Sukhmani Kaur
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 209194 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sukhmani Kaur |
| NOMBRES | Sukhmani |
| APELLIDO | Kaur |
| FIRMA | KAUR S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9497-8277 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
From Delegitimisation to Conditional Legitimacy
This article presents a multimodal framing analysis of media coverage of protests following Quran burnings by far-right activists in Sweden and the Netherlands. Rather than focusing narrowly on anti-Muslim bias, the study examines how centre-left and right-leaning news outlets construct the legitimacy or illegitimacy of these protests. Drawing on framing theory and social semiotics, we developed a codebook to analyse how textual and visual elemen…
The discursive construction of national identity in Palestinian presidential speeches at the United Nations
This article examines how Palestinian national identity is discursively constructed in presidential speeches delivered at the United Nations between 1974 and 2023. Using Wodak ’s Discourse-Historical Approach, the analysis explores five interrelated themes adapted from De Cillia, Reisigl, and Wodak: national belonging, shared political history, common culture, political vision, and territorial identity. Focusing on the institutional voice of lead…
Blame Anticipation in Personal Narratives of Rape
Rape myths and behaviors indexed as "appropriate" create "common sense" resources to explain away rape by sanctioning victim-blaming. Victim-blaming talk has been identified in perpetrators, formal service providers, and the public. This qualitative study examines narratives constructed by 12 individuals who experienced rape to identify the discursive tools employed as they formulate accounts to justify their actions. Findings imply that assumpti…
Moral panic and (in)security
This study examines Trump’s depiction of Hispanic and Latinx immigrants, highlighting his use of moral panic to activate fear and thereby deepen societal divisions within a broader right-wing populist agenda. Analyzing nearly half a million words from Trump’s tweets using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, the research reveals that he portrays Hispanic and Latinx immigrants as the ‘object of offence,’ amplifying their perceived threat w…
Image restoration strategies in pandemic crisis communication
This study explores the effectiveness of image restoration strategies in pandemic crisis communication at the highest levels of administration. By integrating corpus-assisted discourse analysis with Image Repair Theory, it aims to uncover the prevailing strategies adopted by Chinese and American leaders to restore or enhance a positive national image in the post-COVID era. Lancsbox 6.0 was utilized to extract excerpts and analyze linguistic devic…
A multimodal analysis of (de)legitimation through argumentation in extremist discourse
Even after the demise of its territorial caliphate in 2019, ISIS persists as a potent threat, adapting to new technologies and maintaining its status as an active insurgency. Amidst the backdrop of the terror group’s demonstrated resilience, this paper examines its practice of (de)legitimation and language of persuasion through a multimodal argumentation analysis. It combines the argumentation strategies ( topoi ) proposed by Discourse-Historical…
Malay-Muslim women’s perceptions of sunat perempuan in the Malaysian context
(female circumcision) in Malaysia. Through stakeholder engagement discussions organised by a civil society organisation, 17 Malay-Muslim women shared their views in relation to the practice with a particular focus on: (1) their awareness and personal experience of it; (2) their opinions and knowledge about the practice; (3) beliefs related to the practice; and (4) the roles of relevant stakeholders in advocacy work related to the practice. The da…
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks
The socialization of nationalist and socialist values
Commenting on the future development of China, President Xi Jinping said, 'China's children today are not only undergoing and witnessing the realization of the country's first centenary goal, they are also a new force for achieving the second centenary goal and building China into a great modern socialist country.' This statement reflects a socially shared belief that Chinese children and youth are expected to shoulder the responsibility of natio…
News Framing on the America-Iran Feud in the Coverage from Two American Online Newspapers
News media framing has been explicated as a way to construct social realities by persuading readers with the schematics of differently construed proceedings and events. Hence, this study engages in a critical discourse analysis examining the social representation of America and Iran in the coverage from two American online newspapers, namely The New York Times (NYT) and The New York Post (NYP). Since the United States has incited decades of simme…
Discursive (de)legitimation Strategies in Malaysian News Media Discourse on Female Circumcision (Sunat Perempuan)
This study aimed to examine public responses to patriarchal ideology through language, as expressed by Andrew Tate on the fringe platform Rumble. Rumble is generally known for hosting far-right content, serving as a refuge for public figures who have been de-platformed from mainstream social media. This study used a combination of netnographic and archival data collection with attitudinal appraisal theory to evaluate public responses. The comment…
