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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"discursive analysis"”.
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Managerial Decisions: A Discursive Analysis
… quality. A Foucaultian approach to discourse analysis was used to assess the trajectories of systems of management thought; nature and influence of changes in management discourse, and the resulting vacillation in power/knowledge relations within these three organisations. Genealogical …
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Stepmothering and Identity: A Synthetic Narrative-Discursive Analysis
… This research used a synthetic narrative-discursive methodological approach, underpinned by feminist theory, to explore the identity work undertaken by stepmothers. In order to maximise the diversity of participants, data were drawn from a web forum for stepmothers and interviews with …
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Stories of Resistance to Religious Authority: A Discursive Analysis
… on their lives, and their acts of resistance. A discursive approach to narrative analysis was developed and applied to transcriptions of these interviews. This analysis identified a range of discursive technologies which had contributed to the subjugation of the participants and protected the …
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Rhetorics of transformations : a discursive analysis of interviews with teachers
… are made between the effects of these discursive constructions and social practices at the school.
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A discursive analysis of women’s femininities within the context of Tunisian tourism
… of this thesis is to critically explore both the discursive role of tourism and its influence in (re)constructing feminine identities in Tunisia. Informed by the works of Michel Foucault, and postcolonial feminism a critical discourse analysis is performed to identify discourses on femininity …
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Peace Corps culture and the language of violence: A Feminist discursive analysis
… has two objectives, the first of which is an analysis of Peace Corps discourse on violence, victimhood, and responsibility. This discursive analysis is carried out within two distinct frameworks: a Liberal feminist framework and a Native feminist framework. My second objective is a comparative …
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Feeling the Burn: A Discursive Analysis of Organizational Burnout in Seasonal Wildland Firefighters
… in considering a temporary/seasonal workforce. A discursive lens was used to investigate the enduring systems of meanings that firefighters draw upon in their everyday talk to more comprehensively understand burnout. Three main Discursive resources emerged from the data: teamwork, a "can-do" …
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Feeling the Burn: A Discursive Analysis of Organizational Burnout in Seasonal Wildland Firefighters
… in considering a temporary/seasonal workforce. A discursive lens was used to investigate the enduring systems of meanings that firefighters draw upon in their everyday talk to more comprehensively understand burnout. Three main Discursive resources emerged from the data: teamwork, a "can-do" …
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‘It’s a problem with the brain’: A discursive analysis of parents’ constructions of ADHD
This thesis takes a discursive approach to the talk of parents of children with an ADHD diagnosis. It uses data from 2 focus groups, 10 individual interviews and 3 mother/father interviews. The thesis adopts a synthetic approach to discourse and draws on the analytic concepts associated with both …
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Under Western eyes : the BBC and the Iranian revolution 1978-1979 : a discursive analysis
This study explains, from a discursive approach, how the Iranian revolution of 1979 was constructed by the BBC (Persian Service) as news story, and how this constructed story as a text provided the Iranian audiences, who participated in the revolution, with a' preferred reading' of the events. The …
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A discursive analysis of children's recreational adult-organized sport : when do children get to play?
… affected their experiences. Despite the league's discursive emphasis on fun, participation, fairness, and respect, that was not necessarily what the children experienced. While most stated they enjoyed their season many also expressed serious disappointments. Size and particularly skill very much …
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American Nationalism in the Early Twenty-first Century: A Discursive Analysis of the Politics of Immigration and National Security
… Michel Foucault's contributions toward discourse analysis to perform a discursive analysis of Donald Trump's campaign speeches in which he exploits pre-existing anti-immigration sentiments among certain voters to gain political power. The research question addressed herein is: How has Donald Trump …
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Organisational transformations in the New Zealand retirement village sector: A critical-rhetorical and -discursive analysis of promotion, community, and resident participation
… The rhetorical and critical discourse analysis reveals the complexity of what "participation" means for the residents. Through a close examination of these meanings, the thesis extends current understandings of relationships between "customers" and "customer-focused" organisations and …
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Elite athletes’ experiences of psychological distress: a discursive analysis of athlete identity in contexts in which athletes are vulnerable to experiencing psychopathology.
… and behaviour, the present research adopts a discursive psychological approach to exploring identity. From this perspective, identity is instead viewed as located within discursive practices and as produced, ascribed and accomplished within language (Antaki & Widdicombe, 1998b; Davies & Harre, …
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Articulating Prejudice: A Linguistic Perspective on Animated Movies
It is argued that a linguistic analysis of such data is necessary for the linguist interested not only in the application(s) of language, but more importantly, in the ideologies of language which reflect and sustain inequalities between groups. This project seeks not only to outline an in-depth …
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The Development of Apartheid in the Naqab Israel’s Prawer Plan and the Jewish National Fund’s Blueprint Negev
… a combination of historical excavation and discursive analysis, informed by the present embodiment of this discourse in the form of violence and violations of Palestinian human rights in the context of the Naqab, the southern region of historic Palestine, where Bedouin communities continue …
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Dysacademia in the Ivory Towers: Performativity, Discipline, Control & Chaotically Moving Towards the Shadows of the 3Rd Educational Spaces
… for today's dysfunctional academy, the current discursive analysis describes the various affects and effects that neoliberalism, performativity, discipline, and control have had upon the inorganic institutions of higher learning, and upon its primary subject concerns, the organic constituents …
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WikiLeaks: A Critical Analysis of the U.S. Government's Response to the Disclosure of the War Logs
… as a "danger to national security." Through a discursive analysis of the U.S. Government's response to WikiLeaks during the cycle of the War Logs, this thesis attempts to describe the political implications of this aforementioned articulation, both in terms of what it may mean for WikiLeaks and …
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Biomedicalizing Risk: Technologies of HIV Prevention and the Moral Imperatives of Biological Citizenship
… virus (HIV) in the United States. Via a discursive analysis of literature, product packaging, and marketing and public health rhetoric surrounding the test (brand name: OraQuick in-home HIV test), I identify several points of contention that have arisen with the varied, sometimes …
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Men's body-related practices and meanings of masculinity
… the ages of 18 and 38. Using that method of discursive analysis developed specifically for the investigation of masculinities by Wetherell & Edley (1999), various subject positions taken up by the men in talking about their appearance related practices were identified. The men positioned …
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