, creative, mediatic and experiential discourses is key to engaging with Gheorghiu’s book, which makes of this discursive intertextuality its very rationale. The book shows that understanding the 9/11 historical, political and cultural conjuncture is afforded, and made possible, by the porous and intersectional nature of the various discursive fields in which the events exist. The book is framed as a New Historicist/Cultural Materialist project with diverse theoretical insights from Greenblatt, Foucault, Gramsci, Althusser, Genette and Said amongst others, and grounded in the close readings of selected multimodal texts, such as the 9/11 Commission Report, media reports, US and UK presidential and prime ministerial addresses, journalistic and fictional work by American and British writers, ‘the famous [white] men in contemporary literature’ (p. 49): Don DeLillo, Martin Amis, Iain Banks, Ian McEwan, David Hare, with Amy Waldman and Mohsin Hamid as the exceptions. The book’s aim is literary: to define, typify, explore and elucidate the narratological and ideological discourses of transatlantic, neorealist 9/11 fiction as a subgenre in its own right (p. 237). In its demonstration, the 9/11 subgenre at once transcends and incorporates the typology of both trauma and historiographical metafictional, postmodernist narratives, raising questions about historical truth, reality and representation as well as scoping geocultural spaces (East/West, Occidentalism/Orientalism) and identities (the Muslim and the 1048563 DAS0010.1177/09579265211048563Discourse & SocietyBook review book-review2021","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41745181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Aurora Donzelli, One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia","authors":"Nicco A. La Mattina","doi":"10.1177/09579265211048563b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048563b","url":null,"abstract":"officer’s non-reciprocal response to it as illustrative of an interprofessional competition between police and academic researchers (p. 87). The assumption behind the research is that bodily conduct does not merely serve as an additional feature to verbal conduct but in fact imposes particular meaning and significance to selective descriptions. Although this is certainly visible in other contexts (such as episodes of police violence, which can later be assessed in court), it does not strike me as an entirely convincing reading of some extracts presented throughout the book. Notable exceptions are the ones presented in chapter 6 and 7, which are powerful examples of how the use of multimodal resources change the perception of participants about the actions being accomplished. One of the limitations of the book is that no matter of how precise the authors’ descriptions are, the absence of video clips hampered this reader’s understanding of some of the analytical points involving the combination of the different modalities (see for example their analysis on gesture and lexical choice, which involves movement pace, p. 76). Some multimodal studies journals have been recently encouraging authors to include video clips or animations of the extracts in their papers. Although the difficulty or impossibility of including these resources in a written analysis is certainly not the authors’ fault, I believe it is important to recognize that readers, especially those not yet familiar with multimodal analysis, would benefit tremendously from the addition of such extra material. Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Group is an insightful reading and offers an original take on how to analyse focus groups, considering them as deeply moral events that have practical implications to participants. In the context of community policing, it helps us to take a step back; before evaluating policing training, we should understand participants’ sense of community and how they achieve this by bringing different kinds of meaning-making resources together. Even though the authors do not explicitly mention a particular audience, the book will certainly benefit discourse scholars in a broader sense as well as those interested in conducting focus groups as part of their research. Additionally, the discussions generated about community and tensions involving police expertise and jurisdiction may appeal to researchers studying police settings and practices, particularly those working closely with law enforcement.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49340761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Rodney H Jones (ed.), Viral Discourse","authors":"Mingzhu Li, Xianbing Ke","doi":"10.1177/09579265211048563d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048563d","url":null,"abstract":"the analysis of this material is often flawed. One of the central weaknesses of the study is an interpretation of every occurrence of the terms trans, transgender or transsexual as describing trans identity, as opposed to simply referring to trans people. This precarious conflation becomes especially problematic given the failure to include the search term identity at all. There is thus a mismatch between what the study claims to offer (an investigation of trans identities in the press) and what is actually done (investigating how the term trans and related labels are used in the press). Bridging this mismatch between what the term trans entails in the community, on the one hand, and in which contexts it is used in the press, on the other, could have made for a highly relevant and interesting discussion point, but is never addressed by the author herself. This key issue links to a broader methodological problem arising from the search terms used for the construction of the corpus: Zottola does not discuss why she included and excluded specific terms, and does not reflect on the fact that slurs like tranny or shemale are unlikely to occur with positive prosody. While it is important to highlight the press’ continued use of slurs, it would have been crucial to reflect on how their inclusion skews results with more negative collocates than for neutral descriptors. The issues arising from this decision are further aggravated by inaccuracies and inconsistencies in her definitions of core concepts: Zottola never clearly defines what is and what is not included in her understanding of trans beyond stating that she uses it as an umbrella term. Particularly problematic is that despite the introductory claim to use the term gender ‘to mean non-binary and not heteronormative’, any search terms that would account for gender positionings outside the traditional binary (such as nonbinary or genderqueer) are entirely missing from the study. Overall, the book – which would have benefited from a thorough copy-edit – leaves a mixed impression. It successfully demonstrates the importance of acknowledging the ways in which media and their language use contribute to the societal perception of minority groups and highlights how especially the popular press in Britain continue outdated and sometimes harmful practices of language use. In light of the weaknesses pointed out in this review, however, the analysis undertaken in this monograph should rather be seen as a starting point for more thorough investigations into the topic in the future.