Writing AIDS,Deconstructing Politicized Discourses on the Body:AIDS in Post-apartheid South African Novels by Mpe and Mhlongo

HIV/AIDS has been one of the most serious health concerns in South Africa over the past 30 years.Novels such as Welcome to Our Hillbrow,Dog Eat Dog,and After Tears are literary responses to the profound shame and fear inflicted by the epidemic on individuals and society.These AIDS narratives serve as a means to deconstruct politicized discourses about the disease.They scrutinize the stereotype that the voracious sexuality of black men is the primary cause of AIDS and challenges the xenophobic notion of contagious foreigners prevalent in post-apartheid South Africa.Additionally,the novels critically examine and satirize the denialist discourse propagated by incompetent politicians who have failed to contain the virus in post-apartheid South Africa.By representing the conflicting voices surrounding HIV/AIDS,these writings vividly depict the social and political landscape of the era.

A Corpus-Based Contrastive Critical Genre Analysis of Universities’Introductory Discourses

Educational discourses,or to be more specific,universities’introductory discourses have not been studied from the contrastive perspective using critical genre analysis theories.This study uses Fairclough’s framework of discourse analysis to take a corpus-based contrastive study between the Chinese and global universities’introductory discourses from three aspects.Firstly,the textual dimension will be explored using the corpus-based approach.Secondly,it studies from the discursive dimension from intertextuality and interdiscursivity.Finally,the social cultural perspective study will be given about the corresponding social cultural interpretation on the differences between Chinese and global universities’introduction discourses.

Analysis on the Metaphorical Structure of Education Discourses

Cognitive linguistics has gained more and more attention over the years since it provides new horizon to understand language in relation to human experience. At present, it is of prevalence to study education from the linguistic perspective. This paper tends to center on education discourses, both written texts and educational practices, and understand their underlying cognitive or cultural models by resorting to the metaphorical theory in cognitive linguistics.

A Semiotic Approach to Social Discourses on Colombian Political Events of the Late Twentieth Century

The paper that we present below addresses a methodological approach to Marc Angenot’s statements,in his Social Discourse(2012)of integrating certain views and opinions,taken from the written press,literature,and television,on events happened in Colombia,prior to 1990 presidential elections.When we study the discursivities1 that are the product and/or the representatives of some political crimes that took place in Colombia between August 1989 and April 1990,we speak mainly on discourses that took place some decades ago.Some of these stories have allowed us to give meaning to the world and,at the same time,integrate us in it.

Photographic Image: Thematization of Its Discourses

This paper deals with thematization as a fundamental step towards the determination of photography image discourses in order to index them. It deals with questions related to photographic reality, polysemy, denotation and connotation, whose comprehension is fundamentally important for the interpretation of photography discourses. It also approaches aspects that have influenced photography analysis towards its thematization, such as the characterization of an image bank, the functions performed by photos, as well as technical and visual quality.

District Policy---Social Practice Through Internal and External Discourses： How the Implementation of a Single Regional Political Instrument Is Perceived, Understood and Communicated

This paper focuses on how the implementation of a single regional political instrument is perceived, understood and communicated. Designed as a regional political instrument, the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications started a pilot project： ＂Driver education as a part of upper secondary school in district Norway＂. The focal point in this paper is to explore how the professional participants understand and interpret the project as a regional political instrument in order to maintain the local community, identity and local belonging. The theoretical approach is based on Giddens＇s actor/structure theory, while the analysis based on discourse analysis, in the analysis we separated the arguments used in the professional discourse. We detected different categories of argument in the discourses among the professionals. In addition to the professional discourse, we became aware of a personal discourse. In both discourses the political instrument was perceived to be important in order to maintain the local community, create equality and maintain local identity and a sense of belonging.

Discourses of Chinese ELT Stakeholders on Native Speakerism

This paper reports on part of the findings of a large-scale study exploring the viewpoints of Chinese ELT stakeholders(students,teachers and administrators)on native speakerism in order to find out whether current EFL education in China is still affected by this chauvinistic ideology.The analysis of data via a critical lens reveals that the vast majority of the participants conferred upon NS products(teacher,language,culture and teaching methodology)a status superior to that granted to the NNS counterparts and failed to see linguacultural and epistemological inequalities between the English speaking West and traditional NNS countries,inter alia,China.These findings suggest that the three participant groups as an entirety succumb to native speakerism,and by extension that ELT in China is still haunted to a great degree by this ideology.Given that this study treats each participant group separately,future studies are expected to explore inter-group interactions in ideology.

