Senin, 08 Februari 2016

CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (CDA) PART-2 (Gender Inequality adn Critical intersections)


Gender Inequality.
Critical Intersections: Language Ideologies & Media Discourse.


Dari kanan : Dr. H. Alfan Zuhairi, M. Pd (Ketua Program Studi Magister Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Unisma). Abdul Hamid, S. Pd. 

Advised by:
Dr. Zainul Mujahid, M. Hum
By:
Abdul Hamid Aly      = 215.02.073.059
Charles Candra         = 215.02.073.061


MASTER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING PROGRAM
GRADUATE ENGLISH PROGRAM
UNIVERSITY OF ISLAM MALANG

2016






CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (CDA) PART-2

Charles Candra, University of Islam Malang
Abdul Hamid Aly, University of Islam Malang


Abstract: This paper concentrates in discussing for further understanding ofCritical Discourse Analysis of gender inequality and gender intersection. Firstly, this paper is talking about Critical Discourse Analysis of a prominent adult literacy textbook in Turkey, which has two main Discourses: (a) a normative parenting Discourse; and (b) a Discourse of the sexual division of labor that associates the outside, public world with men, and the private, domestic world with women. Secondly, Critical Discourse Analysis of Political TV Talk Shows of Pakistani Media by Hafiz Ahmad Bilalwith deep discussion of gender intersection including two main views: Language ideologies and media discourse as well.

Key Words: Critical Discourse Analysis, Gender Inequality, Gender Intersection, Language Ideologies, Media Discourse. 


I.                   Theoretical Concept of CDA.

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context. With such dissident research, critical discourse analysts take explicit position, and thus want to understand, expose, and ultimately resist social inequality(Fairclough 1995: 132).The main concepts of Critical Discourse Analysis as were developed by Norman Fairclough.

‘Discourse’ is a category used by both social theorists and analysts on the one hand and linguists on the other. Fairclough uses the term as many linguists, to refer primarily to spoken or written language use, though he extends it to include semiotic practice such as printed information and non-verbal communication. But referring to language as a discourse, he considers language as a form of social practice. This implies that language is a mode of action (socially reproductive) and also socially shaping, or constitutive (creative, socially transformative). CDA explores the tension between these two sides of the language use, the socially shaped and the constitutive; Language is always constitutive of 1) social identities; 2) social relations and 3) systems of knowledge and belief. CDA is then developed as a theory of language which stresses in the multifunctionality of language and which sees every text as simultaneously having the “ideational”, “interpersonal” and “textual” functions of language (Fairclough 1992: 41).

II.                Gender Inequality of CDA Area Studies.

The British sociologist Anthony Giddens defines ‘sex’ as ‘biological or anatomical differences between men and women’, whereas ‘gender’ ‘concerns the psychological, social and cultural differences between males and females’. (1989:158). on the basis on these characterizations, it seems relatively easy to distinguish between the two categories. However, the definition miss the level of the perception and attribution, the way gender stereotype often influence the interaction of self – and other assessment. Giddens does mentionsome syndrome of ‘abnormal’ development such as the testicular feminization syndrome and androgenital syndrome, that is whereinfants designated as ‘female’ at birth, even if chromosomally male, tend to develop female gender identity, and vice versa (see Cameron’s discussion Chapter 1 in volume; Wodak and Benke, 1996: 128ff)

In Contrast to such biological ideologies, Cornell (1993: 170ff) proposes a non-unitary model of gender. Both of femininity and masculinity vary and understanding their context - dependent variety is regarded as central to the psychology of gender. He argues also that, since masculinity femininity coexist in the same person; they should be seen not as polar natural opposites but as separate dimensions. ‘Femininity and masculinity are not essence: they are ways of living certain relationships. It follows that static typologies of sexual character have to be replaced by histories, analyses of joint production of set of psychological forms’ (Connell, 1993: 179).

In addition to such as perspective Lewontin stresses the relevance of the socialization process: the development of a person’s gender identity ‘depends on what label was attached to him or her as a child… thus biological differences became a signal for, rather than cause of, differentiation in social rules’(1982: 142). This definition connects the impact of societal norms and evaluations, power structures and the role of socialization remarkably well (see also Sheldon, chapter 9 in this volume; Wodak, 1986; Wodak and Sshulz, 1986; Wodak and Vetter, Forthcoming; and the ‘Social Psychological Theory of Text Planning’, proposed in the letter studies, which will not be elaborated upon here).

In the text of this perspective, it is more coherent to talk of gender as the understanding of how what it means to be a woman or to be a man changes from one generation to the next and how this perception varies between different racialized, ethics, and religious groups, as well as for members of different social classes (see Gal, 1989: 178; Stolcke,1993: 20; Lorber and Ferrell, 1991a:1ff). Gender categories thus are seen as social constructs. They institutionalize cultural and social statuses and they serve to make male dominance over women appear natural: ‘gender inequality in class society results from a historically specific tendency to ideologically “naturalize” prevailing socio-economic inequalities’ (Stolcke, 1993: 19).
So from many of definitions of Gender inequality, that is refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. It arises from differences in socially constructed gender roles as well as biologically through chromosomes, brain structure, and hormonal differences. Gender systems are often dichotomous and hierarchical; gender binary systems may reflect the inequalities that manifest in numerous dimensions of daily life. Gender inequality stems from distinctions, whether empirically grounded or socially constructed.

Examples :

Reproducing Gender Inequality:
A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Turkish Adult Literacy Textbook

RamazanGungor, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Esther Prins, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Abstract: Based on Critical Discourse Analysis of a prominent adult literacy textbook in Turkey, this paper discusses the text’s two main Discourses: (a) a normative parenting Discourse that assigns mothers responsibility for childrearing and caretaking, and fathers responsibility for discipline; and (b) a Discourse of the sexual division of labor that associates the outside, public world with men, and the private, domestic world with women.


