A Discursive Perspective on China's Global Politics of Climate Change, 1992-2013

This dissertation investigates China’s recent shift in its climate change policy with a refined discourse approach. Methodologically, by adopting a neo-Gramscian notion of hegemony, a generative definition of discourse and an ontological pluralist position, the study constructs a theoretical framework named “discursive hegemony” that identifies the “social forces” for enabling social change and focuses on the role of discursive mechanisms via which the forces operate and produce effects. The key empirical finding of this study was that it was a co-evolution of conditions that shaped the outcome as China’s climate policy shift. In examining the case, a before-after within-case comparison was designed to analyze the variations in the material, institutional, and ideational conditions, with methods including interviews, conventional narrative/text analysis and descriptive statistics. Specifically, changes in energy use, the structure of decision-making body, and the narratives about sustainable development reflected how the above three types of social force processed in China in the first few years of the 21st century, causing the economic development agenda to absorb the climate issue, and turning the policy frame for the latter from mainly a diplomatic matter to a potential opportunity for better-quality growth. With the discursive operation of the “Science-based development”, China’s energy policy has been a good example of the Chinese understanding of sustainability characterized by economic primacy, ecological viability and social green-engineering. This way of discursive evolution, however, is a double-edged sword that has pushed forward some fast, top-down mitigation measures on the one hand, but has also created and will likely continue creating social and ecological havoc on the other hand. The study makes two major contributions. First and on the empirical level, because China is an international actor that was not expected to cooperate on the climate issue according to major IR theories, this study would add one critical case to the studies on global (environmental) governance and the ideational approach in the IR discipline. Second and on the theory-building level, the model of discursive hegemony can be a causally deeper mode of explanation because it traces the process of co-evolution of social forces.

The millennium development goals: a Latin American and Caribbean perspective

Includes bibliography

'If you had only listened carefully...':the discursive construction of emerging leadership in a UK all-women management team

Increasingly, feminist linguistic research has adopted a discursive perspective to learn how women and men 'do' leadership in gendered ways. 'Women' as a social category is made relevant to this study by virtue of the lack of female senior leaders in UK businesses (Sealy and Vinnicombe, 2013). Much previous research has analysed leadership discourse in mixed gender groups, relying on theories that imply comparisons between men and women. Using an Interactional Sociolinguistic approach, this study aims to learn more about how women perform leadership in the absence of men by analysing the spoken interactions of a women-only team who were engaged in a competitive leadership task. The analysis reveals that the women accomplish leadership in multiple and complex ways that defy binary gendered classifications. Nonetheless, there is a distinctive gendered dynamic to the team's interactions which, it is argued, might be disadvantageous to women aspiring to senior positions. © The Author(s) 2013.

Introduction : why are discursive approaches to language policy necessary?

This volume is a series of explorations of language policy from a discursive perspective. Its chief aim is to systematically explore the interconnectedness of language policy and discourse through what we are terming ‘discursive approaches to language policy’ (DALP). We show that language policy is a multilayered phenomenon that is constituted and enacted in and through discourse (which is defined more closely in Sect. 1.2). Language policy is a fast-growing, vibrant, and interdisciplinary field of inquiry that offers a variety of theoretical frameworks, methodologies, analytic approaches, and empirical findings: the framing sections at the beginning of each part of this volume and the commentary at the end frame the discussion of developments in language policy and especially the role of DALP therein.

As relações entre desenho e escrita no processo de apropriação da linguagem escrita

Este trabalho se constitui a partir dos estudos realizados na linha de pesquisa Educação e Linguagens, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Adota uma abordagem sócio-histórica para a investigação qualitativa no campo das Ciências Humanas e tem por objetivo investigar as relações entre desenho e escrita elaboradas por crianças de quatro anos de idade que frequentavam uma instituição de educação infantil. Para a análise dos dados produzidos, toma por base os pressupostos teóricos de Mikhail Bakhtin, a partir da perspectiva enunciativo-discursiva, cuja abordagem de linguagem ajuda a compreender o desenho e a escrita em sua dimensão discursiva, como enunciação. Com base nos processos observados nas relações ensino-aprendizagem e na interação verbal entre os sujeitos da pesquisa, seleciona, para a primeira parte do estudo, situações de ensino-aprendizagem vivenciadas pelas crianças e pela professora na sala de atividades. Na segunda parte das análises, seleciona produções realizadas para interlocutores reais e imaginários e finaliza com a análise de dados, inferindo que a distinção entre desenho e escrita é uma construção escolar, sustentando, desse modo, a tese de que as diferentes linguagens mantêm relações entre si no curso do processo de apropriação da linguagem escrita e essa coexistência permite a ampliação da imaginação criadora, a produção de marcas singulares e idiossincráticas nos textos produzidos pelas crianças, além de proporcionar uma compreensão de como as crianças se constituem no mundo.

Konsultoinnissa tarvitaan aktiivisesti osallistuvaa asiakasta

Virpi-Liisa Kykyrin väitöskirja Helping clients to help themselves : a discursive perspective to process consulting practices in multi-party settings (Jyväskylän yliopisto 2008).

What is poverty? A diachronic exploration of the discourse on poverty from the 1970s to the 2000s

Poverty is central to the concept of development. However, the relevance given to particular aspects of poverty has changed over the years and with it the manner in which poverty has been represented. The following paper explores how concepts of poverty within the 'poverty discourse' have altered over a 30-year period. A diachronic analysis is performed to explore changes in the topical and thematic composition of the definitions, in addition to the manner in which poverty has been 'framed'. The results illustrated that poverty was variably framed across the decades ranging from a 'neutral' fact to a highly contested state with little agreement over causes and consequences. Nevertheless, the relational analysis revealed the de-problematization of poverty over time. The finding has clear implications for development praxis: poverty needs to be 'attacked', but the root causes, at least from a discursive perspective, may be ignored.

