Discursive psychology was used to analyze constructions of Canadian Muslim identities in the Canadian mainstream daily press. News and opinion discourse from a six-month period (November 1, 2008 - April 30, 2009) was examined. Whereas previous research has typically focused on negative news coverage, I examined the full range of identity portrayals of Canadian Muslims available in the daily press. Not unexpectedly, the most overtly negative identity constructions of Canadian Muslims were found in coverage of terrorism trials. In that coverage, the accused were typically worked up as endorsing an extreme interpretation of Islam. These extreme descriptions of the accused may suggest a particularized and therefore non-representative Muslim identity. Negative identity was also constructed in articles that reported on Canadian Muslims’ interactions with the legal and immigration systems: the behaviours of some Canadian Muslims (e.g., polygamy) were formulated as a threat to mainstream Canadian social values. The coverage also dealt with the issue of discrimination against Canadian Muslims. The case for discrimination was accomplished via comparison (e.g., government treatment of Muslim versus non-Muslim Canadians). However, in some coverage, Canadian Muslims were indirectly and subtly portrayed as possibly deserving of discriminatory treatment. Canadian Muslims were favourably portrayed when they: 1) upheld mainstream Canadian social values, 2) had a sense of humour about their Muslim identity, and 3) educated non-Muslim Canadians about Islam. However, favourable identity constructions of Canadian Muslims were often accompanied by background information that negatively portrayed Muslims in general. This juxtaposition of positive representations of individual Canadian Muslims with negative general information about Muslims and Islam may have subtly suggested that good Muslims are an exception rather than the norm. Overall, it was found that Canadian press coverage offers a fuller picture of Canadian Muslim identity than elsewhere (e.g., the U.S. and the U.K.). However, Sampson’s (1993) distinction between accommodative and transformative voice suggests that this picture is still incomplete. Several possibilities for improvement are suggested; for example, the press’s reliance on ready-made news (e.g., staged events) may provide opportunities to increase favourable identity portrayals of Canadian Muslims.

This paper argues that polyphony is built on the transaction between voices and experiential truths, where voice and experience constitute each other. From this perspective voice is associated with the plural, transformational character of moment-to-moment experience. This view differs from the prevalent appropriation of polyphony where voice expresses a relatively stable identity (e.g. Hazen 1993) such that many voices (polyphony) may be reduced to many identities. The experiential understanding of polyphony is examined through close inspection of Bakhtin's contextualization of polyphony in carnival, a reading of his work that is largely missing from the organizational literature. This reading is further developed in the context of talk about teamwork in a large healthcare organization. Analysis of this talk reveals three different types of discursive truths that create different kinds of identities and different kinds of possibilities for organizational change: the public, teleological truths of epic discourse; the intimate truths of confession and irony; and the contested truths of the argument and what Bakhtin (1984) calls the microdialogue (or inner conversations with ourselves).

This thesis focuses on the negotiation of power and identity between Swiss students and instructors in the Swiss classroom. Although Schriftdeutsch1 is the official language of secondary schools in Switzerland, speakers often practice code-switching, which serves many conversational functions (Auer 1998). This paper examines how Germans-peaking Swiss use code-switching strategies to negotiate power and identity in the classroom. My data is drawn from interactions in the classroom and a short interview. Using a constructivist methodology based on conversation analysis (Antaki & Widdicombe 1998; Meinhof & Galasinski 2005; Pavlenko & Blackledge 2004), I analyse classroom discussion in terms of the discourse functions of code-switching and how Swiss German is used to negotiate power and identity in interaction. This thesis reveals an unmarked classroom situation and shows that codeswitching fulfills important functions in classroom discourse. / Applied Linguistics