On the Identity Construction in Question Methods and Answer Methods of Speakers： For the Discourses in Antigone

Linguistics classifies question methods into certain types. There are kinds of question methods, such as alternative question method, yes-no question method, specific question method, direct question method, indirect question method, echo question method, tag question method, miracle question method and so on. And this paper will set the characteristic discourses of protagonists in the drama of Antigone by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles as a research example, so as to analyze the protagonist＇s pragmatics motivation in the conversation strategies when communicating with three people in different social identity, that is to say, this paper will analyze the way that the selected question and answer methods used by the protagonist to achieve the effect of being recognized as king identity but not as a tyrant in fact. According to the dramatic text, this paper tends to make a further research on the characters＇ self-identity construction ground on the discourse characteristic of the characters. And from the perspective of modem linguistic, it is the analysis of the motivation in question methods, and the advantage and disadvantage on the discourse right implied in answer methods, that contribute to the further research on how the social identity construction and the classic character image are successfully made.

University students＇ attitudes towards the standard discourse and the emergent discourses

The study investigated the university students＇ attitudes towards the coexistence of the standard discourse and the emergent discourses through a questionnaire. 223 sophomores in Xinjiang Normal University participated in the survey. The results show that these students tend to accept the emergent discourses in terms of their new vocabulary words, such as ＂yumi＂. Although the standard discourse dominates the students＇ life, the emergent discourses are accepted and used by these students. With regard to the view to purify the Chinese language, human concern and tolerance for the coexistence of various discourses are suggested.

Swede Levov’s Tragic Fall from the “Paradise”: Competing Narrartive Discourses in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral

Philip Roth has often been accused of misogyny.A close and unbiased reading of Roth’s American Pastoral,however,reveals that beneath its surface patriarchal narrative discourse simmers an undercurrent of a female subtext,which engages a dialogue as well as a confrontation with its counterpart.Swede Levov,worshipped as an indestructible,active and masculine semi-god,turns out to be weak,passive and indecisive,while the women belittled by him are actually independent,insightful,wise and proactive.Such patriarchal binary oppositions as male/female,active/passive,strong/weak having been subverted,patriarchal myth and authority represented by Levov has thus been deconstructed and the gender politics has been rectified.Women in the novel win the domination held by the male protagonist Levov,the narrator Nathan Zuckerman.

Continuities of Historical Crises and Discourses of Europe From the “Neo-Latin Past” to the 21st Century

Europe and the EU have been facing many crises and challenges in recent years.From Brexit and rising nationalism to economic problems and unanimous refugee policies,most of them remain unsolved.Instead of moving forward with the European integration project,Europe seems to regress in many instances.Considering this turmoil,it seems all the more important to historicize the affirmative discourse of Europe and to expand the knowledge of the European unification process with novel insights into its history.Only if a broad understanding of its roots and developments prevails,the conflicts of the present can be better evaluated and addressed.Particularly one set of so far neglected sources from Europe’s past serves as guiding light in that respect:the early modern Europe literature written in the Latin language.Between 1400 and 1800,Latin enjoyed a similar status in promoting scientific discoveries,negotiating political affairs and generally communicating on an international level as modern-day English.By offering a brief glance at some historically influential Latin texts from the early modern discourse of Europe,this article will show that the early modern European crises strikingly resemble Europe’s current crises despite the difference in political,social,and economic circumstances.The discourse of Europe has from the beginning been a stable discourse,characterized by the same recurring questions for centuries.When used as reference point for the crises of the 21st century,the prospects for the European integration look better than presumed.

Articulation and Game Playing of the ICH Discourses in Folk Culture Field

It has been over ten years since the Intangible Cultural Heritage(ICH) protection movement was launched in China. During this period, a unique discourse system has been established. The three parties of the state, market and academic circles have respectively created administrative, industrial and knowledge discourses about the ICH. First, the representation of folk culture was incorporated into both the ICH protection system with list as the core and the cultural reconstruction strategy in the transition period, subsequently into national narrative through implementation of policies and administration by the government. Second, market operations have transformed heritage resources into cultural capital to boost the culture sector and tourism, and thus reinvigorate folk culture and brought about qualitative changes. Third, academics have made ICH discourses integrated with multidiscipline and extend academic discourse from universities and research institutions to the public sphere and cultural practice. The formation of the above discourse types reflects the articulation and game playing of ICH discourses in the folk culture field, and therefore they combine to form an ideal way to approach the cultural transformation and cultural politics of contemporary China.

The Study of Human Body Metaphor in English Economic Discourses

Metaphor plays an important role in English economic discourses.It is not only a figure of speech but also a cognitive way of thinking.It is meaningful to discover how metaphor works in English economic discourses.

