Discourse analysis

About: Discourse analysis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16055 publications have been published within this topic receiving 515384 citations. The topic is also known as: DA & discourse studies.

Critical Discourse Analysis and the Discourse of Condescension

Abstract: Introduction. During the past 15 years or so, as the gap between rich and poor in our country has reached alarming proportions, many of us in the business of teaching composition have become increasingly concerned with the larger sociopolitical context in which our students, and we, live. One of the pleasures of teaching composition is that we can justifiably address these sorts of concerns in our classrooms. Indeed, in keeping with the original spirit of classical rhetoric, it is common practice in composition classrooms across the country to have students engage in critical thinking and writing about current issues. In this light, the need for context-sensitive forms of discourse analysis has become increasingly acute. Teachers, students, scholars, and others engaged in composition studies all stand to benefit from being able to analyze written texts and discursive practices in ways that encourage students to address and, ideally, act on important social problems. In recent years, several closely-related forms of discourse analysis have emerged which promise to satisfy this need: critical discourse analysis 1995). These three approaches embody the generic features that any critical rhetoric, 2 according to McKerrow (1989), must satisfy: They share " the same 'critical spirit' that is held in common among the divergent perspectives of Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas, and Foucault " ; they " serve a demystifying function. .. by demonstrating the silent and often non-deliberate ways in which rhetoric conceals as much as it reveals through its relationship with power/knowledge " ; they are " not detached and impersonal, but rather have as their object something which they are 'against' " ; and they have " consequences " in the sense that they " identify the possibilities of future action available to the participants " (p. 92). In particular, these context-sensitive forms of discourse analysis all share the following distinctive characteristics: 1. They address contemporary societal issues, seeking to show how people are manipulated by powerful interests through the medium of public discourse. 2. They give special attention to underlying factors of ideology, power, and resistance. 3. They link together analyses of text, discursive practices, and social context. 4. They combine rhetorical theory and social theory. 5. They see genres as key structural elements. 6. They incorporate intertextuality, interdiscursivity, and other poststructural conceptions of discourse. 7. They take into account omissions, implicatures, presuppositions, ambiguities, and other covert but powerful aspects of discourse. 8. They take note of …

Inhabited silences: in pursuit of a muffled subtext

Abstract: Qualitative researchers should not ignore the silences that occur during the conversations especially in those conversations related to issues of race and culture in education, as these silences could provide meaningful and purposeful information. The researchers should examine the importance of silences, which are present in the conversations that take place during a discourse-based research.

Translanguaging and Positioning in Two-Way Dual Language Classrooms: A Case for Criticality.

Abstract: This article examines the role of translanguaging practices and pedagogies in two-way dual language classrooms. Much of the recent expansion of dual language programs across the US has occurred in ...

French Discourse Analysis: The Method of Post-Structuralism

Abstract: For the first time in English, Glyn Williams draws together current debates in linguistics and social theory, and provides the first study in English of the principles and theories of French discourse analysis.