WEEK 8: culture, identity & discourse Flashcards
What is identity?
A true self of each of us, description of ourselves
- recognized by ourselves and others, different beliefs, attitudes, etc
What is national identity?
= a form of imaginative identification with the symbols and discourses of the nation state
What is narrative of unity/nationhood?
It emphasizes the tradition and continuity of the nation as being “in the nature of things” together with a foundational myth of collective origin
What is racial identity?
= inherent and bodily structure and recognizable from other colour of the skin, shape of the body, facial features
What is gender identity?
the way women and men are stereotypically represented in discourse
What is framing?
Written/spoken/graphical/visual message modality that a communicator uses to contextualize a topic (person, event, etc)
What are social actors?
People within specific domain engage in social practices
What are social practices?
= human behaviours following established conventions within which the actors have some degree of individual freedom, opportunities for unique behaviour
What is the representation of social actors? What do they mean?
1) Personalization VS impersonalisation
- John Smith X the university
2) Individualuzation VS collectivization
- Two soldiers, John and Jim X Militants
3) Specification VS geneticisation
- A man, Mazar Hussein X a Muslim man
4) Nomination VS functionalization
- George Bush X the American president
5) Objectivation
- a beauty for women
6) Anonymisation
- a source said
7) Aggregation
- many thousands of immigrants…
8) Polarization
- us/them
9) Suppression
- agent is missing —> globalization is now affecting…
What is the representation of social actors in multimodal discourse?
1) Distance - mid-range, long-range, close-up
2) Gaze - demand vs offer
3) Angle - horizontal, vertical