Adult education curricula such as literacy textbooks present blueprints for living,including ideals concerning gender identities and roles, thereby reinforcing or underminingdominant ideologies. In this way, power inequalities between men and women are ideologicallysustained and reproduced by textbooks (van Dijk, 1993). However, the underlying assumptionsabout gender in such texts have rarely been examined, especially in international adult literacyprograms (an exception is Ahearn, 2001). The persistence of gender inequity in Turkey andaround the globe warrants closer scrutiny of gender ideologies in literacy texts. The purpose ofthis study was to examine how a new adult literacy textbook in Turkey depicts the identities ofmen and women. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was used to analyze how gender roles andidentities were portrayed in visual images and reading passages. Since People’s EducationCenters (PECs), the state-funded adult education provider in Turkey, adopted this textbook asthe primary curriculum in 2008, it will profoundly shape the gender identities that thousands ofadult learners envision for themselves and for others.

Theoretical Framework

This study frames textbooks as sites of power and struggle. The study’s theoretical framework is rooted in Critical Discourse Analysis, or CDA (Gee, 2005; Meyer, 2001; Rogers, et al., 2005). What makes discourse analysis critical is the focus on how language produces and reproduces domination and abuse of power, engendering injustice and inequality (Van Dijk, 2001, p. 96). In the same spirit, this study focuses on the ideological effects of the textbook’s portrayal of gender. Specifically, we draw upon Gee’s (2005) conceptualization of discourse/Discourse, literacy, and identity. Discourse refers both to language and cultural models, that is, “ways of combining and integrating language, actions, interactions, ways of thinking, believing, valuing, and using various symbols, tools, and objects to enact a particular socially recognizable identity” (p. 21), such as “woman” or “father.” The linguistic elements (e.g., reading passages) associated with such Discourses are known as discourse. Following Gee (2002) and New Literacy Studies scholars such as Street (2003), we view literacy as a social practice that mediates different socially and historically situated identities. Finally, identity refers to different ways of participating in social groups, cultures, and institutions (Gee, 2005), for example, ways of being a “good wife” or “caring mother.” Accordingly, identity—including gender—is constructed and continuously renegotiated through interaction with people and texts such as those examined in this study.


Background and Methods

Few adult literacy textbooks have been published since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923 (Gümü!o"lu, 2007). Historically, these textbooks have been prepared by volunteer academics and authors (Noahl&Saylan, 2004). In 2008, however, the Ministry of Education published a new textbook and student activity book, Yeti!kinler Okuma YazmaÖ"retimiveTemelE"itimiKitab (Textbook for Teaching Literacy and Basic Education) (Keskin et al., 2008). Sponsored by the Support to Basic Education Program, a cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the Turkish Ministry of National Education, the curriculum aimed to improve access to education, especially for women, and to increase the quality of formal and non-formal education (EU Support to Basic Education in Turkey, 2007). We selected this textbook because of its stated purposes, its widespread use, and its EU and Turkish government sponsorship. With its emphasis on phonemic awareness (sound-symbol correspondence), the textbook illustrates the view that literacy is a set of cognitive skills to be mastered. We focus here, however, on the textbook’s transmission of gender ideologies.
                                                  
The following research questions guided the study: How does the text construct idealmale and female identities? How does the text reinforce or challenge prevailing conceptions ofgender in Turkey? Analysis began with a thematic inventory of the text’s 54 reading passagesand poems; each passage was assigned to one or more thematic groups, such as family,workplace, and health, and the themes were continuously revised. We selected for furtheranalysis segments of text that (a) included more than one sentence and (b) were organizedaround the same theme(s). Gee’s (2005, p. 15) analytical strategy of listing other ways a sentencecould have been written was a useful way to envision alternatives and ask why a passage waswritten in a particular way. The visual images included 339 photographs and popular educationstyledrawings. They were first categorized into two groups: (a) those depicting an interactionbetween two or more people; and (b) those that only showed only one person or only artifacts.The focus was to observe how gender roles were negotiated through interaction. We kept asking the CDA questions proposed by Gee (2005), comparing the way women and men were depicted in the text to traditional conceptions associating men with paid work and the public sphere and women with caretaking work and the private sphere (O’Neill &Guler, 2009).



Findings
       
The study shows that there were two main gender Discourses in the textbook: (a) anormative parenting Discourse that assigns mothers responsibility for childrearing andcaretaking, and fathers responsibility for discipline; and (b) a Discourse of the sexual division oflabor in which the outside, public world is associated with men and the private, domestic worldwith women (Moser, 1993). Both Discourses were evident in the text and accompanying images.As in virtually in all Ministry of Education prepared or approved textbooks, the Discourse ofKemalist ideology—veneration of the founder of the Turkish Republic—was also apparent.However, this topic is beyond the scope of this paper.

Of the 339 visual images in the text, 70 depicted interactions among people. In everyinstance where a child, toddler, or baby appears, s/he is portrayed next to a woman, possibly amother, older sister, or other relative or caretaker. Of the 16 images where children are depictedinteracting with others, all but two include an adult female. When a family is pictured, both aman and woman (presumably the father and mother) appear with the children. Not one image,however, depicts a father spending time with a child or attending to his or her needs. Theseresults suggest that embedded in the images is a parenting and gender Discourse that assumes mothers are mainly responsible for raising children, a view that reinforces contemporary genderideologies in Turkey (O’Neill &Guler, 2009).