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In this study, it is aimed to explore Akyaka&rsquo / s self-generated practice and its route of progress with the definitions of place. As the ignorance of Akyaka -as an unconventional body characterized with Nail &Ccedil / akirhan&rsquo / s Aga Khan Award winner traditional type of house in 1983- by the conventional architectural discourse prevents learning from it. Therefore, the research will focus on Akyaka&rsquo / s distinctive story which is taking its references from a place and producing the place of its own, out of the boundaries of the profession. Akyaka will be researched in the framework of several different aspects in relation to protection of coastal region, architectural representation, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Turkish Architecture&rsquo / s identity quests, tourism&rsquo / s agendas, continuity of tradition and its controversy with modern, locality&rsquo / s sustainability, and pastiche in architecture. The town will be listened to in terms of its geographical, socio-cultural and architectural/architectonic bases. In this context, if this unrecognized formation has something to say after 25 years will be studied introducing the place phenomenon reproduced by the settlement as a field of discussion.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Theatre, 2003. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-47).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:07:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MariliaVBF_TESE.pdf: 1134126 bytes, checksum: 0a6b345125f13819b0af2050c5381946 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-21 / The purpose of this work is to bring forward cultural identities of the city of Natal that are built upon representations contained in the work of Twentieth-Century Potiguar1 poets. We started out with the premise that the urban tissue owes its formation to the effect of the feelings produced and to the individuals that give shape to them, thus causing the city to abound with feelings and meanings that are relevant for both society and the individual. As cities and their identities may be studied and interpreted from different viewpoints, we have used in this study poetic discourse that functions as a memory to the city and takes shape out of a set of historically established social practices. Our research is situated within the area of Applied Linguistics, an area of knowledge focused mainly in language that is increasingly expanding its investigation limits in an interdisciplinary way. Therefore, this study is based on a social and historical model of language, with language construed as a discourse practice (Bakhtin and Circle), and presents an interface with cultural studies (Hall, Canclini), taking into account the fact that culture builds up values and brings forth differences in respect of the conditions under which such values and differences are produced. In this sense, we have tried to ―listen‖ to what the poets say, by understanding and interpreting the meanings produced by their discourse, in order to identify the formation of the identities of the city that arise out of distinct points of view and diverse stylistic marks. Analysis of these poetic utterances lead to multifold cultural identities of the city, ranging from a naive and multicolored Natal to a city that builds itself on its characters and on to an insurgent, usurped Natal / Este trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar identidades culturais da cidade de Natal, constru?das a partir das representa??es contidas no discurso de poetas potiguares, no decorrer do s?culo XX. Para tal alcance, tomamos como premissa o fato de que o tecido urbano forma-se em decorr?ncia dos efeitos de sentidos produzidos e dos sujeitos que neles se constituem, o que torna a cidade carregada desses sentidos e plena de significa??o para as sociedades e para os pr?prios sujeitos. Tamb?m constatamos, neste percurso investigativo, que, como as cidades e suas identidades podem ser interpretadas sob olhares diversos, o discurso po?tico funciona como uma mem?ria sobre a cidade, reconstitu?da em meio a um conjunto de pr?ticas sociais determinadas historicamente. A pesquisa ora apresentada situa-se no ?mbito da Lingu?stica Aplicada, ?rea de conhecimento que tem como foco principal a linguagem e que, cada vez mais, amplia suas fronteiras de investiga??o, revelando seu car?ter interdisciplinar. Assim configurado o perfil deste estudo, tomamos como refer?ncia te?rica o modelo s?cio-hist?rico da linguagem, entendendo-a como pr?tica discursiva (Bakhtin e C?rculo). Ainda no campo te?rico, estabelecemos uma interconex?o com os estudos culturais (Hall, Canclini), considerando que a cultura constr?i valores, produzindo diferen?as em fun??o de suas condi??es de produ??o. Nesse sentido, buscamos, pois, ―ouvir‖ o que dizem os poetas, na tentativa de compreender e interpretar os sentidos produzidos por seus enunciados, visando identificar a forma??o das identidades da cidade, que emergem em fun??o dos diferentes pontos de vista e das diversas marcas estil?sticas que neles se fazem presentes. A an?lise dos discursos po?ticos revelou m?ltiplas identidades culturais para a cidade: desde uma Natal ing?nua e multicor, passando por uma cidade que se constr?i a partir da vis?o de seus personagens, at? uma Natal rebelde ou usurpada

