counter-discourses

[Anna De Fina]

Dear Flyss,
I also would like to signal a paper that I and Maria Arellano Pastor
have written on counter-narratives about language conflicts told by
Mexican immigrant women in California. The paper is in press at the
moment , but you can contact me if you want to have a copy. Otherwise,
it will come out soon. The reference is
Arellano Pastor, M. and De Fina, A. (In press) Contesting Social Place:
Narratives of Social Conflict. In Baynham, M. and De Fina, A.
Dislocations, Relocations, Narratives of Displacement. Manchester: St.
Jerome Press.
Best
Anna

Patti Dunmire wrote:

> Flyss ,
>
> I am in the very early stages of a project that looks at "nondominant"
> discourses that oppose the dominant discourses re: globalization,
> neoliberalism etc. I am using the texts of the Zapatistas in Chiapas
> Mexico to see how they talk about globalization and the future in
> order to understand how they subvert, reject, etc. the metaphors,
> epistemologies, etc. of the dominant discourses produced by the U.S.,
> Britian etc. At this point, I've only produced a conference paper on
> this issue, but hope to get more work done on it this summer.
>
> Take care,
> Patti
>
> At 03:26 PM 4/23/05, you wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> I am looking for help and a push in the right direction. And perhaps
>> collaboration?! Is anyone working on 'counter-discourses'? Or
>> 'subversive / emancipatory / resistant' discourses?
>>
>> i'm researching the representation of Russia in the press. At the
>> moment i'm fascinated by the way an 'oppositional'
>> discourse/opinion/position finds its way into a journal (e.g. for one
>> particular newspaper in Britain, Russia is consistently the Big Bad
>> Guy [Re-Stalinization, brutality in Chechnya, roll-back of democracy,
>> etc], but sometimes a comment piece is printed which supports Russian
>> policies and actions).
>>
>> So far i haven't found much published work on counter-discourses from
>> a CDA perspective. There is a lot of writing on activism and
>> alternative media contesting the mainstream media (e.g. McChesney
>> 2004, Atton 2002, Couldry and Curran 2003), but there's nothing
>> discursive about these papers.
>> There is Jim Martin and David Rose's (2003) Positive Discourse
>> Analysis from SFL, but they don't really discuss 'contesting' a
>> dominant position; their focus is more on positive, uplifting texts.
>> Then there is George Lakoff (2004) and his metaphoric re-framing of
>> the debate - which does suggest ways of countering a prevalent
>> position, e.g., in the nation-as-family, progressives should reframe
>> politicians as 'nurturing parent' (as progressives see them), rather
>> than 'strict father' (the conservatives' view). But he only focuses
>> on the overarching/underlying conceptual metaphor.
>>
>> Carmen Rosa Caldas-Couthard (2003) wrote an interesting piece
>> mentioning counter-discourse: about the Brazilian press reaction to
>> foreign press coverage of Brazil, and also the way they use parody to
>> mock the 'first world'. But she is analysing a press organization
>> which counters a different press organization (not an article which
>> counters the dominant position in that same newspaper).
>> The final thing which looks intriguing is Michael Bomberg and Molly
>> Andrews (Eds) (2004) 'Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating,
>> resisting, making sense'. My library is working on it!
>>
>> Can you add to this list?!
>> Thanks,
>> Flyss
>>
>>
>> Atton, C. (2002). “News Cultures and New Social Movements: radical
>> journalism and the mainstream media.” _Journalism Studies_ *3*(4):
>> 491-505.
>>
>>
>>
>> Caldas-Couthard, C. R. (2003). 'Cross-cultural representations of
>> 'Otherness' in media discourse'. In Weiss, G. and Wodak, R.,
>> _Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Interdisciplinarity_. New
>> York, Palgrave Macmillan.
>>
>>
>>
>> Couldry, N. and Curran J., Eds. (2003). _Contesting Media Power:
>> Alternative Media in a Networked World_. Oxford, Rowman and Littlefield.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lakoff, G. (2004). _Don't think of an elephant! : know your values
>> and frame the debate: the essential guide for progressives_. White
>> River Junction, Vt., Chelsea Green Pub Co.
>>
>>
>>
>> Martin, J. and Rose, D. (2002) _Working With Discourse : Meaning
>> beyond the clause_. London, Continuum.
>>
>>
>>
>> McChesney, R. W. and Scott, Ben, Eds. (2004). _Our Unfree Press : 100
>> years of radical media criticism_. New York, New Press.
>>
>>
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>> felicitas.macgilchrist
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> Patricia L. Dunmire
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