The depiction of women as housewives and caretakers is reinforced not only by theimages, but also by the reading This normative Discourse is closely related to the second, in which men are the breadwinners in the household. Men are depicted outside, while women are mainly portrayed in closed spaces. For example, the text shows men outside performing a variety of activities such as working at a construction site, selling merchandise in the market place, working in a factory, or picking trash in a forest. On the other hand, women are portrayed in the kitchen, sitting around a table and eating, watching TV, attending the needs of a baby, shopping in the market place, walking on the street, and kissing an elder’s hand (a sign of respect in Turkish culture) at a family gathering. Such depictions are congruent with traditional Turkish conceptions of men devoted to work in the public sphere and women to caretaking in the private sphere.

passages, several of which portray cooking and cleaning asfeminine activities. Three passages describe women as cooking for their “mates.” In one passage,Çiçek makes strawberry marmalade (reçel) to surprise her husband, who during breakfast the daybefore murmured, “I wish there was reçel.” In the passage about Pnar, who cooks leek for her“mate,” the husband’s contribution to dinner is limited to setting the table with his wife. Men’s limited role in cooking is exemplified well in a third reading passage in which Abdi (the man) asks Birsen (the woman) to make a salad to have with their green beans. Birsen responds, “Washthe tomatoes. You should make the salad.” In these passages, Turkish men expect their spousesto cook for them. However, they have changed slightly as they now help their wives set the tableand occasionally make the salad. With their detailed descriptions of cooking, the texts on leekand strawberry marmalade read more like recipes, suggesting that an underlying purpose may beto provide recipes to participants. This is significant considering that most of literacy participantsare women, and it is women who are doing the cooking in the texts. Thus, the assumption maybe that the participants will use these recipes at home. In another paragraph-long passage, readersare introduced to Ülker, a woman who washes the dirty tulle curtains in a washing machine, dries them on a clothesline, and then irons them. Doing laundry is a quintessentially female householdtask, which is a labor intensive chore in a country where driers are scarce and washing machineshave been widely available for only two decades.

Four reading passages depict men as the financial provider in the relationship. In twopassages, the men buy jewelry for the women; in the third the man is the newlywed husband, andthe last indicates nothing about the nature of the relationship. Although buying jewelry does notnecessarily correspond to providing for the family, this activity is significant because none of thereading passages describe women giving objects of material value to men. In the third story,Hayriye convinces her husband to buy a new carpet, stating that it would be embarrassing forguests to see the old one. At first, the husband replies, “We do not need a carpet,” but then isconvinced because of Hayriye’s “explanations.” That the husband needed to be persuadedsuggests that he exercised more authority over household spending.

Even when the women in these passages do provide for themselves financially, they arestill expected to continue performing unpaid housework. Thus, the text both reflects andreinforces the second shift (Hochschild, 2003), an inequitable division of labor that remains“deeply entrenched” in Turkey (O’Neill &Guler, 2009, p. 171). In a passage about Ferhat, ayoung woman who works in a textile shop, we learn that when women have a job and contributeeconomically to the household, they also do the housework. Because the text describes thissituation in a matter-of-fact manner, it does not appear to be making a value statement. However,the failure to mention the unequal sexual division of labor—we have no idea what men do oncethey are home, for instance—implicitly validates this as a natural, fair arrangement.

Similarly, the textbook transmits conventional ideas about what kind of paid work isappropriate for men and women. In “Phone Call,” two women talk about a hand madetablecloth.One of the women, an artisan who creates home decorations, writes down the size of thetablecloth being ordered. The association of crafts with women is also evident in a five-sentencepassage about Eda and her grandmother who weave a kilim (a rug traditionally hand-woven bywomen). Note that Eda was not described as, say, a shop owner who sells kilims to tourists inIstanbul, in which case she would enjoy significantly higher earnings. The women’s informaleconomic activities contrast sharply with the story of Zeki, a man who, upon completing aliteracy course, enrolls in a computer course and, to the surprise of his friends, goes on to “work
on computers.” We learn at the end of the story that “Zeki now wants to work in a privatecompany.” By choosing to portray women as craftspeople, a poorly paid informal economicactivity, and men as professionals working in relatively well-paid fields such as technology,these passages tacitly condone gender stratification in economic activity.

In addition to providing financial stability and pursuing professional careers, men areportrayed in the textbook as authority figures, both in and outside of the family. For instance, in ashort reading passage about two friends who share their troubles, the female character onlylistens when the man is talking. After sharing her worries, the female character receives“wisdom” (ondanakilaldi) from him. Although there are passages in which men and womeninteract, none depicts a female character providing advice to a man. In “Rights andResponsibilities,” a passage about a family that is relocating due to the husband’s job, the fatheris described as the disciplinarian. The children do not listen to their mother and assist withpacking. Instead, they ignore and talk back to her, saying, “What’s your problem this early in themorning?” Only when the father threatens to cut their allowance and “playing privileges,” dothey start packing for the move. The text states that the children “did not have the courage to ask[their father] the reason”; they simply obeyed. Here, the father is depicted as the authority figurein the family, paralleling traditional Turkish notions of masculinity.

Finally, by presenting communication as the solution to overcoming troubles in romanticrelationships, the literacy primer ignores the systemic gender inequities that contribute to suchproblems. For instance, the last sentence of the passage in which the woman convinces the manto buy a carpet states, “They were both content as they could solve this problem throughtalking.” The emphasis on communication is more significant in the passage, “Communication inthe family.” After establishing that “the most important communication in the family is betweenspouses,” the text advises readers to be honest in expressing their feelings; to make use of tactilecommunication; to refrain from making generalizations, lecturing their spouse, and blamingthem in expressing frustrations; to maintain eye contact; and to try to understand each other’sviewpoints. Both of these passages imply that communication skills are the underlying cause of,and solution to, relational problems. Although communication is vital to healthy relationships,this focus obscures the structural causes of relational strife. In a country where physical violenceagainst women is common, where women have less decision-making power in the household,where women have primary responsibility for childrearing and domestic work, and wherewomen’s sexuality and physical mobility are controlled by men, it is unrealistic and misleadingto claim that adopting a particular style of communication would resolve such problems.


