Essays about: "Discursive Strategies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 103 essays containing the words Discursive Strategies.

1. 1. The Loss and Damage fund: An investigation of discourse and power under the UNFCCC

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Olivia Östlin; [2024]
   Keywords : loss and damage; the UNFCCC; critical discourse analysis; political ecology; climate justice; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : At the international climate negotiations at COP27, parties reached the historic agreement to establish a fund to provide assistance to countries in responding to costs associated with climate change, the loss and damage fund. The decision is a result of many years of struggle for the recognition of loss and damage under the UNFCCC which have long been opposed by post-industrial countries. READ MORE

3. 2. Countering Terrorist Content Online: Removal = Success? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the EU Regulation 2021/784

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Nina McCarthy Hartman; [2024]
   Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; Content Moderation; Counter-Terrorism; EU;

   Abstract : This thesis critically interrogates the underlying assumptions which legitimise the hard regulation of online platforms regarding terrorist content, by turning to the case of the EU Regulation 2021/784. Utilising qualitative critical discourse analysis, the study analyses how the EU's strategy against terrorist content online is discursively legitimised through the lens of Theo van Leeuwen's framework for discursive legitimisation strategies, focusing on moral and rational justifications. READ MORE

4. 3. The Discursive Construction of "Welsh" in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle : Thematic Roles and Mental Models

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Johanna Åberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Discourse Analysis; Mental models; Predication; Briton; Welsh; Anglo-Saxon; Colonialism; Thematic roles.;

   Abstract : With the recent rise in interest in critical readings of our history, scholars have begun noticing that historical documents such as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle may have functioned as propaganda (e.g., Yorke, 2006; Konshuh, 2020). The present study examines how Britons (i. READ MORE

5. 4. The Threat of Ideological Indoctrination : Exploring the Adaptive Argumentation within Pro-Life Discourse in Latin America

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Hanna Berg; [2023]
   Keywords : abortion; Latin America; human rights; discourse; pro-life; threat construction; gender ideology;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates conservative social movements’ discursive strategies and the ways in which discourse is used depending on a constructed threat. This is done through a discourse analysis on online published material by pro-life groups in Latin America, using the case of abortion. READ MORE

6. 5. Enhancing Accountability to Affected Populations through Donor Requirements : A grounded theory-based analysis of the current situation, donor motivations and bottlenecks around setting requirements, further constraints and how they could be overcome.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Clara Rattmann; [2023]
   Keywords : AAP; accountability to affected populations; humanitarian; accountability; participation; project design; proposal; funding; grant; donor requirement; disaster response; affected populations; donor; NGO; grounded theory;

   Abstract : Even though supporting affected populations is the raison d’etre for humanitarian action, organisations are frequently not accountable to populations they aim to serve. Despite several reform movements, the consultation and participation elements of accountability to affected populations (AAP), in particular, are still lacking. READ MORE