this paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in malaysia as construed in public discourse in english, a language of power in malaysia. the term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of malaysia, the english-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

In the research, speech “Women’s rights are human rights” by Hillary Clinton will be analyzed in light of critical discourse analysis (CDA) as both theory and method to reveal how power ideology embedded language particular relation between society general. Initially, theoretical framework CDA, concepts presented. The social context women’s position including past nowadays is also revealed. res...

With the advent of globalization, especially in its third phase (see Robertson, 2003), global relations of domination have undermined abuse of power at national and local levels (Fairclough, 2001). Global ELT textbooks, as corollaries of the globalization process, are not immune to the embedment of discriminatory discourses, as various studies have shown (see for example, Gray, 2010, 2012; Baba...

The present study was aimed at exploring the use of pronominal reference for identity representation in terms of power and solidarity in English political discourse. The investigation was based on a corpus of four political interviews and debates amounting 26,500 words. The analysis was both qualitative and quantitative. In the qualitative analysis, a discourse-analytic approach was used to fin...

K E Y W O R D S : business media discourse, CDA, cognitive linguistics, metaphor, social cognition

This paper provides an innovative approach to visual analysis in the Middle East. It addresses a fundamental problem fields of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Securitization Theory (ST): they largely ignore visual. project develops methodology for analysis. Its utility is demonstrated through examination Saudi propaganda video, entitled “Saudi Strike Force Video.” When observing Saudi-Ira...

a comparative analysis of sociological situation and cinematic representation in iranian movies from the 80s: a case study of deep breathmaryam sadat naghibi esfahani, hasan ali pourmand, mahdi keshavarz afsharma student, tarbiat modares university, tehran, [email protected] professor, tarbiat modares university, tehran, [email protected] professor, tarbiat modar...

adopting the critical discourse analysis framework, in general, andfairclough’s (1989) critical text analysis, in particular, the current study aims atexamining 3 aspects of meaning, namely social relations, subject positions, andcontents in the conversation as well as vocabulary and grammar parts of passages 1(an american textbook) and first certificate (a british textbook) to find out whether...

This research in progress uses tropes and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine technical support exchanges recorded over a one-year period. Tropes, such as metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche, function to close lexical gaps in a speaker’s vocabulary thereby extending a speaker’s expressive potential. Technical support exchanges are critically dependent on successful communication between ...