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The physical environment and location of brothels has been the focus of significant scholarship, although much of the literature focuses on the exterior of these businesses, leaving the interiors as yet under-examined. In New Zealand, there is a tension between decriminalization’s intention that brothels are treated similarly to other businesses, and the enduring stigma which sex work is subject to. To mitigate stigmatization and public condemnation of their businesses, brothel owners sometimes mimic the aesthetic and branding of more mainstream industries. Drawing on data from media texts and interviews with brothel owners and operators, this article examines how ‘mainstreaming’ narratives of respectability and acceptability are produced in the physical space of brothels, particularly their interior décor and design. Media texts were analysed using a critical discourse analysis approach, and interviews using a Foucauldian discourse analysis model, allowing for an understanding of the interplay between the discursive production of the brothel sector and the physical environment of these businesses. We suggest that brothels’ interiors are used as a way of indexing their class status, and explore how this may be used to communicate ideas about the workers employed there, particularly in relation to existing stigmas about prostitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The circulation of strategies that aim to dismantle the effects of patriarchy in language has given rise to discussions around the legitimacy of non-sexist uses of language, awakening the interest of different social actors including language institutions such as the Royal Spanish Academy and the Chilean Academy of Language. From the glottopolitical perspective, the objective of this study is to analyze the linguistic ideologies that underlie the interventions that form part of a cycle of conferences organized by the Chilean Academy of Language. The corpus was analyzed under the theoretical and methodological guidelines of the French school of Discourse Analysis. The results show that the linguistic ideologies underlying the interventions are anchored on a heteronormative and patriarchal ideological system, in which the Chilean Academy of Language seeks to legitimize itself: on the one hand, through the construction of a progressive self-image, and, on the other, from their role as experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is an article that weaves in the intermingling of Materialist Discourse Analysis (Pêcheux, 1988; 1997; 2002; Orlandi, 1990; 2005; Lagazzi, 2009; 2019), and Deaf Studies (Skliar, 1998) and proposes as a theme that reflection on violence against deaf women. In order to (re)understand the complexity of the subject in more detail, we privileged studies mainly developed by deaf women (Perlin; Vilhalva, 2017; Santos; Stumpf, 2019). In perspective of the theoretical principles and analytical procedures of AD we intend to show how situations of violence against deaf women go through non-linguistic vulnerability. In addition, we try to list some support networks for these women, both in terms of access to rights (civil and linguistics) and institutional assistance for coping with them in different types of gender-based violence. By the end, we seek to analyze the documentary Seremos ouvidas. For that purpose, we will mobilize the notion of "significant materiality" (Lagazzi, 2009). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article identifies the discursive strategy of "extreme or radical" leaderships. With that in mind, it inquires the discursive content of Javier Milei's campaign closings before the Open Simultaneous and Obligatory Primaries (PASO) and the general elections, celebrated between August and October 2023 in Argentina, from a sociosemiotic perspective. The study concludes that Javier Milei's leadership generated attraction and adherence by a "rhetoric of rejection" towards "the political caste" during the first closing and by a "hyperbolic rhetoric", as the "resurrection or illumination" of the hero was witnessed, during the second campaign closing. In this manner, it advances in the knowledge of a case that, because of its novelty, remains little explored and delineates possible investigation agendas around leaderships and democratic quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A snapshot of communication research in Spain that uses qualitative methods as the dominant methodological perspective is presented. We conduct a content analysis to study the characteristics, objects and techniques that predominate in a census of 1,025 scientific productions from 2007 to 2018, which includes doctoral theses, projects and articles published in scientific journals. In the indexed publications, there is a certain lack of qualitative articles, despite the importance they have in doctoral theses and research projects. These researches use or triangulate qualitative methods, but not all techniques are used equally. Communication studies frequently resort to discourse analysis and in-depth interviews, but the presence of observations and discussion groups is minimal. The objects of study are also varied, although audiovisual formats prevail over journalistic formats and there is a growing interest in digital media and formats. Finally, at the author level, the results reveal parity, although the gender gap in the highest level studies is worrying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective/context: The study aimed to analyze the debate among Brazilian women senators during the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff in 2016. Methodology: Elements of discourse analysis were applied to investigate the main question: How did the debate develop among women senators, considering the ideological spectrum of the party and their position on the impediment (favorable or contrary)? The analysis presents a political-ideological profile of women senators, the arguments used by them in the debate, and the different uses of the defense of democracy. Conclusions: The left-wing women senators were more diligent and repeated their arguments more frequently to increase their discursive visibility. They also addressed the non-existence of a crime of responsibility, a condition to initiate an impeachment process. Women senators from the right and the center, on the other hand, resorted to rhetorical models to reiterate that the then-president of the Republic was no longer in a position to maintain a parliamentary base to support her government. The senators of this group also stated that the investigations demonstrated the use of schemes to irresponsibly disguise public accounts, exclusively with a view to Rousseff's reelection. Originality: It is relevant to highlight the original fact that this is an