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Aditi Bhatia

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ID3591798
NAMEAditi Bhatia
GIVEN NAMESAditi
FAMILY NAMEBhatia
SIGNATUREBHATIA A
AFFILIATIONSCity University of Hong Kong
ORCID0000-0002-1039-0810
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS160
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7
  • Abrogating Article 370 and Kashmir’s exceptionalism: A critical analysis of India’s bodies politic

    Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2025•References: 22

    In 2019, India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took the historic decision of abrogating Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, revoking Kashmir's special status. The contentious move resulted in the emergence of multiple narratives from competing discourse clans, with supporters hailing it as liberation from terrorism to opponents labeling it an assault on democracy. This paper analyzes the discursive c…

  • Fesshole and the discourse of confession on X: A study of online sharing and community building

    Open Access•Andrew S Ro, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Discourse Context & Media•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    As a centuries-old discursive practice, confessional acts that are typically understood as an acceptance of one’s guilt or shame regarding a particular action or thought, have been observed and studied in various contexts including religion, law and crime, and medicine. However, the nature and practice of confessions have been increasingly reconfigured within newer, evolving digital media contexts. Social media platforms, such as X (formerly Twit…

  • Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings

    Open Access•John Ganaah, Mark Nartey et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 25

    This paper analyzes the legitimation strategies used by Jerry John Rawlings, a Ghanaian revolutionary leader, to license his revolutionary actions, including political enemy executions and a crackdown on corrupt practices. It adapts and extends van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework by demonstrating how Rawlings exploited historical memory and the notion of sacrifice in conjunction with the strategies of authorization, rationalization and moralizat…

  • We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end: Hashtag activism in Hong Kong protests

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia, Andrew S Ro•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 30

    Focusing on the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong, this article presents an analysis of Twitter posts adopting the hashtags #antiELAB, #NoChinaExtradition and #HongKongProtests. The analysis explores the public narrative among the collective identity of Hongkongers opposing the extradition bill as events unfolded during mid-2019 in Hong Kong. To do so, we adopt Bhatia’s (2015) multi-perspective framework for the Discourse of Illusion, w…

  • Religious factors affecting death anxiety in older adults practicing Hinduism

    Nishtha Lamba, Amar Bhatia et al.•ARTICLE•Death Studies•2021•References: 8

    The aim of the study was to examine the influence of religion on death anxiety in older adults ( N = 105) practicing Hinduism and visiting the Kumbh pilgrimage. Standardized questionnaires and brief interviews were administered in participants' native language. Pilgrims with higher religiosity had lower death anxiety compared to pilgrims with lower religiosity. Greater belief in the cycle of rebirth, an increased presence of meaning in life, and …

  • The discursive construction of legitimacy in the abrogation of Indian Constitution's Article 370

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 14

  • Ruled Britannia”: Metaphorical Construction of the EU as Enemy in Ukip Campaign Posters

    Open Access•Andrew S Ro, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 21

    The sweeping tide of populism across the globe has given rise to isolationist sentiments that call for the closing of national borders and a return to nativist roots. This has been most evident in Britain in terms of the controversial vote to exit the European Union (EU) during the 2016 referendum (to Leave or Remain) and more recently with the lead up to a general election and mounting pressure on the government to implement an exit strategy. Th…

  • Infesting our country: Discursive illusions in anti-immigration border talk

    Christopher J Jenks, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Language and Intercultural…•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 12

    This paper investigates how, despite the need to flee dangerous regions, online and print newspapers rely on negative portrayals of migrants and immigrants to forward nationalist positions, including the belief that so-called foreigners are a threat to the security and economic well-being of a nation. Specifically, using the Discourse of Illusion as our main analytic framework, the analysis demonstrates the ways in which dehumanization is central…

  • Exploring the Englishes of world politics

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    This issue intends to open the gates to unexplored areas of research and analysis in world Englishes from the prism of critical discourse analysis, by exploring how political discourse can take on the unique linguistic properties of the cultural contexts in which it is conceived and, accordingly, sculpt the identities of all those addressed or involved. As such, the issue borrows data from different parts of the world, including Ghana, Turkey, Br…

  • The 'saffronisation' of India and contemporary political ideology

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 20

    The victory of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has shaped current socio-political discourse through the lens of Hindu fundamentalism. Driven by right-wing Hindu nationals in the party that advocate the hegemony of the Hindu way of life, or Hindutva ('Hindu nationalism'), contemporary political narrative can be seen to recontextualise the country's history through 'saffronisation' of public space,…

