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What is Discourse Analysis

Chapter 10
Privacy Concerns Surrounding Personal Information Sharing on Health and Fitness Mobile Apps
A critical methodological tool for studying texts and analyzing patterns and meaning within a dataset.
Published in Chapter:
“Sensitive but Essential Information”: Policy Debates on Fitness Application Privacy and Data Security
Alison Nicole Novak (Rowan University, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3487-8.ch010
Abstract
As fitness trackers and applications grow popular, many actors involved in the development, use, and regulation of these devices expressed concerns of privacy and control of data gathered through these platforms. This chapter explores how government representatives, industry leaders, regulators, and politicians discursively constructed and critiqued data privacy in fitness applications in congressional contexts. Findings indicate the following discourses: (1) fitness trackers as indicative of larger data collection issues, (2) weighing the pros and cons of use, (3) military implications for fitness application data security, (4) consumers as responsible for their own data privacy, (5) organizations failing to keep pace with cyber security threats, and (6) the misuse of data collected in fitness applications for promotion/strategic communication uses.
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Exploring the Concept of Youth Bulge From a Linguistic Perspective: A Critical Discourse Approach
In this chapter discourse refers to language in concreate use. That is language used by politician, demographers and any other speaker in describing a phenomenon. Therefore, the language which is in use has to be examined using language tools to examine the meaning of the wording.
Published in Chapter: Exploring the Concept of Youth Bulge From a Linguistic Perspective: A Critical Discourse Approach; From: Participation of Young People in Governance Processes in Africa
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Social Media and Health Communication: Vaccine Refusal/Hesitancy
It is a qualitative, interpretative research method used in applied linguistics and social sciences. Because of this interpretation activity, it is also used in the forms of “critical discourse analysis” or “critical discourse analysis”. Critical discourse analysis highlights themes such as power, domination, hegemony, class difference, gender, race, ideology, discrimination, interest, gain, reconstruction, transformation, tradition, social structure, or social order and deals with these issues as a research area.
Published in Chapter: Social Media and Health Communication: Vaccine Refusal/Hesitancy; From: Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media
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Linguistic Elements as Tools for the Analysis of Media Narratives
A linguistic approach to the study of written or spoken language in relation to its social context.
Published in Chapter: Linguistic Elements as Tools for the Analysis of Media Narratives; From: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Storytelling Methods Across New Media and Disciplines
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Breaking the Narrative on Global Fault Lines
Discourse analysis is the analysis of published discourse qualitatively and theoretically, considering the grammatical features (Aziz, 2008).
Published in Chapter: Breaking the Narrative on Global Fault Lines; From: Handbook of Research on Narrative Interactions
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Chapter 2
Teaching a Technical Writing and Research Course to Engineering Students: Recommendations for Curriculum Reform
A research method for analysing written and spoken language use in relation to its social context.
Published in Chapter: Teaching a Technical Writing and Research Course to Engineering Students: Recommendations for Curriculum Reform; From: Cases on Engineering Management Education in Practice
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Female Writings in Times of Crisis: A Transnational Feminist and Sociolinguistic Study
Is a sociolinguistic approach that studies the meaning of the communicative text, whether written, vocal, or visual, in relation to its social context. It focuses on the language use and linguistic, social, and/or semiotic interpretation of different types of texts.
Published in Chapter: Female Writings in Times of Crisis: A Transnational Feminist and Sociolinguistic Study; From: Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis
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The Otherization of Turkey in the Orientalist Discourse: Turkey and Orientalism
Discourse analysis is one of the most detailed discouses analysis method evaluate all the texts both textual and contextual level and it takes places at two sections: microstructure and macrostructure. The orientalism that dominates and the reshapes the East as western discourse affects the construction of Turkish image that is influenced by the new orientalism process, changed with the media is planned to be analyzedi by using discourse analysis in this study.
Published in Chapter: The Otherization of Turkey in the Orientalist Discourse: Turkey and Orientalism; From: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond
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The Rhetoric of Mass Communication and Media in the Contrastive Sociolinguistics
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Case Study: Defining and Differentiating Among Types of Case Studies
Studying how language assumes meaning and coherence in communication.
Published in Chapter: Case Study: Defining and Differentiating Among Types of Case Studies; From: Case Study Methodology in Higher Education
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Medical Diagnosis: A ‘Garbage Can' Perspective
In general, the study of language in context. In the medical diagnostic context it refers specifically to a meticulous deconstruction of the patient's communication including but not limited to the words, tone of speech, facial and other nonverbal gestures and cues the patient uses in response to probes by the physician or volunteers during the course of the diagnostic interview or treatment process.
