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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.


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TL;DR: The authors discuss the need for a critical awareness of language as part of language education, with a focus on discourse, and tie the case for CLA to the nature of the new global capitalism, and conclude the paper with discussions of how CLA is anchored in 'critical discourse analysis' (and, through that, in critical social science generally), and how the question of CLA is framed within the wider question of the nature and purposes of education.
Abstract: As the shape of the new global social order becomes clearer, so too does the need for a critical awareness of language as part of language education. I discuss, with a focus on discourse, several key features of late modern society which help make the case for critical awareness of discourse: the relationship between discourse, knowledge and social change in our 'information' or 'knowledge-based' society; what Smith (1990) has called the 'textually-mediated' nature of contemporary social life; the relationship between discourse and social difference; the commodification of discourse; discourse and democracy. I then draw these together by tying the case for CLA to the nature of the new global capitalism, and conclude the paper with discussions of how CLA is anchored in 'critical discourse analysis' (and, through that, in critical social science generally), and of how the question of CLA is framed within the wider question of the nature and purposes of education.

259 citations

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28 Jul 2005
TL;DR: In this article, Chilton et al. propose three models of interdisciplinarity: modularity, blends and critical instinct, which are missing links in mainstream CDA: Modules, blends, and the critical instinct.
Abstract: 1. Acknowledgements 2. Preface (by Chilton, Paul) 3. PART I. Interdisciplinarity and (C)DA 4. Three models of interdisciplinarity (by Leeuwen, Theo van) 5. Missing links in mainstream CDA: Modules, blends and the critical instinct (by Chilton, Paul) 6. Critical discourse analysis in transdisciplinary research (by Fairclough, Norman) 7. Contextual knowledge management in discourse production: A CDA perspective (by Dijk, Teun A. van) 8. Lighting the stove: Why habitus isn't enough for Critical Discourse Analysis (by Scollon, Ron) 9. PART II. Implementing interdisciplinarity 10. Analyzing European Union discourses: Theories and applications (by Wodak, Ruth) 11. 'European identity wanted!': On discursive and communicative dimensions of the European Convention (by Krzyzanowski, Michal) 12. Deliberation or 'mainstreaming'?: Empirically researching the European Convention (by Oberhuber, Florian) 13. "It is not sufficient to have a moral basis, it has to be democratic too.": Constructing "Europe" in Swedish reports on the Austrian political situation in 2000 (by Barenreuter, Christoph) 14. Language, psychotherapy and client change: An interdisciplinary perspective (by Muntigl, Peter) 15. PART III. Inside and Outside traditional disciplines 16. Anthropology of institutions and discourse analysis: Looking into interdisciplinarity (by Bellier, Irene) 17. The role of a political identity code in defining the boundaries of public and private.: The example of latent antisemitism (by Kovacs, Andras) 18. Social order and disorder: Institutions, policy paradigms and discourses: An interdisciplinary approach (by Burns, Tom R.) 19. Biographical Notes 20. Name index 21. Subject index

258 citations

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TL;DR: The results provide a validation of Coh-Metrix, thereby paving the way for its use by researchers in cognitive science, discourse processes, and education, as well as for textbook writers, professionals in instructional design, and instructors.
Abstract: This study addresses the need in discourse psychology for computational techniques that analyze text on multiple levels of cohesion and text difficulty. Discourse psychologists often investigate phenomena related to discourse processing using lengthy texts containing multiple paragraphs, as opposed to single word and sentence stimuli. Characterizing such texts in terms of cohesion and coherence is challenging. Some computational tools are available, but they are either fragmented over different databases or they assess single, specific features of text. Coh-Metrix is a computational linguistic tool that measures text cohesion and text difficulty on a range of word, sentence, paragraph, and discourse dimensions. This study investigated the validity of Coh-Metrix as a measure of cohesion in text using stimuli from published discourse psychology studies as a benchmark. Results showed that Coh-Metrix indexes of cohesion (individually and combined) significantly distinguished the high- versus low-cohesion vers...

258 citations

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TL;DR: This article analyzed the micro discourses of social entrepreneurs, as opposed to the meta rhetorics of (social) entrepreneurship, and found a preoccupation among interviewees with local issues, collective action, geographical community and local power struggles.
Abstract: This paper questions the application of the entrepreneurship discourse to social entrepreneurship in the UK and looks at how people ‘doing’ social enterprise appropriate or re-write the discourse to articulate their own realities. Drawing on phenomenological enquiry and discourse analysis, the study analyses the micro discourses of social entrepreneurs, as opposed to the meta rhetorics of (social) entrepreneurship. Analysis using both corpus linguistics software and Critical Discourse Analysis showed a preoccupation among interviewees with local issues, collective action, geographical community and local power struggles. Echoes of the enterprise discourse are evident but couched in linguistic devices that suggest a modified social construction of entrepreneurship, in which interviewees draw their legitimacy from a local or social morality. These findings are at odds ideologically with the discursive shifts of UK social enterprise policy over the last decade, in which a managerially defined rhetoric of ent...

256 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023216
2022394
2021632
2020851
2019833
2018803