Download or read book A Linguistic Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse written by Germana D’Acquisto and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the language used by the United Nations Resolutions on the Question of Palestine. The corpus used in this analysis includes sixty-six Security Council Resolutions (2965 words) and forty General Assembly Resolutions (2529 words) from 1948 to 2006 related to the most relevant events of the conflict. In particular, the study investigates the role of the English verbal system in relation to modality in the institutional language of the United Nations and the different pragmatic purposes of its normative text types, taking into account the communicative interaction between the legal authority, the United Nations, and the addressees, Member States and the International Community. It discusses the use of prescriptive and performative verbs used to express different degrees of obligation in the United Nations documents.

Download or read book United Nations Institutional Discourse in the 65th General Debate written by Madoka Koide and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis researches the United Nations institutional discourse in the 65th UN General Debate: how the members of the UN talk in and about the UN, and how such discourse in turn collectively reproduce what the UN is and/or should be. The primary data used for the study are the political speeches delivered by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the President of the 65th session of the General Assembly Joseph Deiss, as well as the heads of states and governments of UN Member States, at the 65th General Debate during 23-30 September 2010. The study uses an integrated theoretical and methodological approach, informed by the scholars of the ethnography of speaking, literary and social theories, cognitive psychology, and critical discourse analysis. Political speeches here are understood as both the means and the outcome of socialization among state leaders and the UN officials, in their practice of membership to the “family of nations.” Through their contextual and textual analyses, the study demonstrates how some of the most representational political speeches of today’s international relations — while often arguing contested agenda — together shape the institutional reality of the UN in which they take place. In conclusion, the study argues that a critical approach to interpret political speeches will benefit the public audience in better understanding the UN as an institution and in strengthening and refining their “voice” as members of the international community.

Download or read book About Us Without Us written by Joanna Padgett Herz and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations plays a major role in creating, changing, and challenging international discourse on social inequities and injustices. Homelessness has historically been an underrepresented social problem within the UN system. To date, no official definition has been established. How has discourse on homelessness been shaped at the UN, if no official definitions have been established? What are the implicit meanings that representatives have used over the years? Homelessness was ignored for many years at the United Nations, and when it was talked about it was described vaguely. How was the discourse on homelessness created and how has is changed? This study examines the culture of discourse production within the UN by focusing on the ways it has understood "homelessness" as a social issue.

Download or read book United Nations Official Discourse Promoting Artistic Freedom written by Ariadne Almira and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research seeks to analyze the official discourse promoted by the United Nations (UN) in regard to artistic freedom. Artistic freedom constitutes an ideological arena. The idea of dominant institutions dictating what should be considered art - and what freedom of artistic expression should be promoted - is connected to the main debate in sociology: social order versus change. The states and not the artists define artistic freedom. This study will use critical discourse analysis (CDA) to explore if the UN exerts symbolic power (Bourdieu 1989) over its members. Although the emphasis of this research relates to mechanisms of power, examining only the discourse from the UN might be a limitation. In fact, CDA implies a relationship between texts, discursive practice, and social practice (Fairclough 2003). That is why this research will also examine four national discourses: the United States, Cuba, Argentina, and Germany. This study considers the UN as an Ideological-State-Apparatus (Althusser 1989). Some Ideological-States- Apparatus constitute vehicles to propagate dominant and hidden ideologies behind discourses. Current cultural and political theories in sociology suggest that discourse constitutes a symbolic mechanism of power. Sociologists of art and culture have been engaged in studies relating the arts with ideology, but more attention to the role of discourse, when examining mechanisms of power, is needed.

Download or read book Diplomatic Discourse written by Ray T. Donahue and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work seeks to provide insight into the role that discourse and rhetorical analysis plays in the crucial area of international conflict resolution and diplomatic process.

