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A partire da un corpus di oltre ottocentomila tweet, il contributo analizza la comunicazione degli esponenti politici italiani rispetto al dibattito sulle ONG indagandone la progressiva criminalizzazione. Attraverso un approccio quali-quantitativo che prevede l'integrazione dei digital methods con gli strumenti della Critical Discourse Analysis, lo studio intende trovare la convergenza tra la criminalizzazione delle ONG, l'articolazione della nozione di sovranismo e, più in generale, rimarcare le rappresentazioni mediali dei fenomeni migratori in relazione ai processi politici. L'analisi si è concentrata su metriche e strategie discorsive messe in gioco dai politici evidenziando il ruolo centrale di quelli di area sovranista nella criminalizzazione delle ONG. Quest'ultima emerge come "momento politicizzante" in grado di allineare il dibattito sui soccorsi in mare al campo e ai protagonisti della politica, contribuendo alla rimozione dal dibattito dei volti e delle voci di immigrati e richiedenti asilo.

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show evidence of the undetermined expansion of Polanyi's fictitious commodities within the Brazilian nuclear context. The issue of the marketification of social agendas has drawn a lot of attention to the data, collected through in-depth interviews. The analytical process was guided by the decolonial theory approach and by critical discourse analysis. Among the analysis' main findings, it is possible to point out the elaboration of a framework which reveals the mechanisms employed by the Brazilian nuclear segment as a way of exercising parallel power and silencing social agendas. The main contributions are the temporal and geopolitical updating of Polanyi's thesis; and the definition of the mechanisms used by the company Eletronuclear and by institutions as a way of co-optation, naturalisation and marketification of social and political agendas.

This study intends to describe the structure of the text in the news of the Disbandment of FPI: DPR's Attitude, NU and Muhammadiyah Responses to Rizieq's Instructions on Tribunnews.com and Prohibited in NKRI All FPI activities will be stopped on Detik.com. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The data collection method is done by library research. The data were analyzed based on the critical discourse analysis of Teun A. Van Dijk. The results showed that the structure of the text on Tribunnews.com and Detik.com agreed with the dissolution of FPI by the government. The social cognition of the two online media displays group and institutional knowledge, while at the level of the social context Tribunnews.com and Detik.com contain the practice of power and access with the actors, namely the government and FPI as community organizations.

The neoliberal model that has permeated higher education, has instrumentalised and commodified knowledge. This has forced academics to participate in the production of research to attract funding in the search of institutional stability. This paper problematizes the limited opportunities of integration of young Latin-American researchers in academic institutions. The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that hinder access to academia and unveil the weaknesses behind governmental policies for the development of employment programmes in both industry and academia. The methodology employed, is a critical discourse analysis of five biographies of Chilean and Mexican doctors. Results uncovered the use of discursive strategies that aim to legitimise reasons behind work fragility and the discursive construction of these actors. This article contributes to acknowledge similar patterns amongst Latin-American young researchers.

AbstractFollowing two decades of a state-supported patriotic campaign, the Russian Orthodox Church has dramatically increased its presence in the public sphere: in the Armed Forces, in public schools and universities, and even in retirement houses and prisons. The Church's recent activities seem to have no territorial limits: they reach up to the space station "Mir" and the Russian Antarctic Station, as well as the (Russian) Orthodox believers in 62 states. Using a critical discourse analysis of the speeches of top Church leaders as our main methodological tool, our research explores the Church's policies on patriotism and patriotic education, its re-interpretation of historical memory, and the role of the Church in Russian politics. We try to show that while the Church's agenda and approach to politics are idiosyncratic, the Church has become a key actor with an increasingly important political role.

AbstractThis paper furthers the goal of "queering lexicography" (Nossem 2018) by proposing a theoretical approach to analysing dictionary definitions that replaces the traditional descriptive/prescriptive binary with a model of normativity influenced by performativity theory. This is demonstrated by a critical discourse analysis of how entries forlesbian, gay, andhomosexualin four contemporary English dictionaries tacitly positionhomosexualas a neutral term against whichlesbianandgayare sociolinguistically marked. The paper also stresses the need for researchers not only to analyse how normativity is embedded in dictionaries, but to recognize the extent to which lay dictionary-users are already aware of the normative potential of lexicography, whether they embrace it or condemn it. This is explored through an incident in whichMerriam-Webster'saddition of the wordgenderqueerto its online dictionary in 2016 became the subject of public scrutiny and contestation on social media.

Through the lens of women's tennis legend Serena Williams, this article examines the roles of masculinization and feminization as they relate to Black womanhood in sport. Over the course of much of her career, Williams was characterized as "aggressive," someone who "bludgeoned her way" to success. But after the 2016 and 2017 announcements of her engagement and pregnancy, respectively, media characterizations shifted toward narratives traditionally aligned with femininity. Throughout, media discussion of Williams has been rooted in surveillance of her body, behavior, and closest relationships. Using feminist critical discourse analysis, this article argues that the noted shift in characterization was linked to Williams's strategic performance of docility and engagement with respectability politics, tied closely to her 2015 return to the Indian Wells Masters tennis tournament as well as her adoption of the traditionally feminized roles of wife and mother.

