Analysing Identities in Discourse

✍ Scribed by Rosana Dolon (ed.), Julia Todoli (ed.)

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Series: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 28
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The discursive construction of identity is often under the control of the dominant forces in society and frequently results in forms of manipulation and abuse. This awareness led to the celebration of the First International Conference on CDA (Valencia 2004), where over three-hundred academics working in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis became actively engaged in this important issue.The seven studies included in this volume have been selected as representative of those areas of human experience that have been given most intellectual attention and considered to be in fact in need for critical unravelling. Ethnic categorization in multicultural classrooms, patriotic discourse construction in Chinese readers, the denial of Palestinian identity in schoolbooks, the diverse constructions of European identities, Arabs constructing themselves on the worldwide web, identity construction in sexual assault trials, the representations of a dangerous 'other' in cases of PLWHAs, are the contextual perspectives embraced in this book to account for forms of power abuse in the discursive construction of identities.

✦ Table of Contents

Analysing Identities in Discourse......Page 2
Editorial page
......Page 3
Title page
......Page 4
LCC data
......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Contents of this issue......Page 9
Quoted references......Page 12
part 1. Introduction......Page 14
A brief introduction to the concept of identity......Page 16
Debates on the concept of identity......Page 17
Monism and multiplicity and hybridation......Page 18
Continuity, change, and fluidity......Page 22
Assimilation and differentiation......Page 24
Structure and Agency......Page 29
This book's critical approach......Page 35
References......Page 36
part 2. Discursive construction of identity in educational contexts......Page 42
Discursive construction of identity from a critical perspective......Page 44
The socio-political context......Page 47
Ethnocentric and assimilatory practices......Page 50
Dealing with differences: 'us' (Spanish) versus 'them' (immigrants).......Page 56
Discourses in practice: the new (old) stereotypes......Page 60
Decapitalization and resistance......Page 63
Conclusions......Page 68
References......Page 69
Introduction......Page 70
Choices of generic devices......Page 72
Lexical choices......Page 73
Grammatical choices......Page 74
The discursive construction of patriotism......Page 75
The desired love for the country......Page 76
The great culture and people......Page 77
The natural beauties of the country......Page 78
The happy life of the people......Page 80
Work and sacrifice for the country......Page 82
Discussion and conclusion: A desired discourse system of national identity......Page 83
References......Page 87
Introduction......Page 90
The nature of Israeli schoolbooks......Page 91
The representation of Palestinians in Israeli schoolbooks......Page 93
The importance of this study......Page 95
Ideological layout......Page 96
Visual exclusion in geography schoolbooks......Page 100
Dissimulation, fragmentation and geographic silences......Page 102
Centre and peripheralness......Page 105
Genericization......Page 106
The Palestinian problem......Page 107
Classification images and the meta - narrative of 'development'......Page 110
The use of colour......Page 112
Racist icons......Page 113
Different semantics, impersonalization and functioinalization......Page 115
Summary......Page 116
part 3. National and cultural identity......Page 122
Introduction......Page 124
The discursive building of European identity......Page 125
Data collection......Page 128
Discourse analysis: the compatibility of european and national identity......Page 129
Automatic articulation......Page 131
Non-automatic articulation......Page 134
Discussion......Page 138
Table 2.2 Construction of Europe as a social category and its articulation with national identity......Page 139
References......Page 141
Introduction and theoretical framework......Page 144
Research data......Page 146
Analysis......Page 147
ADC: Themes......Page 148
Ahbab: Themes......Page 149
AWSA: Themes......Page 151
Ahbab: Mood and modality......Page 152
AWSA: Mood and modality......Page 153
Table 3. AWSA: Process Types......Page 154
Table 4. ADC: Participants in Transitivity......Page 155
Table 5. Ahbab: Participants in Transitivity......Page 156
Word meaning and wording......Page 157
ADC......Page 158
Conclusion......Page 159
Appendix I......Page 161
Ahbab: Text......Page 163
Appendix III......Page 165
part 4. Identity construction and human suffering......Page 170
Introduction......Page 172
Dominant discourses, violence against women and other-imposed identities......Page 173
Dominant discourses, violence against women and self-imposed identities......Page 175
Counter-hegemonic discourses and other-imposed identities......Page 182
Conclusion......Page 187
Introduction......Page 192
Background......Page 193
Theoretical background......Page 195
'Innocent' victims......Page 197
'Guilty' victims......Page 200
The identity construction of the 'other' ('We are good' and 'they are bad')......Page 203
Conclusion......Page 209
Books:......Page 210
Articles:......Page 211
Index
......Page 214
The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture......Page 218