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments
To better understand QAnon’s anti-immigration rhetoric, the study conducted a meta-discursive analysis of one of the group’s active Telegram channels by drawing on Hyland’s (2005) model of interaction. Specifically, engagement markers in their immigration-related discourse were analyzed to see how they contribute to endorsing the group’s macro conspiratorial arguments. The results illustrate a complex rhetorical manipulation and nearly unanimous …
In-group and out-group identity construction in extremist discourse
ISIS has seemingly been successful in mobilizing advocates from heterogenous backgrounds. Such diversity is symptomatic of the organization’s heavy investment in strategic messaging and identity construction to gain legitimacy. This study examined the multimodal discursive properties of ISIS’s narrative in its communique, Dabiq. It undertook a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the representation of in-group and out-group actors implementi…
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in Isis's Online Magazine, Dabiq
This paper is a multimodal critical discourse study of self-representation in ISIS’s e-magazine, Dabiq, employing Social Movement Theory and Van Leeuwen’s Socio-semantic Inventory. By analyzing the linguistic and non-linguistic features in the representation of social actors and actions in Dabiq, ISIS’s implied ideology at the macro level, which is to convince the prospective recruits and at the same time, to legitimize its brutality, is revealed…
Hypertension in Individuals with Normal-Weight Obesity and Normal-Weight Central Obesity
In practice, individuals who are found normal through various adiposity indicators are screened out from the risk of obesity and subsequently from other cardiometabolic syndromes like hypertension. Against this backdrop, this study aims to examine the prevalence of hypertension among individuals having normal-weight obesity (NWO) and normal-weight central obesity (NWCO). In the present study, Cross-sectional data of 214 participants (100 males an…
Islamophobia in the West
The tragic and horrendous attack on the World Trade Center also served to construct an unmistakable shape to Islamophobia in the West. It worked as fuel for the already-lit fire of Islamophobia and aggravated the situation with numerous indiscriminate attacks on Muslims. The situation worsened with George Bush's unequivocal statement: "either you are with us or against us". This was the call for a cultural war between the West and Muslims framed …
How Isis represented enemies as ineffectual in Dabiq
This paper is a multimodal critical discourse study of other-representation in ISIS’s magazine, Dabiq, It focuses on both the micro-level analysis of actor and action representation, and the macro-structure of negative other-depiction in Dabiq from both textual and visual perspectives. Through in-depth examination of linguistic and non-linguistic elements, the study aimed to unfold ISIS’s ideology at the global level, which is to construct its de…
Infodemic during the Covid-19 lockdown in India
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Somatotype Characteristics of Sunni Muslim Population
The aim of this study was to understand the distribution of various somatotype components and determine the age- and sex-related variations of the somatotype among Sunni Muslim population of Uttar Pradesh, India. The study population consisted of 214 individuals (100 males and 114 females), belonging to the age group of 18–73 years. All somatometric measurements were taken according to the protocol of the International Society for the Advancement…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric in Donald Trump’s Historic 2016 Aipac Policy Speech
The primary focus of this study is to explore Donald Trump’s emerging anti-Muslim ideology in his speech delivered at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections. The discourse of this speech is loaded with anti-Muslim and anti-Islam linguistic instances. To analyze Trump’s Islamophobic discourse, the study engaged with the ideological square model under the umbrella of critical discourse studi…
Reframing the Arabic Narratives on Daesh in the English Media
This paper discusses the dynamic role of translators in possibly promoting certain ideologies and political agendas by presenting stories through the lens of an ideologically laden meta-narrative. It compares the representation of ‘ Daesh ’ in the narratives of Arabic editorials and their English translations published by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). MEMRI is a pro-Israeli organization, widely cited by leading Western media o…
News Coverage of Foreign Sex Workers in Malaysia
The growing concern over the influx of foreign women in Malaysia as sex workers, has \ncontinually gained the attention of the local media particularly the mainstream newspapers. \nThe media, despite playing an instrumental role in bringing about social transformation, has \nthe ability to portray the foreign women in a positive way or to discriminate against them. \nThis study, based on qualitative analysis, represents an attempt to study a soci…
Muslims' Representation in Donald Trump's Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement
The Muslim community in America has been facing turmoil, particularly after the events of 9/11. Muslims are facing a number of anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim discriminatory practices, biases, and sentiments from many Americans. These religious prejudices are apparent at the public and political leadership levels, as well as other facets of the country. The current study has concentrated on Trump's emerging ideology that positions him within anti-Is…