During the so-called 'Golden Age' of Greek cinema (roughly from 1950 to 1970), Aliki Vougiouklaki emerged as Greece's biggest star. Yet, although her image remains extremely familiar, it is largely misconstrued in both popular and critical discourses about her. This article shifts the focus from conventional readings of Vougiouklaki's star persona as ideologically and sexually conservative, mainly due to her embodiment of the sex-kitten type, to the work dimension of her image – a heretofore unexplored facet of her persona. A careful look at her early films, the control she exercised over the construction of her star image, as well as the ways in which it circulated off-screen reveals a dogged, stereotypically 'masculine', devotion to her work and career, making Vougiouklaki into a powerful and progressive image of femininity in post-war Greece.

Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippines' 2016 presidential elections thanks to a well-orchestrated campaign and his populist appeal among Filipinos. Soon after he assumed the presidency, he surprised and upset most of his domestic and western international audiences by pragmatically rejecting the pro-Western approach followed by the previous Aquino administration and adopting a China-friendly one. Adopting Critical Discourse Analysis, this research reveals President Duterte's bicephalous leadership: populist in domestic policies, and pragmatic but unpopular in foreign relations. To qualitatively describe the dichotomy between the populist and pragmatic nature of Duterte's leadership, this article surveys the Philippines' mainstream media from 2016 to 2019. Furthermore, this analysis shows that Duterte is using a defensive neorealist approach in building Philippines-China relations and that Filipinos are willing to consider China as a constructive partner for their country.

AbstractThis article investigates the image portrayed of Islam and Muslims in official speeches of the former US President, Barack Obama during his two terms in office. Applying qualitative data coding procedures and based on a Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) approach, we examine 377 speeches delivered in the period of 2009–2016 within the macro context of US involvements in contemporary international politics to uncover the discursive image of Islam and Islamic attributes projected and subtly reproduced over time by Obama during his presidency. The outcome comprises four major themes shaped around the notions of America's fundamental values; Dialogue with Muslim communities; Defining good Islam; and Defining bad Muslims. Through a detailed discussion of the discursive construction of these themes and specifically referring to their lexical highlights, we illustrate aspects of Islam-related issues in the view of an American president.

International audience ; The creative precariat is the target of representations, elaborated by social scientists or other authors. Yet, little attention is dedicated to subjective appropriations of critical discourses on cultural work and precariousness. The author investigates this question in the Paris metropolis. Over the years 2008-2011, he conducted more than fifty interviews in Paris with individuals who carried artistic or intellectual activities and did not benefit from the backing of a steady employment contract. Interviews were focused on their working-lives, and on their conceptions regarding collective entities to which they could belong. Among these, a minority referred to a category popularized a few years before by an essay: the « intellos précaires ». The article shows how these precarious cultural workers invest the category, but also distanciate themselves from it and from the kind of precarity politics it contains.

International audience ; The creative precariat is the target of representations, elaborated by social scientists or other authors. Yet, little attention is dedicated to subjective appropriations of critical discourses on cultural work and precariousness. The author investigates this question in the Paris metropolis. Over the years 2008-2011, he conducted more than fifty interviews in Paris with individuals who carried artistic or intellectual activities and did not benefit from the backing of a steady employment contract. Interviews were focused on their working-lives, and on their conceptions regarding collective entities to which they could belong. Among these, a minority referred to a category popularized a few years before by an essay: the « intellos précaires ». The article shows how these precarious cultural workers invest the category, but also distanciate themselves from it and from the kind of precarity politics it contains.

In this paper we investigate how the model of deliberation proposed by Isabela and Norman Fairclough can be used for a better clarification and understanding of the framing processes in media – especially in opinion articles. We thus aim at integrating theoretical contributions from critical discourse analysis and argumentation theory with standard approaches to framing, originating in media studies. We emphasize how a rhetorical approach to framing can provide analytical insights into framing processes and complement the typical quantitative approaches with qualitative analysis based on textual reconstruction. Starting from an issue-specific approach to framing, we discuss a particular case of framing of intra-EU migration, analyzing four opinion articles selected from a larger corpus of Romanian, British and French media. We highlight, along our analysis, various methodological options and analytical difficulties inherent to such an approach.

This paper examines the plight of indigenous entrepreneurs and their battle for competitive edge with the Multinational Corporations in Nigeria. The research method is qualitative and analytical relying on previous scholarly works on this subject. The sourced data were analysed using critical discourse analysis. The authors found modernity theory most appropriate to underpin this study. The finding indicates that indigenous entrepreneurs lost competitive edge because of unequal balance of power with MNCs linked to lack of advanced technologies, poor managerial knowledge, low international social networks and inadequate institutional support from the government. The paper concludes that for indigenous entrepreneurs to regain its competitive edge with MNCs, the issues of advanced technologies, managerial knowledge, international social networks and institutional support must be addressed by the policymakers.Classification-JEL: Keywords: Competitive Edge; Indigenous Entrepreneurs; Multinational Corporations

In 1967, an exhibition opened in East Berlin that proposed, through an overload of images, to unite the histories of the Soviet Union and the GDR, and to confront international photography exhibitions produced in the United States and West Germany. More than the design principles and methods of this show, entitled Vom Glück des Menschen or On the Happiness of People, directly connect it with Edward Steichen's The Family of Man exhibition, first presented at MoMA in New York in 1953. Its original title was in fact The Socialist Family of Man, and its designers addressed Steichen's show directly with a scathing critique that echoes the critical discourse in general around The Family of Man. Ultimately, and despite the acknowledged relationship of the exhibition to its Western model, Vom Glück des Menschen also departed from it, crafting a narrative through photographs specifically designed for a socialist society under construction.