Reflection of the Change of Discourses: Masculinity in The Sun Also Rises

The thesis intends to interpret the masculine hero in Earnest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises by discourse analysis. As Foucault mentioned, every discourse is the reflection of power. The common norm of masculinity at that time is the reflection of dominant discourses, and Hemingway's works are the reflection of marginal discourses, such as the call of President Roosevelt and the anxiety for a masculine society of scholars who influenced Hemingway deeply.

“The 10th Anniversary of the Blue Book on Human Rights and the Concepts,Discourses and Theories of Human Rights in China” Symposium Summary

The China Society of Human Rights Studies and the Human Rights Research Center at Nankai University jointly hosted a seminar on"The 10th Anniversary of the Blue Book on Human Rights and the Chinese Human Rights Concept,Discourse and Theory"on December 19th,2020.Experts at the meeting expressed their views and discussed the organization,style,and system of the Blue Book on Human Rights;the concept,expression,and dissemination of the Chinese human rights discourse;the paradigm,principle,and structure of the Chinese human rights theory;and the objectives,paths,and development of the Chinese human rights enterprise.

Techno-aesthetics in architectural discourses:A state of the art review

Since the beginning of the First Industrial Revolution,technology and its impact on art and design have been a topic of discussion.With the rise of digital technologies,there has been a renewed interest in exploring the relationship between technology and aesthetics.The aim of this paper is to clarify the concept of techno-aesthetics and make it a more accessible field of study by identifying its key discourses.In order to understand how technological objects have been evaluated in architectural history,a systematic review of 177 studies was conducted.The collected literature was analyzed using Kant’s characteristics of aesthetic judgment,discourse analysis techniques from Foucault’s methodology and Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory.This helped in creating a framework for classifying the literature.The study analyzed results based on five categories:admired technological objects and architectural objects inspired by them,concepts(function,truth,freedom,objectivity,unity,and power),standpoints(rationalism,romanticism,optimism,and determinism),and benchmarks of legitimation(ideology,history,scientific nature,everyday aesthetics,and sublimation of technology).These results were then combined to identify eleven significant discourses of techno-aesthetics.

An analysis of Rem Koolhaas’s discourses on architecture and urban design using a corpus-based model

This paper explores the networks of thoughts behind words by reading architectural texts in the context of linguistics.Using a corpus-based model,our main interest is what the collocational data contribute at an architectural level.The notion of“collocation identification in architecture”was drawn from an analysis of the use of the data for Rem Koolhaas.The data for this study were collected from Rem Koolhaas’s articles from 1977 to 2014.An analysis of Koolhaas’s ideas about architecture and urban planning was conducted using the AntConc 3.4.4.0 corpus analysis toolkit.The corpus-based model reduced selected articles to words and lexical bundles using the corpus analysis toolkit.This paper explores Koolhaas’s thoughts on understanding architecture and the metaphors he uses by analyzing articles using the corpus-based analysis model.The discourse codes in the texts of Koolhaas are examined.A corpus-based model proposal tested on architectural texts has the potential to create new areas of knowledge for architectural discourse.Deciphering the texts and analyzing the codes contribute to the development of new models.

Sub-Saharan Migrants in Moroccan Print Media:Discourses of Violence,Security,and Illegality before and after the Migration Reform

Morocco currently occupies a curious position as both a country of transit and a country of installation for migrants originating from Sub-Saharan countries.Even though the new migration policy reform has provided migrants with some new rights,public opinion is still unready to shape and reshape their perceptions of’black’African migrants.The situation of those migrants has grabbed media attention,especially in newspapers;hundreds of articles and reports have been written in newspapers,criticising or denouncing the phenomenon.Although the currently available body research has tended to neglect the linguistic ways in which such media convey meaning along the side of their use of images,little attention has been paid to language-based media.As such,this paper scrutinises(i)the depiction of Sub-Saharan migrants in Moroccan print newspapers headlines before and after the migration reform,and(ii)it considers how reports on‘black’African migrants in Morocco may lead to propagating stereotypical acts and xenophobia towards this category.The study examines the topics covered and reveals the patterns used in the coverage of related topics,such as illegality and violence,before and after the new migration policy in 2013.With these objectives in mind,this study is based on qualitative data of news items and reports from the two daily printed newspapers,Assabah and Almassae.Relying on Critical Discourse Analysis and Content Analysis has demonstrated an overgeneralisation of Sub-Saharan migrants in news headlines in general.The results also show a dramatic change in the thematic coverage during the selected period.

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