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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"ideological discourses"”.
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What place has grammar in the English curriculum? An analysis of ninety years’ policy debate: 1921 to 2011.
… My study draws on critical theory to analyse the ideological discourses of English grammar these official policy documents reveal, and how they conflict or coincide with wider ideologies of English and literacy in schools. My study uses a two-stage analysis. First is an intertextual analysis using …
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INTERRUPTING THE SILENCE: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A PILOT SEMINAR ON RACISM, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND WHITE PRIVILEGE
… throughout the seminar process. A number of ideological discourses emerged through participants' discourse before, during, and after the seminar and these discourses are also analyzed using a Critical Discourse Analysis approach. The author then discusses findings from the study that include …
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Programme design practice in a polytechnic in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A case for complexity
… system’s adaptation to influences from outside. Ideological discourses are shown to form the power structures that shape the direction of adaptation of the programme system. For this case study the analysis of the images of the seven lenses and their interconnections shows neo-liberalist …
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An alcoholic forever? A critical discourse analysis of Alcoholics Anonymous construction of identity development in addiction recovery
… of A.A. texts and member accounts identifies ideological discourses that reflect cultural values and expectations of alcohol consumption. These discourses prescribe how individuals who are reducing alcohol use must behave in order to live successfully. Such behaviours include developing a …
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“What does this do?” The neoliberal creep, sexual health work and the deregulation of emergency contraception
… service delivery and identifies the different ideological practices that shaped women’s access like the steady creep of neoliberalism, professional specialization and clinical power. Ideological discourses construct an ideal contraceptive user, who is patient, compliant and appears …
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Metaphor and ideology in film
… metaphors in the determination of the ideological discourses of the films.
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Once upon a time in the veld: South Africa westerns in context
… African film industry due to nationalist and ideological discourses that stifled the genre's growth in country, relegating it to a marginal position. The study also concludes that the narrative and aesthetic structure of all South African westerns reveal larger socio-political trends at work …
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Fighting the odds to make it even: Mapping an affordance ecosystem in a kindergarten community
… who are poorly provided for due to dominant ideological discourses and reiterates the right of all individuals to realise their hopes and dreams.
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“Young Adult Books Don’t Realize They Have that Power”: Reader Response to Ideology in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
… in which readers resist the dominant patriarchal ideological discourses in the YA dystopian novel and how readers submit to this ideology. Through an interaction with the text, the reader produces oppositional, negotiated, or preferred meanings. I will argue that readers’ response to ideology in …
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Spanish transitions: representation of transgender characters in Spanish film
… recurring tropes, narrative tools or privileged ideological discourses embedded in them. By organizing the titles in archetypes, but also paying attention to their temporality and social changes around transgender issues, this dissertation investigates the codification and representation of …
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Constrained Partisanship: A Comparative Study of Policy Choices and Party Discourses in the British and Spanish Crisis Experiences (2008-2014)
… in shaping the policy choices and legitimizing discourses of governments during the global financial crisis. To do this, it uses comparative case studies, examining the experience of left- and right-wing governments in both the UK and Spain between 2008 and 2014. The study combines analytical …
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Sociolinguistic effects of mobility: Iranian Azerbaijanis in the U.S.
… dimensions of language use: (a) migration discourses; (b) language ideological discourses; and (c) sociolinguistic grammars, and claim that these three dimensions collectively present a conceptual understanding of a sociolinguistics of mobility and migration. The empirical data motivating …
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Exploring experiences and perspectives of health, illness and death in selected contemporary African postcolonial texts
… and death in a typical African community. The discourses in memoirs challenge the norms and the construction of human and social expectations in dominant ideological discourses such as culture, beliefs, gender, race, class, democracy, post colonialism, Afrocentrism among others. The study …
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Exploring Imagined Identities and EFL Investment Among Muslim Adolescents: An Arts-Based Research in Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools
… their multi-layered identity positions and ideological discourses about their EFL learning, as well as how their imagined identities and EFL investment might change as result of negotiating these tensions. Multiple data collection methods were deployed; (1) class-related artifacts, (2) the …
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ICT organisations' minimal compliance with affirmative actions regulations: case of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) ICT sector code in South Africa
… while neglecting the transformation agenda. Ideological discourses such as “B-BBEE compliance is anti-FDI, BBBEE compliance is costly, and B-BBEE compliance is complex” continue to thrive as legitimisation mechanisms to justify minimal compliance behaviour and its outcome. Research …