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Religion in the discourse of abortion
No full textThe language around abortion is often viewed through a religious lens. Although there is no one unified definitive ‘religious position’, religious institutions tend to have certain stances on abortion. In jurisdictions where religion and religious institutions are strongly intertwined with those of political parties and national governments, religious positions on abortion drive and define the law, and broad social and cultural views, on abortion and reproductive healthcare. In Ireland, the interests of Church and State have been intimately and problematically interconnected. This chapter offers a Critical Discourse Analysis of religious language in the 1980s campaign to adopt the Eighth Amendment, the clause which gave the foetus constitutional status equal to that of women who were pregnant, and the less forceful focus on religion in the language of the campaign to retain the amendment in 2018. This language is then compared to that of the successful campaign for repeal of the Eighth Amendment. The case study focuses on a particular geographical and cultural context, but can be situated within a broader global struggle for bodily autonomy, which has been brought into sharper focus since the repeal of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling in the United States
The learning of sacred languages
No full textThe learning of sacred language has been understudied, although millions learn at least the rudiments of a sacred language, and sacred language learning is deeply meaningful for many. A sacred language is one the learner or user believes to have a special religious or spiritual value and learns and uses exclusively for religious or spiritual purposes. Examples include Biblical Hebrew and Pali. Empirical research on sacred language learning is scarce, scattered, and dominated by sociolinguistic approaches. Evidence shows that sacred language learning differs from non-sacred languages: Comprehension is often not required, the aim is not interpersonal communication, and there are differences in identity, attitudes, emotion and motivation, among others. The chapter reports a comparison of the learning of sounds and spoken forms in learners of Quranic Arabic and Sanskrit. Three themes are discussed: the importance of language sounds, the importance of accurate pronunciation, and the emotionality of the language sounds. Within each theme, commonalities and differences between the two languages, and differences with second language phonology research are discussed. It is argued that including sacred languages can extend and diversify theories and evidence in L2 research
Ireland's hidden diaspora: multimodal stylistic constructions of journey and landscape on the Irish abortion trail
No full textThe Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution, which restricted access to abortion in Ireland, was repealed as a result of a referendum in May 2018. The campaign to secure reproductive rights for women in Ireland was spearheaded by the group Together for Yes, which utilised a wide range of semiotic resources to persuade voters to support repeal. As part of ongoing work into the linguistic strategies of Together for Yes, this paper will analyse campaign videos that were disseminated through mainstream and social media. In particular we analyse visual and aural uses of the JOURNEY metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; 1989) and assess how pro-repeal narratives constructed connections between people, country and landscape through image and song (lyrics). This paper will assess how these campaign videos construct journey and landscape to subvert traditional constructions of the highly emotive notion of the Irish diaspora and how they interact with dominant Together for Yes strategies identified in previous research (Statham and Ringrow, 2022)
Ireland's hidden diaspora: multimodal stylistic constructions of journey and landscape on the Irish abortion trail
No full textThe Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution, which restricted access to abortion in Ireland, was repealed as a result of a referendum in May 2018. The campaign to secure reproductive rights for women in Ireland was spearheaded by the group Together for Yes, which utilised a wide range of semiotic resources to persuade voters to support repeal. As part of ongoing work into the linguistic strategies of Together for Yes, this paper will analyse campaign videos that were disseminated through mainstream and social media. In particular we analyse visual and aural uses of the JOURNEY metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; 1989) and assess how pro-repeal narratives constructed connections between people, country and landscape through image and song (lyrics). This paper will assess how these campaign videos construct journey and landscape to subvert traditional constructions of the highly emotive notion of the Irish diaspora and how they interact with dominant Together for Yes strategies identified in previous research (Statham and Ringrow, 2022)
'Girls like me go to England, don't they': Multimodal stylistic analysis of fictional representations of abortion in Ireland
No full textAbortion was restricted in both jurisdictions in Ireland until 2018, when the notorious Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution was repealed. Although legalised by the British government in 2019, provision for abortion in the north of Ireland remains restricted in practice. Part of a broader project on the linguistic construction of abortion in Ireland and on the linguistic strategies through which the status quo was challenged and eventually overcome (Statham and Ringrow, forthcoming), this paper comprises a multimodal stylistic analysis of fictional representations of abortion in Ireland, concentrating on Three Families, a 2021 BBC drama series produced after the liberalisation of abortion law in the north of Ireland. Verbal and visual stylistic analysis of key scenes (following work from Bousfield and McIntyre 2010; Harrison 2020) considers how multimodal elements on screen create empathy. The paper also explores how fictional themes map onto non-fictional issues related to abortion, such as journeys required to access healthcare and the legal battle for change