Download or read book Education as a Human Right written by Meredith Lordan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study emerges during a period of global debate about the nature and salience of human rights, poverty, development, and social infrastructure programs. From pop superstar Bono's campaign to erase debt to the work of Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the United Nations (UN) Secretary General on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), now there is a more discernable political momentum to address the profound economic imbalances across nations. The right to education is a key area for political engagement. While the right to education appeals to a common sense of social justice for all, it fails to be implemented for over 115 million children. With particular reference to the MDG of universal primary education by 2015, this study critically interrogates the Western neocolonialism, false race neutrality, and universalism of the UN's human rights discourse and practice. Although this rights discourse operates within a neocolonial discursive space, at the same time, however, the language and infrastructure of human rights afforded by the UN provide significant foundations for community-based and domestic legal remedies as sites for racial and legal critique. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews with UN stakeholders affiliated with the MDG for universal primary education as the primary data source, the dissertation also employs the following data sources: textual analyses of excerpts from such key documents as the UN Charter, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights; case studies of rights-based educational advocacy in Argentina, India, and South Africa; observations of UN proceedings and policy development at the United Nations University and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development; and the personal journal reflections, many of these gathered during interviews and site observations, kept by the researcher. The dissertation contends that the policy instruments of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the MDG pertaining to universal primary education, when viewed through the unique needs of national and local specificity and difference, have the potential to serve as effective sources of local agency for increased entry to racially and culturally responsive models of accessible education. Education can serve as a bridging right to other basic human rights, including freedom from violence, gender equity, and sustainable development.

Download or read book UN s Sustainable Development Goals as Paradigm Change written by Max Schmidt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature Review from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1.3, University of Leipzig (Institute of Political Science), course: Application-oriented introduction to qualitative methods of political science, language: English, abstract: This paper strives to provide an overview of the critical academic engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This literature review is structured as follows: Firstly, a short introduction to the key terms facilitated in this paper will be given: 'development' and its distinction to 'sustainable development'. Secondly, the underlying methodology of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and its differentiation from discourse analysis (DA) will be presented in order to embed the subsequent overview. Finally, some main findings will be compared with the contribution of (C)DA to development studies. In late 2015, one of the most far-reaching consensuses in the world was unanimously agreed upon by the 193 countries of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Set out to fulfil ambitious development targets by 2030, ranging from the complete eradication of poverty in all its forms everywhere (Goal 1) to strengthening the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development (SD) (Goal 17), this framework is part of the so-called Post-2015 Development Agenda respectively '2030 Agenda' (eponymous by the main document constituting the SDGs passed by the UN in 2015). As the intended outcome of this process, which was initiated in 2012, the SDGs are the legitimate successor of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight goals that were promised to be reached by 2015 by the UN Millenium Declaration (passed in 2000). Facing manifold shortcomings of the MDGs, which were measured by a mere 18 targets, the SDGs were extended to 17 goals measured by 169 targets. Unsurprisingly and especially regarding their abundance, the SDGs faced harsh critique from most diverse commentators. In one of its issues in March 2015, the internationally renowned weekly newspaper The Economist, for example, portrayed the SDGs as even worse than useless. Due to their presumably bloated nature as a “myriad of top-down targets“ (The Economist 2015), they would not only distract from poverty eradication as the potentially most important goal but also overlook the importance of local contexts, ultimately resulting in “cookie-cutter development policies” (Ibid.). However, the majority of publication organs and stakeholders in the international development community did not articulate an equally harsh (and narrow) critique, as the goals of the SDGs seem difficult to contradict - at least on first glance.

Download or read book Political Discourse Analysis written by Robert Butler and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Discourse Analysis addresses the challenges facing political actors at all levels of society and across a range of regimes. It shows how discursive legitimisation strategies can vary on a continuum ranging from the stabilising effects of institutional discourse and the management of destabilising factors inherent in new types of media to the destabilising potential of rhetorical devices and deliberate de-legitimisation strategies used to attack opponents. The diverse approaches show how political actors strive to maintain control in the context of democratic deficit and crisis in developed societies while addressing growing global threats to stability in all regimes. While many actors seek legitimisation through the institutional structure, media or rhetoric, others may seek to weaken any opposition to them through de-legitimisation. In this collection Butler provides the reader with replicable methods that can be adapted to political contexts.

