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{"title":"‘[P]aying back to the community and to the British people’: Migration as transactional discourse in curated stories by UK charity organisations","authors":"S. Lampropoulou, Paige Johnson","doi":"10.1177/09579265231170974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231170974","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores migrant identity construction in the curated stories of UK-based charity organisations. Drawing upon the paradigms of critical discourse analysis and narrative positioning, we demonstrate how the construction of migrant identities as successful, fulfilled, grateful and resilient reproduce a migration as transaction discourse. We problematise these representations as prerequisites to migrants’ acceptance, given that they not only speak to the neoliberal, neo-assimilatory paradigm of wider integration debates in UK public discourse, but also conflict with the overtly philanthropic aims of the charity organisations. The curated stories are, thus, transformed into sites of liquid racism in their entanglement of declared antiracist, covertly racist, positionings of migrants in the UK context. Our work contributes to the body of research that aims to scrutinise the largely unexamined work of institutionalised social actors who aim to ‘do the right thing’ by calling for greater reflexivity and the need for critical dialogue in order to unpack the embeddedness of antiracism in racism.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42454275","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":"‘Relatively civilized, relatively European’: Offence and online (de)normalization of media racism","authors":"Thulfiqar Hussein M. Altahmazi, Raith Zeher Abid","doi":"10.1177/09579265231173264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231173264","url":null,"abstract":"The paper explores the interplay of offence, (de)normalization and moral conflict triggered by media racism. The paper is premised on the assumption that public interventions to moral transgressions occasion moral conflicts in which transgressions can be (de)normalized through impoliteness, more specifically the acts of offence taking and causing. A YouTube video discussing the racist media coverage of the Ukrainian refugee crisis was analyzed along with a sizable amount of related user-generated comments. The analysis showed that offence taking and offence causing have morally restorative and (de)normalizing functions in moral conflict. This highlights the fact that the relationship between morality and impoliteness is much more complex than is usually theorized, wherein impoliteness is often perceived as a morally norm-disruptive behavior or a negatively valenced evaluation thereof. Not only can impoliteness be morally justified in moral conflicts, it can also be a necessary form of restorative public intervention. This necessitates greater attention to (de)normalization in (im)politeness theorizing.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48111373","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":"Reacting to homophobia in a French online discussion: The fuzzy boundaries between heteronormativity and homophobia","authors":"Simo K. Määttä, Samuel Vernet","doi":"10.1177/09579265231168760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231168760","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes how participants of an online discussion thread related to a YouTube video on homophobia expressed their opposition to homophobia. Both the video and the 403 posts in the discussion thread are in French. On the surface, the data are characterized by strong antagonism between the stances that support and those that are critical of LGBTQ persons. However, a closer look at the posts expressing a pro-LGBTQ stance reveals considerable variation among them: they range from an open deconstruction of homophobia to more ambivalent positions that draw on ideologies circulating within the heteronormative order and are naturalized in the everyday discourse of spontaneous online interactions. We analyze five categories of posts expressing different forms of pro-LGBTQ stances to highlight their fuzzy boundaries with homophobic stances. The analysis draws on argumentative discourse analysis, focusing on process types used to construct arguments and topoi, as well as deictic elements through which the authors of these posts express their distance vis-à-vis homophobia and LGBTQ persons.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48234112","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":"'Like the virus just brings out the worst in people': Positioning and identity in student narratives during the Covid-19 outbreak in Australia.","authors":"Anikó Hatoss","doi":"10.1177/09579265221142446","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09579265221142446","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper illustrates how superdiverse youth negotiate their identity in everyday interactions during Australia's Covid-19 outbreak. The discussion is based on oral narratives collected from classroom conversations among international and local students living in Australia. The paper illustrates how participants position themselves and others in narratives, how these positionings reveal complex identity work among youth from diverse backgrounds and how identities are constructed and negotiated through stories about everyday encounters. Students' experiences of racism and microaggressions point to interethnic interactions as sites of struggle where identities come into conflict. The paper contributes to current work on identity in narrative discourse and narratives of racism.