  • Mythological heroism in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah

    Open Access•Mark Nartey, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    This paper critically explores how an African independence leader uses his language to simultaneously construct heroes and villains, protagonists and antagonists forming part of an ideological mechanism that realizes an anti-imperialist rhetoric and a discourse of resistance. It combines discourse-historical analysis with discourse-mythological analysis to examine a number of speeches delivered by Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Gh…

  • Vlogging and the discursive co-construction of ethnicity and beauty

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 26

    Taking as its data set beauty tutorials on YouTube, considered to be audio-visual discursive products that combine speech, body performance, and text (posted comments) to relay specific meanings (Bhatia, 2018), this paper investigates both production of text on part of the sender (vlogger) and interpretation of the text on part of the recipient (viewers) in the joint creation of identity. I analyze the data by employing van Dijk's (2015) socio-co…

  • Secondcivilwarletters From the Front: Discursive illusions in a trending Twitter hashtag

    Open Access•Andrew S Ro, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 12

    When conservative media personality and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned of an impending Second Civil War to be initiated by Democrats, he instigated a viral hashtag on Twitter – #secondcivilwarletters – which drew tweets of political commentary and critique in a style mimicking war letters from the American Civil War. Using a sample of these tweets, this article explores the evocation of discursive illusions already established within mains…

  • Fabricating the American Dream in US media portrayals of Syrian refugees: A discourse analytical study

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia, Christopher J Jenks•ARTICLE•Discourse & Communication•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 3

    The months preceding and following the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States have incited furious debate about the authenticity of media discourse in the shaping of reality (cf. fake news), including in particular the reporting of refugees from predominantly Muslim regions and their resettlement in Western nations. Much of this debate is rooted in how opposing discourse clans, such as liberal and conservative ide…

  • Interdiscursive performance in digital professions: The case of YouTube tutorials

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2018•Cited by: 30•References: 39

  • The Discourse of Culture and Identity in National and Transnational Contexts

    Christopher Jenks, Jackie Lou et al.•BOOK•Discourse of Culture and Identity…•2017

    Book synopsis: This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understanding of how discourse can be used to examine social and linguistic issues. Many of the contributions explore how the formation of culture and identity is shaped by national and transnational issues, such as migration, immigration, technology, and language policy. \n \nThe collection c…

  • Occupy Central” and the rise of discursive illusions: A discourse analytical study

    Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Text and Talk•2016

    Drawing on Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” movement, this paper explores the construction of discursive illusions in both China Daily and South China Morning Post ’s ( SCMP ) contrasting coverage of the event. More specifically, the paper investigates how a multi-perspective analytical approach can enable a deeper study of how and to what extent abstract constructs with significant social implications are discursively formed. In order to do so, the …

  • Discursive construction of the ‘key’ moment in the Umbrella Movement

    Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2016•Cited by: 7•References: 12

    A mass civil disobedience movement brought Hong Kong’s key business and commercial districts to a standstill in September 2014 when low-key class boycotts coalesced into a wide-scale social movement propelled by thousands of people who flocked to the support of student protestors after an ‘unwarranted’ 87 rounds of tear gas were fired by the police. This paper will explore the discursive construction of thiskey precipitant(Kimmel 1990), that is a…

  • Construction of discursive illusions in the ‘Umbrella Movement’

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 10

    Using the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong as an example, this article explores the construction of discursive illusions in the South China Morning Post’s (SCMP) coverage of the event under discussion. More specifically, the article investigates how a multi-perspective analytical approach, namely that of the discourse of illusion, can allow a closer look at how and to what extent abstract constructs with significant social implications are discursi…

  • The discourse of culture and identity in national and transnational contexts

    Christopher J Jenks, Christopher Jenks et al.•ARTICLE•Language and Intercultural…•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 5

    Book synopsis: This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understanding of how discourse can be used to examine social and linguistic issues. Many of the contributions explore how the formation of culture and identity is shaped by national and transnational issues, such as migration, immigration, technology, and language policy. The collection contri…

  • Critical Discourse Analysis: History and New Developments

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•CHAPTER•Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics•2012

    Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has often been regarded more as an alternative perspective to discourse analysis rather than a school or specialization (Van Dijk, 2001).

  • Fiona English: Student Writing and Genre: Reconfiguring Academic Knowledge.

    Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Applied Linguistics•2012

    Journal Article Fiona English: Student Writing and Genre: Reconfiguring Academic Knowledge. Get access Fiona English: Student Writing and Genre: Reconfiguring Academic Knowledge. Continuum, 2011. Aditi Bhatia Aditi Bhatia City University of Hong Kong, China Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2012, Pages 354–356, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/ams025 Published: 09 …

  • Legal discourse across cultures and socio-pragmatic contexts

    Open Access•Vijay K Bhatia, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Much of the work on legal discourse has focused on its construction, interpretation, and use with particular emphasis on either language or legal content; however, very little attention is paid to context, both socio-political as well as cross-cultural, although all forms of legal discourse, spoken as well as written, are applied and interpreted in the context of what Scollon refers to as 'sites of engagement'. Drawing on a number of legal contex…

  • "Comment on Demont-Heinrich's "Linguistically privileged and cursed? American university students and the global hegemony of English

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2010•Cited by: 1•References: 2

  • The discourses of terrorism

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2009•Cited by: 15•References: 14

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  • Interdiscursive performance in digital professions: The case of YouTube tutorials

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2018•Cited by: 30•References: 39

  • Discursive illusions in the American National Strategy for Combating Terrorism

    Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2008•Cited by: 26•References: 42

    Social realities are often negotiated and determined by elite groups of society, including political and religious leaders, the mass media, and even professional experts, who give meaning to complex, multifaceted constructs such as terrorism consistent with their individual socio-political agendas. The Bush Administrations National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (NSCT) (2003) defines what we the public and media understand by the term terrorism…

  • The discourses of terrorism

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2009•Cited by: 15•References: 14

  • Fabricating the American Dream in US media portrayals of Syrian refugees: A discourse analytical study

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia, Christopher J Jenks•ARTICLE•Discourse & Communication•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 3

    The months preceding and following the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States have incited furious debate about the authenticity of media discourse in the shaping of reality (cf. fake news), including in particular the reporting of refugees from predominantly Muslim regions and their resettlement in Western nations. Much of this debate is rooted in how opposing discourse clans, such as liberal and conservative ide…

  • Construction of discursive illusions in the ‘Umbrella Movement’

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 10

    Using the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong as an example, this article explores the construction of discursive illusions in the South China Morning Post’s (SCMP) coverage of the event under discussion. More specifically, the article investigates how a multi-perspective analytical approach, namely that of the discourse of illusion, can allow a closer look at how and to what extent abstract constructs with significant social implications are discursi…

  • The discourse of culture and identity in national and transnational contexts

    Christopher J Jenks, Christopher Jenks et al.•ARTICLE•Language and Intercultural…•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 5

    Book synopsis: This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understanding of how discourse can be used to examine social and linguistic issues. Many of the contributions explore how the formation of culture and identity is shaped by national and transnational issues, such as migration, immigration, technology, and language policy. The collection contri…

  • Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings

    Open Access•John Ganaah, Mark Nartey et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 25

    This paper analyzes the legitimation strategies used by Jerry John Rawlings, a Ghanaian revolutionary leader, to license his revolutionary actions, including political enemy executions and a crackdown on corrupt practices. It adapts and extends van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework by demonstrating how Rawlings exploited historical memory and the notion of sacrifice in conjunction with the strategies of authorization, rationalization and moralizat…

  • Infesting our country: Discursive illusions in anti-immigration border talk

    Christopher J Jenks, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Language and Intercultural…•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 12

    This paper investigates how, despite the need to flee dangerous regions, online and print newspapers rely on negative portrayals of migrants and immigrants to forward nationalist positions, including the belief that so-called foreigners are a threat to the security and economic well-being of a nation. Specifically, using the Discourse of Illusion as our main analytic framework, the analysis demonstrates the ways in which dehumanization is central…

  • Discursive construction of the ‘key’ moment in the Umbrella Movement

    Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2016•Cited by: 7•References: 12

    A mass civil disobedience movement brought Hong Kong’s key business and commercial districts to a standstill in September 2014 when low-key class boycotts coalesced into a wide-scale social movement propelled by thousands of people who flocked to the support of student protestors after an ‘unwarranted’ 87 rounds of tear gas were fired by the police. This paper will explore the discursive construction of thiskey precipitant(Kimmel 1990), that is a…

  • The 'saffronisation' of India and contemporary political ideology

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 20

    The victory of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has shaped current socio-political discourse through the lens of Hindu fundamentalism. Driven by right-wing Hindu nationals in the party that advocate the hegemony of the Hindu way of life, or Hindutva ('Hindu nationalism'), contemporary political narrative can be seen to recontextualise the country's history through 'saffronisation' of public space,…