Download or read book Discourse Studies written by Teun A Van Dijk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A landmark in the oeuvre of one of the founding fathers of discourse analysis. Van Dijk has managed to edit a volume of lasting significance, and some of the chapters in this book belong to the most widely read in the field. In its totality, Discourse Studies offers us a 360 degree tour of the field... Nothing in this volume is dated, everything remains mandatory reading for every student and advanced practicioner." - Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University "This very welcome updated second edition will allow Teun van Dijk′s very popular Discourse Studies to consolidate its already strong and central position in the area. Featuring chapters written by so many of the leading scholars it will continue to be a stimulating and wide-ranging introduction to the discipline of discourse studies for new generations of students." - Malcolm Coulthard, University of Birmingham This book is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field. A combined Second Edition of two seminal texts in the field (the 1997 titles Discourse as Social Interaction and Discourse as Structure and Process) this essential handbook: Is fully updated from start to finish to cover contemporary debates and research literature. Covers everything from grammar, narrative, argumentation, cognition and pragmatics to social, political and critical approaches. Adds two new chapters on ideology and identity. Puts the student at the centre, offering brand new features such as worked examples, sample analyses and recommended further reading. Written and edited by world-class scholars in their fields, it is the essential, one-stop companion for any student of discourse analysis and discourse studies.

Download or read book Gender Violence and Security written by Laura Shepherd and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do understandings of the relationships between gender, violence, security and the international inform policy and practice in which these notions are central? What are the practical implications of basing policy on problematic discourses? In this highly original poststructural feminist critique, the author maps the discursive terrains of institutions, both NGOs and the UN, which formulate and implement resolutions and guides of practice that affect gender issues in the context of international policy practices. The author investigates UN Security Council Resolution 1325, passed in 2000 to address gender issues in conflict areas, in order to examine the discursive construction of security policy that takes gender seriously. In doing so, she argues that language is not merely descriptive of social/political reality but rather constitutive of it. Moving from concept to discourse, and in turn to practice, the author analyses the ways in which the resolution's discursive construction had an enormous influence over the practicalities of its implementation, and how the resulting tensions and inconsistencies in its construction contributed to its failures. The book argues for a re-conceptualisation of gendered violence in conjunction with security, in order to avoid partial and highly problematic understandings of their practical relationship. Drawing together theoretical work on discourses of gender violence and international security, sexualised violence in war, gender and peace processes, and the domestic-international dichotomy with her own rigorous empirical investigation, the author develops a compelling discourse-theoretical analysis that promises to have far-reaching impact in both academic and policy environments.

Download or read book The Discourse of Propaganda written by John Oddo and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1990s, false reports of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait allowing premature infants to die by removing them from their incubators helped to justify the Persian Gulf War, just as spurious reports of weapons of mass destruction later undergirded support for the Iraq War in 2003. In The Discourse of Propaganda, John Oddo examines these and other such cases to show how successful wartime propaganda functions as a discursive process. Oddo argues that propaganda is more than just misleading rhetoric generated by one person or group; it is an elaborate process that relies on recontextualization, ideally on a massive scale, to keep it alive and effective. In a series of case studies, he analyzes both textual and visual rhetoric as well as the social and material conditions that allow them to circulate, tracing how instances of propaganda are constructed, performed, and repeated in diverse contexts, such as speeches, news reports, and popular, everyday discourse. By revealing the agents, (inter)texts, and cultural practices involved in propaganda campaigns, The Discourse of Propaganda shines much-needed light on the topic and challenges its readers to consider the complicated processes that allow propaganda to flourish. This book will appeal not only to scholars of rhetoric and propaganda but also to those interested in unfolding the machinations motivating America’s recent military interventions.

