This thesis analyzes the media debates generated by the election of Omar Mustafa to the board of the social democratic party, and the appointment of the conservative Minister of Labour, Elisabeth Svantesson. More specifically, the aim is to analyze newspaper material through a discourse analyze, to see if and how religious affiliation effects the possibilities to act as a political representative. Theories of othering and intersectionality serve as theoretical points of departure. Further, chains of equivalence from Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory are used to study how categories as “us” and “the other” are constructed in the material, and how these processes of categorization relate to the intersection of religion, gender and ethnicity. This study concludes that the discourse affects the possibilities to be categorized as a part of an “us” or “the other” and, according to this categorization, to act as political representatives. Related to the studied media debates, this result can be seen as a part of the explanation of the development in the specific cases; Mustafa is leaving all of his political assignments, while Svantesson remains as Minister of Labour.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:56:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Karin BetiatiReginaldo.pdf: 862590 bytes, checksum: b7ea29de54d4cce3cc6e21b180c1177b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-01 / This work aims to achieve a rhetorical analysis of the argumentation of journalism through excerpts of the speech said by the character of the television reporter Edward R. Murrow at two times of transmission of the TV show See It Now, portrayed in the movie Good Night and Good Luck (2005), and to verify if the content of these arguments is, essentially, technical and legitimating order based on the Rhetorical Discourse Theory (TRD). This film work deals with the period that, during the first days of broadcast journalism in the 50s, in the United States, the reporter fights the McCarthyism excesses made in the investigations against communism led by the Senator Joseph McCarthy. In an attempt to clarify the facts to the audience, Murrow and his team perform a work of news production based on the search and transmission of information and opinions that go against the senator s actions. Considering that See It Now was a program that allowed the incursion of his presenter s views and it was transmitted in time dedicated to a more specialized public (audience), it is understood that the proposal argumentation presented a theoretical based on the knowledge (technical data, logos) and on the image of the speaker (ethos). This investigation process happens on the basis of theoretical and methodological model of TRD that supports on classical rhetoric and it incorporates some principles of other theories about discourse. The TRD presupposes as the main attribute of the argumentation the proposition of a thesis that the speaker seeks adhesion. In this context, it is understood that Murrow, as representative of journalism in this film work, works to make the audience join the thesis that propose through this argumentation more focused on the technique and legitimacy, contemplated in the Dimension Evidential of the Argumentation (ethos , pathos and logos), referring to the thesis justification. The other two dimensions that TRD predicted are the Aesthetics and Politics. The first is about the discursive development of argumentation to attract the audience attention through the extra resources and the second refers to the negotiation of the relations of power between the rhetorical subjects. The main authors that base this research are Aristóteles (2005), Dittrich (2003, 2005, 2008, 2009), Berger (2002), Marcondes Filho (2009), Melo (2009), Traquina (2005), with respect to rhetoric, to TRD and to the journalistic language, respectively. It was noticed in this research, that besides the effectuation of initial hypothesis, there was the discovery of a significant presence of sensitizer arguments (pathos Evidential Dimension) over the course of one of the stages of analysis. It was also observed the need to continue this research in order to add the analytical possibilities stemming from Aesthetics and Politics Dimensions, that should include other possibilities that permeate the discourse on screen. / Este trabalho visa realizar uma análise retórica da argumentação do jornalismo por meio de excertos da fala proferida pelo personagem do repórter televisivo Edward R. Murrow em dois momentos da transmissão do programa de TV See It Now, retratado no filme Boa Noite e Boa Sorte (2005), e verificar se o teor destes argumentos é, essencialmente, de ordem técnica e legitimadora sob o aporte teórico da Teoria Retórica do Discurso (TRD). Esta obra fílmica aborda o período em que, durante os primeiros dias das transmissões jornalísticas, nos anos 50, nos Estados Unidos, o referido repórter combate o macartismo excessos praticados nas investigações contra o comunismo , liderado pelo senador Joseph McCarthy. Na tentativa de esclarecer os fatos ao público, Murrow e sua equipe realizam um trabalho de produção noticiosa baseada na pesquisa e transmissão de informações e opiniões que vão de encontro