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Critical Discourse Analysis and the Rhetoric of Critique
Michael Billig
- pp 35-46
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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a field of cross-disciplinary teaching and research which has been widely drawn upon in the social sciences and the humanities (for example, in sociology, geography, history and media studies), and has inspired critical language teaching at various levels and in various domains.Abstract:
It is not difficult to make claims for the academic success of Critical Discourse Analysis. Chouliaraki and Fairclough begin their new book Discourse in Late Modernity with the statement: ‘Critical discourse analysis … has established itself internationally over the past twenty years or so as a field of cross-disciplinary teaching and research which has been widely drawn upon in the social sciences and the humanities (for example, in sociology, geography, history and media studies), and has inspired critical language teaching at various levels and in various domains’ (1999, p. 1). One sign of this success has seen the establishment of the term ‘Critical Discourse Analysis’, together with its abbreviation CDA, to denote a distinct and substantial body of work.read more
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The language of critical discourse analysis: the case of nominalization:
TL;DR: The authors examines the way that critical discourse is written by considering the concept of nominalization and finds that the language used by critical analysts, as they explore nominalization, is revealing, and they tend to use, and thereby instantiate, the very forms of language whose ideological potentiality they are warning against.
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Critical discourse analysis and its critics
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the rise of Critical Discourse Analysis and teases out a detailed analysis of the various critiques that have been levelled at CDA and its practitioners over the last twenty years, both by scholars working within the critical paradigm and by other critics.
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Critical Discourse Analysis, An overview
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) origins, what it has meant to the academic world as a whole, how it encapsulates various trends with different theoretical backgrounds and methodological approaches, what are its limitations and its new developments.
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Critical discourse studies: where to from here?
TL;DR: The authors surveys critical discourse studies to the present and claims that, to avoid lapsing into comfortable orthodoxy in its mature phase, CDS needs to reassert its transformative radical teleology.
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Discourse and social change
TL;DR: This article proposed a social theory of discourse intertextuality text analysis -constructing social relations and "the self", constructing social reality discourse and social change in contemporary society doing discourse analysis.
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Critical Discourse Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, a four-volume set brings together seminal articles on the subject from varied sources, creating an invaluable roadmap for scholars seeking to consolidate their knowledge of CDA, and of its continued development.
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Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that in order to be able to relate power and discourse in an explicit way, we need the cognitive interface of models, which also relate the individual and the social, and the micro- and the macro-levels of social structure.
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Social identity and intergroup relations
TL;DR: Tajfel as discussed by the authors proposed the Cognitive Construction of Groups (CCG) model, which is a cognitive redefinition of the social group and the determination of collective behaviour, and the battle for acceptance: an investigation into the dynamics of intergroup behaviour.
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Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology
TL;DR: Arguing and thinking as mentioned in this paper is an entertaining and scholarly exposition of ideas of rhetoric viewed as social psychological theories, from Classical times to the nineteenth century. But it is self-confessedly unorthodox.