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Discourse, Discourse Analysis and C.D.A

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) examines the ways in which discourse, through text and talk, reproduces and resists power dynamics within social and political contexts. Influenced by post-structuralism and intellectual figures like Michel Foucault, CDA explores how societal issues such as dominance and inequality are enacted.

Discourse, Discourse Analysis and C.D.A

Discourse, Discourse Analysis and C.D.A

11.- Critical Discourse Analysis

Foucault’s (1969/1972) concept of discourse and power has been important in the development of C.D.A
Fairclough and Wodak (1997: 271-80):

8. Discourse is a form of social action

7. Discourse analysis is interpretative and explanatory.

6. The link between text and society is mediated.

5. Discourse is historical.

4. Discourse does ideological work.

3. Discourse constitutes society and culture.

2. Power relations are discursive.

1. Critical discourse analysis addresses social problems.

intellectual movement with which Michel Foucault

Across disciplines

Culture and kinship relations (Levi-Strauss)

Anthropology specifically

Psychology (Freud)

Language (Saussure)

Economy (Marx)

Rejection of the structuralist movement

Earlier 20th century

Critical theory
Transforms:

Religion

Power and justice ways

Gender

Transform social systems

Class

Sexual orientation construct

Race

Reproduce

Economy

Education,

Is not a unified set of perspectives
“the words of white men engaged in conversations with themselves” (Yancy, 1998)

Queer theory and so on

Neo-colonial studies

Post-modernism

Post-structuralism

Critical race theory

Is a type of discourse analytical research
Reproduced and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context, van Dijk (2003)
Dominance and inequality are enacted
Abuse
Social power

Societal issues

Effected by and effects the discursive practices
Social institutions and social structures

discourse affect ideologies

Responsible for power relations

Studies from three overlapping intellectual traditions
Analyses of language are inherently critical

Explores the social interaction which is manifested in linguistic forms

"Treat social practices in terms of their implications for things like status, solidarity, distribution of social goods, and power”.
Critical theory of language
Social practice.

Specific historical contexts

What are the consequences of this positioning?

Whose interests are negated?

Whose interests are served by this positioning?

How is the text positioned or what is its positioning?

The model of C.D.A.
lie in classical rhetoric

text linguistics and sociolinguistics

Sociological variables

Gender together

Hierarchy

Ideology

The notions of power

11.1.- Fairclough’s Approach to C.D.A.

Critical discourse analysis
Explanation:

Three questions

3. Effects:

How is this discourse positioned in relation to struggles at the situational, institutional and societal level?

2. Ideologies:

What elements of members’ resources which are drawn upon have an ideological character?

1. Social determinants:

What power relations at situational, institutional and societal levels help shape this discourse?

Portray discourse

Social structures

Social determinations

Societal level

Situational level

Effects

Determinants

Institutional level

Struggles

(Ideally, naturalized)

Reproductive effects

Structures, sustaining them or changing

Part of a social process

Social practice

Showing how

Concerned with the relationship between interaction and social context.

Interpretation:

Situational context

3. Difference and change:

Are answers to questions 1 and 2 different for different participants? And do they change during the course of the interaction?

2. Discourse type(s):

What discourse type(s) are being drawn upon (hence what rules, systems or principles of phonology

1. Context:

What interpretation(s) are participants giving to the situational and intertextual contexts?

Questions which relate to four main dimensions of situation:

4. What is the role of language?

3. In what relations?

2. Who is involved?

1. What is going on?

Text and social structure

Indirect, mediated one.

Members resources

Dialectical interplay

Generate interpretations

Point of view

Formal features

Activate elements

Background of commonsense assumptions

(Part of members resources)

Embedded

Social interaction

Socially operative

Become real

Textual features

Produced and interpreted

Concerned with the relationship between text and interaction.

Description:

Ten main questions

The significance and interest of each of these questions are explained by Fairclough (2001c:94-l 16) in details.

most significant for critical analysis:

A. Vocabulary

B. Grammar

C. Textual structures

(and some sub-questions)

asked of a text

find the set of textual features

Types of speech act and the directness or indirectness of their expression

descriptive framework

Features of vocabulary

Punctuation

Turn-taking

Stage which is concerned with formal properties of the text.

