Hvis Offentlighed?: En kritisk diskursanalysetical Discourse Analysis af forordet til New Labours første White Paper om immigration: "Retfærdigere, hurtigere og strengere".
Translated title
Whose Public?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Preface to New Labour’s first White Paper on Immigration: Fairer, Faster and Firmer.
Author
Thornberg, Mark
Term
10. term
Publication year
2008
Pages
112
Abstract
Afhandlingen anvender Norman Faircloughs kritiske diskursanalyse (CDA) – en metode til at undersøge, hvordan sprog former sociale relationer og magt – til at analysere forordet til et White Paper om immigration og asylkontrol. Læsningen støttes af tre teorier: Rom Harrés socialpsykologiske ontologi for engelske personlige pronomener (fx "I", "we", "they"), Hannah Arendts begreb om anerkendelse og adgang til det offentlige rum samt Rogers Brubakers teori om nationalstaten som en medlemsorganisation. Tilsammen hjælper disse perspektiver med at afdække, hvordan teksten positionerer sociale aktører gennem valg af teksttype og fortælling, genretypiske måder at tænke og tale på samt bestemte grammatiske mønstre. Analysen ser især på, hvordan transitive og intransitive sætninger (handlinger med eller uden direkte objekt) og indlejrede ledsætninger fordeler handlekraft og ansvar. Afhandlingen viser, at kombinationen af disse teorier gør den kritiske sproglige analyse af tekster om immigration og asylkontrol mere præcis og nuanceret.
This thesis uses Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)—a method for studying how language shapes social relations and power—to examine the preface of a White Paper on immigration and asylum control. The reading is guided by three theories: Rom Harré’s social-psychological ontology of English personal pronouns (e.g., "I", "we", "they"), Hannah Arendt’s concept of recognition and access to the public realm, and Rogers Brubaker’s theory of the nation-state as a membership organization. Together, these perspectives help reveal how the text positions social actors through its choice of text type and narrative, the genre-typical ways of thinking and speaking, and specific grammatical patterns. In particular, the analysis looks at how transitive versus intransitive sentences (actions with or without a direct object) and embedded clauses distribute agency and responsibility. The thesis shows that combining these theories makes critical linguistic analysis of immigration and asylum control texts more precise and nuanced.
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