Ave! Mossoró! : os mecanismos discursivos sobre o episódio da resistência ao bando de Lampião

This thesis has as objective the interdiscursive relations in the process of language construction in use in the poetic and in the journalistic spheres, with the purpose of perceiving how the genre news is constituted in different fields of social activity, as well as to analyze the argumentative processes that structure the written discourses about the resistance episode to the group of Lampião in Mossoró in the year of 1927. The corpus of the research is constituted by the news of the period informed in the printed newspapers: Correio do povo and O Nordeste, both from Mossoró/RN, and the narratives presented in the cordéis de acontecido : Mossoró in the resistance to the group of Lampião; Lampião in Mossoró in 1927, and Mossoró attacking to the group of Lampião, all potiguar poets. The analysis of the texts had as theoretical background the studies of: The texts analysis had as theoretical background The Discourse Analysis; The Argumentation Theory and the studies about Discourse Genres. We focused our discussion in the emphasis given to the news in the discursive perspective of the social-historic memory constructed in the cordéis, from ideological values (political, economical, religious etc.) that pass to be a fundamental element in the constitution of the image of the resistance. Methodologically, this is a documental research, since it makes use essentially of the written document. Regarding to the nature of the data, the research is characterized as a qualitative one. In the analysis, we considered the argumentative techniques adopted in the defense of the thesis, the meaning effects suggested, and the genres mentioned, that revealed to us the manner in which the episode was informed by the newspapers and the cordéis. That way, we affirm, based on the positions assumed by the announcers of the genres analyzed who defended clearly positions in favor of the defense of Mossoró, that the relation between both is captured interdiscursively, since they are asked by the same ideology, and converge to the same discursive formation, defending identical positions, and structuring their discussions with resembling argumentative techniques, reason by which take us to believe that the discourse presented in that social activity demonstrates and develops traces of a manipulation of the subject. In this case, the discursive construction of the text points towards determining standard of repetition, since the linguistic context is characterized in the journalistic field, and in the poetic field assuming, in the first instance, a local expression

A inserção da criança pré-escolar no universo da cultura escrita pela mediação do desenho

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Uma perspectiva discursiva sobre a hesitação

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A polêmica como interincompreensão no discurso da política acadêmica da Universidade Federal do Pará

As universidades, além de suas atribuições constitucionalmente previstas de ensino, de pesquisa e de extensão, possuem um 'quarto elemento essencial e indissociável dos outros três, concretizado na intensa prática política desenvolvida no ambiente acadêmico. Dada a existência desse fator, a presente pesquisa examina o fenômeno da polêmica como elemento de interincompreensão nos confrontos da política acadêmica na Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), com base no suporte teórico principal de Maingueneau (2005), observando-se como se estabelece essa relação de interincompreensão, analisando os simulacros que cada sujeito constrói do seu interlocutor e de si mesmo. Constituem o corpus deste trabalho, de um lado, as notas das três entidades acadêmicas da UFPA, quais sejam o Diretório Central dos Estudantes - DCE, a Associação dos Docentes da UFP A - Adufpa e o Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da UFP A - Sintufpa, que representam, respectivamente, estudantes, docentes e servidores técnico-administrativos; e, de outro, as notas da Administração Superior. Essas notas referem-se à tomada da Reitoria, pelos estudantes, ocorrida em junho de 2007, motivada, segundo nota da entidade estudantil (Anexo 3A), por não terem sido atendidas suas reivindicações, relacionadas a problemas acadêmicos diversos. A pesquisa é desenvolvida em uma perspectiva discursiva, cuja metodologia compreende um objetivo geral, que é identificar os simulacros que se constroem na política acadêmica da UFP A. Para tanto, nos valemos de quatro frentes de pesquisa, materializadas em objetivos específicos, a saber: 1. Investigar o contexto dessa política; 2. Resgatar o vocabulário constitutivo da material idade discursiva, observando as ações, referidas por meio de verbos e nomes, e as caracterizações, efetuadas por meio de adjetivações e nomes; 3. Identificar as marcas da heterogeneidade mostrada; 4. Capturar os flagrantes de infração ao "código dogmático" da prática política. Ao longo das notas, no embate discursivo que se desenvolve, percebemos o chamado "diálogo de surdos", em que não se vislumbra a possibilidade de os adversários reverem seus posicionamentos.

O vocabulário político-ideológico da Gazeta de Lisboa no século XVIII: estudo do léxico em perspectiva discursiva

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Letramentos acadêmicos e multimodalidade em contexto de EaD semipresencial

From a theorethical enunciative-discursive perspective, this article aims at discussing the process of the text consistency in digital context, in a particular manner, by means of problematic semiotic modes and resources updated in the academic production of the student who uses internet access computers in the semi-present Distant Learning (DL) process. It’s of interest to investigate how the academic literacies model may be linked to the multimodality study, considering, in theory, that in an electronic environment, the student has “unlimited” access to every and any kind of text, not just the “verbal” (name generally attributed to the graphic component) one. The collected material contains texts which were produced by the semi-present Pedagogy Course students from the Virtual University of São Paulo (UNIVESP), in 2010.

A polêmica sobre os transgênicos: Monsanto vs. MST

Based on a discursive perspective, in this paper we analyze some aspects of the dialogue between the discourse in favor of and the one against transgenics in Brazil, by showing the dialogic relations that each of them engages with other discourses. We noticed that the anti-transgenics discourse, which opposes openly the pro-transgenics trend, has been built upon both the scientific and the leftist political discourses, whereas the pro-transgenics discourse has been constructed upon the scientific discourse and covertly polemicizes with its other.

Determinações estratégicas e econômicas da dominação britânica no Egito (1804-1956)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)