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“Now Is the Time to Put an End to All This.” Argumentative Discourse Theory and Letters to the Editor
“Now is the time to put an end to all this.” Argumentative Discourse Theory and Letters to the Editor. John E. Richardson Sheffield University, UK Abstract The principle aim of this paper is to apply argumentative discourse theory to the genre of letters to the editor, specifically letters written into and subsequently printed in the British Broadsheet press. The letters were all written in response to prior newspaper articles and reporting, in which Islam and/or Muslims were cited as actors.The Pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation is applied as a model for explaining and understanding argument, emphasising the functional, contextual and interactive features of argumentative discourse. As the name suggests, the theory rejects the traditionally strict bifurcation of dialectic and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation, (re)uniting them in the model. Data is drawn from doctoral research in progress on the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British Broadsheet press, supported by ESRC Postgraduate Award (R00429834654). Argumentation, an example: If immigrants will not adapt to our ways in public life - as Christians readily do in Muslim countries - the future looks grim. And if veils become commonplace in Britain, villains could resort to them instead of the less concealing stocking mask. Add a loose robe and you would never know the wearer’s sex. Mona McNee, Daily Telegraph, 5/12/97, p. 29. As an example of hate speech masquerading as informed argumentation, the above example is remarkable. Unfortunately, as illustrated below, it is far from exceptional. The text is a letter written by a reader of the British Broadsheet newspaper Daily Telegraph, in response to a news-story printed two days previously, on December 3rd, 1997. -
Critical Discourse Analysis of Adjectives Used with the Word Multiculturalism in British Print Media
International Journal of Linguistics ISSN 1948-5425 2016, Vol. 8, No. 6 Critical Discourse Analysis of Adjectives Used with the Word Multiculturalism in British Print Media Sadok Abcha Institut Préparatoire Aux Etudes Littéraires et de Sciences Humaines, Université de Tunis, Tunisia College of Languages and Translation, Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia Tel: 966-563-244-214 E-mail: [email protected] Received: Dec. 5, 2016 Accepted: Dec. 15, 2016 Published: December 27, 2016 doi:10.5296/ijl.v8i6.10405 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v8i6.10405 Abstract The present paper critically analyses the ideological uses of the adjectives used to describe multiculturalism in opinion articles published by two British quality newspapers, The Telegraph and The Times, which politically lean to The Right. Methodologically, the sample on which this study is based has been retrieved from the websites of the two dailies by means of the Key Word In Context (KWIC) technique, which has been used to look for comment articles published between July 2005 and December 2015, and in which the search word, multiculturalism used with an adjective featured. Using Fairclough’s theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study pinpoints the ideological underpinnings of the adjectives used with the word multiculturalism in the editorials. The study found out that all the adjectives are used in a derogative way to describe multiculturalism as being unreasonable, harmful and unsuccessful. Significantly, this paper provides critical insight into the peculiar uses of derogative adjectives in comment articles dealing with multiculturalism and avers that negative adjectives are not simply linguistic elements, but most importantly, ideological tools. -
Ordinary People Theodore Dalrymple Worse Than Rupert Myles Harris Horror in the Fjords Paul Gottfried Poland's Road to Brussel
The The quarterly magazine of conservative thought Ordinary People Horror in the Fjords Arab Winter Theodore Dalrymple Paul Gottfried Pavel Stroilov Worse than Poland’s Road to Why Single Rupert Brussels Currencies Fail Myles Harris Jane Kelly Christie Davies Autumn 2011 Vol 30 No 1 £4.99 Contents 3 Editorial Articles 4 The Rape of Justice 17 God’s Atoms Stephen Baskerville Brian Ridley 6 Poland’s Road to Brussels 19 ‘Don’t Worry?’ Jane Kelly Frances Hallinan 8 Worse Than Rupert 20 The Climate of Treason Myles Harris James Bryson 9 Arab Winter 21 Horror in the Fjords Pavel Stroilov Paul Gottfried 11 How Single Currencies Fail 23 Abolish Disney Degrees Christie Davies Vernon Rogers 13 Ordinary People 26 Growing Old Disgracefully Theodore Dalrymple Henry Oliver 14 Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear? 27 The Lawyers’ Trough Mark Griffith Richard Packer 16 Machiavelli’s Influence on British Philosophy 29 No Joking at the BBC Edmund O’Toole Marc Blake Columns Arts & Books 37 John Jolliffe 31 Conservative Classic — 44 on Italy Frederick Rolfe: Hadrian the Seventh 38 Nicolai Tolstoy 33 Reputations — 33 on Lawrence of Arabia Robertson Davies 39 William Charlton 35 Roy Kerridge on Alistair McIntyre 36 Eternal Life 41 M R D Foot Peter Mullen on Italian Resistance 42 Martin Dewhirst on Borderlands 43 Nigel Jones on the Cavaliers 45 Celia Haddon on the Fur Trade 46 Anthony Hallgarten on Spin Bowlers 47 Robert Crowcroft on the Coalition 49 Penelope Tremayne on an Unknown War 50 Frank Ellis on Afghanistan 52 Will Robinson on Murder 53 M R D Foot on a Call to Arms 54 Theatre: Richard Foulkes on Tom Stoppard 56 Music: R J Stove on Widor 58 In Short Managing Editor: Merrie Cave Consulting Editors: Roger Scruton Lord Charles Cecil, Myles Harris, Mark Baillie, Christie Davies, Literary Editor: Ian Crowther 33 Canonbury Park South, London N1 2JW Tel: 020 7226 7791 Fax: 020 7354 0383 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.salisburyreview.co.uk ritain is, as usual, being undermined from itself a lie. -