analysis of the impediment of a woman in the office of President of the Republic from the female perspective of the parliamentary body of the Senate, the institution in charge of judging the impeachment process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the positionings and discursive struggles between the key political actors around the expropriation project of Vicentin conglomerate, during the government of Alberto Fernández. As a result of the research work, we found an intense hegemonic struggle around the project. On the one hand, we found a package of discourses that expressed itself in favor of the measure and was condensed in the defense of food sovereignty, the rescue of a strategic company to control prices in the domestic market, regulate the foreign exchange and avoid abrupt devaluations, preserve jobs and guarantee payment to their creditors. In addition, it affirmed that it was an exceptional measure, stressed that Vicentin was bankrupt and accused of fraudulent maneuvers. On the other, we found a discursive package contrary to the project, which invoked as arguments the unconstitutionality of the measure and its negative effects on legal certainty and confidence necessary to attract investment. In addition, it maintained that all Argentines were going to take over the debt of a private company, classified the defense of food sovereignty as an 'excuse' or considered that Argentina was on the way to a 'chavista' model. Finally, we address the hegemonic impact at the institutional and social level, which generated social protests and a judicialization of politics and ended in the blocking of the project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Recent debates concerning problems in the digital environment have promoted different conceptualizations of digital rights. However, current problems of digital communication are often discussed separately from earlier debates pertaining to the democratization of the media. This article argues for the regrounding of digital rights debates to address systemic communication problems. Methodology: Intended as a conceptual contribution, this article connects recent critical research on digital rights to the body of literature on democratic media activism through an analysis of problem representations. The article draws on the “What is the problem represented to be?” approach to study problem representations in the academic accounts of mobilizations and to identify common themes that describe systemic problems of communication. Results: The results identify problem representations that have emerged in and been defined by mobilizations over time and illustrate persistent themes with examples from the digital and mass media eras, including inequalities in the distribution of communicative resources, ownership and economic model of the communication system, and problems of participation and exclusion. Discussion: Focusing on problem representations enables identification of alternatives to current dominant discourses and offers grounds for collaboration at the nexus of activism and scholarship. Conclusions: Future research can benefit from a further dialogue between the framework of democratic media activism and rights-based approaches to the digital communication environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on a doctoral research work. Its purpose is to act as a critical operator that seeks to show, through discourse analysis, the main lines of crossing, dispersion, and mutation created around the concept of adolescence in the psychoanalytic device in order to point out some epistemic, political, and clinical implications underlying the configuration of certain forms of subjectivity propitiated by such concept. As a result of this analysis, an alternate line of thought is outlined in which subject and event become the conceptual axes that allow us to reposition the adolescent issue in terms of that other order that puberty seems to designate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a protocol for the analysis of mitigation is presented. Using the latest theoretic and methodological research on mitigation as well as the distinction of neighboring phenomena such as intensification and affiliation, we offer guidelines for the study of mitigation. This tool enables analysts to discern whether an item performs a mitigating function, as well as to carry out a complete analysis of how mitigation is deployed in each given context. After presenting the protocol, its application in different discursive genres and geographical varieties of Spanish is shown, thus proving that this scheme is a useful resource for the study of mitigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on research conducted by Croker (2019) and Herr (2020), in this article we present a proposed analysis of a discourse approach to the emergence and use of the term "cloud computing" and its derivative "saving in the cloud". The study is supported by three concepts covered by the epistemological field of French Discourse Analysis: 1) the will to truth (Foucault, 1999); 2) the interdiscourse (Maingueneau, 2008); and 3) the sociodiscursive imaginaries (Charaudeau, 2017). We proceeded to the discourse analysis of an advertising piece, a Brazilian TV news report about the emergence of cloud computing, and a cartoon focused on the same theme. The results show that the metaphor of the cloud as a place of lightness and superiority, referring to the idea of heaven and paradise, camouflages the reality of cloud computing as a private repository allocated in robust computer infrastructures that increasingly cause dependence and obtain information from users for use in various profitable actions for large technology companies in their virtual environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Political leaders of pariah authoritarian states communicate their political discourse unilaterally, in a closed environment without free and open media access or the space for public scrutiny or debate. They use their speeches for various aims such as to respond to external shocks, justify hardship, appeal to domestic and international sympathy, assert autonomy and power, and influence policy and governance. This research uses Iran as a case study and offers an in‐depth analysis of 10 years of speeches by the country's Supreme Leader. In a case study of unilateral political communication method in an authoritarian environment, it sheds light on various aspects of the discourse generated by the country's Supreme Leader over a decade. It also analyzes the Leader's effort to influence policymaking and governance structure through practical official guidelines. Building upon existing theories of populism, the study seeks to unpack an understudied approach in populist politics that is based on a political discourse by the leadership which defines the