às ações do senador. Considerando que o See It Now era um programa que permitia a incursão de pontos de vista de seu apresentador e era transmitido em horário dedicado a um público-alvo mais especializado (auditório), compreende-se que a argumentação proposta apresentava uma fundamentação com base no conhecimento (dados técnicos, logos) e na imagem do orador (ethos). Este processo investigativo acontece com base no modelo teórico-metodológico da TRD que se apoia na retórica clássica e incorpora alguns princípios de outras teorias sobre o discurso. A TRD pressupõe como atributo principal da argumentação a proposição de uma tese para a qual o enunciador busca adesão. Neste âmbito, entende-se que Murrow, como representante do jornalismo nesta obra fílmica, trabalha no sentido de fazer com que o auditório adira às teses que propõe por meio desta argumentação mais focada na técnica e legitimidade, contempladas na Dimensão Probatória da Argumentação (ethos, pathos e logos), referente à justificação da tese. As outras duas dimensões que a TRD prevê são a Estética e a Política. A primeira é relativa ao desenvolvimento discursivo da argumentação para atrair a atenção do auditório por meio de recursos extras e a segunda se refere à negociação das relações de poder entre os sujeitos retóricos. Os principais autores que fundamentam esta pesquisa são Aristóteles (2005), Dittrich (2003, 2005, 2008, 2009), Berger (2002), Marcondes Filho (2009), Melo (2009), Traquina (2005), no que diz respeito à retórica, à TRD e à linguagem jornalística, respectivamente. Percebeuse nesta pesquisa, que além da efetivação da hipótese inicial, houve a descoberta de uma significativa presença de argumentos sensibilizadores (pathos Dimensão Probatória) no decorrer de uma das etapas das análises. Observou-se ainda, a necessidade de continuidade desta pesquisa no sentido de agregar as possibilidades analíticas advindas das Dimensões Estética e Política, as quais devem abranger outras possibilidades que permeiam o discurso em tela.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:46:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Neves Sapper_Dissertacao.pdf: 966320 bytes, checksum: e683b6375fc7f2a78eb2db34fa5fb619 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-16 / The present work aimed to identify, with the contribution of discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe, the emergence of antagonistic poles of the last referendum held in Venezuela, with the guiding hypothesis of this study to claim that it is possible to put the "Si "was not necessarily in favor of Chavez, the same as the "No" was not made against the president of Venezuela, making plausible the personifying the manifestation of the poles (which is most evident in the formation of the "No"), demonstrations these focused on the significant conditional on each training antagonistic ("Si and "No"). The procediment of this research occurred with the theoretical study of the literature relevant to the subject and subsequent analysis of the speeches constitutional referendum occurred in Venezuela in 2007. / O Presente trabalho teve como objetivo evidenciar, com o aporte da teoria do discurso de Laclau e Mouffe, o surgimento dos pólos antagônicos do último Referendo realizado na Venezuela, sendo a hipótese norteadora do presente trabalho a afirmação de que é possível colocar que o Si não foi, necessariamente, a favor de Chávez, na mesma medida que o No não foi formado contra o presidente da Venezuela, tornando plausível a despersonificação das manifestações dos pólos (sendo esta mais evidente na formação do No ), manifestações estas voltadas para os significantes condicionados a cada formação antagônica ( Si e No ). A procedimentalização da pesquisa se deu com estudo teórico da bibliografia pertinente ao tema e posterior análise dos discursos do Referendo Constitucional ocorrido na Venezuela em 2007.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:46:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael_Bruno_Goncalves_Dissertacao.pdf: 1397877 bytes, checksum: fd77130e8b3288827ea7c68edff588ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-04-26 / O presente estudo tem como objetivo principal analisar o comportamento discursivo do segmento evangélico na Câmara Federal, de 2003 a 2006, a partir dos pronunciamentos identificados nas sessões do Grande Expediente. O termo evangélico utilizado nesta dissertação recobre todas as denominações pentecostais, neopentecostais e protestantes históricas identificadas no Brasil no período investigado. A 52ª Legislatura, eleita em 2002, representou o ápice da participação dos evangélicos na política institucional. Atentos aos temas que entravam em pauta durante o exercício legislativo, estes parlamentares evangélicos demonstraram uma maior preocupação em torno de quatro grandes temáticas identificadas neste período: a entrada em vigor do novo Código Civil brasileiro em 2003, o Projeto de Lei de Biossegurança nº. 2.401/2003, a proposta de reforma política representada no Projeto de Lei nº. 2679/2003 e os escândalos de corrupção que abalaram a 52ª Legislatura. Para realizar a análise discursiva em torno destas temáticas, esta pesquisa terá como principal referencial a teoria de Ernesto Laclau e Chantal Mouffe, identificando, a partir deste aporte, o discurso enquanto prática política. Ao abordar o comportamento discursivo evangélico, apoiado nesta teoria, o presente trabalho pretende trazer subsídios para o campo das ciências sociais sobre a conexão entre política e religião no poder legislativo brasileiro, verificando assim, a existência ou não de uma bancada evangélica coesa neste espaço político de atuação