  • Secondcivilwarletters From the Front: Discursive illusions in a trending Twitter hashtag

    Open Access•Andrew S Ro, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 12

    When conservative media personality and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned of an impending Second Civil War to be initiated by Democrats, he instigated a viral hashtag on Twitter – #secondcivilwarletters – which drew tweets of political commentary and critique in a style mimicking war letters from the American Civil War. Using a sample of these tweets, this article explores the evocation of discursive illusions already established within mains…

  • We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end: Hashtag activism in Hong Kong protests

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia, Andrew S Ro•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 30

    Focusing on the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong, this article presents an analysis of Twitter posts adopting the hashtags #antiELAB, #NoChinaExtradition and #HongKongProtests. The analysis explores the public narrative among the collective identity of Hongkongers opposing the extradition bill as events unfolded during mid-2019 in Hong Kong. To do so, we adopt Bhatia’s (2015) multi-perspective framework for the Discourse of Illusion, w…

  • The discursive construction of legitimacy in the abrogation of Indian Constitution's Article 370

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 14

  • Religious metaphor in the discourse of illusion: George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden1

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2007•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    Using a combination of models, including the discourse-historical approach, metaphor analysis, and membership categorization analysis, this paper explores a series of speeches given by George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. It demonstrates how similar rhetorical and linguistic tools are manipulated by people in a position to influence society, as they attempt to depict their individual representations of reality as true and objective. Analysis of th…

  • Exploring the Englishes of world politics

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    This issue intends to open the gates to unexplored areas of research and analysis in world Englishes from the prism of critical discourse analysis, by exploring how political discourse can take on the unique linguistic properties of the cultural contexts in which it is conceived and, accordingly, sculpt the identities of all those addressed or involved. As such, the issue borrows data from different parts of the world, including Ghana, Turkey, Br…

  • Vlogging and the discursive co-construction of ethnicity and beauty

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 26

    Taking as its data set beauty tutorials on YouTube, considered to be audio-visual discursive products that combine speech, body performance, and text (posted comments) to relay specific meanings (Bhatia, 2018), this paper investigates both production of text on part of the sender (vlogger) and interpretation of the text on part of the recipient (viewers) in the joint creation of identity. I analyze the data by employing van Dijk's (2015) socio-co…

  • Comment 1

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 1

  • Fesshole and the discourse of confession on X: A study of online sharing and community building

    Open Access•Andrew S Ro, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Discourse Context & Media•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 6

    As a centuries-old discursive practice, confessional acts that are typically understood as an acceptance of one’s guilt or shame regarding a particular action or thought, have been observed and studied in various contexts including religion, law and crime, and medicine. However, the nature and practice of confessions have been increasingly reconfigured within newer, evolving digital media contexts. Social media platforms, such as X (formerly Twit…

  • Ruled Britannia”: Metaphorical Construction of the EU as Enemy in Ukip Campaign Posters

    Open Access•Andrew S Ro, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 21

    The sweeping tide of populism across the globe has given rise to isolationist sentiments that call for the closing of national borders and a return to nativist roots. This has been most evident in Britain in terms of the controversial vote to exit the European Union (EU) during the 2016 referendum (to Leave or Remain) and more recently with the lead up to a general election and mounting pressure on the government to implement an exit strategy. Th…

  • Mythological heroism in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah

    Open Access•Mark Nartey, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    This paper critically explores how an African independence leader uses his language to simultaneously construct heroes and villains, protagonists and antagonists forming part of an ideological mechanism that realizes an anti-imperialist rhetoric and a discourse of resistance. It combines discourse-historical analysis with discourse-mythological analysis to examine a number of speeches delivered by Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Gh…

  • Legal discourse across cultures and socio-pragmatic contexts

    Open Access•Vijay K Bhatia, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Much of the work on legal discourse has focused on its construction, interpretation, and use with particular emphasis on either language or legal content; however, very little attention is paid to context, both socio-political as well as cross-cultural, although all forms of legal discourse, spoken as well as written, are applied and interpreted in the context of what Scollon refers to as 'sites of engagement'. Drawing on a number of legal contex…

  • "Comment on Demont-Heinrich's "Linguistically privileged and cursed? American university students and the global hegemony of English

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2010•Cited by: 1•References: 2