populist dichotomy of people versus elite at the global level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, it was proposed, through the Materialist Discourse Analysis, a study of the authorship of an argumentative-disserative text worked from the polysemy with the objective of understanding the functioning of the Polemic Pedagogical Discourse in the writing process. The analysis sought to observe the production of the authorship effect in the texts of technical high school students on Human Rights. Through writing and speeches in the classroom, it was possible to identify the students' discourse on the topic and the way in which they placed themselves in different subject-positions, in the texts produced. The analyzes pointed to the existence of ideological antagonism, and allowed us to identify different degrees of authorship and the way in which the pedagogical discourse can intervene in the student's authorship even when in its controversial functioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article arises from a project proposed along with the students of the Mathematics Licentiate degree at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), who at the time were studying a course, in the evening period, in Elementary Education Mathematics. The project was motivated by a street salesman and its objective was to understand mathematics, more specifically school algebra, where other people did not. Based on the productions and reflections of this project, this article aims to identify meanings that are produced about working on the street. For that, the corpus of analysis will be the interviews with two black men who work on the street and the interview with one of the students of the mentioned course. Theoretically, we are linked to critical studies, with decolonial inspiration. For the analysis of the discourses arising from the interviews, we adopted the Discourse Analysis from the perspective of Eni Orlandi, in order to answer the research question: what are the meanings produced about working on the street? The analysis resulted in three meanings about working on the street from the interviews with the workers and one meaning about mathematics from the interview with the student of the Mathematics Licentiate degree. The observed meanings point to street work as an opportunity to dream when facing expulsion from school, as a risk to be taken due to the devaluation of the formal labor market and also as a stigma; the meaning attributed to mathematics refers to its distance from social experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Media literacy is an educational necessity due not only to the fact that a high rate of consumption implies a great capacity to influence the population, but also to the fact that media has become the main source of information and knowledge conversion. Many studies on educommunication include the need to train free citizens to participate in the media, but these studies forget that the deconstruction of messages is a prior learning required to produce critical texts. The present study defends the priority training in the critical reception justified, besides the nature of the communicative act, by the results extracted from a questionnaire about the use of the media made to two hundred and thirty-eight university students, which show a greater involvement as receivers than emitters. This survey provides relevant data on the consumption of the different media that allow assessing the weight of each source of information in young people and consider the teaching of a critical reception focused on the analysis of five elements: source, message, channel, code and receivers. Unlike many educommunication studies lost in indisputable generalities, this work advocates semiotic strategies of discursive analysis that question the credibility of communication. Training in the deconstruction of the message is, without a doubt, the first step in educommunication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Internet social networks are used for multiple purposes by their users/consumers, but it is necessary to consider how much they push for models of truth, values, subjectivities, and coexistence. This article investigates the effects of meaning on the female body in images and captions published by digital influencers on their Instagram profiles. Eight posts (photos) were selected from four public profiles of Brazilian digital influencers with the highest number of followers (and, therefore, high reach) and analyzed based on an analysis of Michel Pêcheux's speech. Thus, the eight selected discursive sequences (photos/videos plus captions/comments) were related to two discursive formations: meanings about the female body and meanings about femininity. The main results highlight the meaning of the female body as a commodity to achieve an ideal of beauty through willpower and meritocracy, related to gender binarism and the satisfaction of male pleasures, which can deepen inequalities between genders without the users/consumers of these social networks' perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is due to the analysis of the current situation oriented to the management of the ethos legislated by the “Government of the Encounter”, whose organizational planning is found in the superposition of the instances of production, reception and mediation of a continuous hegemony dictated from the communication and government agenda, given the lack of leadership policies and visible institutional control in the Ecuadorian context. The objective is to know, explain and analyze the collateral effects that are embedded in the affective structure of the critical mass, the main content being that these current problems are endorsed to the degradation of the media as companies before, during and after a crisis, as what happened with COVID-19 and the techno-capitalist colonization interface that increased its dominance. The conclusions are broken down in the campaign proposals offered and demanded in accordance with the media, ethics and control of government management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contemporary LGBTQ+ movement in the West is currently facing resistance and controversy for having adopted an ideology influenced by queer theory and transhumanism that deconstructs the category of sex and gender and prioritizes the concept of gender identity over that of sex in areas such as the law, medicine, sports, and culture. Using a discourse analysis of the Internet page of the influential U.S. organization Human Rights Campaign, this article seeks to understand this ideology, analyzing mainly the sections of the glossary of terms about sexuality and gender, the use of pronouns, and the banners of sexual identities and gender. The aim is to clarify the bases for the ideology and its use of language to be able to