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:07:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JanainaTC_TESE.pdf: 1455876 bytes, checksum: a5ca9b280132678812b9a6c3b3c0a8a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-23 / Starting from the premise that we live in the society of spectacle, as proclaimed by Guy Debbord, and, in this context, the media feeds itself off of this spectacularization and constructs a culture of images and production of goods, providing templates from which the subject can identify himself/herself as being male or female, successful or unsuccessful, powerful or powerless. In other words, the culture conveyed by the media produces material for the creation of identities through which individuals insert and recognize themselves in contemporary society. Observing the election campaigns, we can see clearly that this profusion of identities is fairly explored in the advertising propaganda used by the candidates, particularly in the propaganda broadcasted on the Free Electoral Time on TV. Instigated by the explicit relation between the media and politics within the society of the spectacle, this study aims to investigate the main identities that emerge in the discursive practices of the media in the election campaigns of 2010 for president of the Republic and governor of the State of Rio Grande do Norte that had as protagonists the candidates at that moment Dilma Rousseff (PT) for president and Rosalba Ciarline (DEM) for governor. To do so, we based ourselves on the theory of Bakhtin Circle, which considers the statement as a unit of verbal communication and conceives language as a dialogical phenomena and a discursive practice and also in the conceptions of dialogical relationships, social voices and chronotope formulated by the previous mentioned theory. Still in the theoretical field, we have established an interconnection with the theories coming from the Cultural Studies (Hall, Woodward) about the identity, which conceives it as multiple, fragmented, non-fixed, so that, the subject assumes different identities, not always coherent, at different times, depending on the context in which they are approached. The research is situated in the frames of Applied Linguistics, which considers language as the center of its studies and settles on the border of an open number of areas of knowledge expanding its possibilities of investigation by means of the interdisciplinary. Our corpus consists in 20 electoral propaganda videos aired on TV during the Free Election Time in 2010 campaign; among these, 14 videos are Dilma Rousseff s propaganda and 06 videos are Rosalba Ciarline s propaganda. We seek for the purpose of the analysis to identify the identities which emerge from the discourses about the candidates in propaganda videos broadcasted in the referred campaign, as well as realize the dialogical relations established in these discourses and even if the identity construction of these subjects is located in the same axiological axis. The corpus analysis revealed that the multiple cultural identities of the candidates campaigning emerge in the discourses circulating in the electoral propaganda aired on TV such as: the identities of pioneer woman, competent, sensitive, mother, grandmother, religious. And, yet, those are changeable as the electoral demands, in other words, the need to obtain support and votes, outline a fluid identity construction about the candidate to the position in question / Partimos da premissa de que se vive na sociedade do espet?culo, tal como proclamou Guy Debbord, e, nesse contexto, a m?dia alimenta-se dessa espetaculariza??o e constr?i a cultura de imagens e produ??o de mercadorias, fornecendo modelos a partir dos quais o sujeito pode se identificar como sendo homem ou mulher, bem-sucedido ou fracassado, poderoso ou impotente. Em outras palavras, a cultura veiculada pela m?dia produz material para a cria??o de identidades atrav?s das quais os indiv?duos se inserem e se reconhecem na sociedade contempor?nea. Ao observarmos as campanhas eleitorais, podemos perceber nitidamente que essa profus?o de identidades ? bastante explorada na propaganda publicit?ria dos candidatos, em especial na propaganda veiculada pela TV no Hor?rio Eleitoral Gratuito. Instigados pela expl?cita rela??o entre m?dia e pol?tica no ?mbito da sociedade do espet?culo, este estudo tem por objetivo principal investigar as identidades que emergem nas pr?ticas discursivas midi?ticas das campanhas eleitorais de 2010 para presidente da Rep?blica e governadora do estado do Rio Grande do Norte protagonizadas pelas ent?o candidatas Dilma Rousseff (PT) para presidente e Rosalba Ciarline (DEM) para governadora. Para tanto, nos fundamentamos na teoria do C?rculo de Bakhtin, que considera o enunciado como unidade da comunica??o verbal e concebe a linguagem como fen?meno dial?gico e pr?tica discursiva e, ainda, nas concep??es de rela??es dial?gicas, vozes sociais e cronotopo formuladas pela