Legitimising male grooming through packaging discourse
While packaging is a common marketing subject, this illustration paper provides an alternative perspective through the linguistic examination of packaging as discourse, focusing on male grooming, masculinity and metrosexuality. Male grooming is often perceived as trespassing into feminine space and creating ambiguity in gender borders. This study aims to explore how packaging designers negotiate masculinity, in order to persuade men to accept gro…
Muslims' Representation in Donald Trump's Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement
The Muslim community in America has been facing turmoil, particularly after the events of 9/11. Muslims are facing a number of anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim discriminatory practices, biases, and sentiments from many Americans. These religious prejudices are apparent at the public and political leadership levels, as well as other facets of the country. The current study has concentrated on Trump's emerging ideology that positions him within anti-Is…
Legitimising male grooming through packaging discourse
While packaging is a common marketing subject, this illustration paper provides an alternative perspective through the linguistic examination of packaging as discourse, focusing on male grooming, masculinity and metrosexuality. Male grooming is often perceived as trespassing into feminine space and creating ambiguity in gender borders. This study aims to explore how packaging designers negotiate masculinity, in order to persuade men to accept gro…
In-group and out-group identity construction in extremist discourse
ISIS has seemingly been successful in mobilizing advocates from heterogenous backgrounds. Such diversity is symptomatic of the organization’s heavy investment in strategic messaging and identity construction to gain legitimacy. This study examined the multimodal discursive properties of ISIS’s narrative in its communique, Dabiq. It undertook a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the representation of in-group and out-group actors implementi…
Moral panic and (in)security
This study examines Trump’s depiction of Hispanic and Latinx immigrants, highlighting his use of moral panic to activate fear and thereby deepen societal divisions within a broader right-wing populist agenda. Analyzing nearly half a million words from Trump’s tweets using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, the research reveals that he portrays Hispanic and Latinx immigrants as the ‘object of offence,’ amplifying their perceived threat w…
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks
The socialization of nationalist and socialist values
Commenting on the future development of China, President Xi Jinping said, 'China's children today are not only undergoing and witnessing the realization of the country's first centenary goal, they are also a new force for achieving the second centenary goal and building China into a great modern socialist country.' This statement reflects a socially shared belief that Chinese children and youth are expected to shoulder the responsibility of natio…
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments
To better understand QAnon’s anti-immigration rhetoric, the study conducted a meta-discursive analysis of one of the group’s active Telegram channels by drawing on Hyland’s (2005) model of interaction. Specifically, engagement markers in their immigration-related discourse were analyzed to see how they contribute to endorsing the group’s macro conspiratorial arguments. The results illustrate a complex rhetorical manipulation and nearly unanimous …
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in Isis's Online Magazine, Dabiq
This paper is a multimodal critical discourse study of self-representation in ISIS’s e-magazine, Dabiq, employing Social Movement Theory and Van Leeuwen’s Socio-semantic Inventory. By analyzing the linguistic and non-linguistic features in the representation of social actors and actions in Dabiq, ISIS’s implied ideology at the macro level, which is to convince the prospective recruits and at the same time, to legitimize its brutality, is revealed…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric in Donald Trump’s Historic 2016 Aipac Policy Speech
The primary focus of this study is to explore Donald Trump’s emerging anti-Muslim ideology in his speech delivered at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections. The discourse of this speech is loaded with anti-Muslim and anti-Islam linguistic instances. To analyze Trump’s Islamophobic discourse, the study engaged with the ideological square model under the umbrella of critical discourse studi…
Legitimising male grooming through packaging discourse
While packaging is a common marketing subject, this illustration paper provides an alternative perspective through the linguistic examination of packaging as discourse, focusing on male grooming, masculinity and metrosexuality. Male grooming is often perceived as trespassing into feminine space and creating ambiguity in gender borders. This study aims to explore how packaging designers negotiate masculinity, in order to persuade men to accept gro…
Reframing the Arabic Narratives on Daesh in the English Media