understand the roots of the current cultural battle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering that Umbanda promotes a symbolic inversion of power by bringing historically marginalized groups to the center of the scene as holders of great spiritual evolution, it is observed that Pombagira emerges as the free and powerful woman who transgresses the relationships historically established by society patriarchal. Based on this observation, we propose to observe the construction of the power ethos of Pombagira Sete Saias incorporated into a male medium in order to understand how she subverts what is both feminine and masculine, dressing her medium and intertwining strength and sensuality. For this, we will borrow the interviews made by the anthropologist Mariana Moura (2018) to Pombagira to analyze the construction of the discursive ethos from the assumptions of Dominique Maingueneau (2008, 2015, 2020). As initial conclusions, we argue that this body in transit raises questions relevant to Discourse Analysis, both with regard to the subject's relationship with the embedded medium, as well as the construction of the self-image in the entity's discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anti-government protests that swept across Cuba on July 11, 2021 were the most massive ones after Cuban Revolution's triumph. Social media played a key role as vehicles to extend and document the events. They were also an informative resource towards traditional media insufficient coverage. That context encouraged the dissemination of fake news, which were then placed at the very center of legitimacy disputes regarding the social uprising. The paper aims at explaining the political uses of fake news during the protests. To do so, it was analyzed both Cuban government's appropriation of the term, as well as the fake news with political content that circulated on Facebook during the protests. The application of political discourse analysis's method from a qualitative perspective allowed us to identify five political uses of the fake news concept by the Cuban government and seven in the fake news with political content that were analyzed. It is concluded that the fake news concept was used as a strategic rethoric resource by the Cuban officials in order to 1) strengthen a defensive discoursive position that polarizes the "us" towards "them", and also to 2) prevent the collective political dispute regarding the idea of "truth" via the intentional reading and appropriation of news facts, of which practices such as the digital blackout and the nonrecognition of the protests by the official media derived. Also, we indicate that signification processes derived from fake news with political content's effects intensified polarization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the intersectionality theme in mathematics education to clarify the existing epistemic racism. Through the presentation of excerpts from Brazilian high school mathematics textbooks, more specifically the pages that deal with the history of mathematics, we argued that, in these analyzed textbooks, mathematics is European, male and white, because the narrative constructed by the creators of these books reproduces the Eurocentric logic of mathematical knowledge, erasing other histories of mathematics and creating a very specific narrative about the construction of human knowledge. The analyses were intersectional as a fundamental concept, as multiple aspects, such as gender, ethnicity, race, and nationality, were taken into consideration. The discourse analysis was the analytical tool that made it possible to look at the math textbooks and describe how the materialization of discourses about teaching and learning occurs, producing a history of mathematics teaching in our time; of what is idealized and what is invisibilized. The 24 volumes of the eight collections approved in PNLD 2018 were analyzed. Using the Atlas TI software, six characteristics were investigated: (i) the content addressed; (ii) the continent of origin of that character; (iii) whether it was a quote in text form or whether, in addition to the text (character's name), there was also a figure or photo; (iv) gender; (v) race; (vi) name. We found 554 references to scientists and mathematicians, showing that, in the analyzed books, mathematics is constructed by white and European-origin men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generally, reformulation implies a process of discursive reinterpretation which attempts to solve problems of semantic origin. To recover and revise contents in order to guarantee enunciative cohesion and progression, different metalinguistic resources called paraphrastic reformulative marks are used, such as defining verb or punctuation marks. This article aims to examine the discursive relationships established between these markers and their presence in contexts of neologisms. On the one hand, the corpus from the data in Catalan collected by the Observatori de Neologia of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) should provide the response to why there are word formation resources that contain a higher presence of reformulations. On the other hand, it should allow to make a first approach that delimits the functions that markers play in statements which co-occur with neological contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The media have an important persuasive power over the audience. One of the most relevant media phenomena in recent years was Brexit. The objective of this study is to find out the editorial position of the Spanish press in relation to the actors of Brexit (European Union and United Kingdom). To do this, a lexical analysis based on the Frame Semantics was carried out. The results of the investigation shown that Spanish newspapers maintained a pro-European stance throughout the entire Brexit process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to explore the discourse of students from 6 to 8 years of age when they reflect on the dynamics of education used by their parents. To do this, we start from the theory of self-determination and reflect on the practices of support for autonomy and parental control present in the discourse of minors. In this sense, we found that the students' discourse revolves mainly around parental practices that support autonomy, such as the possibility of choosing leisure activities, communicating problems and concerns to parents, and the autonomous performance of some tasks by minors. However, there is also evidence that autonomy support practices converge with others related to parental control in certain situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops a reflection on Discourse Analysis (DA), which has had an increasingly meaningful role in the field of organizational studies, especially in administration. It begins with the