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Critical Discourse Analysis of Sexual Enhancement Medication Ads
<p>This study contributes to the expanding critical range of discourse analysis by analyzing texts used to market Viagra and other "sexual enhancement medication," pharmaceuticals that treat "erectile dysfunction". Applying elements of Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis framework, this …
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Ideologies of Nature and Sustainability: A critical discourse analysis
… discursive positionings that is central to the analysis of environmental education. The meaning of ‘nature’, our underlying attitude and our relationship to it is thus of critical significance to this thesis. Thirdly, this thesis explores how these ideologies manifest within the political …
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ASPIRING LITERACY SPECIALISTS' (UN)CERTAINTY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
… of this study was to explore the identities and discourses of 10 students who were completing their Literacy Education MS studies to gain certification as literacy specialists. More specifically, it asked: 1) What do beginning literacy specialists' discourses reveal about their evolving …
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Birth Tourism Discourse in Canada
… and national media coverage, I argue that media discourses surrounding the arrival and existence of pregnant Chinese migrants, commonly referred to as ‘birth tourists,’ have detrimental effects on the treatment of pregnant Chinese migrants. My media analysis explores how Canada’s media …
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Screening Difference: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Autism in Contemporary Film
… Data were collected through close textual analysis of narrative structures, dialogue, and cinematic techniques. Findings reveal persistent reliance on the savant stereotype and several caregiver-centered narratives that privilege neurotypical perspectives. The study illustrates how autism …
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Irish Institutional Discourses of Illegal Immigration: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach
… institutional texts between 2002 and 2009. An analysis of institutional texts can cast light upon how power operates and how aspects of national identity can occur in conjunction with discourses of migration. Through a Foucauldian understanding of power and identity formation, this research …
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Critical discourse analysis of Chinese household appliance advertisements from 1981 to 1996
… However, most studies of advertising discourse tend to consist of pure linguistic analysis focusing on vocabulary, grammar and textual organization. Little attention has been given to other components, such as the visual images of the advertisements, while study at the ideological …
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A critical discourse analysis of the new management discourse of virtual organisation
… To a significant extent however, the discourse of virtual organisation remains largely unstable, confused and disconnected, and moreover, frequently paradoxical. The thesis establishes and then addresses this condition by adopting a critical realist philosophy to access and explain the …
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Mothers in Law: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Mothers in Law School
… and performance as a theoretical framework, and critical discourse analysis as a methodology. Data collection took place over the 2022-2023 academic year. Eight mothers participated in this qualitative study representing a range of ability status, age, demographic, socioeconomic, and racial …
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Teacher Preparation Standards within Inclusion-Intensive States
… standards for these states were obtained and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was used to analyze the standards for evidence both of best practices in regards to implementing inclusion, as well as how disability was described by these states. Evidence of many of the best practices were found …
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Mental ill health in nursing and midwifery education. A critical discourse analysis
… The focus of this study was to explore how discourses of mental health, reasonable adjustments and fitness standards influence nursing and midwifery education for students with a mental health condition. Principles of Wodak’s (2001) critical discourse analysis approach, which gives …
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Khomanani : critical discourse analysis of South African state funded publications on HIV
The present study focuses on identifying the discourses that emerge in these official documents. A data set of the complete collection of Khomanani booklets and leaflets in English was discursively analysed. The analysis focuses on ways in which emergent discourses in the text maintain or resist …
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Voice of America And the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis
… in the 1950's and 1960's. This comparative discourse analysis identifies media frames and answers the question if there was an influence by the State Department in news output that was targeted towards audiences in the Soviet Bloc. The goal is to examine if there were propaganda elements in …
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Transformative Distance Learning: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Perspective Change in Adult Learners.
Transformative Distance Learning: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Perspective Change in Adult Learners.
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Academic capitalism and Jesuit higher education: a critical discourse analysis of mission statements
… scholars have utilized the transdisciplinary critical discourse analysis framework (CDA) (Fairclough, 1989, 1993) to explore how language as social practice (re)contextualizes the purpose of higher education. This study attempted to bring together the following three threads: CDA as a …
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Empowering the powerful: a critical discourse analysis of public discourse on graduate employability
… employability in Malaysia as construed in public discourse in English, a language of power in Malaysia. The term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of Malaysia, the English-language ability of graduates is inseparable …
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The Social Construction of Vulnerable Families in Children’s Centres: A Critical Discourse Analysis
… in the context of Children’s Centres. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was used as the methodology for the thesis. A semi structured interview was used to gather data from twelve purposively recruited participants comprising of four centre managers, two leading practitioners and six …
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Project Camelot and Military Sponsorship of Social Science Research: A Critical Discourse Analysis
… and Abu Ghraib.</p><p> This study utilizes Critical Discourse Analysis, rooted in the work of Foucault, to explicate some of the discursive objects, subjects, and formations underlying Camelot, to show how this discourse works to shape and constrain social scientists' understanding of (and …
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