Discussion and Conclusion

In a textbook with chapters by different authors, a variety of discourses may coexist orclash with each other. Despite the text’s diffuse authorship, we found two primary Discoursesthat reinforce predominant conceptions of gender in Turkey (O’Neill &Guler, 2009; Parla, 2001;SahinogluPelin, 1999). The normative parenting Discourse designates mothers as caretakers ofthe children, and fathers as discipliners, whereas the Discourse of the sexual division of laborconnects the men to the outside, public world, and women to the private, domestic world. Thereading passages and images in this text depict not only how the world is, but also how it ought to be. In so doing, they transmit ideologies that justify gender hierarchies as natural. Yeti!kinlerOkuma YazmaÖ"retimiveTemelE"itimiKitab is now the dominant textbook in Turkish adultliteracy programs. Moreover, the majority of Turkish literacy participants are women. As such,
this text’s gendered discourses have the potential to shape how both male and female literacyparticipants view masculinity and femininity, childrearing, and gender roles and responsibilitiesin the family, society, workplace, and other institutions, how they enact their identities as menand women, and the kinds of identities they envision for themselves in the future.

The Discourse of the sexual division of labor in the textbook does not challenge genderstratification in the Turkish labor market, such as women’s low rate of participation in the paidlabor force and their longer duration of unemployment compared to male counterparts (Gürsel,Darbaz&Güner, 2009). At 26.1%, Turkish women’s labor force participation is the lowestamong European countries, nearly 25% lower than Italian women (Gürsel, Uysal-Kola!in&Dinçer, 2009). Even though the assumption of these labor market participation studies is thatincreasing the number of women who are actively employed in Turkey would reduce poverty and increase national economic output, the textbook we studied depicts a world where womenare mainly restricted to the privacy of home. Gürsel, Darbazand Güner (2009) posit that femaleearnings are considered additional income since men are the primary breadwinners. Whenevaluating a possible job opportunity, women take into account the value of their domestic workas an alternative, which might be socially preferred to working. Lack of affordable childcaremakes the situation for urban working women especially difficult. This adult literacy textbook,then, does little to help women imagine new occupational possibilities. Similarly, the Discoursethat associates childrearing and caretaking with mothers and discipline with fathers is alsocongruent with existing gender roles and identities in Turkey. Despite recent changes in attitudesamong some Turkish women, the dominant view is that women are largely responsible forchildcare and housework even when they work outside the home (O’Neill &Guler, 2009).Furthermore, at least one of the passages suggests that children look up to their fathers ratherthan their mothers as a legitimate source of authority.

Together, the Discourses in the literacy textbook reinforce prevailing gender ideologies inTurkey, which hold that “Men are responsible for family decisions and finances and remain incontrol while women take care of the house and children regardless of whether or not they arealso in the paid work force. (O’Neill &Guler, 2009, p. 171). This study indicates that thetextbook does not expose or challenge existing gender hierarchies. This does not necessarilymean that literacy participants passively accept such messages or that the material is useless, as itcould hypothetically be used in classrooms with a critical perspective. Should adult educatorswish to question the assumptions about gender in the literacy curriculum and society, this study offers insights that can aid such a critical reading.

III.             Language Ideologies & Media Discourse

3.1.Theory of ideology

The theory of ideology that informs the discourse analytic approach of this paper is multidisciplinary. It is articulated within a conceptual triangle that connects society, discourse and social cognition in the framework of a critical discourse analysis (van Dijk, 1993b). In this approach, ideologies are the basic frameworks for organizing the social cognitions shared by members of social groups, organizations or institutions. In this respect, ideologies are both cognitive and social. They essentially function as the interface between the cognitive representations and processes underlying discourse and action, on the one hand, and the societal position and interests of social groups, on the other hand. This conception of ideology also allows us to establish the crucial link between macro level analyses of groups, social formations and social structure, and micro level studies of situated, individual interaction and discourse.

Social cognition is, here, defined as the system of mental representations and processes of group members (for details, see, e.g., Fiske and Taylor, 1991; Resnick, Levine and Teasley, 1991). Part of the system is the socio cultural knowledge shared by the members of a specific group, society or culture. Thus, feminists may share attitudes about abortion, affirmative action or corporate glass ceilings blocking promotion, or other forms of discrimination by men. Ideologies, then, are the overall, abstract mental systems that organize such socially shared attitudes. The feminist attitudes just mentioned, for instance, may be internally structured and mutually related by general principles or propositions that together define a feminist ideology. Similar examples may be given for racist, anti-racist, corporate or ecological attitudes and their underlying ideological systems.

Through complex and usually long-term processes of socialization and other forms of social information processing, ideologies are gradually acquired by members of a group or culture. As systems of principles that organize social cognitions, ideologies are assumed to control, through the minds of the members, the social reproduction of the group. Ideologies mentally represent the basic social characteristics of a group, such as their identity, tasks, goals, norms, values, position and resources. Since ideologies are usually self-serving, it would seem that they are organized by these group-schemata. White racists, for example, represent society basically in terms of a conflict between whites and non-whites, in which the identity, goals, values, positions and resources of whites are seen to be threatened by the others. They do so by representing the relations between themselves and the others essentially in terms of us versus them, in which we are associated with positive properties and they are associated with bad properties.

Such ideologies of groups and group relations are constructed by a group-based selection of relevant social values. Feminists, on the one hand, select and attach special importance to such values as independence, autonomy and equality. Racists, on the other hand, focus on self-identity, superiority of the own group, and hence on inequality, while at the same time advocating the primacy of their own group and the privilege of preferential access to valued social resources.

The contents and schematic organization of group ideologies in the social mind shared by its members are a function of the properties of the group within the societal structure. The identity category of a group ideology organizes the information as well as the social and institutional actions that define membership: who belongs to the group, and who does not; who is admitted and who is not. For groups who share a racist ideology, this may mean, among other things, resentment, actions and policies against immigration and integration in our culture, country, city, neighborhood, family or company. Similarly, the goal category of groups who share a racist ideology organizes the information and actions that define the overall aims of the group, e.g., To keep our country white. The position category defines the relations of the group with reference groups, such as, foreigners,immigrants, refugees or blacks. In sum, the social functions of ideologies are, among others, to allow members of a group to organize (admission to) their group, coordinate their social actions and goals, to protect their (privileged) resources, or, conversely, to gain access to such resources in the case of dissident or oppositional groups.