Approach
Fulfill the objectives

Fairclough’s models

Three dimensions

Stages

Three - Dimensional Model

(text, discursive practice, social practice)

Research project

Discourse

Part of society

Somehow external

(non-linguistic)

Conditioned process,

Aims and methods
Relation to power and ideology developed

Disclosing the discursive nature

Language of the mass media

Site where language is apparently transparent

Of struggle

Scrutinized as a site of power

Contemporary social and cultural change

Fairclough (1989)
Critical linguistic work

Variety of textual examples

Analyzed to illustrate the field

11.2.- The Model of the Present Study

Discourse Practice
Social Practice

Social Matrix of Discourse

Orders of Discourse

Ideological and Political Effects of Discourse

Text

Metaphor

The objective is to analyze and characterize the metaphors employed in the discourse sample, comparing them to metaphors used elsewhere to convey similar meanings. The analysis aims to determine the factors, such as cultural or ideological influences, that shape the selection of metaphors

Wording

The objective is to contrast the ways meanings are worded with the ways they are worded in other (types of) text and to identify the interpretative perspective that underlies this wording (Fairclough 1992b: 190-4).

Grammar

Three dimensions of the grammar of the clause are differentiated here: ‘transitivity’, ‘theme’ and ‘modality’

Ethos

Ethos involves not just discourse, but the whole body. Any of the analytical categories listed here maybe relevant to ethos (Fairclough 1992b: 166-7).

Cohesion

The objective is to show how clauses and sentences are connected together in the text.

Interactional Control

The objective is to describe the larger-scale organizational properties of interactions that contribute to the orderly functioning and control of interactions • Exploring topic control: Examining how topics are introduced, developed, and established, and whether topic control is symmetrical or asymmetrical. • Investigating agenda setting: Understanding how agendas are set, policed, and evaluated by participants.

Each of the three dimensions of discourse practice is represented below.

Presupposition

• Are they linked to the prior texts of others, or the prior texts of the text producer? • Are they sincere or manipulative?

Discourse Representation

• What is represented aspects of context and style, or just ideational meaning? • Is the represented discourse clearly demarcated? Is it translated into the voice of the representing discourse? • How is it contextualized in the representing discourse?

Manifest Intertextuality

situated between discourse practice and text, raises questions about the elements involved in producing a text. It focuses on the features that are evident or "manifest" on the surface of the text.

Conditions of Discourse Practice:

• The aim is to specify the social practices of text production and consumption related to the type of discourse represented by the sample. • The analysis explores whether the text is produced or consumed individually or collectively, and if there are distinguishable stages of production

Coherence

The analysis considers the heterogeneity and ambivalence of the text for specific interpreters and the inferential work required.

Intertextual Chains

The objective here is to specify the distribution of a (type of) discourse sample by describing the intertextual chains it enters into, that is the series of text types it is transformed into or out of (see Fairclough 1992b: 130-2).

Interdiscursivity

• Identify discourse types and justify interpretations through text analysis. • Characterize the sample overall in terms of genre and its implications for production, distribution, and consumption. • Determine if the sample draws upon multiple genres.

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Evaluation

• Influence of Fairclough's model: Mentioning that this research follows the models of Fairclough (1989) more closely for analyzing the corpus data from women's magazines, but acknowledging that C.D.A. is not restricted to any one particular model and encompasses various interrelated aspects • Values commitment • Justification of analyses

Modality

• Categorical and modalized modalities • Deontic modalities • Epistemic modalities

Styles

• Features characterizing the drawn styles • Mixing of styles • Styles drawn upon

Representation of Social Events

• Representation of social events • Grammatical metaphor • Representation of processes

Discourses

•features characterizing the drawn discourses • Mixing of discourses • Discourses drawn upon

Exchanges, Speech Functions and Grammatical Mood

•Metaphorical relations • Types of statements • Predominant types of exchange and speech function

Semantic/ Grammatical Relations between Sentences and Clause

• Grammatical relations between clauses • Higher-level semantic relations • Predominant semantic relations

Assumptions

• Ideological assumption • Existential, prepositional, and value assumptions

Intertextuality

• Direct and indirect reporting • Attribution of voices • Inclusion and exclusion of other texts/voices

Genre

• Genre influences • Mix of genres • Genre chain

Social Events

• Examining text chains or networks • Framing within social practices • Identifying the social even

10.- Approaches to Discourse Analysis

Conversation Analysis
Analyzes social order and seeks to discover the methods by which members of a society produce a sense of social order (conversation).
by sociologist

Harold Garfinkel.

Ethnomethodology: the link between what social actors ‘do’ in interaction and what they ‘know’ about interaction.

He developed the approach

ethnomethodology

Variation Analysis
For labov

they are alternative ways of saying the same thing.

