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

Abstract: ▪ Abstract This paper provides a survey of critical discourse analysis (CDA), a recent school of discourse analysis that concerns itself with relations of power and inequality in language. CDA explicitly intends to incorporate social-theoretical insights into discourse analysis and advocates social commitment and interventionism in research. The main programmatic features and domains of enquiry of CDA are discussed, with emphasis on attempts toward theory formation by one of CDA's most prominent scholars, Norman Fairclough. Another section reviews the genesis and disciplinary growth of CDA, mentions some of the recent critical reactions to it, and situates it within the wider picture of a new critical paradigm developing in a number of language-oriented (sub) disciplines. In this critical paradigm, topics such as ideology, inequality, and power figure prominently, and many scholars productively attempt to incorporate social-theoretical insights into the study of language.

Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices

Abstract: Introduction 1. Making Social Science Relevant: Policy Inquiry in Critical Perspective PUBLIC POLICY AND THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY 2. Constructing Policy Theory: Ideas and Discourse 3. Public Policy and Discourse Construct: Multiple Realities and Interpretative Understanding PUBLIC POLICY AND DISCURSIVE POLITICS 4. Public Policy and Discursive Analysis 5. Policy Discourse versus Advocacy Coalitions: Interpreting Policy Change and Learning DISCURSIVE POLICY INQUIRY: RESTITUTING EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS 6. Postempiricist Foundations: Social Constructionism and Practical Discourse 7. Interpreting Public Policy: Analytical and Methodological Perspectives 8. Public Policy as Narrative: Stories, Frames, and Metanarratives 9. The Argumentative Turn: Policy Analysis as Discursive Practice DELIBERATIVE GOVERNANCE 10. Citizens and Experts: Democratizing Policy Deliberations 11. The Deliberative Policy Analyst: Theoretical Issues and Practical Challenges

Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents

Abstract: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Information 3. The mental representations of discourse referents 4. Pragmatic relations: topic 5. Pragmatic relations: focus 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index.

English Text: System and structure

Abstract: This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis inspired by Halliday and Hasan's Cohesion in English The analyses presented were developed within three main theoretical and applied contexts: (i) educational linguistics (especially genre-based literacy programmes) (ii) critical linguistics (as manifested in the development of social semiotics) and (iii) computational linguistics (in dialogue with the various text generation projects based on systemic approaches to grammar and discourse) English Text's major contribution is to outline one way in which a rich semantically oriented functional grammar can be systematically related to a theory of discourse semantics, including deconstruction of contextual issues (ie register, genre and ideology) The chapters have been organized with the needs of undergraduate students in theoretical linguistics and postgraduate students in applied linguistics in mind