English Conservatism and the Aesthetics of Architecture
English Conservatism and the Aesthetics of Architecture Michael Rustin Prologue many weeks of the year. If one wants to ~ake an argument Architecture seems a 'natural' subject for conservatives, for the importance of tradition in social life, architecture and it is therefore fitting that it has become one of the seems to be the prototypical place to do so. maill t·:!rrains for the advocacy of the intellectual perspect Yet the ideological need for this arises paradoxically ives of the New Right. Particularly, that is, of the New because the intellectual field of architecture has been Right in England, where organic and traditionalist ideas dominated until recently in England by the protagonists of have remained more influential than in the more individual the Modern. A generation of architectural writers and hist ist stream of neo-conservative thought in the United orians, which included Nicholas Pevsner, James Richards, States. The critique of 'modernism' has been a major theme Herbert Read and even John Summerson, argued for the of t l1e architectural journals in England for several years. proper linkage of a new architecture with a more demo Some months ago the Prince 'of Wales, probably by no cratic and egalitarian society. While the advocacy and means a 'new rightist' in general outlook, chose to launch practice of 'modernism' in England has taken the evolution an attack on the sins of modern architecture, and on the ary and mild form that one might expect from other as National Gallery Extension plans and the proposed Mies van pects of British social development, nevertheless it has der Rohe skyscraper in the City of London in particular. -
Trans-Atlantic Elements in the Domestic Policy Attitudes of the British and American Conservative Movements, 1980-1990
W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects Summer 2016 Trans-Atlantic Elements in the Domestic Policy Attitudes of the British and American Conservative Movements, 1980-1990. Samuel Inigo Packer College of William and Mary - Arts & Sciences, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Packer, Samuel Inigo, "Trans-Atlantic Elements in the Domestic Policy Attitudes of the British and American Conservative Movements, 1980-1990." (2016). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1499449838. http://doi.org/10.21220/S21H29 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Trans-Atlantic elements in the Domestic policy attitudes of the British and American Conservative Movements,1980-1990. Samuel Inigo Packer Chilmark, Wiltshire, United Kingdom Bachelor of Arts, University of Oxford, 2015. A Thesis presented to the Graduate Faculty of the College of William and Mary in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts. Lyon G. Tyler Department of History The College of William and Mary August, 2016 © Copyright by Samuel Inigo Packer 2016 ABSTRACT Trans-Atlantic elements in the Domestic policy attitudes of the British and American Conservative Movements,1980-1990. This paper explores the relationship between British and American Conservative activists during the 1980s when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan dominated the politics of their respective countries. -
Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHY A. INTERVIEWS Jacob Rees-Mogg MP (London), 9th February 2016. Jesse Norman MP (London), 12th September 2016. Nicholas Winterton (Cheshire), 23rd September 2016. Ann Winterton (Cheshire), 23rd September 2016. Peter Hitchens (London), 11th October 2016. Anne Widdecombe (London), 11th October 2016. Lord Salisbury (London), 12th October 2016. Sir William Cash MP (London), 13th October 2016. Sir Edward Leigh MP (London), 17th January 2017. David Burrowes MP (London), 17th January 2017. Charles Moore (London), 17th January 2017. Philip Davies MP (London), 19th January 2017. Sir Gerald Howarth MP (London), 19th January 2017. Dr. Myles Harris (London), 27th January 2017. Lord Sudeley (London), 6th February 2017. Jonathan Aitken (London), 6th February 2017. David Nicholson (London), 13th February 2017. Gregory Lauder-Frost (telephone), 23rd February 2017. Richard Ritchie (London), 8th March 2017. Tim Janman (London), 27th March 2017. Lord Deben (London), 4th April 2017. Lord Griffths of Fforestfach (London), 6th April 2017. Lord Tebbit (London), 6th April 2017. Sir Adrian Fitzgerald (London), 10th April 2017. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 191 K. Hickson, Britain’s Conservative Right since 1945, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27697-3 192 BIBLIOGRAPHY Edward Norman (telephone), 28th April 2017. Cedric Gunnery (London), 2nd May 2017. Paul Bristol (London), 3rd May 2017. Harvey Thomas (London), 3rd May 2017. Ian Crowther (telephone), 12th May 2017. Iain Duncan Smith MP (London), 4th July 2017. Angela Ellis-Jones (London), 4th July 2017. John Hayes MP (London), 4th July 2017. Dennis Walker (London), 24th July 2017. Lord Howard of Lympne (London), 12th September 2017. -
