Reflexive Discourse Analysis: A Methodology for the Practice of Reflexivity

Abstract How to implement reflexivity in practice? Can the knowledge we produce be emancipatory when our discourses recursively originate in the world we aim to challenge? Critical International Relations (IR) scholars have successfully put reflexivity on the agenda based on the theoretical premise that discourse and knowledge play a socio-political role. However, academics often find…

January 29, 20220Comments

ByAudrey Alejandro

Discourse Analysis

Foucauldian Discourse Analysis: Moving Beyond a Social Constructionist Analytic

Abstract Although social constructionism (SC) and Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) are well established constructionist analytical methods, this article propose that Foucauldian discourse analysis is more useful for qualitative data analysis as it examines social legitimacy. While the SC is able to illuminate how the “meaning” of our social action is constructed through our everyday interaction…

January 27, 20220Comments

ByTauhid Hossain Khan and Ellen MacEachen

Discourse Analysis

Use of Discourse Analysis in Various Disciplines

Abstract The language plays an important role in the exchange of information and communication of knowledge of society, history, culture, traditions, and customs. Linguists analyse various uses of language to determine its impact and role in various domains of society such as media, politics, journalism, reporting, advertisement, war, criticism, and other such areas. Discourse analysis…

January 25, 20220Comments

ByHina Manzoor, Sumera Saeed and Abdul Hameed Panhwar

Discourse Analysis Research

Rigor, Transparency, Evidence, and Representation in Discourse Analysis: Challenges and Recommendations

Discourse analysis is an important qualitative research approach across social science disciplines for analyzing (and challenging) how reality in a variety of organizational and institutional arenas is constructed. However, the process of conducting empirical discourse analyses remains challenging. In this article, we identify four key challenges involved in doing discourse analysis and recommend several “tools”…

January 6, 20220Comments

ByThomas Greckhamer and Sebnem Cilesiz

Discourse Analysis

Relational Critical Discourse Analysis: A Methodology to Challenge Researcher Assumptions

This paper introduces a new critical peace methodology—Relational Critical Discourse Analysis. For research to contribute to the well-being of people and their societies, traditional research methodologies need to be examined for biases and contributions to societal harm, and new approaches that contribute to just and equitable cultures need to be developed. As two researchers from…

January 4, 20220Comments

ByDorothy Vaandering and Kristin E. Reimer

Linguistics

An Introduction to Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics

Numerous theories have been successful in accounting for aspects of language. One of the most substantial theories is Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (often SFL), which has been employed in the literature on linguistics and applied linguistics. This paper aims to introduce Halliday’s SFL with a focus on an overview of SFL as a linguistic tradition…

January 3, 20220Comments

ByWael Abdulrahman Almurashi

Discourse Analysis Linguistics

Epistemic Context Analysis

Abstract Resumen Within a general theory of communicative contexts and their influence on the structures, production and comprehension of discourse, this article focuses on the crucial, but often ignored, role of the knowledge of speakers about the knowledge of the recipients, earlier studied as ‘common ground’. For communicative contexts to influence the structures…

January 2, 20220Comments

ByTeun A. van Dijk

Discourse Analysis

Comparison Between Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis From Linguistics View

This paper discusses the comparative of Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. It is considered important because the term has been used by public and in many kinds of activities. Such as, in a scientific field. Discourse Analysis had been placed as one of the subjects at few universities. Therefore, this paper is expected to…

January 1, 20220Comments

ByAlvons Habibie

Discourse Analysis

Discourses Analysis by a Decolonial Perspective

In the last years in Latin America, the decolonial perspective has been growing up to analyze discourses in qualitative research. This theoretical, methodological, and epistemological way to deconstruction has done an interesting way to analyze social topics. Some authors like Dussel, Quijano, etc. have done the bases about this decolonial regard, which provides Latin American…

December 31, 20210Comments

ByMaría Noel Míguez Passada

Discourse Analysis

Ethos and Critical Discourse Analysis: From Power to Solidarity

Works within Critical Discourse Analysis tend to concentrate on the analysis of institutionally reproduced power by dominant groups in society. Furthermore, focusing on negative or exceptionally serious social or political events results in the transition of the object of inquiry from the use of power to the abuse of power or at least its socially…

December 30, 20210Comments

ByClaudio Ramírez