The purpose of this study is to investigate, from a dialogical perspective, what messages are conveyed about the Swedish Police Agency's reorganization in the big city press for a limited period in the autumn of 2016. Dialogical analysis provides a tool to not only investigate each text individually, but also to examine the internal relationships between the texts in our selection. The study answers the following questions: What image of the Police Agency's reorganization is conveyed in the media? How does the message about the reorganization of the police agency change by the interplay of the media texts? The result shows that different messages emerge depending on how the reorganization is put into context when different actors' voices and different content topics are highlighted. The results also shows several examples of intertextual relationships between the different texts. Intertextual relationships are shaped when a text uses information or quotes from other texts and puts it into a new context. This study shows how information from a significant news article about the Swedish Police Agency’s effectivity is re-used in other articles and how this leads to a shift of message. The method used is dialogical analysis and partly also a discursive perspective. This study, which emerges from a social constructivist perspective, contributes to the understanding of how media texts interact and the effect this have for the reader(s).

‘Democracy’ has been frequently praised by the Chinese political leadership, while liberal democratic institutions have remained conspicuously absent under CPC one-party rule. This study explores the discourse on democracy in the newspaper China Daily between the years 2007 and 2017 to determine how the concept is articulated in a Chinese presumably alternate discourse on democracy. Fifty articles published between 2007 and 2017 are sampled, and a discourse analysis is performed to identify prominent themes featured in these articles concerning democracy. The sample is then further divided in two subsamples with a cutoff in 2012, to investigate whether there has been a qualitative shift in the discourse since the accession to power of Xi Jinping. The analysis shows that - and how – the discourse treats China largely as a particular democracy, frequently contrasted with ‘Western-style democracy’, and downplays certain democratic principles and institutions in favor of alternative ones. It also shows that an overall shift in tone seems to have occurred since the accession of Xi, from optimistic and progressive to a more negative one.

The specific interest of this dissertation is to analyze and discuss the Swedish political struggle of defining the purposes and aims of higher education during the time period 1992-2007. Underlying this specific interest is a broader interest to take part in a multifold discussion concerning the role of higher education in relation to issues of societal and democratic development and of individual identity and citizenship, in times defined in terms of globalization and pluralism. The study takes its point of departure in discourse theory that directs the research interest to language use and the analysis of the political struggle as a contested discursive practice. The main aims of the study are: (I) To analyze the different discourses concerning the purposes and aims of higher education that are (re)articulated in the political struggle. (II) To analyze how the subject student is positioned in the different discourses. (III) To discuss hegemonic tendencies within the political struggle. The material studied in the dissertation consists of national and European policy texts, including government bills, official government inquiries, departmental reports and declarations from the Bologna process. From the analysis four discourses and subject positions provided for the student are constructed and derived; the classical academic discourse and the critically trained student; the discourse of globalization and the employable student; the discourse of democracy and the actively participating student; and finally the discourse of individual identity and the reflexive student. From the analysis it is concluded that it is possible to observe a variation in language use – in terms of the occurrence of (re)articulation of the different discourses – in the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century in the political struggle. The closer one gets to 2007 the more this variation in language use is reduced, and the narrower definitions of the purposes and aims of higher education one finds, owing to the hegemonic tendencies of the discourse of globalization. It is also concluded that national politics then assume a more bureaucratic shape and guide itself towards administration of supranational (European) definitions.