</p>","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10116220/pdf/10.1177_09579265221142446.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41216176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting: Linking Linguistic Approaches With Socio-cultural Interpretation","authors":"Jing Zhao","doi":"10.1177/09579265221149808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221149808","url":null,"abstract":"As a combination of both quantitative and qualitative methods, corpus-based discourse analyses have generated fruitful research and provided insights on discursive constructions of various topics. However, most of these approaches are shaped by monolingual methodologies and analysis. This edited volume under review, taking Chinese-English translation and interpreting (T&I) as research objects, investigates methods of conducting bilingual discourse analysis and is aimed to present the latest developments of discourse analysis in T&I studies. Specifically, it further explores how different approaches to discourse analysis can be linked with socio-cultural interpretations in wider target text types and how cultural and ideological intervention is conducted in T&I through linguistic or discursive choices. Structurally, it is composed of an introductory chapter and 11 other chapters categorized into four parts. Chapters 1–4 engage in discussions regarding positioning and ideology in T&I. Wang examines how core concepts on ‘Belt and Road’ in China’s political discourse are re-contextualized in international communication. Through the analysis of the selected and unselected linguistics resources (or manipulation of linguistic resources), Wang illustrates the view that translators and interpreters are agents of not only linguistic but also cultural and ideological mediation. Gao reveals how interpreters manipulate evaluative resources to reconstruct the target text in light of J.R. Martin’s Appraisal Theory, shedding light on how the combination of a critical discourse analysis (CDA) perspective and Appraisal Theory may serve as a powerful methodological framework. Through identifying and categorizing evaluative shifts, it shows that the Chinese interpreters tend to strengthen positive evaluation relating to Chinese economic policies and mitigate negative evaluation. Employing a corpus-based CDA, Gu in Chapter 3 finds that the interpreters tend to proliferate the use of metadiscursive markers in English overall, adding additional factualness and authority to the Chinese original and recreating 1149808 DAS0010.1177/09579265221149808Discourse & SocietyBook Review book-review2023","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41479486","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":"Misogyny in election discourse: Analysing the 2019 General Elections in India","authors":"Aparna Vincent, Ria Kumari","doi":"10.1177/09579265231166239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231166239","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines misogynist comments on women politicians as part of the campaign discourse for the 2019 General Elections in India. The objective is to understand and critically examine the broad patterns of misogynist discourse during election times and the socio-cognitive interface that enables such misogyny. Using a Critical-Feminist-Socio-Cognitive-Discourse Analysis, which combines Lazar’s Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis and Van Dijk’s Socio-Cognitive Approach, we analyse the explicit stating and implied underpinnings of 22 misogynist comments and identify 4 broad patterns and 8 sub-patterns. We argue that, while sharing similarities with global patterns and stereotypes of misogyny, election misogyny in India originates in socio-cognitive and cultural tropes unique to its patriarchal society. When reproduced in misogynist verbal attacks directed at female politicians, these historically rooted misogynist tropes further reinforce the dominant patriarchal culture and add to the attempts to delegitimize Indian women’s political representation and agency.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47103241","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":"‘Language’, power and liberty: Discursive constructions of Ghanaian glossolalic speeches","authors":"S. Obeng, S. Ofori","doi":"10.1177/09579265221142444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221142444","url":null,"abstract":"Unlike xenoglossia (xenolalia), which involves speaking a language one has neither learned nor could have acquired naturally, glossolalia (ecstatic speech) is the uttering of ‘incomprehensible’ stretch of utterances while in a state of trance. Using transcripts of recorded glossolalic utterances and of interviews collected over a 3-month period as our data source and working within the frameworks of language and power, and language and liberty we demonstrate that there is a strong link between glossolalic performance and the concepts of power and liberty. Thus, we establish that one’s ability to use glossolalia and another’s ability to interpret them are constituents of power. Also demonstrated is the use of specific linguistic (phonetic, syntactic, and pragmatic) resources to seek liberty for self or deny others liberty. We show further that individuals’ institutional obligation of regulating turns and determining turn duration of glossolalic interactions constitutes power and has relevance for liberty contestation, gain or loss. Finally, we prove that the performance of power and its interpretation are tools for exhibiting liberty.