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Critical Discourse Analysis of Discursive Reproduction of Identities in the Thai Undergraduates' Home for Children with Disabilities Website Project: Critical Analysis of Lexical Selection |
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| Creator | Sudajit-apa, Melada |
| Title | Critical Discourse Analysis of Discursive Reproduction of Identities in the Thai Undergraduates' Home for Children with Disabilities Website Project: Critical Analysis of Lexical Selection |
| Publisher | สถาบันภาษา จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย |
| Publication Year | 2560 |
| Journal Title | PASAA : a journal of language teaching and learning |
| Journal Vol. | 54 |
| Page no. | 28-Jan |
| Keyword | critical discourse analysis, disabilitydiscourse, discursive reproduction ofidentities, lexical selection, the socialmodel of disability |
| URL Website | http://www.culi.chula.ac.th/Publicationsonline |
| Website title | Chulalongkorn University Language Institute |
| ISSN | 2287-0024 |
| Abstract | Analyzing discourses can shed light on language as asocial semiotic system, the construction of identity andthe operations of ideology and power. The purpose ofthis study is twofold. Firstly, it aims to unveil Thaifourth-year English-major students' utilization of lexicalchoices with connotations that enact the identities ofthe Baan Nontapum Foundation (BNF) or Home forChildren with Disabilities, in their website project.Secondly, the study was conducted to further explorehow and why those discursive strategies were utilized toconstrue the BNF and disability identities through theparticipants' lexical selection. In this study, the socialmodel of disability, which views disability as a form ofsocial oppression, in combination with Fairclough'sCritical Discourse Analysis was used as the theoreticalframework for analyzing the participants' language useon their self-designed websites. The analysis revealed the participants' utilization of different lexical choiceswith connotations to presuppose the BNF's identity as a?warm', ?effective', and ?altruistic' organization thatprovides various forms of special care to their childrenand children with disabilities' identities as ?sociallyindependent' and ?capable of becoming self-supporting'.However, the notions of ?social exclusion' and ?lack ofsocial collaboration' were found to be embedded in thediscursive reproduction of the discourse. |
