Essays about: "discourse analysis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1604 essays containing the words discourse analysis.

  1. 1. Conflict Discourse in Television Series – The Functions and Uses of Silence in Relation to Social Class

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Linnea Elin Andersson; [2020-04-30]
    Keywords : engelska; silence; television; conflict management strategies; conflict; conversation; turn-taking; communication; avoidance; confrontation; conversation analysis; qualitative research;

    Abstract : This study paper investigates the correlation between social class and the use of silence in conflict discourse, by comparing the interactional style and turn-taking behaviour in two television series representing the upper and lower class. To this end, the study analyses conflict conversations inThe Crown (UK) andShameless (US) to show how in both scripts writers use specific linguistic elements to represent how these social classes are depicted in media. READ MORE

  3. 2. VIDEOS OF WORSHIP. A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Xi Jinping’s ideology and its recontextualisation in propagandistic music videos

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Karl Stäringe; [2020-04-03]
    Keywords : SIK; kinesiska; cult of personality; Xi Jinping; visual grammar; recontextualisation; multimodal critical discourse studies;

    Abstract : År 2012 och 2013 tog Xi Jinping över ledarrollerna för Kinas Kommunistparti, den CentralaMilitärkommissionen och Folkrepubliken Kina. Detta maktskifte påbörjade en centraliseringav den makt som sedan Deng Xiaopings tid hade delats av det översta ledarskiktet. READ MORE

  4. 3. Texts and Paratexts in a Colonial Context. Krupabai Satthianadhan's English Novels 'Saguna' and 'Kamala'

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Karin Edgardh; [2020-01-15]
    Keywords : India; Krupabai Satthianadhan; Saguna; Kamala; Gérard Genette; Autobiography; Conversion; Colonial literature;

    Abstract : The anglophone Indian author Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862-1894) was a second-generation Christian convert and a member of the Christian Tamil family in colonial Madras. Knowledge of English was still a high-caste male privilege when Satthianadhan published reformist articles on female education. Her two novels, the autobiographical Saguna. READ MORE

  5. 4. Putting all the sustainable development eggs in the private sector basket : An investigation into hegemonic struggle in the Danish development community over increasing private sector-driven development

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Louise Maria Skotte Møller; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Development Finance; Private Sector-Driven Development; Civil Society; Critical Discourse Analysis; Hegemony; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : How sustainable development (SD) is envisioned, practiced and financed is a crucial question today. In Denmark, the former government introduced private sector-driven development (PSDD) at the heart of Danish development cooperation. READ MORE

  6. 5. Går det åt skogen? : en diskursanalys över konflikten kring nyckelbiotoper

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Josefine Palmgren; [2020]
    Keywords : nyckelbiotoper; skog; diskursanalys; omvänd naturvårdsgallring;

    Abstract : Den här studien undersöker de konflikter som uppstått kring nyckelbiotoper. Trots att Sverige är tätt beskogat är idag skogens ekosystem hotade till den grad att varken de nationella eller internationella miljömålen angående sko-gen kan uppfyllas. READ MORE