Roger Scruton
ROGER SCRUTON Roger Vernon Scruton 27 February 1944 – 12 January 2020 elected Fellow of the British Academy 2008 by ANTHONY O’HEAR There can be little doubt that by the time of his death in 2020 Sir Roger Scruton had become one of the most important thinkers of his time, not just in Britain, but throughout the English-speaking world and in Europe, particularly in Central Europe. The term ‘thinker’ is used advisedly here. For while Scruton was primarily and pre- eminently a philosopher, indeed an academic philosopher, his range and influence extended into many fields, including religion, music, architecture, politics, the environ- ment, culture in a general sense, the writing of novels, the appreciation of wine, defences of hunting and traditional country life and the nature of animal rights. In addition to his writing, he composed music, including two operas, was a publisher and editor and advised governments. He was active politically in this country and played a significant role in dissident movements in the Eastern bloc before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIX, 447–465 Posted 26 November 2020. © British Academy 2020. ROGER SCRUTON Academic career Roger Vernon Scruton was born in Lincolnshire in 1944, and educated at the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe from 1954 to 1961. He then attended Jesus College, Cambridge, from 1962 to 1965 and again from 1967 to 1969. He took a Double First in Moral Sciences (Philosophy) in 1967, after which he spent a year as a lecteur in the University College of Pau. -
Final Recommendations on the Future Electoral Arrangements for Southampton in Hampshire
Final recommendations on the future electoral arrangements for Southampton in Hampshire Report to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions July 2000 LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND This report sets out the Commission’s final recommendations on the electoral arrangements for the city of Southampton in Hampshire. Members of the Commission are: Professor Malcolm Grant (Chairman) Professor Michael Clarke CBE (Deputy Chairman) Peter Brokenshire Kru Desai Pamela Gordon Robin Gray Robert Hughes CBE Barbara Stephens (Chief Executive) © Crown Copyright 2000 Applications for reproduction should be made to: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Copyright Unit. The mapping in this report is reproduced from OS mapping by the Local Government Commission for England with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Licence Number: GD 03114G. This report is printed on recycled paper. Report no: 165 ii LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND CONTENTS page LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE v SUMMARY vii 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 CURRENT ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS 5 3 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS 9 4 RESPONSES TO CONSULTATION 11 5 ANALYSIS AND FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS 13 6 NEXT STEPS 29 APPENDIX A Draft Recommendations for Southampton (January 2000) 31 A large map illustrating the proposed ward boundaries for Southampton is inserted inside the back cover of this report. LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND iii iv LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND Local Government Commission for England 25 July 2000 Dear Secretary of State On 20 July 1999 the Commission began a periodic electoral review of Southampton under the Local Government Act 1992. -
Discourse and Inequality *
Lenguas Modernas 2l (1994), 19-37 Universidad de Chile DISCOURSE AND INEQUALITY * TruN A. vAN DrJK University of Amsterdam PREFACE I am grateful and honored to be able to address you on the relations between discourse and inequality. The theme of this conference, "Communication and Equality", is important and timely. I may assume I speak also for the other participants when I say that we are all indebted to the organizers of this conference, and in particular to Professor Margaret Mclaughlin, for the social commitment expressed by the choice of this theme. In my opinion, not only the study of discourse and communication itself will be theoretically and empirically enriched by the analysis of funda- mental social problems. Also, we may hope, such an analysis may contribute to a broader understanding, and ultimately to the solution of such problems -if only because of a critical position taken towards those who are responsible for, and who have the highest interests in the perpetuation of social inequality, namely, the dominant elites. Since we belong ourselves to a fraction of these elites, that is, to the academic or symbolic elites, this critical stance is necessarily also a form of self-criticism. Although I appreciate the positive implications of the formulation of the topic of this conference, I shall focus on inequality rather than on equality, with the understanding that I hope that my analysis will ultimately contribute to the realization of the same goal, viz., social equality and justice. * This paper was presented as an invited keynote address to the international conference of the International CommunicationAssociation, ICA, held in Dublin inJune 1990. -