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41280411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian, Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups","authors":"Fabio Ferraz de Almeida","doi":"10.1177/09579265211048563a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048563a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49569252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"#AllCatsAreBeautiful: Ambient affiliation and the visual-verbal representation and appreciation of cats in online subversive discourses","authors":"Daniel Lees Fryer","doi":"10.1177/09579265211048727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048727","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the topics and affiliations associated with the hashtag #AllCatsAreBeautiful on the social media platform Twitter. Drawing on concepts from social semiotics (systemic functional theory) and critical animal studies, the paper identifies a number of potentially overlapping topics or fields, including anti-policing, the commodification of nonhuman animals, gender and sexism, and body image or body-shaming, as well as a more general positive appreciation or admiration of cats. The paper discusses how people position themselves in relation to those topics, through patterns of ideational and attitudinal meanings, and how cats are represented and appreciated visually, verbally and intersemiotically. Cats, in this context, play an important role in struggles for social justice, symbolizing freedom and resistance as well as love and solidarity. #AllCatsAreBeautiful highlights topics or spaces around which bonds can be made and communities of shared values or interests can be co-constructed.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48897945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage","authors":"C. Hart, Bodo Winter","doi":"10.1177/09579265211048560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048560","url":null,"abstract":"Critical discourse analysis (CDA) increasingly recognises the role played by multiple semiotic modes in the discursive construction of social identities and inequalities. One embodied mode that has not been subject to any systematic analysis within CDA is gesture. An area where gesture has been extensively studied, and where it is shown to bear significant semiotic load in multimodal utterances, is cognitive linguistics. Here, we use insights from cognitive linguistics to provide a detailed qualitative analysis of gestures in a specific discursive context – the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage. We describe the gestures that accompany a range of rhetorical tropes typical of anti-immigration discourses and critically analyse their role, alongside speech, in communicating prejudice and legitimating discriminatory action. Our analysis suggests that gesture is an important part of political discourse which is worthy of further investigation in future CDA research.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46642304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sexism in Facebook discourse about clergy misconduct","authors":"Laurel D. Puchner, L. Markowitz","doi":"10.1177/09579265211048726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048726","url":null,"abstract":"Sexism and sexist ideology have significant negative consequences for female victims of sexual assault and other crimes. Thus, uncovering how language is used as a discursive tool for maintaining unequal power relations is extremely important in discourses around sexual misconduct and sexualized violence. In this study we used Critical Discourse Analysis and Manne’s theory of the moral economy of patriarchy to analyze Facebook posts supporting a religious leader who had committed sexual misconduct. The analysis reveals the patriarchal ideology underlying some of the Facebook conversation discourses and the discursive strategies used by individuals to try to normalize their sexist arguments. Content of the posts shows the religious leader’s defenders showing sympathy for the perpetrator, ignoring the female victims, and minimizing sexual assault, as they argue that he should not be criticized or held accountable for his actions.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44021278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The slanted beam: A critical discourse analysis of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China","authors":"T. Lan, Gene Segarra Navera","doi":"10.1177/09579265211048704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048704","url":null,"abstract":"Adopting the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective, this study investigates the ideology reflected by the anti-Islam and anti-Muslim discourse in China, the power dynamics revealed by such discourse and how social media discourse differs from and utilises the government discourse. Four ways to disguise the anti-Muslims, anti-Islam prejudice are investigated: appealing to patriotism to demand cultural assimilation; claiming to defend secularism; framing Islam as incompatible with mainstream culture; appealing to consumer rights to reject halal food. Non-Muslims and assimilated Muslims (especially the elites) are found to have the prerogative to dictate who belong to the ingroup, what dietary restrictions are legitimate and whom to blame when undesirable situations arise, while Muslim non-elites are at the receiving end of such dictates. This study also argues that social media discourse expresses antagonism of higher intensity than the government discourse does, and may misappropriate the official narratives to express the interlocutor’s hatred towards Muslims.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48503838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book reviews: Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds), The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses","authors":"Jin Liu","doi":"10.1177/09579265211025326b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211025326b","url":null,"abstract":"connection with specific consumers, thus generalizing the audience to a larger group. Embedded intertextuality, whose aim to persuade consumers to purchase is concealed because its style tends to be more sophisticated and more smoothly combined (p. 191), is also more frequently employed in this period, resulting in a natural promotion of the products and thus a more equal and harmonious relationship between advertisers and customers. The concluding chapter summarizes these findings, clarifying the kinds of ideological values in culture, social relations, economy, and politics, manifesting the features of ideology being both dynamic and static, and reporting the implications of the ideological values relative to their variations, usages, and functions of advertisements. This book adds new perspectives to Chinese advertising research by addressing political, economic, cultural, and historical elements previously ignored. Following Altheide’s concrete research procedures and classifying ideological elements according to Dyer’s checklist of visual images and Halliday’s functional grammar, it suitably combines these theories to meet the end of this research and thus presents an illuminating example of a systematic analysis of the ideological factors in both the verbal and visual aspects of advertising discourse. Therefore, it offers insights into the careful examination of Chinese advertising multimodal discourse for follow-up CDA investigations. The author’s implementation of the diachronic method provides a model for analyzing dynamic data that are constantly evolving.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/09579265211025326b","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46261480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}