presentation of the DA main streams, a methodological division which delimits distinct orientations both in the theoretical and practical fields. It takes Saussure’s contributions as the starting point of the theoretical foundation. After that, the theories of speech acts, or pragmatics, as well as the theories of enunciation and the concept of destination are briefly explored, as a way to establish a background to guide the reader and allow him/ her to understand the urge to submit the discourse of administration to the indiscreet DA lenses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the structure of the network and the content of the messages of the biggest anti-feminist campaign promoted on Twitter by the Spanish party Vox, around the celebration of March 8, 2021. The study universe is made up of all the comments indexed with the hashtags #8MDiaVictimasCovid and #EsteFeminismoEsViolencia. The collection of the 6,463 tuits was carried out using RStudio software, while the qualitative and linguistic analysis of the corpus was carried out using Sketch Engine program. The research shows that the anti-feminism of Vox corresponds to the misogyny that it presents in the discourses of the Spanish Manosphere to denounce the feminist movement, through its association with some slogans such as "supremacist", "radical", "extremist" or "violent". The messages try to capitalize on the discontent caused by the pandemic and make feminism the target of all criticism, accusing it of complicity with the Government and of using dominant and violent methods to impose itself and obtain economic benefits. The self-referentiality of the messages, the use of simple and repetitive frames, and the profusion of negative emotions are the main strategies adopted to provoke disinformation around feminism and promote hate speech towards women who sympathize with feminism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literature on jihadist discourse focuses on the processes of propaganda and recruitment and on their dissemination through digital media. On the first session of the trial for the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks of August 17 and 18, 2017 (known as 17A), three videos were screened in which some of the young men who would later become responsible for the attacks convey their intentions while manufacturing explosives. This study analyzes their interaction from the perspective of pragmatic linguistics and examines the identities that the young terrorists construct for themselves and for others through the analytical model put forward in Stamou (2018). The results of this analysis scrutinize the linguistic resources used by the speakers to construct identities for themselves and others, as well as the relations established between these and the ideologies that support their discourse. We conclude that the analytical tools applied in this study may become very relevant for the discoursive and linguistic profiling of alleged terrorists for forensic purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose a reflection on the theoretical and empirical relevance of approaching the study of historical linguistic change study considering marginalia, that is, phenomena that are typologically unexceptional, but which have been ignored in linguistic research. The objective is to draw attention to the tunnel vision that linguistic theories usually entail for those who work within them, since the paradigms themselves and the study methods that are developed within such theories lead to ignoring certain linguistic phenomena relevant to the study of languages which are relegated to the margins of linguistic description. In order to prove the relevance of these marginalia, we will point out the importance they have had for the advancement of linguistic theories in the last two hundred years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present research into narratives on immigrants and immigration, to identify cases of hate speech on the part of political parties against immigrants on Twitter during the 2019 and 2021 electoral campaigns in the Community of Madrid. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the results confirm the exponential increase by all parties in discussion on the issue of immigration and that the political agenda and public discourse is increasingly framed by hate speech towards unaccompanied minors and undocumented migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article integrates results of reflections on the importance of the History and Philosophy of Science in the initial training of teachers of the Licentiate in Chemistry at the Universidade Estadual da Paraíba. To write this article, we sought in articles related to the History and Philosophy of Science, theoretical assumptions that approach the inclusion of the historical perspective in teaching. Methodologically, we carried out a descriptive and exploratory study, characterized as a case study, using the questionnaire as a data collection instrument, applied to six teachers of the respective course, according to a qualitative perspective. After this step, in order to analyze the answers to the open questions suggested in this instrument, we based ourselves on the theory of Discourse Analysis, proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin, to interpret the arguments presented as answers by the teachers. Therefore, we understand that its theoretical framework presents interesting elements that offer strong support to our interpretations, as well as brings to light the functioning of language, in which the subject is constituted by the interpretation he makes. The results indicate, from the speeches of the teachers studied here, that the approach of History and Philosophy of Science is of great relevance for teaching, as a didactic strategy and teaching activity, allowing to contextualize the classes, showing the process of transformation of the science, provide a reflective learning about the nature of scientific knowledge, in addition to observing the internal and external aspects that are peculiar to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the publications on Facebook entitled "Joaquin Teixeira Thoughts" and on Twitter @joaquimvoltou, social networks that make a satire and opposition to political correctness and that would represent the thought of the Brazilian conservative right, The page deals with the elderly Joaquin Teixeira, a conservative and prejudiced far-right grandfather who uses posts to attack minorities and stereotype left-wing ideology. For this analysis, concepts of French Discourse Analysis were mobilized, used as a theoretical and methodological basis. The corpus is composed of screenshots of publications on social networks, involving various themes that make up his supposed right-wing FD, understanding how this satirical/ironic humor