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What is ‘critical discourse analysis’?

What is ‘critical discourse analysis’?.

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What is ‘critical discourse analysis’?

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  1. What is ‘critical discourse analysis’? • “CDA [is]fundamentally interested in analyzing opaque as well as transparent structural relationships of dominance, discrimination, power, and control when these are manifested in language. In other words, CDA aims to investigate critically social inequality as it is expressed, constituted, and legitimized by language use.” (Wodak, 2006)

  2. CDA • is problem-oriented • is interdisciplinary and eclectic • aims to critique ideologies and power as conveyed in language and other semiotic systems • analyzes textual features in light of the larger social context • is openly committed to promoting social justice while being self-reflective about this. (Wodak & Meyer, p. 3)

  3. What are CDA’s roots? • Frankfurt School critical theory • Gramsci, Habermas, Foucault • Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar • Critical Linguistics • Discourse & Society 1990, Amsterdam 1991

  4. Why has CDA been gaining in popularity? • It addresses important contemporary issues using some familiar tools and concepts from the humanities and social sciences. • It provides comprehensive, enlightening accounts of these issues. • It is broadly transdisciplinary.

  5. What do we mean by ‘critical’? • “Critical approaches . . . Treat social practices not just in terms of social relationships [but] … in terms of their implications for things like status, solidarity, distribution of social goods, and power.” --Gee, p. 33 • “Critical social research [including CDA] aims to contribute to addressing the social ‘wrongs’ of the day (in a broad sense – injustice, inequality, lack of freedom, etc.) by analyzing their sources and causes, resistances to them and possibilities of overcoming them. We can say that it has both a ‘negative and a ‘positive character.” -- Fairclough, p. 231

  6. Discursive practice? • The discursive practice approach is grounded in four insights concerning discourse. One is the notion that social realities are linguistically/discursively constructed. The second is the appreciation of the context-bound nature of discourse. The third is the idea of discourse as social action. The fourth is the understanding that meaning is negotiated in interaction, rather than being present once-and-for-all in our utterances.

  7. How does CDA differ from rhetorical analysis? • “A rhetorical analysis, using rhetoric as a hermeneutic not a heuristic, usually begins by characterizing the rhetor, genre, audience, subject, and occasion of a text.” (Fahnestock & Secor) • Rhetorical analysis usually aims to show how and why a text has particular effects or is persuasive to a certain audience. It does not necessarily situate the text in its broadest sociopolitical context and is not necessarily critical.

  8. CDA • addresses contemporary societal issues, seeking to show how people are manipulated by powerful interests through the medium of public discourse. • gives special attention to underlying factors of ideology, power, and resistance. • links together analyses of text, discursive practices, and social context. • combines rhetorical theory and social theory. • takes into account omissions, implicatures, presuppositions, ambiguities, and • other covert but powerful aspects of discourse. • takes note of interpersonal aspects of discourse such as politeness, identity, • and ethos. • unlike other forms of cultural criticism, they ground their analyses in close, • detailed inspection of texts. • encourages political activism, tries to make analyses accessible to the general public by, for example, minimizing the use of technical jargon and belletristic style.(Huckin, 2002)

  9. Some terms • Classification, connotation, definition, metaphor, presupposition, modality (certitude and voice), register (style) • Deletion (e.g. “agentless passive”), foregrounding, backgrounding, interpersonal stance (solidarity/distance) intertextuality • Framing, extended metaphor (root metaphor) coherence, genre, heteroglossia, etc.

  10. Example: frames in coverage of wmd

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