  • Critical discourse analysis of political press conferences

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2006

    This study of political press conferences allows a closer look at diplomatic talk to communicate political differences in a positive way to smooth out socio-political and ideological discrepancies that often divide prominent political figures. Taking a critical discourse analysis (CDA) perspective, this article analyses textual data from press conferences involving the former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the US President George W. Bush, who …

  • Religious metaphor in the discourse of illusion: George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden1

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2007•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    Using a combination of models, including the discourse-historical approach, metaphor analysis, and membership categorization analysis, this paper explores a series of speeches given by George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. It demonstrates how similar rhetorical and linguistic tools are manipulated by people in a position to influence society, as they attempt to depict their individual representations of reality as true and objective. Analysis of th…

  • Discursive illusions in the American National Strategy for Combating Terrorism

    Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2008•Cited by: 26•References: 42

    Social realities are often negotiated and determined by elite groups of society, including political and religious leaders, the mass media, and even professional experts, who give meaning to complex, multifaceted constructs such as terrorism consistent with their individual socio-political agendas. The Bush Administrations National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (NSCT) (2003) defines what we the public and media understand by the term terrorism…

  • Comment 1

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 1

  • The discourses of terrorism

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2009•Cited by: 15•References: 14

  • "Comment on Demont-Heinrich's "Linguistically privileged and cursed? American university students and the global hegemony of English

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2010•Cited by: 1•References: 2

  • Legal discourse across cultures and socio-pragmatic contexts

    Open Access•Vijay K Bhatia, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Much of the work on legal discourse has focused on its construction, interpretation, and use with particular emphasis on either language or legal content; however, very little attention is paid to context, both socio-political as well as cross-cultural, although all forms of legal discourse, spoken as well as written, are applied and interpreted in the context of what Scollon refers to as 'sites of engagement'. Drawing on a number of legal contex…

  • Critical Discourse Analysis: History and New Developments

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•CHAPTER•Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics•2012

    Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has often been regarded more as an alternative perspective to discourse analysis rather than a school or specialization (Van Dijk, 2001).

  • Fiona English: Student Writing and Genre: Reconfiguring Academic Knowledge.

    Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Applied Linguistics•2012

    Journal Article Fiona English: Student Writing and Genre: Reconfiguring Academic Knowledge. Get access Fiona English: Student Writing and Genre: Reconfiguring Academic Knowledge. Continuum, 2011. Aditi Bhatia Aditi Bhatia City University of Hong Kong, China Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2012, Pages 354–356, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/ams025 Published: 09 …

  • The discourse of culture and identity in national and transnational contexts

    Christopher J Jenks, Christopher Jenks et al.•ARTICLE•Language and Intercultural…•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 5

    Book synopsis: This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understanding of how discourse can be used to examine social and linguistic issues. Many of the contributions explore how the formation of culture and identity is shaped by national and transnational issues, such as migration, immigration, technology, and language policy. The collection contri…

  • Construction of discursive illusions in the ‘Umbrella Movement’

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 10

    Using the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong as an example, this article explores the construction of discursive illusions in the South China Morning Post’s (SCMP) coverage of the event under discussion. More specifically, the article investigates how a multi-perspective analytical approach, namely that of the discourse of illusion, can allow a closer look at how and to what extent abstract constructs with significant social implications are discursi…

  • Occupy Central” and the rise of discursive illusions: A discourse analytical study

    Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Text and Talk•2016

    Drawing on Hong Kong’s “Occupy Central” movement, this paper explores the construction of discursive illusions in both China Daily and South China Morning Post ’s ( SCMP ) contrasting coverage of the event. More specifically, the paper investigates how a multi-perspective analytical approach can enable a deeper study of how and to what extent abstract constructs with significant social implications are discursively formed. In order to do so, the …

  • Discursive construction of the ‘key’ moment in the Umbrella Movement

    Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2016•Cited by: 7•References: 12

    A mass civil disobedience movement brought Hong Kong’s key business and commercial districts to a standstill in September 2014 when low-key class boycotts coalesced into a wide-scale social movement propelled by thousands of people who flocked to the support of student protestors after an ‘unwarranted’ 87 rounds of tear gas were fired by the police. This paper will explore the discursive construction of thiskey precipitant(Kimmel 1990), that is a…

  • The Discourse of Culture and Identity in National and Transnational Contexts

    Christopher Jenks, Jackie Lou et al.•BOOK•Discourse of Culture and Identity…•2017