Departing from the ongoing regionalization processes in Europe and other parts of the world, this thesis aims to study the premises and conditions of regional citizenship in contemporary state restructuring. As globalization is viewed to challenge the sovereignty and capacity of nation states, subnational regions have gained authority and interest as key actors to compete on globalized markets of capital in order to ensure future development. This alteration in the balance between the regional and the national raises questions on how aspects of citizenship become negotiated in relation to regions as emphasized political communities. The study therefore develops and applies a productive analysis of regional citizenship based on citizenship theory and poststructuralist discourse theory. The attempts to reform the administrative region of Värmland, Sweden, between the years 2007 and 2011 functions as a case study in the dissertation.  In relation to this process a variety of materials has been collected in order to shed light on articulatory practices related to the reform: media material, public documents and assessment reports, observations of public dialog meetings and focus groups. Through a discourse analysis of the material the study focuses on the discursive production of regional communities and regional citizens in relation to regional reform. Three different but related articulations of the region emerge in the analysis: the region as a cultural landscape, as a welfare system and as a growth machine.   The study shows how the understanding of the region as a growth machine holds a hegemonic position in relation to the other articulations. The growth machine is based on a neoliberal notion of development, where competiveness and commodification function as premises to the intrinsic understanding of regional citizens – as well as welfare and culture - as capital that can, and should, be used to facilitate economic growth. / Runt om i världen byggs större och starkare regioner. Regioner betraktas som i delar en arvtagare till uppgifter som nationalstaterna inte längre anses kunna hantera i en globaliserad värld. Därför har regionerna fått större grad av självständighet från de nationella staterna, frisläppta för att på bästa sätt hitta sätt att locka till sig olika former av globalt rörligt kapital. Kapital som anses utgöra grunden för att kunna bygga ett gott samhälle.   I den här avhandlingen studeras samtida regionalisering ur ett medborgarskapsperspektiv. Vad innebär det för relationen mellan människor och gemenskap att regionen intar en framskjuten position i samhällsbyggandet? Vilka band knyts mellan regionen och regionmedborgaren i en tid som kännetecknas av globalisering och konkurrens? Hur fördelas rättigheter och skyldigheter mellan regionen och medborgarna, och vad innebär det att vara en god regionmedborgare? Genom en svensk fallstudie analyseras hur regionen och regionala medborgare görs meningsfulla i anslutning till att regionens framtid förhandlas. Materialet består av pressmaterial, utredningsmaterial, observerade offentliga möten samt fokusgrupper med regionmedborgare. Studien visar hur myten om regionen som en tillväxtmaskin intar en dominerande ställning och hur globala marknadslogiker fungerar som villkor för det regionala medborgarskapet.

From the middle of the 19th century onwards the number of protestant missionaries in China increased tremendously. The evangelical revival movement played an important role in this development with pioneers like J. Hudson Taylor and his China Inland Mission (CIM) on the frontlines. The Swedish Holiness Union (SHU) decided to join CIM in the northern parts of China were the union established its missionary field in 1890. This essay aims to explore changes in how other religious practices, groups and subjects are constructed within SHU missionary letters from China published 1891-1950. The source material consists of missionary letters published in the Unions own periodical Trons Segrar 1891, 1928 and 1950. By basing the analysis on Laclau’s and Mouffe’s discourse theory the study will explore how different discursive formations change, affirm or undermine each other and how different religious practices, groups and subjects are constructed and characterized within a discursive framework.

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