This paper discusses the dynamic role of translators in possibly promoting certain ideologies and political agendas by presenting stories through the lens of an ideologically laden meta-narrative. It compares the representation of ‘ Daesh ’ in the narratives of Arabic editorials and their English translations published by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). MEMRI is a pro-Israeli organization, widely cited by leading Western media o…
News Coverage of Foreign Sex Workers in Malaysia
The growing concern over the influx of foreign women in Malaysia as sex workers, has \ncontinually gained the attention of the local media particularly the mainstream newspapers. \nThe media, despite playing an instrumental role in bringing about social transformation, has \nthe ability to portray the foreign women in a positive way or to discriminate against them. \nThis study, based on qualitative analysis, represents an attempt to study a soci…
Muslims' Representation in Donald Trump's Anti-Muslim-Islam Statement
The Muslim community in America has been facing turmoil, particularly after the events of 9/11. Muslims are facing a number of anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim discriminatory practices, biases, and sentiments from many Americans. These religious prejudices are apparent at the public and political leadership levels, as well as other facets of the country. The current study has concentrated on Trump's emerging ideology that positions him within anti-Is…
Somatotype Characteristics of Sunni Muslim Population
The aim of this study was to understand the distribution of various somatotype components and determine the age- and sex-related variations of the somatotype among Sunni Muslim population of Uttar Pradesh, India. The study population consisted of 214 individuals (100 males and 114 females), belonging to the age group of 18–73 years. All somatometric measurements were taken according to the protocol of the International Society for the Advancement…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric in Donald Trump’s Historic 2016 Aipac Policy Speech
The primary focus of this study is to explore Donald Trump’s emerging anti-Muslim ideology in his speech delivered at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections. The discourse of this speech is loaded with anti-Muslim and anti-Islam linguistic instances. To analyze Trump’s Islamophobic discourse, the study engaged with the ideological square model under the umbrella of critical discourse studi…
How Isis represented enemies as ineffectual in Dabiq
This paper is a multimodal critical discourse study of other-representation in ISIS’s magazine, Dabiq, It focuses on both the micro-level analysis of actor and action representation, and the macro-structure of negative other-depiction in Dabiq from both textual and visual perspectives. Through in-depth examination of linguistic and non-linguistic elements, the study aimed to unfold ISIS’s ideology at the global level, which is to construct its de…
Infodemic during the Covid-19 lockdown in India
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Islamophobia in the West
The tragic and horrendous attack on the World Trade Center also served to construct an unmistakable shape to Islamophobia in the West. It worked as fuel for the already-lit fire of Islamophobia and aggravated the situation with numerous indiscriminate attacks on Muslims. The situation worsened with George Bush's unequivocal statement: "either you are with us or against us". This was the call for a cultural war between the West and Muslims framed …
News Framing on the America-Iran Feud in the Coverage from Two American Online Newspapers
News media framing has been explicated as a way to construct social realities by persuading readers with the schematics of differently construed proceedings and events. Hence, this study engages in a critical discourse analysis examining the social representation of America and Iran in the coverage from two American online newspapers, namely The New York Times (NYT) and The New York Post (NYP). Since the United States has incited decades of simme…
Discursive (de)legitimation Strategies in Malaysian News Media Discourse on Female Circumcision (Sunat Perempuan)
This study aimed to examine public responses to patriarchal ideology through language, as expressed by Andrew Tate on the fringe platform Rumble. Rumble is generally known for hosting far-right content, serving as a refuge for public figures who have been de-platformed from mainstream social media. This study used a combination of netnographic and archival data collection with attitudinal appraisal theory to evaluate public responses. The comment…
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments
To better understand QAnon’s anti-immigration rhetoric, the study conducted a meta-discursive analysis of one of the group’s active Telegram channels by drawing on Hyland’s (2005) model of interaction. Specifically, engagement markers in their immigration-related discourse were analyzed to see how they contribute to endorsing the group’s macro conspiratorial arguments. The results illustrate a complex rhetorical manipulation and nearly unanimous …
In-group and out-group identity construction in extremist discourse
ISIS has seemingly been successful in mobilizing advocates from heterogenous backgrounds. Such diversity is symptomatic of the organization’s heavy investment in strategic messaging and identity construction to gain legitimacy. This study examined the multimodal discursive properties of ISIS’s narrative in its communique, Dabiq. It undertook a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the representation of in-group and out-group actors implementi…