As basic forms of social cognitions, however, ideologies also have cognitive functions. We have already suggested that they organize, monitor and control specific group attitudes. Possibly, ideologies also control the development, structure and application of socio-cultural knowledge. To wit, feminists have special interest in acquiring and using knowledge about the dominance of women by men. Generally though, we shall assume that ideologies more specifically control evaluative beliefs, that is, social opinions shared by the members of a group.

At this mental interface of the social and the individual, however, ideologies and the attitudes and knowledge they control, also - indirectly - influence the personal cognitions of group members, e.g., the planning and understanding of their discourses and other forms of (inter)action. These personal mental representations of people s experiences of such social practices are called models (Johnson-Laird, 1983; van Dijk, 1987b; van Dijk and Kintsch, 1983). Models are mental representations of events, actions, or situations people are engaged in, or which they read about. The set of these models represents the beliefs (knowledge and opinions) people have about their everyday lives and defines what we usually call peoples experiences. These models are unique and personal and controlled by the biographical experiences of social actors. On the other hand, they are also socially controlled, that is, influenced by the general social cognitions members share with other members of their group. This combined presence of personal and (instantiated, particularized, applied ) social information in mental models allows us not only to explain the well-known missing link between the individual and the social, between the micro and the macro analysis of society, but also to make explicit the relations between general group ideologies and actual text and talk. That is, models control how people act, speak or write, or how they understand the social practices of others. We, thus, have the following, highly simplified elements in the relations between ideologies and discourse at various levels of analysis (outlined in Table):


Ideologies and discourse: Levels of analysis
1.      Social Analysis
·         Overall societal structures, e.g., parliamentary democracy, capitalism
·         Institutional/Organizational structures, e.g., racist political parties
·         Group relations, e.g., discrimination, racism, sexism
·         Group structures: identity, tasks, goals, norms, position, resources
2. Cognitive Analysis
2.1. Social cognition
·         Socio-cultural values, e.g.,  intelligence, honesty, solidarity, equality
·         Ideologies, e.g., racist, sexist, anti-racist, feminist, ecological ...
·         Systems of attitudes, e.g., about affirmative action, multiculturalism ...
·         Socio-cultural knowledge, e.g., about society, groups, language, ...
2.2. Personal cognition
2.2.1 General (context free)
·         Personal values: personal selections from social values
·         Personal ideologies: personal interpretations of group ideologies
·         Personal attitudes: systems of personal opinions
·         Personal knowledge: biographical information, past experiences
2.2.2 Particular (context-bound)
·         Models: ad hoc representations of specific current actions, events
·         Context models: ad hoc representations of the speech context
·         Mental plans and representation of (speech) acts, discourse
·         Mental construction of text meaning from models: the text base
·         Mental (strategic) selection of discourse structures (style, etc.)

3.  Discourse Analysis
·         The various structures of text and talk.
                   In other words, ideologies are localized between societal structures and the structures of the minds of social members. They allow social actors to translate their social properties (identity, goal, position, etc.) into the knowledge and beliefs that make up the concrete models of their everyday life experiences, that is, the mental representations of their actions and discourse. Indirectly (viz., through attitudes and knowledge), therefore, ideologies control how people plan and understand their social practices, and hence also the structures of text and talk.

                   Ideologies define and explain the similarities of the social practices of social members, but our theoretical framework at the same time accounts for individual variation. Each social actor is a member of many social groups, each with their own, sometimes conflicting ideologies. At the same time, each social actor has her/his own, sometimes unique, biographical experiences ( old models ), attitudes, ideologies and values, and these will also interfere in the construction of models, which, in turn, will influence the production (and the comprehension) of discourse. Hence, the schema given above may be read top down, or bottom up. The relations involved are dynamic and dialectic : ideologies partly control what people do and say (via attitudes and models), but concrete social practices or discourses are themselves needed to acquire social knowledge, attitudes and ideologies in the first place, viz., via the models people construct of other s social practices (including others discourses) (van Dijk, 1990).

                   At many points, the theoretical approach to ideology is at variance with classical and other contemporary approaches to ideology (see Eagleton, 1991; Larrain, 1979; Thompson, 1984, 1990). Ideologies in this perspective are not merely systems of ideas, let alone properties of the individual minds of persons. Neither are they vaguely defined as forms of consciousness, let alone as false consciousness. Rather, they are very specific basic frameworks of social cognition, with specific internal structures, and specific cognitive and social functions. As such, they (also) need to be analyzed in terms of explicit social psychological theories (see also Rosenberg, 1988), which obviously has nothing to do with mentalist reductionism. At the same time they are social, for they are essentially shared by groups and acquired, used, and changed by people as group members in social situations and institutions, often in situations of conflicting interests between social formations (Eagleton, 1991). However, ideologies are not restricted to dominant groups. Oppositional or dominated groups also share ideologies. The main problem of most critical approaches to ideology is that they are exclusively inspired by social sciences and rather confused philosophical approaches. They ignore detailed and explicit cognitive analysis, and so they are unable to explicitly link social structures with social practices and discourses of individuals as social members. Ideologies or other social cognitions in our approach are not reduced to or uniquely defined in terms of the social practices they control (Coulter, 1989), nor to the discourses that express, convey or help reproduce them (Billig et al., 1988; Billig, 1991), or to the institutions in which they are reproduced. (For different but related approaches, see, e.g., Fairclough, 1989, 1992a; Kress and Hodge, 1993.)