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49462582","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: Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem","authors":"Jinlong Yang, Xinren Chen","doi":"10.1177/09579265221131383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221131383","url":null,"abstract":"The growing body of pragmatics research on smartphone communication has primarily focussed on intentionally-conveyed propositional information. Building on his earlier cyberpragmatics framework together with Relevance Theory (RT), in this volume Yus adds the communication of emotions as an essential element to analyse smartphonebased, app-mediated discourses, developing a unique model for understanding how the interfaces of different apps and users’ personal attributes influence smartphone communication. The book comprises 13 chapters. The introductory Chapter 1 illustrates the ubiquity of smartphone communication and outlines the main aims of the book: first, to describe the issues involved in production, communication and interpretation of discourse on smartphones, and to provide a theoretical, (cyber)pragmatic account of the kinds of interaction that are sustained through apps; and, second, to explain why people find smartphone communication so interesting and even prefer it to face-to-face interaction. Much information on smartphones, which is typed and devoid of adequate contextual information, requires greater effort from users to achieve the intended interpretation compared to face-to-face interaction. Yus argues that contextual constraints and non-propositional effects are key to the understanding of these cyber discourses. The first part provides the theoretical foundation for the whole book. Chapter 2 presents the basic ideas of RT, Internet pragmatics and cyberpragmatics. While inferential gap-filling activities occur in both face-to-face interaction and smartphone communication, studies on the latter should highlight the ‘altered or blurred interactions in virtual medium’ (p. 23) of the Internet. Chapter 3 proposes that non-propositional information such as users’ feelings, emotions and affects in human communication are essential to understanding the appeal of smartphone communication. Chapter 4 delineates the interface usability in smartphone interaction, namely ‘the extent to which a product can be used by specific users to achieve specific goal with effectiveness, efficiency, and 1131383 DAS0010.1177/09579265221131383Discourse & SocietyBook review book-review2023","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65286287","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":"‘I’m not blue or green. I’m black’. The participatory entextualization of translingual memes and metapragmatic comments in transnational sociopolitical discourse","authors":"Mei-Ya Liang, Shiou-Ping John Pan, I-Ting Tsai","doi":"10.1177/09579265221141321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221141321","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines sociopolitical discourse in the democratic network society of Taiwan from translingual and transnational perspectives. Ten multimodal memes from two YouTube videos and the associated metapragmatic comments were analyzed. This study combined a discourse-historical approach and translingual analyses of YouTube users’ meme-related discursive strategies, which link historical and political rhetoric to recently circulated linguistic ideologies and cultural stereotypes. This study suggests that the discursive processes of meme-making and interpreting on social media can be understood as networked publics’ performative acts in participatory entextualization with larger sociohistorical formations. The results may provide insights into the translingual practices in the specific multilingual society of Taiwan and into broader everyday democratic participation in a globalized transnational network.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45153594","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":"Super, social, medical: Person-first and identity-first representations of disabled people in Australian newspapers, 2000–2019","authors":"Amanda Potts, M. Bednarek, A. Watharow","doi":"10.1177/09579265231156504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231156504","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an interdisciplinary, corpus-based study of naming practices for disabled people in a collection of Australian newspaper articles spanning 20 years. We analyse head nouns, modifiers, and coordinating structures for both person-first and identity-first language, drawing on social actor analysis as well as previously-identified models of media representation. Overall, we find similar usage of both naming practices with respect to the types of social actors that occur, the categorisations of disabilities that are referenced, and the associations that are established, with only minor differences. Additionally, both naming practices are strongly associated with the medical and social pathology models of media representation, which emphasise disadvantage, with almost a total absence of ‘progressive’ models, which represent people as multifaceted agents. We conclude by emphasising the need for the news media to incorporate the voices and preferences of disabled people themselves.","PeriodicalId":47965,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47495935","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}