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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Discourse Analyses"”.
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“If you’re not that as an Asian woman, you’re not shit as an Asian woman.”: (re)negotiating racial and gender identities
… research, as well historical content and discourse analyses, this M.A. thesis deconstructs the ways in which Western society has constructed Asian/Asian-American women as the hypersexual Other, and revisits the ways in which empowerment, agency, and autonomy are reconfigured by …
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Exploring the function and distribution of generic pronouns: The example of German man and du
… persectives of cognitive linguistics, text and discourse analysis. Past research has primarily concerned itself with written discourse, or with data gathered under controlled conditions, such as researcher–participant interviews or elicited narratives. This work proposes spontaneous spoken …
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A multimodal analysis of selected National Lovelife HIV/AIDS prevention campaign texts
… cohere to make a meaningful message. The study analyses how the design features, including images, colour and words, impact on the interpretation of the message and also how the design acts as an aid or barrier to the process of decoding the message. The choice of a two-pronged approach …
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The Power Behind Postsecondary Attainment Goals: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
<p>In this study, I examined neoliberal discourses upheld by policy actors engaged in the college completion agenda that perpetuated power structures maintaining white supremacy by relying on the success of racially marginalized communities to meet postsecondary attainment goals. With philanthropic …
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"Discourse analysis: A comparison of business journalism style of ""The Wall Street Journal"" and ""The Nation"""
… approach adopted by various researchers in discourse analysis which utilizes the theoretical framework of Dell Hymes' ethnography of communication. In addition, the methodology used in this study employs computer technology to facilitate the identification of occurrences of linguistic …
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Foucauldian Micropolitics and the Evolution of Party Polarization: Diverging Discourses in America's Two-Party System
… microlevel analysis of the polarization of elite discourse, its motivations, and its effects on the American voter. This study quantifies the divergence in party discourse on particular issues through an analysis of published platforms and presidential candidate convention speeches. By employing …
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Governing Corporations: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Expanding Role of Business in Society
… Applying both situational and critical discourse analyses, the study uses data collected from Starbucks CSR reports and press releases to illustrate the way in which many companies are acting out their social responsibilities today. Specifically, I ask: How does Starbucks frame and …
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21st-Century Yiddishism: The Dialectic of Czernowitz and Yiddish Pedagogical Discourse of the Present
… surveys, interviews, close textual readings, discourse analyses, and ideological critique to achieve a synthesis indispensable for investigating the teaching and learning of present-day Yiddish formations and focusing on ad hoc, in situ pedagogical practices where they necessarily emerge, be …
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Discourses of motherhood in women's magazines in contemporary Britain
… magazines in contemporary Britain. It explores discourses of motherhood in this popular cultural form at this particular historical time, using quantitative, semiotic and discourse analyses of selected monthly magazines. Psychoanalytic theories and discourse analysis are employed to explore the …
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The representation of disabled women in Anglo American advertising : examining how cultural disability tropes impact on the subjective wellbeing of disabled women
This thesis critically analyses the representation of disabled women in a small sample of Anglo-American advertisements (produced post-2000), from a feminist disability studies perspective. From my application of textual and discourse analyses to nine advertisements featuring women with mobility …
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Cultural governance in contemporary China: popular culture, digital technology, and the state
… of trade fairs/festivals, and critical discourse analyses of popular cultural texts, the study finds that the traditional broadcasting and the online video sectors are structured along two different political economic mechanisms. While the former is dominated by domestic capital and …
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Detached from Our Bodies: Representing women's mental health and well-being with graphic memoirs
… that challenge dominant social structures and discourses. In this thesis, I conduct visual, textual, and discourse analyses of three graphic memoirs by women that challenge pathological mental health discourses: Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green, Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder …
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Climate Change Policy Narratives and Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: New Concerns, Old Arguments?
… pastoral area development are shaped by certain discourses and narratives and by political interests. This is important because the simplifications that are often a characteristic of environmental policy narratives can fail to acknowledge the politicised nature of many environmental problems in …
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Troubling creativity discourses: A Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis of the idea of ‘creative subjects’ in public texts and in the context of A level decision.
… a Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, the thesis casts light on hidden discourses of creativity in the public sphere and in a school context. The thesis aims to reveal the current dominant discourse about creativity in education and how it might this affect subject …
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Vulnerability and identity negotiation in childbirth: a narrative approach
… technique, comprising structural, thematic and discourse analyses, I have been able to explore the influence of competing discourses upon woman’s experience of birth in the UK. In complement I have woven my story of transition to motherhood into the project to chart my subjective position as it …
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Language socialization in Canadian Hispanic communities : ideologies and practices
… a passport to a cosmopolitan worldview. Detailed discourse analyses revealed how the families utilized explicit and implicit directives, recasts, and lectures to socialize children into Spanish language ideologies. These analyses also showed how children at times resisted the parents’ …
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Celebrities at Work: The Symbolic Production of Masculinities in American & British GQ Magazines in 2012
… on this theme has yet to engage in comparative analyses across national editions of a magazine. Drawing on the work of Stuart Hall, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu this research highlights the importance of magazines (and media generally) as cultural products for the on-going …
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Yellow in White Suits: Race, Mobility, and Identity among Grown Children of Korean Immigrants
… Utilizing the grounded theory and the critical discourse analyses, I found that the group experiences neither full inclusion into nor exclusion from the white mainstream, but undergoes divergent adaptational experiences due to multiple factors. First, in their upbringing, Asian ethnic advantages …
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Psychological trauma : discourses of childhood sexual abuse
… gathered from a group of women were subjected to discourse analyses. In the third study presented it is shown that the professional discourse concerning the traumatic effects of child sexual abuse is pervasive in discursive themes elicited from lay women. This is interpreted as an example of the …
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Imulating storyteller-audience interactions in digital storytelling: questions, exchange structures & story objects
… guides about their Apartheid-era experiences. Discourse analyses showed the narratives: (a) were structured as clauses, each relating a story event or thought; (b) varied minimally across retellings; (c) incorporated storyteller-audience interactions (periodic questions) between clauses which …
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