What is discourse analysis? Discourse analysis is about studying and analysing the uses of language. Because the term is used in many different ways, we have simplified approaches to discourse analysis into three clusters (table 1) and illustrated how each of these approachesmight be used to study a single domain: doctor-patient communication about diabetes management (table 2). Regardless of a...

The analytical paper mainly deals with the questions how the image of Sister Phoenix, one of the most “popular” ugly stars in China is narrated, and how it is reconstructed and circulated by the media. In the paper, the author utilize multiple analytical devices, such as Gee’s seven building tasks (2010), Bahktin’s dialogical processes, Fairclough’s (2003) approaches to critical discourse analy...

Working adults spend nearly one third of their daily time at their jobs. In this paper, we study job-related social media discourse from a community of users. We use both crowdsourcing and local expertise to train a classifier to detect job-related messages on Twitter. Additionally, we analyze the linguistic differences in a job-related corpus of tweets between individual users vs. commercial a...

the aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between media literacy and social skills among citizens in isfahan. to this end, a descriptive-correlation methodology was employed. the population under study consisted of all citizens living in isfahan who were reported to be 1796967 persons in 2013. using cochran formula, 384 persons were selected by stratified sampling and were in...

Discourse plays an important role in innovation and the diffusion of technology. Various types of actors act as knowledge entrepreneurs to collectively build this discourse. This paper examines the emergence of a new type of actor, tech bloggers, within technology discourse communities. Tech bloggers are authors of web logs focused on developments with new technologies. We examine tech bloggers...

He says research shows that doctors who smoke and present as overweight or obese are ‘far less likely’ to counsel their patients or become effective disease prevention agents, let alone engage in any public discourse on legislative health measures. Speaking at a Discovery Vitality Institute media breakfast at Cape Town’s Waterfront in February, Yach said that changing behaviour will require cha...

Abstract Through the interpretation of texts, and subsequent creation of social reality, mediated representations are often seen to be presented within the certain of ideological discourses that reflect the existing power structures. The main objective of this paper is to analyze television commercials with an emphasis on gender roles to decode the main elements of a dominant discourse (prefer...

Interest in the rural has increased in Sweden during the last decades and the rural has become increasingly present as an object of politics, not least in social media. While social media have been recognised for their significance for social movements generally, less is written about how to understand rural movements online. The aim of this article is to study how politics of the rural is perf...

A growing body of research analyzes the linguistic and discourse properties of communication in online social media. Most of the analysis, especially at the discourse level, is done manually by human researchers. This talk explores how the findings and techniques of computer-mediated discourse analysis (CMDA), a paradigm I have been developing and teaching for 18 years, can inform computational...