Community Engagement as a Strategy to Facilitate the Immigrant-Local Cohesion

2021 ◽  
pp. 261-274
Author(s):  
Tshimangadzo Selina Mudau
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
Mitigating Factors ◽  
Local Cohesion

The hostility directed towards immigrants has been studied and reported through various forms of media and literature. Similarly, mitigating factors have been explored to establish and restore peace and immigrant-local cohesion. The chapter explored different community engagement strategies implemented to enhance immigrant-local cohesion. The chapter is anchored on Ubuntu philosophy. The philosophy has been integrated with the evolution of immigration and different policies and guidelines to promote and protect immigrants' lives globally. Data have been analyzed through critical discourse analysis. Critical discourse analyses assisted in deconstructing hegemonic social practices such as social practices, language, texts, and constructs as social-cohesion facilitators. Conclusions are that social constructs can create and perpetuate acceptance, integration, and formation of networks to enhance positive relationships between migrants and locals.

scholarly journals Your home, my refuge: being a refugee in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-233
Author(s):  
HÉLIO ARTHUR REIS IRIGARAY ◽  
RENATA ANDERSON ◽  
FLÁVIO VELLASQUEZ ◽  
FERNANDO FILARDI
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Demographic Profiles ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Textual Practices

Abstract The objective of this study was to reveal how refugees who live in Brazil perceive the macro-dynamics of the local society and how their response to them varies in accordance with their different psycho demographic profiles. We interviewed 24 refugees from different countries, genders, ages, and races. The interviews were taped, transcribed, and subjected to critical discourse analysis, resulting in three a priori categories: social, discursive, and textual practices. We found out that social practices did differ in terms of their countries of origin, gender, and race. The analysis of their discourses revealed three different places and roles: hero, victim, or faker. Finally, the textual analysis indicated the choice of words that subverted the hegemonic discourse of refugees, revealing resistance to the place refugees are relegated to in Brazilian society.

scholarly journals Mengulik Akar Kritis dalam Analisis Wacana Kritis dan Implementasinya Terhadap Teks Berita (Exploring Critical Roots in Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Implementation on News Text)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Aswadi Aswadi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Critical View ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Praxis ◽  
Language Meaning ◽  
Language Text

Paradigma atau pemikiran kritis memandang bahwa individu tidaklah dianggap sebagai subjek yang netral yang bisa menafsirkan secara bebas sesuai dengan pikirannya karena dipengaruhi oleh kekuatan sosial yang ada di masyarakat. Bahasa/teks merupakan representasi yang berperan dalam membentuk subjek tertentu, tema wacana tertentu, maupun strategi di dalamnya. Reproduksi realitas dalam suatu teks pada dasarnya sangat dipengaruhi oleh bahasa, simbolisasi pemaknaan dan politik penandaan. Praksis sosial memerlukan makna dan makna tidak bisa lepas dari bahasa. Makna mempertajam serta memengaruhi segala sesuatu yang dilakukan seseorang, maka semua praktik sosial tidak bisa lepas dari dimensi wacana.Analisis wacana termasuk dalam kategori paradigma kritis.Oleh karenanya, istilah analisis wacana kritis hadir untuk membedah kuasa-kuasa dalam teks. Analisis wacana kritis digunakan untuk membongkar kuasa yang ada dalam setiap proses bahasa, batasan yang diperkenankan menjadi wacana, perspektif yang digunakan, dan topik yang dibicarakan, yang dalam berupa teks berita. Analisis wacana kritis yang digunakan mengacu pada model Van Dijk. Kata kunci: kritis, analisis wacana kritis, teks beritaABSTRACTParadigm or critical view considers that an individual is not considered a neutral subject who can interpret freely according to his mind because it is influenced by the social forces that exist in society. Language/text is a representation that plays a role in shaping a particular subject, a particular theme of discourse, as well as a strategy in it. Reproduction of reality in a text is basically strongly influenced by language, meaning symbolization, and political tagging. Social praxis requires meaning and meaning cannot be separated from language. Meaning can strengthen and influence everything that a person does, all social practices cannot be separated from the dimensions of discourse. Discourse analysis belongs to the category of critical paradigms. Therefore, the term critical discourse analysis is present to analyze the powers in the text. Critical discourse analysis is used to uncover the power that exists in each language process, the boundaries that are allowed to become discourse, the perspectives used, and the topics discussed, which in this study are news texts. Critical discourse analysis used refers to the Van Dijk model.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of Students' Anonymous Online Postings

2010 ◽  
pp. 239-248
Author(s):  
Dick Ng’ambi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Message Service ◽  
Commerce Students

It is difficult to understand students’ social practices from artifacts of anonymous online postings. The analysis of text genres and discursive types of online postings has potential for enhancing teaching and learning experiences of students. This article focuses on analysis of students’ anonymous online postings using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The article argues that social practices reproduce during online interaction and artifacts embody such reproduction. A study involving more than 300 commerce students at a higher education institution (HEI) using a special purpose anonymous online consultation tool, the Dynamic Frequently Asked Questions (DFAQ), and social practices embodied in the artifacts is analyzed using CDA. The analysis used the three dimensions of CDA—description (text genres), interpretation (discursive type), and explanation (social practice)—and insights into students’ social practices were inferred. The article concludes that CDA of anonymous postings provided insight into social practices of students and, in particular, highlighted the tension between perceptions of inflexibility of traditional teaching practices and student demands for flexible learning. Finally, CDA, as described in this article, could be useful in analyzing e-mail communications, short message service (SMS) interactions, Web blogs, and podcasts.