Published in Chapter: Medical Diagnosis: A ‘Garbage Can' Perspective; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 26
Self-Construction in Computer Mediated Discourse
Discourse analysis can be micro-, or macro-analytic. Current scholarship calls for the construction of an interpretive interface between micro-and macro-levels of analysis.
Published in Chapter: Self-Construction in Computer Mediated Discourse; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues
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Chapter 107
Improving Medical Diagnosis: A Sociological Perspective
A meticulous deconstruction of the patient’s communication including but not limited to the words, tone of speech, facial and other nonverbal gestures and cues the patient uses in response to probes by the physician or volunteers during the course of the diagnostic interview or treatment process.
Published in Chapter: Improving Medical Diagnosis: A Sociological Perspective; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 17
Discourse Analysis on Hybrid Learning and Teaching and the Changing Roles of Teachers and Students in Hong Kong
Discourse analysis is used in this chapter as a research approach, studying the relationship between language use in the form of FTF and CMC interactions and the teaching and learning contexts.
Published in Chapter: Discourse Analysis on Hybrid Learning and Teaching and the Changing Roles of Teachers and Students in Hong Kong; From: Handbook of Research on Hybrid Learning Models: Advanced Tools, Technologies, and Applications
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Chapter 11
Using Multicultural Children's Literature to Leverage Student Cultural Competence and Promote Social Justice
A qualitative research approach used in analyzing the use of oral, written, or sign language to understand how it functions in social contexts ( Bloome et al., 2004 ).
Published in Chapter: Using Multicultural Children's Literature to Leverage Student Cultural Competence and Promote Social Justice; From: Handbook of Research on Social Justice and Equity in Education
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How Is a Country Image and Identitiy Construction Reflected via Discourses in Press?
It is possible to make out how the position of Turkey is created by the discourses of the newspapers in various societies and whether Turkish image has been started to change with the globalization in some ways, or not, by using discourse analysis. As discourse analysis is a field that is concerned with studying and analyzing written and spoken texts, it is aimed to understand the thoughts and ideologies about Turkey.
Published in Chapter: How Is a Country Image and Identitiy Construction Reflected via Discourses in Press?; From: New Media and Visual Communication in Social Networks
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Chapter 38
A Corpus-Based Approach to Teaching English in Abstracts
is the study of different forms of discourse, written, spoken or signed language use.
Published in Chapter: A Corpus-Based Approach to Teaching English in Abstracts; From: Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction
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Reflection of Orientalist Discourse on Netflix Turkey: The Protector
The analysis method mediating to reveal both media’s connections with cultural, communal, and social areas and also the prevailing representations.
Published in Chapter: Reflection of Orientalist Discourse on Netflix Turkey: The Protector; From: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond
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Chapter 22
New Collaborations for Writing Program Assessment
The systematic approach to analyzing and understanding naturally occurring language use—primarily talk and/or conversation.
Published in Chapter: New Collaborations for Writing Program Assessment; From: Handbook of Research on Assessment Technologies, Methods, and Applications in Higher Education
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Membership and Activity in an Online Parenting Community
an approach to the analysis of naturally occurring talk that considers the social actions and consequences achieved by the words’ use, and the resources which participants employ to achieve these actions.
Published in Chapter: Membership and Activity in an Online Parenting Community; From: Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction
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Chapter 25
Web Log Analysis: Diversity of Research Methodologies
Scientific argument evaluation method.
Published in Chapter: Web Log Analysis: Diversity of Research Methodologies; From: Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis
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Chapter 20
Representation of Syrian Children in Turkish Media From a Child-Oriented Rights Journalism Perspective
Discourse analysis is a method that aims to determine the strategies by which the news and messages created in the media are formed and what they want to tell and what they are covered. While the news texts are analyzed with the discourse analysis method, the sentences in the news text are evaluated within the framework of their meanings, thoughts, and ideologies.
Published in Chapter: Representation of Syrian Children in Turkish Media From a Child-Oriented Rights Journalism Perspective; From: Handbook of Research on Policies, Protocols, and Practices for Social Work in the Digital World
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Chapter 14
Toward Theory and Technique for Online Focus Groups
Qualitative data analysis strategy that is used to explain what people do in their discourses, focusing on how the discourse is structured or organized to perform different functions and achieve various effects or consequences.
Published in Chapter: Toward Theory and Technique for Online Focus Groups; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues
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