marked, from 2014 onwards, the resurgence of right-wing discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper presents a queer feminist analysis of gendered discourses in South Africa's (SA) (2020-2025) National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS). It builds on an extensive field of WPS scholarship by using the case study of SA's NAP to illustrate how policy can be used to harness critical gendered language and create possibilities for radical (re)imaginings of gendered peace. While a considerable knowledge base that explores the gendered discourses of NAPs on WPS already exists, a key gap in the literature --that has only more recently begun to be explored with greater rigor-- is the bridging of queer and feminist theories to further push the boundaries of discursive policy analysis. Against this backdrop, feminist critical discourse analysis (CDA) was applied to the NAP case study to surface dominant and counter-discourses on gender and their possible inclusionary/exclusionary effects. Key findings centre the potential value of policy discourses which, in their fragmentation, ruptures, continuities and ambivalences, can facilitate opportunities for queer peace at the instrumental level and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the transformation process that universities have been carrying out dates back to the beginning of the last century, the problem of women and the gender agenda has been strongly established and legitimized in educational institutions and in the general population since the "Ni una menos" first massive mobilization in 2015. At the same time that the creation and implementation of gender policies in national universities generate strong adhesions and support, they also arouse tensions, affections and refractory positions. That is why, the purpose of this article is to focus on the understanding of the latter; what are their arguments and rhetorical resources. For these reason we analyze with Discourse Analysis tools, the posts and comments made in the institutional accounts of the social network Facebook of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSoc) and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL), both academic units of the University of Buenos Aires. We warn that in the context of the gender policies expansion and the intensification of feminist rhetoric and agenda at the higher level of education, there is a research vacancy of these reactive positions, whose greater knowledge allows us to enrich and make the debates more complex around the scope and limitations of university democratization in terms of gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The French-line Discourse Analysis (DA) and the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) support this study, which examines a journalistic statement about the effects of soil erosion on agricultural production. The intention is to investigate how a news about a typical problem in the rural and/or environmental universe produces meanings for interlocutors without links to agribusiness. The statement shows signs of polyphony, silencing and didacticity, which demarcate the conditions of text production, identify endo/exogroups, in addition to determining a line of reading, among many other possible ones. The analysis concludes that this discourse does not connect the problem of soil degradation to the final consumer. The meaning is interrupted in the rural production link, as if the effects of soil degradation suffered a discontinuity, without affecting items that are consumed by urban inhabitants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to understand the meanings about early childhood present in the Brazilian documentary "The beginning of life" (Estela Renner, 2016). For this, through Discourse Analysis (DA) concepts, we investigate who the imagined spectator is, the discursive organization of the film and the truth effects established by it. We conclude that, besides the preponderant sense of valuing early childhood care, the work carries other meanings, such as the possibility of a predetermined future for some children, especially those who live in social vulnerability. In addition, we realize that the "truth effects" built for the film's argument, that is, the conditions created by its directors so that the proposed narrative about early childhood is considered "valid", carries silencing of meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes, in the light of French Discourse Analysis, the discursive functioning of the term "mi-mi-mi". The study takes as a corpus two excerpts from the social network Twitter, in which it is possible to verify that the expression "mi-mi-mi" and the statements with which it establishes a relationship are used as a way of mocking, belittling, embarrassing and silencing minorities, evidencing knowledge that delineate the Extreme Right Discursive Formation, such as racism and misogyny. In general, it was observed that when expressing such meanings, the analyzed discourses express views that converge to the idea that there is a group that must prevail over the others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyse the way in which the media and the discourses that are formulated and circulate in it appear in the theoretical-analytical reflections proposed by Michel Pêcheux, in the theory of discourse analysis. Specifically, it considered two points: a) the way in which media discourses are mobilized in texts by Pêcheux and other researchers related to him, in their productions on the French scene, between the late 1960s and early 1980s; b) the way in which these reflections that permeate the Pecheutian work found resonance from the reterritorialization of discourse analysis in Brazil, resulting in analysis of diverse corpora and theorizations about the journalistic, advertising and digital discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pandemic caused by Covid-19 changed the relationships established between the subjects involved in the school context. Students' lack of active participation is often noted, as they commonly do not interact and keep their cameras and microphones turned off during online activities. Based on this scenario, this article has as its object of analysis six excerpts from interviews carried out with students from Integrated High School and Technical Courses from Federal Institutes in different states, and aims to analyze the meaning effects engendered by the absence of the body in remote education activities. Therefore, a theoretical-analytical path was traced based on Pêcheux's Discourse Analysis, which allows, as a methodology, to interrogate the interpretation in order to understand its discursive functioning. With the investigation, it was understood that both the body and the silence of its absence give rise to meaning effects that impact the