Critical Discourse Analysis and Discourse of Power

CDA in Practice

Essai Scientifique , 2012 , 33 Pages , Note: Excellent with honor

Science de Langue / Linguistique (interdisciplinaire)

The present paper has shown the practical part of CDA according to three scholars, namely they are Norman Fairclough, Ruth Wodak, and Teun van Dijk. Their approaches are somehow different in method and way of interpretation. While Fairclough is brought up on the systemic-functional model of theory and thus often concentrates on rather limited amounts of research material, Wodak turns to sociolinguistics and ethnography with an emphasis on corpus-based research and on work with different approaches with a variety of empirical data as well as background information. However, the notion that language is inherently social remains a key assumption in both approaches.

On the other hand, similarly to Fairclough, van Dijk acknowledges three different perspectives; text, discourse practice and sociocultural practice, and emphasizes on the link between textual analysis and sociocultural analysis. However, van Dijk differentiates himself from both Fairclough and Wodak in his understanding of social events or of social institutions and power relations. To van Dijk, social cognitions mediate between micro- and macro-levels of society, between discourse and action, between the individual and the group. Therefore, the focus on social cognition governs the process of analysis.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. CDA as Practice

3. Fairclough's Social Analysis
3.1 Terminology and Definitions
3.2 Methodology
3.3 Linguistic Analysis
3.4 Discursive Analysis
3.5 Social Analysis
3.6 Forms, meanings and effects

4. Wodak's Approach: Discourse-Historical Analysis
4.1 Methodology
4.2 The Linguistic and Discursive Model in Discourse-Historical Approach
4.3 Linguistic and Discursive Strategies
4.4 Pragmatic Strategies

5. Van Dijk's Socio-cognitive Approach
5.1 Terminology and definitions
5.2 Methodology
5.3 Action
5.4 context
5.5 Ideology
5.6 Power

6. Conclusion

References

• Cours: Critical Discourse Analysis
• Note: Excellent with honor
• Auteur: Dr. Anwar Elsharkawy (Auteur)
• Année de publication: 2012
• Pages: 33
• N° de catalogue: V350938
• ISBN (ebook): 9783668372771
• ISBN (Livre): 9783668372788
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: critical, discourse, analysis, power, practice, Ideology, CDA, Commonsense, Naturalism