                   3.2 Media Discourse

                        According to Cotter’s 2001 study, academic research in media discourse analysis generally falls into four broadly defined approaches 1. Critical; 2. Narrative/pragmatic; 3.Comparative/intercultural; and 4.Media/communication studies; While each of these approaches involves slightly different methodological techniques, there is, more often than that not, overlap between and among them when researchers carry out their analysis (ibid, p.417). These techniques warrant a more detailed explanation as to what they entail and the results they provide a researcher in the broad sense, but specifically which of these approaches were incorporated in this analyzed and how.
                        The critical approach within media discourse analysis reveals societal inequalities in power  relations while invoking a call to action. It does this by offering interpretations of meaning rather than quantifying textual features; situation discourse in the context in which it occurs, rather than summarizing tendentious patterns in texts; and adopting the view that meaning is co-constructed through the author-text-reader interactive relationship, rather than promoting the view that all readers interprets texts in the same manner (Richardson, 2007, p.5). This analysis calls for a movement to bring about change in translated media discourse through enhanced language training, heightened cultural sensitivity, and more rigorous international news agencies’ hiring practices. As well, the argument presented here parallels Fairclough’s analysis of economic discourse: media discourse – like its economic counterpart – is partial and holds a particular position in society offering little variation in its framing (the discourse is usually foreignized, not domesticized) relaying a specific perspective wherein lies a particular set of interests (2001, p.151).

            The narrative/pragmatic/stylistic approach is largely associated with analyzing the structure of the news discourse because it evaluates linguistic elements at the discourse level highlighting presentation, perspective, writing style, register, and audience reactions to texts (Cotter, 2001, p.418).
            The comparative/cross-cultural approach reveals the roles of culture and politics in new media production highlighting news practices not readily apparent their western counterparts (Cotter, 2001, p.419).

            The media/communication studies approach employs either “traditional positivistic research protocols and content analyses or work from the insights of cultural studies, semiotics, social theory, and social history, aspects of language or discourse may not be addressed as such” (Cotter, 2001, p.419) While the majority of the research carried out in this current study is based on comparative linguistic analyses, some ‘non-linguistic’ social issues are touch upon per Richardson’s proposed means of analyzing newspaper discourse: 1. Material realities of society in general (i.e., the economic journalism); 2. Journalism practices; and 3.The function and character of journalistic language (2007, p.2). The economics of journalism and journalism practices were previously explored in this study paving the way for a thorough examination of journalistic language its effect on translated articles and by extension its readership.

Examples:

Critical Discourse Analysis of Political TV Talk Shows of Pakistani Media
Hafiz Ahmad Bilal
Department of English, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
Tel: 92-321-600-2709 E-mail: ahmadbilal.uos@gmail.com
HafizaSaima Akbar (Corresponding author)
Department of English, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

Abstract
This research paper aims at analyzing media discourse, particularly political TV talk shows through the application of Critical Discourse Analysis. Here, we have particularly tried to analyze the media discourse of political TV talk shows of a private TV channel of Pakistan. The purpose of CDA is to unravel the manipulation of consideration and to learn how certain elements have helped in analyzing their positions as a powerful body and this is of course made possible through the analysis. We have adopted certain techniques in order to do the analysis. The show is not taken as a whole but certain headlines have been taken into consideration for the analysis. Through the available material provided by certain CDA analysts, such as van Dijk, the research was made from an entirely different dimension aiming at new horizons critically analyzing the media and political discourse.
Keywords: Critical discourse analysis, Media, Political talk shows, van Dijk


1. Introduction

1.1 What is Discourse?

Since its introduction to modern science the term 'discourse' has taken various, sometimes very broad, meanings. In order to specify which of the numerous senses is analyzed in the paper under discussion, it has to be defined properly. Originally the word 'discourse' comes from Latin 'discursus' which denoted 'conversation, speech' .Thus understood, however, discourse refers to too wide an area of human life, therefore only discourse from the vantage point of linguistics, and especially applied linguistics, is explained here. Discourse analysis is a qualitative method that has been adopted and developed by social constructionists . Although discourse analysis can and is used by a handful of cognitive psychologists, it is based on a view that is largely anti-scientific, though not anti-research. Social constructionism is not easy to define, but it is possible.

There is no agreement among linguists as to the use of the term discourse in that some use it in reference to texts, while others claim it denotes speech which is for instance illustrated by the following definition:
"Discourse (is) a continuous stretch of (especially spoken) language larger than a sentence, often constituting a coherent unit such as a sermon, argument, joke, or narrative" (Crystal 1992:25).
On the other hand Dakowska , being aware of differences between kinds of discourses indicates the unity of communicative intentions as a vital element of each of them. Consequently she suggests using terms 'text' and 'discourse' almost interchangeably betokening the former refers to the linguistic product, while the latter implies the entire dynamics of the processes. According to Cook, novels, as well as short conversations or groans might be equally rightfully named discourses.
Seven criteria which have to be fulfilled to qualify either a written or a spoken text as a discourse have been suggested by Beaugrande (1981). These include:

Cohesion: grammatical and logical relationship between parts of a sentence essential for its interpretation

Coherence: the order of statements relates one another by sense.

Intentionality: the message has to be conveyed deliberately and consciously.

Acceptability: indicates that the communicative product needs to be satisfactory and the audience approves it.

Informativeness: some new information has to be included in the discourse;

Situationality: circumstances in which the remark is made are important;

Intertextuality: reference to the world outside the text or the interpreters' schemata;
Nowadays, however, not all of the above mentioned criteria are perceived as equally important in discourse studies, therefore some of them are valid only in certain methods of research.

1.2 Features of Discourse

Since it is not easy to unambiguously clarify what a discourse is, it seems reasonable to describe features which are mutual to all its kinds. To do it thoroughly Saussure’s concepts of langue and parole are of use. Ferdinand de Saussure divided the broad meaning of language into langue, which is understood as a system that enables people to speak as they do, and parole - a particular set of produced statements. Following this division discourse relates more to parole, for it always occurs in time and is internally characterized by successively developing expressions in which the meaning of the latter is influenced by the former, while langue is abstract. To list some additional traits, discourse is always produced by somebody whose identity, as well as the identity of the interpreter, is significant for the proper understanding of the message. On the other hand langue is impersonal that is to say more universal.