constitution of subjectivity, and that especially the affective distance in the student environment is accentuated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research carried out an archive analysis, having as object the degree program structure (DPS) of a natural sciences teacher training course. Based on Freire's Liberating Education, as well as other critical theoretical frameworks, and the French-Brazilian Discourse Analysis theoreticalmethodological framework, it aimed to look at the context production of the discourse materialized in the DPS. Through the analysis, it was considered that emerged from their interdiscourse elements such as: articulation between theory and practice in teacher education; articulation between teaching, research, and university extension; approximation between University and School; pedagogy of competences. On the other hand, some silences were noticed: absence of theoretical affiliations; jargon and commonplaces; absence of equity discourse. Thus, it was concluded that the critical-transformative perspectives cannot and should not appear in a veiled or implicit way in a document of this type. On the other hand, in this movement, we can consider the silence and inconclusion present in the discourse materialized in the DPS precisely as points of drift, transformation and overcoming of the hegemonic logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Development and implementation of effective protected area management to reduce deforestation depend in part on identifying factors contributing to forest loss and areas at risk of conversion, but standard land‐use‐change modeling may not fully capture contextual factors that are not easily quantified. To better understand deforestation and agricultural expansion in Amazonian protected areas, we combined quantitative land‐use‐change modeling with qualitative discourse analysis in a case study of Brazil's Jamanxim National Forest. We modeled land‐use change from 2008 to 2018 and projected deforestation through 2028. We used variables identified in a review of studies that modeled land‐use change in the Amazon (e.g., variables related to agricultural suitability and economic accessibility) and from a critical discourse analysis that examined documents produced by different actors (e.g., government agencies and conservation nonprofit organizations) at various spatial scales. As measured by analysis of variance, McFadden's adjusted pseudo R2, and quantity and allocation disagreement, we found that including variables in the model identified as important to deforestation dynamics through the qualitative discourse analysis (e.g., the proportion of unallocated public land, distance to proposed infrastructure developments, and density of recent fires) alongside more traditional variables (e.g., elevation, distance to roads, and protection status) improved the predictive ability of these models. Models that included discourse analysis variables and traditional variables explained up to 19.3% more of the observed variation in deforestation probability than a model that included only traditional variables and 4.1% more variation than a model with only discourse analysis variables. Our approach of integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in land‐use‐change modeling provides a framework for future interdisciplinary work in land‐use change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Uruguay and in almost all of Latin America, psychoanalysis has historically had a strong influence on psychotherapeutic practices. Based on discourse analysis, this research addresses the implantation of psychoanalytic ideas in the Uruguayan psychotherapeutic field during the period between 1930 and 1960. The corpus was built from scientific journals (Archivos de Pediatría del Uruguay, Revista de Psiquiatría del Uruguay, Revista Uruguaya de Psicoanálisis) and books published at the time, and shows different modes of reception of psychoanalytic ideas. In addition, and based on the identification of psychotherapeutic actions and efficacy indicators, different ways in which psychoanalytic notions and concepts determined treatments orientation were analyzed. The results allow a better understanding of the scope that psychoanalytic ideas have had historically in the psychotherapeutic field, while shedding light on the role they play today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How should teachers of international relations in settler-colonial states engage with First Nations' sovereignty claims? While a growing body of recent scholarship explores how teaching might acknowledge and move beyond the discipline's racist and colonial origins, less research investigates how pedagogy might rectify inattention to Indigenous sovereignty. This paper reports on a class activity that sought to highlight how the discipline's foundational assumptions can naturalize Indigenous dispossession. In the class, students were asked to conduct discourse analysis of debates surrounding the "Uluru Statement from the Heart," and to consider practices of Indigenous transnationalism. Although students generally succeeded in identifying how discursive practices consolidate the authority of the settler-colonial state, class discussion tended to reproduce the state's justificatory narratives and to classify First Nations' claims as akin to those of any other ethnic minority. At a time when many universities are seeking to embed more Indigenous content within curriculum, we reflect on how the activity revealed epistemic colonialism's operation within educational settings. We argue that in addition to introducing Indigenous perspectives and knowledges, it is valuable for teaching in settler-colonial states to focus critical attention onto non-Indigenous practices that reproduce systemic injustice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The climate crisis and the environmental emergency are a sign of uncertainty for the future of the planet. European and national educational directives establish the framework of action and the commitments that must be made by each agent to reach the new sustainable paradigm which is based on circularity. The school, as an institution of social transformation, faces a reproductive framework that feeds the consumer socio-economic structure, covering up the urgency of the problem. The aim is to identify the forces for change to improve the intervention mechanisms in the educational field in Spain aimed at fostering the involvement and the participation of young people. The qualitative methodology combines discourse analysis using Grounded Theory and prospective analysis using the scenario method. By means of a validated questionnaire, semistructured interviews and focus groups are conducted with technicians and managers, trainers of trainers, teachers, and researchers (n=53). The discourse