The Representational Strategies of Lionization and Victimization in Isis's Online Magazine, Dabiq
This paper is a multimodal critical discourse study of self-representation in ISIS’s e-magazine, Dabiq, employing Social Movement Theory and Van Leeuwen’s Socio-semantic Inventory. By analyzing the linguistic and non-linguistic features in the representation of social actors and actions in Dabiq, ISIS’s implied ideology at the macro level, which is to convince the prospective recruits and at the same time, to legitimize its brutality, is revealed…
Hypertension in Individuals with Normal-Weight Obesity and Normal-Weight Central Obesity
In practice, individuals who are found normal through various adiposity indicators are screened out from the risk of obesity and subsequently from other cardiometabolic syndromes like hypertension. Against this backdrop, this study aims to examine the prevalence of hypertension among individuals having normal-weight obesity (NWO) and normal-weight central obesity (NWCO). In the present study, Cross-sectional data of 214 participants (100 males an…
Image restoration strategies in pandemic crisis communication
This study explores the effectiveness of image restoration strategies in pandemic crisis communication at the highest levels of administration. By integrating corpus-assisted discourse analysis with Image Repair Theory, it aims to uncover the prevailing strategies adopted by Chinese and American leaders to restore or enhance a positive national image in the post-COVID era. Lancsbox 6.0 was utilized to extract excerpts and analyze linguistic devic…
A multimodal analysis of (de)legitimation through argumentation in extremist discourse
Even after the demise of its territorial caliphate in 2019, ISIS persists as a potent threat, adapting to new technologies and maintaining its status as an active insurgency. Amidst the backdrop of the terror group’s demonstrated resilience, this paper examines its practice of (de)legitimation and language of persuasion through a multimodal argumentation analysis. It combines the argumentation strategies ( topoi ) proposed by Discourse-Historical…
Malay-Muslim women’s perceptions of sunat perempuan in the Malaysian context
(female circumcision) in Malaysia. Through stakeholder engagement discussions organised by a civil society organisation, 17 Malay-Muslim women shared their views in relation to the practice with a particular focus on: (1) their awareness and personal experience of it; (2) their opinions and knowledge about the practice; (3) beliefs related to the practice; and (4) the roles of relevant stakeholders in advocacy work related to the practice. The da…
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks
The socialization of nationalist and socialist values
Commenting on the future development of China, President Xi Jinping said, 'China's children today are not only undergoing and witnessing the realization of the country's first centenary goal, they are also a new force for achieving the second centenary goal and building China into a great modern socialist country.' This statement reflects a socially shared belief that Chinese children and youth are expected to shoulder the responsibility of natio…
The discursive construction of national identity in Palestinian presidential speeches at the United Nations
This article examines how Palestinian national identity is discursively constructed in presidential speeches delivered at the United Nations between 1974 and 2023. Using Wodak ’s Discourse-Historical Approach, the analysis explores five interrelated themes adapted from De Cillia, Reisigl, and Wodak: national belonging, shared political history, common culture, political vision, and territorial identity. Focusing on the institutional voice of lead…
Blame Anticipation in Personal Narratives of Rape
Rape myths and behaviors indexed as "appropriate" create "common sense" resources to explain away rape by sanctioning victim-blaming. Victim-blaming talk has been identified in perpetrators, formal service providers, and the public. This qualitative study examines narratives constructed by 12 individuals who experienced rape to identify the discursive tools employed as they formulate accounts to justify their actions. Findings imply that assumpti…
Moral panic and (in)security
This study examines Trump’s depiction of Hispanic and Latinx immigrants, highlighting his use of moral panic to activate fear and thereby deepen societal divisions within a broader right-wing populist agenda. Analyzing nearly half a million words from Trump’s tweets using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, the research reveals that he portrays Hispanic and Latinx immigrants as the ‘object of offence,’ amplifying their perceived threat w…
From Delegitimisation to Conditional Legitimacy
This article presents a multimodal framing analysis of media coverage of protests following Quran burnings by far-right activists in Sweden and the Netherlands. Rather than focusing narrowly on anti-Muslim bias, the study examines how centre-left and right-leaning news outlets construct the legitimacy or illegitimacy of these protests. Drawing on framing theory and social semiotics, we developed a codebook to analyse how textual and visual elemen…
Sociology (18 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Politics (14 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Linguistics (11 obras) · Ideology (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Critical discourse analysis (6 obras)