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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Critical discourse analysis (CDA)"”.

  1. Learning to work in white spaces: An autoethnographic and linguistic analysis of racial and gender discrimination in a Midwestern American organization

    Bohonos, Jeremy WilliamUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2019

    Pairing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of a prominent talk radio program with workplace autoethnography, this dissertation explores life and language in a construction-sector business staffed almost entirely by White men. The multi-method approach facilitates intersectional analysis of racist, …

    uiuc Repository record

  2. Understanding influences in policy-making : whole-school evaluation and discourse - a critique

    Silbert, PatriciaSchool of Education2008

    … Evaluation (WSE) Policy. The study uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to reveal the major influences in the policy and to ask what important issues have been overlooked. The dissertation examines dominant discourses in the policy and the ways in which these discourses have been …

    cape-town Repository record

  3. A critical analysis of media discourse on the South African broadband policy

    Vergeer, Johannes WillemDepartment of Information Systems2011

    … are evident in SA. This study utilizes Citation Analysis and Habermasien Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) for understanding media discourse on the SA Broadband Policy formulation process and focuses on the impact and implications of the discourse. Highlighting distortions in these discourses …

    cape-town Repository record

  4. 'It's Not That Easy Being Green': Greenwashing of Environmental Discourses in Advertising

    Budinsky, Jennifer KatrinaUniversity of Windsor2011

    … corporations are appropriating environmental discourses through green capitalism and greenwashing. There is a need to problematize the corporate discourses that put a price on nature and obfuscate the domination of nature by capital. I use an eco-Marxist framework to examine the ways …

    windsor Repository record

  5. Abyssal Ideology and the Amerindians of Guyana: An Eco-Crimes Analysis of Power, Discourse and Cognitive Injustice

    Omrow, Delon Alain2018

    … to their existence- should be the subject of critical criminological inquiry because it is directly linked to both environmental and social injustice. This dissertation presents a comparative and critical analysis of the discourses surrounding the indigenous peoples of Guyana, the Amerindians. …

    york Repository record

  6. Language as a means of social control and resistance: discourse analysis in a prison setting

    Mayr, AndreaUniversity of Glasgow2000

    This study is concerned with the linguistic analysis of a cognitive training programme for offenders which was run at Prison X in 1996. Several Cognitive Skills classes run by prison officers and attended by groups of five to eight prisoners were videotaped and analysed to investigate the discourse …

    glasgow Repository record

  7. GOVERNING LITERACY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED NATIONS DECADES OF LITERACY, 1990-2000 AND 2003-2012

    Lauritsen, Josie Ann2006

    Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study examines constructs of literacy and literacy education embedded in policy documents related to the United Nations Decades of Literacy (1990-2000 and 2003-2012) and argues that two important shifts related to discourse occur between the policies. …

    cornell Repository record

  8. A Habermasian-based critical discourse analysis of the ICT strategies of the Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape

    Vosloo, SteveFaculty Commerce: IT2008

    There is much political discourse concerning the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in supporting the achievement of development goals. Given the increasing prevalence and importance of ICTs in society, the Centre for e-Innovation (Cel), Provincial Government of the Western …

    cape-town Repository record

  9. Deconstructing Language Ideologies with Self-Reflective Writing in an EFL Classroom in Haiti: A Critical Discourse Analysis Case Study

    Buchanan, Javid2024

    <p>This paper draws on data collected from a critical self-reflective writing workshop series within an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in The Republic of Haiti. This Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) case study investigates 7 students’ critical self-reflection writing to uncover …

    cuny Repository record

  10. Korean Soil, Japanese Faces, American Empire: Repatriation and the Korean War Experiences of Japanese Laborers and Japanese American Soldiers