“Ireland’s hidden diaspora’: multimodal stylistic constructions of journey and landscape on the Irish abortion trail’
No full textThe Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution, which restricted access to abortion in Ireland, was repealed as a result of a referendum in May 2018. The campaign to secure reproductive rights for women in Ireland was spearheaded by the group Together for Yes, which utilised a wide range of semiotic resources to persuade voters to support repeal. As part of ongoing work into the linguistic strategies of Together for Yes, this paper will analyse campaign videos that were disseminated through mainstream and social media. In particular we analyse visual and aural uses of the JOURNEY metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; 1989) and assess how pro-repeal narratives constructed connections between people, country and landscape through image and song (lyrics). This paper will assess how these campaign videos construct journey and landscape to subvert traditional constructions of the highly emotive notion of the Irish diaspora and how they interact with dominant Together for Yes strategies identified in previous research (Statham and Ringrow, 2022)
“Ireland’s hidden diaspora’: multimodal stylistic constructions of journey and landscape on the Irish abortion trail’
No full textThe Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution, which restricted access to abortion in Ireland, was repealed as a result of a referendum in May 2018. The campaign to secure reproductive rights for women in Ireland was spearheaded by the group Together for Yes, which utilised a wide range of semiotic resources to persuade voters to support repeal. As part of ongoing work into the linguistic strategies of Together for Yes, this paper will analyse campaign videos that were disseminated through mainstream and social media. In particular we analyse visual and aural uses of the JOURNEY metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; 1989) and assess how pro-repeal narratives constructed connections between people, country and landscape through image and song (lyrics). This paper will assess how these campaign videos construct journey and landscape to subvert traditional constructions of the highly emotive notion of the Irish diaspora and how they interact with dominant Together for Yes strategies identified in previous research (Statham and Ringrow, 2022)
‘Ireland’s hidden diaspora’: multimodal stylistic constructions of journey and landscape on the Irish abortion trail.
No full textThe Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution, which restricted access to abortion in Ireland, was repealed as a result of a referendum in May 2018. The campaigns to secure reproductive rights for women in Ireland, conducted by organisations at home and abroad like Together for Yes and the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign, utilised a wide range of semiotic resources to persuade voters to support repeal. As part of ongoing work into the linguistic strategies of Together for Yes and other groups (Statham & Ringrow, in press), this article analyses campaign videos that were disseminated through the social media platform YouTube. In particular we analyse textual and visual representations of travel, including uses of the JOURNEY metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980), and apply a critical framework for visual analysis (Ledin & Machin, 2018) to assess how pro-repeal narratives constructed connections between people, country and landscape through image and song lyrics. This article assesses how these campaign videos construct journey and landscape to subvert traditional constructions of the highly emotive concept of the Irish diaspora and how they interact with dominant strategies of the repeal campaign
READING AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HELEN KELLER’S THE STORY OF MY LIFE
No full textMembaca autobiografi adalah membaca suatu peristiwa, memori dan kenangan yang dituliskan oleh pengarang tentang dirinya sendiri. Persitiwa- peristiwa tersebut lebih banyak mengabarkan tentang sebuah kebenaran subjektif daripada fakta yang sebenarnya. Itu dikarenakan pengarang sebagai subjek yang membaca masa lalunya menjadi tokoh utama dalam autobiografi. Hal ini dapat dikaji dan dibuktikan melalui beberapa aspek di dalam autobiografi.
Ruang lingkup dari tulisan ini adalah bagaimana narrator dalam menarasikan cerita dapat membangun wacana dan berbicara langsung dengan narratee. Pengalaman- pengalaman yang diceritakan oleh narrator, identitas yang ditampilkan dan juga peran editor di dalam pembuatan autobiografi. Adapun tujuan dari tulisan ini adalah untuk mengimplementasikan teori Reading Autobiography yang digunakan untuk menganalisis The Story of My Life yang merupakan autobiografi dari Helen Keller.
Metode yang digunakan dalam tulisan ini adalah metode penelitian kepustakaan dan metode pendekatan teori membaca autobiografi. Metode yang pertama digunakan untuk mengumpul data dan informasi dari sumber-sumber kepustakaan yang mendukung pembahasan. Metode yang kedua digunakan sebagai acuan utama dalam menganalisis aspek yang dominan dalam autobiografi.
Hasil dari analisis menunjukkan bahwa teknik penceritaan yang digunakan oleh pengarang sangat mengesankan, baik dalam segi penceritaan “aku”, ideologi maupun konsep yang dimiliki banyak memproyeksikan tokoh sebagai tokoh yang sempurna secara fisik. Begitu juga pengalaman yang dialami tokoh sengaja dipilihkan pengalaman yang istimewa
Selain itu, identitas yang ditampilkan oleh pengarang bertujuan mengkonstruksikan kesan dirinya seabagai pribadi yang baik kepada pembaca. Di samping itu, adanya peran John Macy sebagai editor di dalam pembuatan autobiografi adalah untuk kepentingan sosial. Hal ini dikarenakan John Macy membantu memproyeksikan Helen Keller sebagai tokoh utama yang hampir sempurna walau dengan keterbatasan fisik. Dia juga mampu membantu Helen dalam mengklarifikasi isu negatif yang berkembang pada masa itu
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