    Book synopsis: This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understanding of how discourse can be used to examine social and linguistic issues. Many of the contributions explore how the formation of culture and identity is shaped by national and transnational issues, such as migration, immigration, technology, and language policy. \n \nThe collection c…

  • Fabricating the American Dream in US media portrayals of Syrian refugees: A discourse analytical study

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia, Christopher J Jenks•ARTICLE•Discourse & Communication•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 3

    The months preceding and following the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States have incited furious debate about the authenticity of media discourse in the shaping of reality (cf. fake news), including in particular the reporting of refugees from predominantly Muslim regions and their resettlement in Western nations. Much of this debate is rooted in how opposing discourse clans, such as liberal and conservative ide…

  • Interdiscursive performance in digital professions: The case of YouTube tutorials

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2018•Cited by: 30•References: 39

  • Secondcivilwarletters From the Front: Discursive illusions in a trending Twitter hashtag

    Open Access•Andrew S Ro, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 12

    When conservative media personality and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned of an impending Second Civil War to be initiated by Democrats, he instigated a viral hashtag on Twitter – #secondcivilwarletters – which drew tweets of political commentary and critique in a style mimicking war letters from the American Civil War. Using a sample of these tweets, this article explores the evocation of discursive illusions already established within mains…

  • Ruled Britannia”: Metaphorical Construction of the EU as Enemy in Ukip Campaign Posters

    Open Access•Andrew S Ro, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 21

    The sweeping tide of populism across the globe has given rise to isolationist sentiments that call for the closing of national borders and a return to nativist roots. This has been most evident in Britain in terms of the controversial vote to exit the European Union (EU) during the 2016 referendum (to Leave or Remain) and more recently with the lead up to a general election and mounting pressure on the government to implement an exit strategy. Th…

  • Infesting our country: Discursive illusions in anti-immigration border talk

    Christopher J Jenks, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Language and Intercultural…•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 12

    This paper investigates how, despite the need to flee dangerous regions, online and print newspapers rely on negative portrayals of migrants and immigrants to forward nationalist positions, including the belief that so-called foreigners are a threat to the security and economic well-being of a nation. Specifically, using the Discourse of Illusion as our main analytic framework, the analysis demonstrates the ways in which dehumanization is central…

  • Exploring the Englishes of world politics

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    This issue intends to open the gates to unexplored areas of research and analysis in world Englishes from the prism of critical discourse analysis, by exploring how political discourse can take on the unique linguistic properties of the cultural contexts in which it is conceived and, accordingly, sculpt the identities of all those addressed or involved. As such, the issue borrows data from different parts of the world, including Ghana, Turkey, Br…

  • The 'saffronisation' of India and contemporary political ideology

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 20

    The victory of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has shaped current socio-political discourse through the lens of Hindu fundamentalism. Driven by right-wing Hindu nationals in the party that advocate the hegemony of the Hindu way of life, or Hindutva ('Hindu nationalism'), contemporary political narrative can be seen to recontextualise the country's history through 'saffronisation' of public space,…

  • Mythological heroism in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah

    Open Access•Mark Nartey, Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    This paper critically explores how an African independence leader uses his language to simultaneously construct heroes and villains, protagonists and antagonists forming part of an ideological mechanism that realizes an anti-imperialist rhetoric and a discourse of resistance. It combines discourse-historical analysis with discourse-mythological analysis to examine a number of speeches delivered by Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Gh…

  • Vlogging and the discursive co-construction of ethnicity and beauty

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 26

    Taking as its data set beauty tutorials on YouTube, considered to be audio-visual discursive products that combine speech, body performance, and text (posted comments) to relay specific meanings (Bhatia, 2018), this paper investigates both production of text on part of the sender (vlogger) and interpretation of the text on part of the recipient (viewers) in the joint creation of identity. I analyze the data by employing van Dijk's (2015) socio-co…

  • Religious factors affecting death anxiety in older adults practicing Hinduism

    Nishtha Lamba, Amar Bhatia et al.•ARTICLE•Death Studies•2021•References: 8

    The aim of the study was to examine the influence of religion on death anxiety in older adults ( N = 105) practicing Hinduism and visiting the Kumbh pilgrimage. Standardized questionnaires and brief interviews were administered in participants' native language. Pilgrims with higher religiosity had lower death anxiety compared to pilgrims with lower religiosity. Greater belief in the cycle of rebirth, an increased presence of meaning in life, and …

  • The discursive construction of legitimacy in the abrogation of Indian Constitution's Article 370

    Open Access•Aditi Bhatia•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 14

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