    Knitter, Jaclyn S2017

    … 2012; Kim 2013; Jager 2013) are viewed through critical discourse analysis (CDA) Fairclough 1989, 1995; Janks 1997) to develop a transregional decolonial framework that reimagines critically the role of the US military in unresolved conflicts over sovereignty and identity formation in the Asia …

    usfca Repository record

  11. Discursive legitimisation of the Colombian peace process in the context of war

    Aylward, AllisonQueen's University Belfast2020

    This thesis applies Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and a three-part legitimisation framework to elite level political discourse in order to identify how the FARC-EP and the Santos administration discursively legitimised their shift from war to peace and the Colombian peace process overall. …

    qu-belfast Repository record

  12. Christian Literature and Social Justice: A Literary Analysis

    Lynskey, Angela CartwrightThe Ohio State University2013

    … among teachers. The study, utilizing both Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Evaluation Coefficient (ECO) analysis, seeks to fulfill the purpose of the study by examining the role of Christian literature in the development of social justice epistemologies among teachers by analyzing the …

    ohiolink Repository record

  13. A corpus-driven discourse analysis of transcripts of Hugo Chávez’s television programme ‘Aló Presidente’

    Smith, Dominic N. A.University of Birmingham2010

    … from corpus linguistics with theory from the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The methodology is demonstrated using a corpus comprising transcripts of Hugo Chávez’s television programme, Aló Presidente, broadcast between January 2002 and June 2007. In …

    birmingham Repository record

  14. Imagining National Cuisine: Food, Media, and the Nation

    Jeong, JaehyeonTemple University. Libraries2018

    … I suggests understanding the nation as a discourse or a regime of truth from the Foucauldian perspective. In order to bring Foucault’s relativistic notion of truth into play, this dissertation employs Fairclough’s three-dimensional approach for critical discourse analysis (CDA). Through …

    temple Repository record

  15. Hidden Power: Journalistic Representations of Mental Health Labels

    Anguizola Assaf, Elise

    … New York Times</em>, and <em>USA Today</em>. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was used as the methodological framework, including an analysis of semiotic choices, dominant perspectives, and causality. The case study allowed for data collection using the key terms <em>mental health</em> and …

    chapman Repository record

  16. Exploring Factors That Can Contribute to Youth Participation in Indigenous Crop Farming at Tshipise Sagole Village

    Ndou, Unarine Emmanuel2025

    … and Capability approach. The study adopted critical paradigm, and participatory action research (PAR) as type of qualitative research design. Data was generated from 24 research team members, consisting of 19 youth and 5 indigenous farmers of Tshipise Sagole village, using co-design …

    venda Repository record

  17. The Kremlin Within. Exploring the role of German politicians in the dissemination of Russian propagandistic narratives.

    Böing, TabeaHelsingin yliopisto2025

    … actors and thus integrated into their own discourse. This phenomenon is approached taking the example of the AfD. This thesis analyses how the AfD interacts with these narratives for its own purpose. The research is based on domestication theory which assumes that international events, or …

    helsinki Repository record

  18. German Militant Ignorance towards Palestinian Experiences of Israeli Settler Colonialism

    Lara Fricke (21040346)2026

    This thesis investigates the German discourse surrounding Palestine. Using a conceptual framework combining ignorance, Orientalism and coloniality of power, it complicates previous research into the topic by unpacking the intricate connections between German Holocaust memory and Germany’s position …

    exeter

  19. Poland for Poles: Nationalist Imaginaries and the Reproduction of Sexual and Racialized Otherness

    Rogula, Weronika2021

    … (1993) sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (SKAD) with Teun A. van Dijk's (1993) critical discourse analysis (CDA) while engaging in-depth interviewing and participant observation. In doing so, it shows how centering post-socialist Poland moves us to question tensions between …

    york Repository record

  20. Negotiating representation in contemporary China's media: masculinities, femininities and alternative identities

    Zhang, RuoyuUniversity of Westminster2025

    … to regulation and censorship. By adopting Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as the principal methodological framework, the thesis analyses a range of media texts—particularly magazines, streaming media, social media, and adverts in both traditional and new media—to unveil how gender norms …

    westminster Repository record

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