of the agents and legislation on education and sustainability are analysed to generate substantive theory. By means of the theorization obtained, drivers and constraints are identified, establishing a probability and impact matrix that allows for the visualization of three possible futures. It concludes with a set of recommendations to strengthen the desired scenario and to reduce the possibilities of the dystopian scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the article is to analyze the link discourse and politics in the Post-structural Theory of Discourse (TPD) presented by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe (1987) The analysis combines theoreticalpractical documentary research with deconstruction and critical reflection. The theoretical aspects come mainly from Saussure (1971), Laclau and Mouffe (1987), Laclau (1993, 2006), Mouffe (2007), Rojas (2014) and Fair (2015), among others. The article provides a way to deconstruct basic concepts to understand the discursive articulation. The conclusions are: 1) the TPD radicalizes the linguistic turn and the structural games of language in a redefinition of society contributed from the articulation discourse-hegemony-the political and the political, 2) The TPD based on the discursive hegemony as an actual articulation, between other, 3) the Derridian deconstruction taken up by Laclau and Mouffe in the TPD is basic to interpret the differences between types of democracy and States by the way they hegemonize the particular senses of the signifiers to naturalize them, through political struggle, as of universal validity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hate speech is currently becoming a field of interest for different academic domains, which is why in this contribution a linguistic approach to this type of messages is presented. For that purpose, a corpus of almost a hundred texts from social networks has been examined, describing the linguistic features of this type of messages and explaining their relevance for forensic linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper encompasses a revision of the most relevant studies on the use of numbers in the press as well as the application of their premises to the specific case of the coronavirus crisis in Spain. With this goal in mind, we have focused on three Spanish newspapers (ABC, El País and El Mundo) to examine the use of numbers in their headlines during the four weeks prior to the declaration of the state of alarm in the country as a response to the health crisis created by the Covid-19. This analysis has served not only to evaluate the validity and applicability of the postulates of the reviewed literature, but it has also allowed us to observe how numbers along with their linguistic context can trigger an alarming effect on the readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To begin with, we confront the idea of risk with that of danger in the field of gambling: within the framework of a theory of action, taking a risk implies taking a bet that can be won or lost, such as in business or in the challenges that legendary heroes take on. That is the main reason of players’ attraction for the bets, as the sociologist Erving Goffman studied. Now, pathological gambling is a disorder Ludopathy is a mental-behavioral disorder that involves danger: an addiction to uncontrolled gambling with dire personal consequences. The methodology we apply examines three types of social discourses: regulative (legal, administrative, etc.) by which gambling is regulated in Spain; endogenous (testimony of the protagonists of this disorder); exogenous (social representations in literature, cinema or advertising). We propose the thesis that the seduction of immoderate risk endangers the mental health of compulsive gamblers and is a social trauma that different lobbies stimulate and public administrations try to control within the framework of a power struggle. On the other hand, we note that the data related to Spanish legislation regarding gambling has been modified in recent months and that in some respects its application is still in process at the present time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The UN Security Council has published about eighty-three thousand documents between 2001 and 2021. This study analyzes this large corpus of text to identify, map, and trace the evolution of discourses on climate change and their impact on the organization. The article analyzes diplomatic speeches and other primary sources to identify instances of climatization of security and securitization, riskification, and mainstreaming of climate change. To fulfill its aim, the article introduces a mixed method that combines an automated content analysis with a discourse analytic approach. The findings suggest that, despite the stall in high-level discussions on climate security, the Security Council is de facto moving toward a climatization of security and riskification of climate change in daily practices, procedures, and operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cannabis legalization is often referred to as a moral issue. However, given the limits of morality policy as a distinct policy subcategory and the contemporary dominance of technocratic politics, one could wonder if it is really framed as such within political institutions. In this article, I ask how moral frames compete and interact with other frames in debates over morality policy. Working with a moral/epistemic dichotomy, I conduct framing analysis on parliamentary debates in Quebec, Ontario, and Maine, which have recently reformulated their cannabis policy. Although trends in framing vary across cases, moral frames are consistently less salient than epistemic frames. Furthermore, a pattern of complementary framing is found, whereby actors combine moral and epistemic frames. Overall, this study shows that cannabis policy is often framed as nonmoral, and that its moral component is nonexclusive. I conclude by discussing some implications of these findings in the post‐legalization landscape. Related Articles: Branton, Regina, and Ronald J. McGauvran. 2018. "Mary Jane Rocks the Vote: The Impact of Climate Context on Support for Cannabis Initiatives." Politics & Policy 46(2): 209–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12248. Brekken, Katheryn C., and Vanessa M. Fenley. 2021. "Part of the Narrative: Generic News Frames in the U.S. Recreational Marijuana Policy Subsystem." Politics & Policy 49(1): 6–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12388. Fisk, Jonathan M., Joseph A. Vonasek, and Elvis Davis. 2018. "'Pot'Reneurial Politics: The Budgetary Highs and Lows of Recreational Marijuana Policy Innovation." Politics & Policy 46(2): 189–208. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12246. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]