Papers by Soudeh Ghaffari
Critical Discourse Studies, Nov 23, 2020
Social media has given way to information and prosumptionoriented discursive fields wherein indiv... more Social media has given way to information and prosumptionoriented discursive fields wherein individuals construct their own social identities. Although interactivity, multimodality, usercenteredness and accessibility are the unique aspects of digital media but the fact that digital media as effective spaces for representing extreme self/other representation while being anonymous and free from following social norms, can cause dysfunctional social behaviours such as cyber hate. Mirroring the normative notions of femininity, masculinity and gender stereotype allows groups and individuals to connect and express similar manifestations of hate, which, often result in the emergence of a 'discursive spiral of hate', misogyny and sexism. This paper draws on the important caveats discussed around Social Media-Critical Discourse Studies understanding of the contemporary digital discourses to deconstruct the complex relations between gender, hate speech and celebrities' discourses on social media. In particular, how Lena Dunham, American celebrity, portrays herself on her Instagram page by going against the hegemonic views and how the audiences, i.e. the digital prosumers perceive that portrayal. Analysing 2000 user-generated comments deconstruct how women are required to suppress their feeling and limit their authentic online presentation to maintain the outward countenance that matches the stereotypical gender roles in audiences' state of mind.
1st proofs UNCORRECTED PROOFS © JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY Table of contents Editorial: Ch... more 1st proofs UNCORRECTED PROOFS © JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY Table of contents Editorial: Challenges in the Study of Language and Politics, Challenges for JLP 297 Paul Chilton Articles Bill Clinton's “new partnership” anecdote: Toward a post-Cold War ...
Discourses of (De)Legitimization, 2018
Social media has given way to information and prosumption-oriented discursive fields wherein indi... more Social media has given way to information and prosumption-oriented discursive fields wherein individuals construct their own social identities. Although interactivity, multimodality, user-centeredn...
Journal of Language and Politics
Critical Discourse Studies
Journal of Language and Politics
This paper deconstructs how religious musical eulogies, as the most important discursive practice... more This paper deconstructs how religious musical eulogies, as the most important discursive practices of Shi’a rituals (Ghaffari 2019), were used as “war songs” serving to construct the Iranian national identity during the 1980–1988 Iraq-Iran war. These musical practices (in)formed the wider ideological and persuasive rhetoric of Iranians. In this paper, I analyse the textual and musical features of the audio-recorded versions of ten well-known war songs. The Discourse-Historical Approach (Reisigl and Wodak 2016) is used to analyse the discursive strategies and persuasive rhetorical tools within the lyrics. I draw on Machin (2010), Machin and Richardson (2012) and van Leeuwen (1999) to analyse various features of voice and the modality of sounds. This paper concludes that, by reflecting the power of religious discourse in the non-religious and highly nationalistic occasion of war, Iranian war songs were inspired by the religious eulogies in encouraging the Iranian nation to attend the ...
Critical Discourse Studies, 2015
Journal of Language and Politics
This paper deconstructs how religious musical eulogies, as the most important discursive practice... more This paper deconstructs how religious musical eulogies, as the most important discursive practices of Shi’a rituals (Ghaffari 2019), were used as “war songs” serving to construct the Iranian national identity during the 1980–1988 Iraq-Iran war. These musical practices (in)formed the wider ideological and persuasive rhetoric of Iranians. In this paper, I analyse the textual and musical features of the audio-recorded versions of ten well-known war songs. The Discourse-Historical Approach (Reisigl and Wodak 2016) is used to analyse the discursive strategies and persuasive rhetorical tools within the lyrics. I draw on Machin (2010), Machin and Richardson (2012) and van Leeuwen (1999) to analyse various features of voice and the modality of sounds. This paper concludes that, by reflecting the power of religious discourse in the non-religious and highly nationalistic occasion of war, Iranian war songs were inspired by the religious eulogies in encouraging the Iranian nation to attend the ...
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