Related with

Contextual factors

Cultural factors

Social factors

They are discovered through the systematic investigation of a speech community.
Sociolinguistic variables that influence language in different contexts.
Ethnography of Communication
For hymes

Analyzes patterns of communication as part of cultural knowledge and behavior

It consists of four elements

observing actual language use

psycholinguistic limitations

social appropriateness

linguistic competence

Speech based on anthropology and linguistics.
Interactional Sociolinguistics
Schiffrin

states that is

The discourse as a social interaction and negotiation of meaning in the use of language

It studies the relationship between language and society, in the context of verbal interaction.
Gives an approach to discourse that focuses upon situated meaning
Pragmatics
Morris

Identifies three ways of studying signs

Study of the relation signs to interpreter

Semantics

Study of how signs are related to the object to which they are applicable

Syntax

Study of formal relations of signs to one another

Defines it as

The science of the relation of signs to their interpreters

It deals with three concepts

Communication

Context

Meaning

Studies words and the meaning of sentences
Detailed study of meaning in the language
Speech Act Theory
It is concerned

What people do with language and functions of language.

Some authors mention that is:

Labov y Fanshel

Accurately identify the intended meaning of the speaker's utterance and respond to it accordingly.

John Austin y John Searle

Meaning and action are related to language.

Taxonomy of speech acts according to Searle

declarations ( appointing)

Expressives (thanking)

Commissives ( promising)

Directives (requesting)

Representative (asserting)

9.- A Historical Overview

American discourse analysis,
ethnomethodological tradition

Examines types of speech acts

verbal duels

greeting rituals

storytelling

Structural-linguistic criteria
Text grammarians perceive texts as linguistic elements.
Developed a model
description of teacher-student speech

based

On a hierarchy of discourse units.

British discourse analysis influenced by M.A.K.'s functional approach to language.
important in

Brimingham University

Coulthard (1975)

Britain Sinclair

Dealt with the analysis of single sentences.
Speech act theory and the formulation of conversational maxims.
Analysts study language in use.
in use

Written texts of all kinds and spoken data.

8.- Discourse Analysis

Political construction: constructing the nature and relevance of various "social goods''
Connection building: assumptions about how the past and future of an interaction are connected to the present.
Construction of activity: situated meanings about which activity.
Construction of socioculturally situated identities and relations: situated meanings about which identities and relations are relevant to interaction.
Semiotic construction: meanings about semiotic systems
Word construction: situated meanings about reality.
Focus on language
Receivers work on the linguistic messages to interpret them.
The senders construct linguistic messages for the receivers.
Describe activities in the interaction of disciplines
such as

philosophical linguistics

computational linguistics

sociolinguistics

psycholinguistics

7.- Tendencies in discourse change

Synthetic personalization
mass communications media

Brochures

Cover headlines, etc.

Advertisements

Magazine articles

Presents the interests of the dominant bloc as the interests of the population as a whole.
Encompasses aspects of life independent of production.
Increasing tendency to the formation of subjects.
Through strategic and manipulative discourses.
Integration between social institutions in modern capitalist society.

6.- Intertextual context

same or different interpretations
constructing an "ideal reader'' through presupposition.
interpretations
of the intertextual context

to which series a text belongs

common

5.- Resources for production and interpretation

''intertextual context''
The participants of the discourses operate on the basis of assumptions.
Interpretation through the dialectical interaction of the keys and the MRs.
MRs serve as interpretative procedures
It grants specific social identities and power relations.
textual and contextual characteristics

4.- Discourse as Social Practice (Fairclough)

active agent as passively conformed,
two considerations

social relationships

social identities of the interactants

facilitating and limiting
manifests

the close examination of interpersonal meaning and in its emphasis on the subject position of language users.

"happy ambiguity" = discourse
It refers to a real representation as well as a social convention.

3.- Discourse formations

Sub- related to the "discursive practice".
constitution of meaning and of the subject.
''discourse formations''
(what can and should be said)

2.- Foucauldian discourse

Fairclough
constructed through dispersion and discontinuity.
approach is anti-humanist

is based on objects, style, concepts and themes

constituted in the organization and distribution of knowledge
employs the term discourse in a Foucauldian sense

investigated the exercise of social power through discourses.

A.D.C.
Roots in Foucault and other schools of thought

1.- Discourse in linguistics

studies speech patterns and the use of the language
Production and interpretation

Cognitive processes related to social practices.

''text"

Speech, spoken or written, is manifested

Material accessible to others.

"discourse"

Produced and interpreted by specific people

Institutional and social contexts.

Structured collections of meaningful texts.