Download or read book From Protest to Sanitation written by Mammo Muchie and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Discourse of Security written by Malcolm N. MacDonald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. Combining the latest critical theories in poststructuralist and political philosophy with discourse analysis techniques, it uses corpus tools to investigate four collections of documents harvested from national and international security organisations. This interdisciplinary approach provides insights into the ways in which discourse has been mobilised to construct a strategic response to major terrorist attacks and geo-political events. The authors identify the way in which it is used to realize tactics of governmentality and form security as a discipline. This at once constructs a state of exception while also adhering to the principles of liberalism. This insightful study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of subjects such as applied linguistics, political science, security studies and international relations, with additional relevance to other areas including law, criminology, sociology and economics.

Download or read book Development Discourse and Global History written by Aram Ziai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manner in which people have been talking and writing about ‘development’ and the rules according to which they have done so have evolved over time. Development Discourse and Global History uses the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault to trace the origins of development discourse back to late colonialism and notes the significant discontinuities that led to the establishment of a new discourse and its accompanying industry. This book goes on to describe the contestations, appropriations and transformations of the concept. It shows how some of the trends in development discourse since the crisis of the 1980s – the emphasis on participation and ownership, sustainable development and free markets – are incompatible with the original rules and thus lead to serious contradictions. The Eurocentric, authoritarian and depoliticizing elements in development discourse are uncovered, whilst still recognizing its progressive appropriations. The author concludes by analysing the old and new features of development discourse which can be found in the debate on Sustainable Development Goals and discussing the contribution of discourse analysis to development studies. This book is aimed at researchers and students in development studies, global history and discourse analysis as well as an interdisciplinary audience from international relations, political science, sociology, geography, anthropology, language and literary studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315753782, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Download or read book Revisiting the Toolbox of Discourse Studies written by Markus Rheindorf and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits discourse analytic practice, analyzing the idea that the field has access to, provides, or even constitutes a ‘toolbox’ of methods. The precise characteristics of this toolbox have remained largely un-theorized, and the author discusses the different sets of tools and their combinations, particularly those that cut across traditional divides, such as those between disciplines or between quantitative and qualitative methods. The author emphasizes the potential value of integrating methods in terms of triangulation and its specific benefits, arguing that current trends in Open Science require Discourse Studies to re-examine its methodological scope and choices, and move beyond token acknowledgements of ‘eclecticism’. In-depth case studies supplement the methodological discussion and demonstrate the challenges and benefits of triangulation. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in Discourse Studies, particularly those with an interest in combining methods and working across disciplines.

Download or read book Revisiting the Toolbox of Discourse Studies written by Markus Rheindorf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits discourse analytic practice, analyzing the idea that the field has access to, provides, or even constitutes a ‘toolbox’ of methods. The precise characteristics of this toolbox have remained largely un-theorized, and the author discusses the different sets of tools and their combinations, particularly those that cut across traditional divides, such as those between disciplines or between quantitative and qualitative methods. The author emphasizes the potential value of integrating methods in terms of triangulation and its specific benefits, arguing that current trends in Open Science require Discourse Studies to re-examine its methodological scope and choices, and move beyond token acknowledgements of ‘eclecticism’. In-depth case studies supplement the methodological discussion and demonstrate the challenges and benefits of triangulation. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in Discourse Studies, particularly those with an interest in combining methods and working across disciplines.

Download or read book Political Discourse Media and Translation written by Christina Schaeffner and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the role played by translation in international political communication and news reporting and brings to light the usually invisible link between politics, media, and translation. The contributors explore the interrelationship between media in the widest sense and translation, with a focus on political texts, institutional contexts, and translation policies. These topics are explored from a Translation Studies perspective, thus bringing a new disciplinary view to the investigation of political discourse and the language of the media. The first part of the volume focuses on textual analysis, investigating transformations that occur in translation processes, and the second part examines institutional contexts and policies, and their effects on translation production and reception.