Noticing 'us' and 'them' constructions: The pedagogical implications of a critical discourse analysis of referring in political discourse

dc.creator	Susan Brokensha
dc.date	2011-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:15:26Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:15:26Z
dc.identifier	10.5785/27-1-98
dc.identifier	0259-2312
dc.identifier	2224-0012
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/cbb45b29434b4328ae24ff9cbbeb559f
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/17641
dc.description	<p><em>In the past decade, there have been a number of discourse analyses of the political in South Africa such as Botha’s (2001) study of deictic expressions in a speech by Thabo Mbeki, Moodley’s (2006) discursive analysis of the South African government’s Information and Communication Technologies, poverty, and development discourse, and Moon’s (2006) investigation into the discursive construction of narratives generated during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. However, how such studies may be exploited to foster students’ critical thinking about language use in a variety of communicative contexts has not been explored in much detail. Within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the aim of this paper is to examine the phenomenon of referring in a political speech by Robert Mugabe, focusing specifically on his use of spatial, temporal, and social indexicals to construct us versus them territories. Next, the constructivist principles that may be adopted to assist second-year Linguistics students in developing an awareness that referring is not a neutral phenomenon are identified.</em></p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Stellenbosch University
dc.relation	http://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/98
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/0259-2312
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0012
dc.source	Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, Vol 27, Iss 1 (2011)
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Noticing 'us' and 'them' constructions: The pedagogical implications of a critical discourse analysis of referring in political discourse
dc.type	article