A master thesis from Aalborg University
Hvis Offentlighed?: En kritisk diskursanalysetical Discourse Analysis af forordet til New Labours første White Paper om immigration: "Retfærdigere, hurtigere og strengere".
[Whose Public?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Preface to New Labour’s first White Paper on Immigration: Fairer, Faster and Firmer.]
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Term
10. term
Publication year
2008
Submitted on
2008-06-02
Pages
112 pages
Abstract
In this thesis, Norman Fairclough’s linguistic CDA is used to analyse a Preface to a White Paper on immigration and asylum control. Three different theories are used to inform the critical reading of the linguistic analysis. These theories are Rom Harré’s social-psychological ontology of the English personal pronouns, Hannah Arendt’s concept of recognition and access to the public realm and Rogers Brubaker’s theory of the nation-state as a membership organisation. These theories are shown to be able to inform a critical linguistic analysis within the field of immigration control by analysing how social actors are embedded within a text by means of a certain situated mix of text-type, cognitive genre-activities, narrative, mixing transitive with intransitive sentences and clausal embeddedness within sentences.
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