Journal•ISSN: 1740-5904
Critical Discourse Studies
Routledge
About: Critical Discourse Studies is an academic journal published by Routledge. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Critical discourse analysis & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 1740-5904. Over the lifetime, 632 publications have been published receiving 13086 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a "critical discourse analysis" at the nexus of critical discourse analysis and feminist studies is presented, with the aim of advancing rich and nuanced analyses of the complex workings of power and ideology in discourse in sustaining hierarchically gendered social orders.
Abstract: This article outlines a ‘feminist critical discourse analysis’ at the nexus of critical discourse analysis and feminist studies, with the aim of advancing rich and nuanced analyses of the complex workings of power and ideology in discourse in sustaining hierarchically gendered social orders. This is especially pertinent in the present time; it is recognized that operations of gender ideology and institutionalized power asymmetries between (and among) groups of women and men are complexly intertwined with other social identities and are variable across cultures. Gender ideology and power asymmetries in late modern societies also have become increasingly more subtle and, at the same time, as a result of backlash against feminism, have re-emerged with a new blatancy. The article offers a rationale for highlighting a feminist perspective in CDA, and proposes five key principles for a feminist discourse praxis. In concluding, a brief analysis and discussion of some data on postfeminism is provided, illustratin...
499 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a case is made for cultural political economy (CPE) by exploring the constitutive role of semiosis in economic and political activities and social order more generally.
Abstract: A case is made for cultural political economy (CPE) by exploring the constitutive role of semiosis in economic and political activities, economic and political institutions, and social order more generally. CPE is a post-disciplinary approach that adopts the �cultural turn� in economic and political inquiry without neglecting the articulation of semiosis with the interconnected materialities of economics and politics within wider social formations. This approach is illustrated from the emergence of the knowledgebased economy as a master discourse for accumulation strategies on different scales, for state projects and hegemonic visions, for diverse functional systems and professions, and for civil society.
417 citations
TL;DR: The authors proposes a discourse approach to understand neoliberalism as a circuitous process of socio-spatial transformation, which is not a "top-down" or "bottom-up" phenomenon.
Abstract: Contemporary theorizations of neoliberalism are framed by a false dichotomy between, on the one hand, studies influenced by Foucault in emphasizing neoliberalism as a form of governmentality, and on the other hand, inquiries influenced by Marx in foregrounding neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology. This article seeks to shine some light on this division in an effort to open up new debates and recast existing ones in such a way that might lead to more flexible understandings of neoliberalism as a discourse. A discourse approach moves theorizations forward by recognizing neoliberalism is neither a ‘top-down’ nor ‘bottom-up’ phenomena, but rather a circuitous process of socio-spatial transformation.
272 citations
TL;DR: In the social and material culture of everyday life, discourses are communicated not only through political speeches and news items but through entertainment media such as computer games and movies, in the social media as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Discourses are communicated not only through political speeches and news items but through entertainment media such as computer games and movies, in the social and material culture of everyday life...
255 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the discursive strategies of political actors and the media in their re-constructions of climate change and identify the continuities and discontinuities in its representation and the historically constitutive power of discourse.
Abstract: This article aims to identify the discursive strategies of political actors and the media in their re-constructions of climate change. The analytical framework employed in this research project builds on the tradition of critical discourse analysis and has both diachronic and synchronic axes. On the one hand, by tracing the biography of the greenhouse effect as a public issue, the article will look at continuities and discontinuities in its representation and at the historically constitutive power of discourse. On the other hand, the systematic comparison of representations of the problem in three British ‘quality’ newspapers – The Guardian, The Independent, and The Times – at given moments shows that there are alternatives and therefore enhances a critical examination of discursive strategies.
253 citations