1.3 What Is Critical Discourse Analysis?

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context. With such dissident research, critical discourse analysts take explicit position, and thus want to understand, expose, and ultimately resist social inequality. Some of the tenets of CDA can already be found in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School before the Second World War.
CDA is not so much a direction, school, or specialization next to many others "approaches" in discourse studies. Rather, it aims to offer a different "mode" or "perspective" of theorizing, analysis, and application throughout the whole field. We may find a more or less critical perspective in such diverse areas as pragmatics, conversation analysis, narrative analysis, rhetoric, stylistics, sociolinguistics, ethnography, or media analysis, among others.
Crucial for critical discourse analysts is the explicit awareness of their role in society. Continuing a tradition that rejects the possibility of a "value-free" science, they argue that science, and especially scholarly discourse, are inherently part of and influenced by social structure, and produced in social interaction. Instead of denying or ignoring such a relation between scholarship and society, they plead that such relations be studied and accounted for in their own right, and those scholarly practices Critical Discourse Analysis is based on such insights. Theory formation, description, and explanation, also in discourse analysis, are socio-politically "situated," whether we like it or not. Reflection on the role of scholars in society and the polity thus becomes an inherent part of the discourse analytical enterprise. This may mean, among other things that discourse analysts conduct research in solidarity and cooperation with dominated groups.

Critical research on discourse needs to satisfy a number of requirements in order to effectively realize its aims:

• As is often the case for more marginal research traditions, CDA research has to be "better" than other research in order to be accepted.

• It focuses primarily on, social problem and political issues, rather than on current paradigms and fashions.

• Empirically adequate critical analysis of social problems is usually multidisciplinary.

• Rather than merely describe discourse structures, it tries to explain them in terms of properties of social interaction and especially social structure.

• More specifically, CDA focuses on the ways discourse structures enact, confirm, legitimate, reproduce, or challenge relations of power and dominance in society.

Fairclough and Wodak (1997: 271-80) summarize the main tenets of CDA as follows:

1. CDA addresses social problems.
2. Power relations are discursive.
3. Discourse constitutes society and culture.
4. Discourse does ideological work.
5. Discourse is historical.

6. The link between text and society is mediated.

7. Discourse analysis is interpretative and explanatory

8. Discourse is a form of social action.

Whereas some of these tenets have also been discussed above, others need a more systematic theoretical analysis, of which we shall present some fragments here as a more or less general basis for the main principles of CDA.

1.3.1 Research Implications of CDA

As for as this research paper is concerned, it aims to analyze the hidden objectives of politicians and anchors by analyzing certain talk shows which are telecasted on television.

2.      SAMPLE
how: Aaj Kamran Khan k Saath(1)
(1)Telecast on 12 December 2011 on Geo News Channel

2.1 Back Ground of this programme

This show is most viewed show of private television on GEO News and this programme aims to shed a light upon the background of headlines. Here the anchor used different types of remarks for politicians and for Government. Here the aim of CDA is to show the power domination and also to explore certain parties by unrevealing hidden agendas and motives.

2.2 Headline No 1

The programme we have chosen is “AJ KAMRAN KHAN K SATH” on “GEO NEWS” and the programme is divided into three halves and hot debated issue is about “THE HEALTH ISSUE OF PRESIDENT ASIF ALI ZARDARI”. The show starts with the subject headlines which is
“SadarZardarikisehat – Qoam se khailkhelajarahahai.Aj b such naibtayagya”
Basically there was only one guest which was named as “Muhammad Maalik” the senior editor of “THE NEWS”. In this program me there were some other issues which were also discussed but the hottest debating issue was about the health of President Zardari. This issue dominated all the other issues in this program me.
There were contradictions in the speech of Kamran Khan, Muhammad Maalik as well as PM Gillani. In this programme only the recorded interview of PM Gillani was on-aired.
The expressions, the words, the complete dominance over the subject matter and all the hidden agenda’s will be unravelled.