scholarly journals A Review of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on Qualitative Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
rika armayanti ◽  
Wendy Pandapotan Sahat Martua Simangunsong
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

This article discusses critical discourse theory as a qualitative research theory. Analytical frameworks include analysis of texts, communication and social practices in local, corporate and social levels. It has the goal of expressing and engaging in politics to discuss or deal with certain research methods, statements or values. It refers to the need to explain, understand, analyze, and criticize social life that reflects in text using critical discourse analysis. According to Lake (1996), “the authors use texts to understand their world and at the same time, the article admits to creating actions and social relationships in everyday life, while text positions and individual buildings provide different meanings, ideas, and world versions”.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis on Beauty Product Advertisements

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Sri Susanti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Textual Features

This research is aimed at describing the use of language in beauty ads (Pantene and Garnier ads), elaborating the way of the strategy are used in persuading the consumers and investigating the reason for the use of strategies. This is a descriptive qualitative method in which the data were collected from the advertisements of Pantene and Garnier. The collected data are the words, phrases, clauses, sentences that are used in ads. The data were analyzed according to Fairclough’s three dimensional approach of discourse analysis; they are textual features, discursive features, and social feature. The findings of this study show that the language used in Pantene and Garnier advertisements appear very interesting in building image to the audience and were successful in utilizing the various discourse strategies to gain people’s attraction to buy the product being advertised. For the social practices, the words found in their advertisement are considered have control or power over people.

Emotional discourses in the courtroom: women’s empowerment work in honour-related trials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Rosquist
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Sociology Of Emotions ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Emotional Displays

The article investigates emotional exchanges as manifestations of power through emotional body language. Subtle as well as obvious displays of emotion are related to the macro political renegotiation of power relations taking place out of court in light of the court case. The testimonies of women in trials investigating honour-related crimes include emotional displays of contempt, friendly intimacy, anger and resignation, each connecting to the sociology of emotions theories primarily of Clark, Katriel and Hochschild. These theories are in turn connected to the critical discourse analysis of Fairclough.When emotions are analysed through the lens of critical discourse analysis as social practices manifested through (body) language, it highlights the significance and implications of emotions as signifiers of change. The empirical study suggests that critical discourse analysis and emotions theories analysing (body) language are both theoretically and empirically interconnected. This lays theoretical as well as methodological foundations for future studies, addressing the connection between emotions, discourse and power.

scholarly journals Postcolonial Discourse in Coogler’s Black Panther: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Albert Tallapessy ◽  
Indah Wahyuningsih ◽  
Riska Ayu Anjasari
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
Black Panther

This article deals with the investigation of the existence of postcolonial discourse in Coogler’s Black Panther (2018). The study aims to reveal and examine the existence of social issues related to Bhabha’s notion of postcolonialism represented through visual and linguistic elements in the movie. Fairclough’s (1989,2001, 2010) Critical Discourse Analysis, Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) Reading Images, Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (2004) and Bhabha’s (1994) Postcolonialism are used to conduct this research. The result of the study shows that postcolonial discourse is proved represented in the movie. The findings imply that the post colonialism affects the characters in term of how they see and reflect themselves towards the dominance. They are also identified as possessing hybrid identity, ambivalence, and mimicry. It seems that the result of the research opposes the director’s intention to bring the theme of the movie. Theoretically, it is proved that the social irregularities representing black supremacy and exploitation of the citizen of Africa, Wakanda, is depicted in the movie. Empirically, the existence of nondemocratic social practices in black citizens is also seen in the movie.

scholarly journals Exploring Theoris in social media in Critical Discourse Analysis Study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
syahfitri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
Technological Developments

Social media is one of the technological developments that have a big hand in providing convenience for humans to communicate and socialize.Social media can be a barrie r where new forms of social relationships cause differences and create new social practices that some people can not accept and develop. This aspect is a consideration to investigate the phenomenon in social media. In this study, we present Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as an approach to the development of theory in social media. Discussions around CDA sites in important information systems research (IS). This research is aimed at developing theory in social media

scholarly journals Penilaian Pembelajaran Sejarah Konstruktivistik: Pendekatan Critical Discourse Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Nur Fatah Abidin ◽  
Hermanu Joebagio ◽  
Sariyatun Sariyatun
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Student Knowledge ◽  
Depth Analysis

This paper discusses about the assessment in the historical learning based on the constructivism paradigm and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach. CDA approach consists of in-depth analysis, includes linguistic, social, and cultural analysis. Three related layers of a dynamic analysis compose the CDA: (1) analysis of the text, (2) analysis of the practice of discursive, and (3) analysis of social practices. In the context of the historical learning based on constructivism paradigm, the third layer used to assess the development of the system and the structure of the thinking of learners. CDA approach used to analyze and assess the work of learners. The work of learners that analyzed by the CDA approach is descriptive test. In the learning process, CDA needs a rubric based on the discourse analysis and the level of development of thinking learners. Based on the results of the research, the CDA used to assess the historical learning process, particularly in the constructivism paradigm. The learning assessment expected to be an alternative assessment, which is not only quantitatively assessing the student knowledge, but also to measure the development of the system and the structure of the thinking of learners.

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