Discourse Analysis Showdown!

Discourse Analysis seeks to....

• identify the use of facts in language

• find stereotypes in talk or text

• uncover hidden meanings in language

• determine how power is exercized and resisted in talk and text

The Myth of Canadian Pluralism starts with colonialism

• True

• False

Ideologies are rooted in truth

• true

• false

Ideologies impact reality by...

• attaching labels to people

• limiting people's access to education, jobs, housing, etc.

• informing how people treat one another

• all are correct

Discourse is...

• systems and signs that we use to communicate

• the primary mode of communication

• ideas, images, words, and practice that inform what we think we know

• another word for language

Discourse is mobilized by ideology

• true

• false

Agenda-setting refers to...

• recording items in a day planner

• how newspapers tell us what's important/what to care about

• when newspapers focus on crimes commited by people of colour

• none are true

The hegemony refers to...

• the most powerful people in society

• the less powerful people in society

• the mediumest most powerful people in society

Canadian multiculturalism was...

• an attempt to quell uprisings

• designates people of colour as "other"

• an attempt to solve a conflict between the english and french

• all are true