The Ghost of Neville Chamberlain’ Guilty Men and the 1945 Election
The journal of the Conservative History Group | Autumn 2005 | £7.50 Conservative History Journal HARSHAN KUMARASINGHAM “HOME SWEET HOME”: THE PROBLEMATIC LEADERSHIP OF ALEC DOUGLASHOME SCOTT KELLY ‘THE GHOST OF NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’ GUILTY MEN AND THE 1945 ELECTION IAN PENDLINGHAM “PUT UP OR SHUT UP”: THE 1995 LEADERSHIP CONTEST SIR EDWARD HEATH 1916–2005 John Barnes, Ronald Porter and Helen Szamuely examine the legacy of a controversial Conservative leader Plus: Nicholas Hillman reviews The Welfare State We’re In; Mark Garnett reviews Giles Radice’s Diaries 1980–2001; Ronald Porter reviews Reggie: The Life of Reginald Maudling Contents Conservative History Journal The Conservative History Journal is published twice Contents yearly by the Conservative History Group ISSN 14798026 Editorial 1 Helen Szamuely Advertisements To advertise in the next issue A Conservative historian speaks: John Charmley 2 call Helen Szamuely on 07733 018999 Helen Szamuely Editorial/Correspondence So what are we to make of Edward Heath? 7 Contributions to the Journal – letters, articles and Helen Szamuely book reviews are invited. The Journal is a refereed publication; all articles submitted will be reviewed Heath should have got a life and never hung around the green room 9 and publication is not guaranteed. Contributions Ronald Porter should be emailed or posted to the addresses below. All articles remain copyright © their authors Edward Heath: a personal recollection and appraisal 11 John Barnes Subscriptions/Membership An annual subscription to the Conservative History “Home Sweet Home”: the problematic leadership of Alec Douglas Home 13 Group costs £15. Copies of the Journal are included Harshan Kumarasingham in the membership fee. -
Marta Bolognani UNIVERSITY of LEEDS
A "COMMUNITY CRIMINOLOGY". PERCEPTIONS OF CRIME AND SOCIAL CONTROL AMONGST BRADFORD PAKISTANIS Marta Bolognani School of Sociology and Social Policy m UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS A thesis submitted to the University of Leeds for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy November 2006 Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of PhD The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. This has been copy supplied on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. Acknowledgements I dedicate this thesis to Rosanna and Mario, my `settled' mum and dad (A Rosanna e Mario, i miei genitori `stanziali') I strongly believe that no work can be produced by one's own effort alone and this work is no exception. However, it is impossible to thank all the people who have helped me in so many different ways. The ones who made this project possible, the research participants, are too many to be individually mentioned but my thanks go to them all. Amongst my rich `social capital', first of all I am indebted to the City of Bradford, which has not only proved to be a fruitful research ground but has become something of a home to me too. Its intricate dynamics of love and the controlling grip which affects whomsoever decides to enter it make it so difficult to leave. I was able to write this thesis thanks to a University of Leeds scholarship, something that I would have never been awarded in my home country. -
Papers of the Bradford and Sheffield Asian Youth Movements
COLLECTION LEVEL Ref no GB3228.6 Name of collection Tandana Archive: papers of the Bradford and Sheffield Asian Youth Movements Date of donation 2014 Donor name Anandi Ramamurthy Box number/s Box 1-10 Type of collection Donated collection (fonds) Dates of creation 1977-1990 Extent 10 boxes Name of creator Asian Youth Movements, Bradford and Sheffield Archival history The archive consists of papers collected by Anandi Ramamurthy as a part of a project to document the development of the Asian Youth Movements in Britain. The majority of the material was collected from individual members of the Asian Youth Movements and the papers in this collection relate to the Bradford and Sheffield groups. The archive was transferred to the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre in 2014. Administrative history The archive contains papers created and collected by the Asian Youth Movements established in Bradford and Sheffield in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Asian Youth Movement in Bradford continued the activities of the Indian Progressive Youth Association which had been formed in the city in 1977. It was decided that 'Asian Youth Movement' (AYM) was a more inclusive name and the group became known as this in 1978. The aims and objectives outlined in the Constitution of the AYM included promoting "the interests of young people from (or originating from) the Indian sub-continent, i.e. Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, in the areas of political, cultural, social and sports activities". Further objectives within the constitution included opposing all forms of discrimination, supporting national liberation movements in other countries and keeping members informed of developments taking place in the Indian sub-continent.