I apologize for the late post. I was feeling under the weather today and couldn't make it to class. Here is my draft. Some questions I have to the reader. I need to expand on my section on the theorist and definitions, how do you think I effectively organize this? Do you think it's better than I explain each theory first and expand from what i have ( Read more... )

Midterm Revision: Discourse Analysis History ( Read more... )

*** I realized while I was writing this that there were too many things to write about my artifact so after class today, I narrowed it to the two shirts: the boy's "Paris Is So Hot!" one and the "Rick Shaw" one ( Read more... )

After looking over the responses and listening to the midterm presentations, I've narrowed my artifact to looking at the part of the AF website that defines AF culture for both kids and adults, as shown below ( Read more... )

Fairclough uses A LOT of examples in the Modality and Evaluation reading. He spends a lot of time on discussing dialogue between different people and in the section on "Characters of new capitalism: the Guru and the politician" he takes a look at Tony Blair's speech on the War on Terrorism and really unpacks the modality in his speech and how this ( Read more... )

After taking a look at the Abercrombie (AF) website, I noticed that AF has its own culture. The shopping bags, magazines with models with no clothes on, photos, the music in the store, and the kind of marketing used by AF are all a part of this so called AF culture. The website defines this culture as “Abercrombie & Fitch is the most successful ( Read more... )

I found Fairclough's approach to discourse analysis to be clearer and a bit easier to understand than the rest of the packets we read. He's more speficfic when he touches base on 'new capitalism', genre, mediation,and text. He states that when new capitalism changes there is a chain reaction b/c there is a change in social practies, action and ( Read more... )

Slight change in plans. I've changed my artifact. I decided that Asian American stereotypes in film and TV shoes was going to be a little too complicated. Hence, I have changed my artifact to the Abercrombie website and magazine. More specifically, I am interested in their "humor tees" and "after-hour tees" and the graphics, images, and text ( Read more... )

From what I got from class on Monday, I think that cultural studies deals with the relationship between social constructions, how people perceive such constructions, and how language and time period regulate these constructions. The problem with cultural studies is that everyone is so caught up in every day life that the majority of society doesn't ( Read more... )

As previously said, my artifact will be various movies, movie posters, and tv shows that include Asian American stereotypes in them. My inquiry questions are ( Read more... )