2.2.1 Analysis

The anchor started with telling us that now is 9th day that President is still in Dubai due to illness. What is the game? Why the politicians are playing with the emotions of public? He firstly said that president has gone for routine check-up in Dubai and he was suffering from heart problem but the point of contradiction in his own statements is showed when he on-aired the interview of PM Gillani , which he gave the “DAWN NEWS” and which was published in which he said that;
“Zardari calls Gillani; says he is all right”
On the other hand, the anchor is trying to arouse the sense of curiosity in the nation by saying that why he has left, no one knows the actual thing the actual motives of his going to Dubai and likewise he is also saying that he has went for his routine check up. And then suddenly he on-aired the news of DAWN in which Gillani said something else. One more thing which has to be kept in mind is that the president’s doctor Colonel Suleman said:
“he is all right and just went for routine check up.”
Anchor said that now the Col Suleman is also now vanished, no one is telling the truth that very the president is there even now for 9 days?
All of this conflict is his own talk shows that the anchor is basically trying to persuade the nation about some secret happening, and at the same time was also ridiculing PPP in the aspect of their doing and their talking.
And when Kamran Khan, the anchor person, invites guest on video call, Muhammad Maalik , he said that according to him,
“He is suffering from manic depressive sacrossive disorder, also known as bipolar disorder which is basically a swing of mood whether of over anxiety or over excitement and that’s why he has went their for his check up”
One more thing which he showed that in the DAWN NEWS paper, President Zardari said that
“The President also said that
He left for Dubai as he did not trust hospitals in Pakistan and that he would be back soon”
What is the hidden agenda, hidden motives of the anchor behind all this saying? What he wants to show by saying all the things which go against the PPP and President Zardari.
When we try to find out the background of the Kamran Khan then we will come to know that Kamran Khan is basically on the side of PML (N). He always favours them and basically try to show that how the PPP is discoursing and doing certain things which are unknown. The health issue of Zardari is still unknown, no one knows the reality and that’s why he chose it and try to enraged the nation and also to invoke sense of curiosity in them. All the things, all the writings of news which he showed eventually went against the president Zardari. He was basically trying to cover up all the matter but it was not the actual matter. The actual thing is that he actually raised more contradictions and more questions in the mind of nation.
Secondly, if we make a glance then it’s not a big thing that President went for his routine check up to Dubai. Nawaz Shareef, when he was also ill, went to London for the heart surgery and ShahbazShareef also to London for his check up.
But he had not pointed out this thing fact. But by manipulating his power, he only criticizes him in this way. He eventually manipulates his power. Otherwise it’s not a big deal that president said that’s
“he left for Dubai as he did not trust hospitals in Pakistan”
It is a fact that a big Political leader always go foreign for their check-up because if opposition come to know about their weak points , they manipulate them and of course , he is not only big political figure but also the President of Pakistan. He has to adopt certain parameters for his safety. And the other thing is that politicians very nearly gave information about their illness because of the certain security measures. Only the closed and near one’s know about it and no other one is know about it.
It’s strange and again and again, the anchor person is saying that now its 9th day and he hasn’t come back, why? It’s an understood fact, it talks some times when there is a routine check-up even. He is basically trying to show the dominance of PML(N) .
Another thing, which he mentioned is that PM Gillani has given an interview to “BBC NEWS” in which he said;
“He is improving and he is now out of I.C.U. He has been shifted to his room and I think he will take rest for more two weeks”
What is going on, no one knows then the guest which he invites. Muhammad Maalik said;
“its not a big deal that he went to Dubai for check-up. But it not actually hearts problem but some disorder.”
On the one hand they are saying that he is fine and in the same way they are also saying that he will recover soon. What is all this? They are actually contradicting their own statements. Some things will become clear and he also said that;
“aglekuchdino m kuchneyazrur ho ga or………………….”(URDU)
But he hasn’t mentioned these things. Why he stops? Is there any hidden force which compels to stop him by unrevealing things? Yes, there are certain forces which basically stop him by unrevealing the things in clearway, and Anchor said that the things will be soon cleared. The nation will be soon come to know about the facts and reality?
And yes, one more thing which Kamran has mentioned is about the hot debate between the President and American EmbessidorMonter in the evening and also mentions that the hospital in which he is under observation is also an American hospital, what is the hidden agenda of anchor person behind this? Why he said so? What was the reason? Why he mentioned the name of America specifically?
Basically, if we examine, then we win come to know that from all the aspects he is just trying to ridicule the PPP and also is not any part of this programme, favoured for the Presidents health but in each and every moment , he just try to show that this is the Drama propagated by PPP. He is not ill he has just gone for mental relaxation, and to escape from this environment.
In talking with guest on video call, both of them were focusing that something very important is going to happen in Islamabad after the return of President Zardari. They were from all aspects trying to say that PPP is not going to work more. All of their talking shows that they are prejudiced against PPP and their motive is basically to show that PPP is going to be finished. All the things are clear cut.

2.3 Headline No: 2

“Nawaz Shareef ne sadarzardarikidukhti rag pe hath rakhdea- Larkanameinbarajalsa kea”
Show: Aj Kamran Khan k sath          
Anchor: Kamran Khan
Guest: Mumtaz Ali Bhutto(Chairman Sindh National Front)

What is shown basically in this headline? It is very evident from this that he is favouringPML(N).The issue of President’s health and then after it he said so. This clearly shown he is in the favour of PML(N) and trying to guard them. When things are put into cross then they become clear and if these two headlines are put into cross than we will come to know very clearly that on which side he is? To which he is in favour and to which he is not.

In this second headline, he has very clearly described about the good doings of PML(N). Nawaz Shareef said in the crowd that now the Government is over. All these things basically show that he is favouringPML(N) and advocating them in a better way. All the anchor persons basically, favour one party and all of them have their own personal motives and here the motive of Kamran Khan is the advocacy of PML(N) as compared to PPP.

Kamran Khan asked the question to his guest that whether the people of Larkana will give vote to the other party or not? He replied that;

“Definitely log zarur vote den ge.Pahle b diahy or ainda b den gekyon k ablogun k leayjosorat e halZardarikehukmaraninepaidakehywo is se nejatchahtyhain, bunyadisahulatnnihn, byrozgarihy,mahngaehy,atay k leaybachaybechny party hain,wasaelnihoty to khudkushikrtyhain,lognejaatketalashmnhen,kisiaurshakhsketalashmeinheinjoinkonijatdilaen”(urdu)
These words clearly show that the guests whom he invites in his programme are basically against PPP. Mumtaz Ali Bhutto in clear words said that now the Government is over and this is the basic motive behind this programme is that they want to advocate PML(N) and want to acknowledge that the reign of PPP is now no more.

There should be change in government, in rules, in the country. Change is essential requirement of today and this is the basic motive of Kamran Khan.

Kamran Khan’s basic agenda, according to us is that he wants to disgrace PPP in the eyes of the nation. It shows that there are certain forces which are working behind all this. There is something which continuously pushes them to say against PPP and certain other parties.

2.4 Source of Research

There are lots of models which have been constructed on CDA till today and will continue to do so in the future. In this research, Van Djk’s model for political and modern discourse is used. This model deals with each and every aspect of talks and that’s why this paper determines the much hidden traits of individuals who are here analyzed.

2.5 Conclusion

Now, it is acknowledged that each show and every anchor has their own agendas and they serve only the epitome of single of single public dominated society. To gain a social power and the dominance, certain tactics are always used. These tactics are always used and due to this certain political dominance is mentioned. CDA in this respect has played a major role because it compels is to use critical bent of mind and to analyze critical bent of time. Due to this we come to know that how the anchor only favour one party and for this purpose. They used each and every way in order to criticize other party and to negate it

Disclaimer
The programme was purely analyzed for this research paper and that’s why no other meaning should be extracted from this paper on the personal as well as political level.



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