referida teoria. Ainda do campo te?rico, estabelecemos uma interconex?o com as teorias advindas dos Estudos Culturais (Hall, Woodward) acerca da identidade, que a concebe como sendo m?ltipla, fragmentada, n?o-fixa, ou seja, o sujeito assume identidades diferentes, nem sempre coerentes, em diferentes momentos, conforme o contexto em que ? interpelado. A pesquisa situa-se nos quadros da Lingu?stica Aplicada (LA), a qual considera a linguagem como centro de seus estudos e se instala na fronteira de um n?mero aberto de ?reas de conhecimento, ampliando suas possibilidades de investiga??o por meio da indisciplinaridade. Nosso corpus constitui-se de 20 v?deos de propaganda eleitoral veiculados pela TV no Hor?rio Eleitoral Gratuito da campanha de 2010; dentre estes, 14 v?deos s?o da propaganda da candidata Dilma Rousseff e 06 s?o da candidata Rosalba Ciarline. Buscamos para fins de an?lise identificar as identidades que emergem dos discursos sobre as candidatas nos v?deos de propaganda veiculados na referida campanha, bem como perceber as rela??es dial?gicas que se estabelecem nesses discursos e ainda se a constru??o identit?ria desses sujeitos situa-se no mesmo eixo axiol?gico. A an?lise do corpus revelou que as m?ltiplas identidades culturais das candidatas em campanha emergem nos discursos que circulam na propaganda eleitoral veiculada pela TV, tais como as identidades de mulher pioneira, competente, sens?vel, m?e, av?, religiosa, e, ainda, que elas s?o cambiantes ? medida que as demandas eleitorais, ou seja, a necessidade de se obter apoios e votos, esbo?am um construto identit?rio fluido a respeito da candidata ao cargo em quest?o

A presente dissertação tem por proposta investigar a construção da identidade infantil a partir do discurso de adultos e crianças que se apresenta na mídia impressa em revistas voltadas para o público infantil, publicadas na década de 1930, no Brasil e na Alemanha. Busca-se observar como se caracteriza esse discurso e quais argumentos foram imprescindíveis para a construção de tal identidade em dois regimes nacionalistas concomitantes - o início da Era Vargas, no Brasil, e do Nazismo, na Alemanha. Os corpora constituem-se da revista \"O Tico-Tico\", publicada no Rio de Janeiro; e dos textos do jornal Hilf mit!\" Illustrierte deutsche Schülerzeitung\", publicado em Berlim. Esses periódicos eram distribuídos nas maiores metrópoles de seus respectivos países e, por isso, se apresentam como bastante significativos quanto à representação da imagem da criança nessas grandes cidades e em culturas distintas. Visando observar tal questão, selecionamos como embasamento teórico os estudos de Wolf (1999) e Lopes (2005) no que se refere às pesquisas em Comunicação; os preceitos de Perelman e Olbrechts-Tyteca (1996 [1958]) e Klein (1980) a respeito de valores argumentativos e validades coletivas; a definição de Ideologia proposta por van Dijk (2000); os conceitos de Discurso Autoritário e Discurso Interiormente Persuasivo, proposto por Bakhtin (2015 [1930]); bem como pesquisas da área de Identidade no Discurso, como de Jungwirth (2007), Moita Lopes (2002) e seus seguidores. Após traçarmos o contexto histórico, político e comunicacional que circundam os periódicos, os textos foram analisados, com luz às teorias da Argumentação, buscando-se observar as estratégias discursivas e, sobretudo, os valores argumentativos e as validades coletivas difundidos nos discursos a partir da seleção lexical; os resultados obtidos na pesquisa nos permitiram observar questões voltadas às ideologias e às identidades construídas nesses textos. As análises apontaram para uma maior autonomia discursiva, ideológica e identitária nos textos de autoria atribuída às crianças na revista brasileira em relação à revista alemã, apesar de tal autonomia não se apresentar como algo absoluto em relação a alguns valores sociais. / This masters dissertation aims to investigate the construction of the juvenile identity through the discourse of adults and children presented in printed media, specifically in magazines whose target audience is children. The magazines analyzed were published in the 1930s in Brazil and Germany. The intention is to observe how the aforementioned discourse is characterized and which arguments are essential for the construction of such an identity during two distinct political periods, Vargas Brazil and Nazi Germany. The corpora consist of the magazine \"O Tico-Tico\", published in Rio de Janeiro; and of texts from the newspaper \"Hilf mit! Illustrierte deutsche Schülerzeitung\", published in Berlin. Those magazines were distributed in the main metropolises of their countries of origin and therefore may be significant in the representation of the image of children in those large cities and distinct cultures. Therefore, the chosen theoretical foundation includes: the communication studies of Wolf (1999) and Lopes (2005); the precepts of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (1996 [1958]) and Kleins (1980) argumentative values and collective validity; Van Dijk\'s (2000) definition of ideology; the concept of authoritarian speech by Bakhtin (2015 [1930]); as well as works by specialists in identity in discourse such as Jungwirth (2007), Moita Lopes (2002) and others that study their works. After investigating the historical, political and communicational context that surrounds those magazines, the texts were analyzed using the theory of argumentation, to observe the discourse strategies and especially the argumentative values diffused in the discourses through the lexical selection. The results obtained in this research allow us to observe issues related to the ideologies and identities that were constructed in those texts. The analyses point to greater autonomy in terms of discourse, ideology and identity in Brazilian texts, whose authorship was attributed to children, in comparison with the German texts, although such autonomy is not absolute regarding some social values.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:07:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RodrigoSR_DISSERT.pdf: 1151164 bytes, checksum: 1af4b5fa820e612af2aadc1cfd8c0592 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-01-22 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / Brazilian constitution says that all Brazilians have basic survival rights such as education, sanitation and food, but these basic rights are luxury for some. So, thinking about this, this paper aims to develop a critical analysis about the (re)production of the discourse on poverty, and consequently on the poor, given by the federal government, through the official website of the program Brazil Without Poverty (Brasil Sem Pobreza), the media, represented by Veja magazine, and by those who affirm to be representatives of the poor; like the Single Central Slums (Central ?nica das Favelas CUFA). Our aim is to present a critical reflection on the discourses about the poverty in the voices of the government, Veja magazine (media representative) and CUFA (poor representative) and their contribution to the development of the meanings of the theme in Brazilian society. In order to do so, we have identified categories based upon Bajoit (2006a) to classify which the author calls faces of poverty . We have used the Sociological and Communicational Discourse Approach (ASCD) as developed by Pedrosa (2012a, 2012b, 2012c), within the Critical Discourse Analysis as theoretical apparatus, and also the studies in which the ASCD is built upon such as Sociology for Social Change (BAJOIT, 2006), the Cultural Studies (HALL, 2005), and the Functional Systemic Linguistic, especially the Evaluating System (MARTHIN & WHITE, 2005, VIAN JR et al, 2011). Thus, the discourse on poverty or on fighting poverty, extracted from news, chronicles and other genres of the mentioned vehicles, are taken as object of study to understand identities that are created and renewed on poverty and on the Brazilian poor, as their dependence on the government and civil society, their exploitation by the economy, and even the media that sometimes features them as delinquent / A nossa Constitui??o prega que todo brasileiro possui direitos b?sicos ? sua sobreviv?ncia, como educa??o, saneamento b?sico e comida, no entanto, este direito ? um luxo para alguns. Pensando nisso, este trabalho se prop?e a desenvolver uma an?lise cr?tica a respeito da (re)produ??o do discurso sobre a pobreza, e, consequentemente, sobre o pobre, proferido pelo governo federal, atrav?s do site oficial do plano Brasil Sem Mis?ria; pela m?dia, representada pela revista Veja; e pelos que se afirmam os representantes do pobres; como a Central ?nica das Favelas CUFA. Nosso objetivo ? apresentar uma reflex?o cr?tica acerca dos discursos sobre a pobreza na voz do governo, da Veja (representante da m?dia) e do CUFA (representante do pobre) e suas contribui??es para a constru??o das significa??es do tema na sociedade brasileira. Para tanto, identificamos categorias, baseados em Bajoit (2006a), para classificar o que o autor chama de rostos da pobreza . Utilizamos, desta maneira, a Abordagem Sociol?gica e Comunicacional do Discurso, ASCD, de acordo com Pedrosa (2012a, 2012b, 2012c), dentro do quadro da An?lise Cr?tica do Discurso como aparato te?rico, al?m dos estudos que fundamentam a ASCD como corrente da ACD, tal qual a Sociologia para a Mudan?a Social (BAJOIT, 2006b); os estudos culturais (HALL, 2005); e a Lingu?stica Sist?mico-Funcional, sobretudo o Sistema de Avaliatividade (MARTIN & WHITE, 2005; VIAN JR et al., 2011). Deste modo, o discurso sobre a pobreza ou de combate ? mis?ria, extra?do de not?cias, cr?nicas e demais g?neros dos referidos ve?culos, serve de objeto para a compreens?o das identidades que se criaram e se renovam sobre a pobreza e sobre os pobres brasileiros, como a sua depend?ncia do governo e da sociedade civil, da sua explora??o pela economia, e, inclusive, pela m?dia, que o caracteriza, algumas vezes, como delinquente