Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis

✍ Scribed by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard (editor), Malcolm Coulthard (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a second edition of the ground- breaking volume Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, which was the first published collection of chapters presenting critical discourse analysis theory and practice. Critical discursive approaches have now become the main trend in most discursive and semiotic investigations. It was then, and is especially now, predominantly concerned with identifying, demystifying and resisting the ways language and semiotic systems are used to reflect, create and sustain inequalities in specific contexts.

This new collection presents contributions by all six of the living authors who were central to the first edition: Norman Fairclough, Theo van Leeuwen, Teun van Dijk, Ruth Wodak, Carmen Caldas-Coulthard and Malcolm Coulthard – plus an edited version of a jointly authored classic chapter originally authored by Roger Fowler and Gunther Kress. There are four new chapters written by the other leading members of the foundational 1990s European Critical Discourse Analysis group: Phil Graham, Jay Lemke, David Machin and Louisa Rojo and two by young critical discourse researchers who have risen to prominence more recently: Rodrigo Borba and Germán Canale.

Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis provides a representative collection of work which, while authored by the pioneering researchers of the first wave of CDA, illustrates their most recent concerns and their latest analytical techniques. It is an essential text for all advanced students of English language, linguistics, media and cultural studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
The Development of the Area
The Structure of the Book
Fowler and Kress: Critical Discourse Analysis
Norman Fairclough: Technologization of Discourse
Jay Lemke: Transmedia Identities: Critical Analysis and New Media
Theo Van Leeuwen: Performance and Politics
Ruth Wodak: Euphemizing Exclusion and the Racialization of Space
Malcolm Coulthard: The Official Version
Teun Van Dijk: Manifestos as Social Movement Discourse
Luisa Martín Rojo: The Anti-Establishment Discourses of the Radical Right in Spain: On ‘Freedom’ and Libertarianism During the Pandemic
Phil Graham: Negative Discourse Analysis, Narrative, and Marketing in Post-Literate Culture
David Machin: Analysing Discourses in Infographics
Germán Canale: CDA as Local Praxis: Educational Media and Anti-Gender/sexuality Discourse in News Reports in Uruguay
Rodrigo Borba: Disgusting Politics: Circuits of Affects and the Making of Bolsonaro
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard: Ageism, Sexism, and Semiotic Representation
Mary Talbot: Multimodal Biography of a Revolutionary Feminist
Final Note
References
Chapter 2 Critical Linguistics
Introduction
Critical Analysis
The Grammar of Transitivity
The Grammar of Modality
Transformations
Classification
Coherence, Order and Unity
Research Task
Notes
Reference
Chapter 3 Technologization of Discourse
Introduction
Characteristics of Discourse Technologization
Technologization of Discourse and Wider Processes of Change
Technologization of Discourse and Changing ‘Workplace Culture’
Impact On Discoursal Practices
Further Changes in Universities
Two Research Tasks
Notes
References
Chapter 4 Transmedia Identities: Critical Analysis and New Media
Critical Discourse Analysis: From Print Texts to Multimedia Franchises
Models, Identifications and Identity
Transmedia Immersion ‘24/7’
Games and Globalization
Dilemmas and Opportunities
Some Strategies for Research
How to Do It?
Research Tasks
References
Chapter 5 Performance and Politics
Introduction
The Representation of Performance
Performer- Vs. Performance-Oriented Representations
Labelling and Characterizing
Characterizing and Labelling Performances
Implicit and Explicit Performance Orientations
Interpreting
Performing Populisms
The Ordinary Bloke
The Family Man
The Commander
Conclusion
Research Questions
Notes
References
Chapter 6 Walls, Boundaries, and Borders: Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Racialization of Space
Introduction: Some Functions of Walls
Walls, Ghettos, and Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion
Moralization, Mediatization, and Securitization
Walls and Segregated Spaces
Legitimizing Exclusion: Discourse, Argumentation, and Legitimation
Debating the Building of Walls
Conclusions
Research Tasks
Notes
References
Chapter 7 The Official Version
Introduction
On Collecting Verbal Evidence
An Illustration From a Problematic Interview That Was Not Audio-Recorded
Ways of Improving the Collection of Verbal Evidence By Means of Police Interviewing
Recommendation 2: Silence Should Be a Right and a Right Clearly Communicated Before Any Questioning Begins and Not Forfeitable Unintentionally.
Recommendation: 4: All Significant Interviews With Non-Native Suspects Must Be Interpreted.
On Transcribing Recorded Evidence
Concluding Observations
Research Tasks
Notes
References
Chapter 8 Manifestos as Social Movement Discourse
Introduction
Discourse Analysis of Social Movements
Studies of Manifestos
Theoretical Framework
Contexts of Manifestos
Participants
The Socio-Political Context
The Discourse Structures and Strategies of Manifestos
Social Cognition
Personal Or Group Cognition
Discourse Structures
The Stop Mare Mortum Manifesto in Spain
Stop Mare Mortum
The Manifesto of the First Continental Summit of Indigenous Women Puno, Peru May 27–28, 2009
Conclusions
Research Tasks
References
Chapter 9 The Anti-Establishment Discourses of the Radical Right in Spain: On ‘Freedom’ and Libertarianism During the Pandemic
Introduction
How to Regenerate Political Discourse to Win Power
How Does the Radical Right Build an Anti-Establishment and Anti-Politician Discourse to Take Over the Political Scene
Polarization, ‘Mutual Minorityhood’, and Antagonism: Anti-Correction, Anti-Progressivism, and Anti-Establishment
A Counterhegemonic Reframing
Freedom Or Privilege?
A Conservative Neoliberal Political Rationality: Paleolibertarianism
Concluding Remarks: Activism in Research
Research Tasks
Notes
References
Chapter 10 Negative Discourse Analysis, Narrative, and Marketing in Post-Literate Culture
Introduction
Critique and the Status Quo
NDA and Problems of Purity
Links Between the Negative and Attitudinal Meaning
Post-literate Culture, Narrative Syntax, and Marketing Discourse
Politics in Targeted Societies: Wedge Issues and Discourse-Industrial Sectors
Revenge Attack Fear as Suburbs Gripped By Terror
Selling the Social Soul
Conclusion
Research Tasks
Note
References
Chapter 11 Analyzing Discourses in Infographics
Introduction
Critical Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, and Analysing Infographics
A Tool Kit for Analysing Infographics
Using a Case Study: Sustainability as a Buzzword
Analyzing Infographics
Building Block Compositions
Lists and Tables
Center-margin Compositions
Cycle Compositions
Left-right Compositions
Pathway Compositions
Segmentation Compositions
Network Compositions
Conclusion
Research Tasks
References
Chapter 12 CDA as Local Praxis: Educational Media and Anti-Gender/sexuality Discourse in News Reports in Uruguay
Introduction
Anti-gender/sexuality Discourse and Education
Educational Media and the DPSE
Corpus and Contextualization
Analysis
Thematization
Victimization
Heterosexuals as Victims
Parents as Victims
Children as Victims
Heterogeneity as Ingroup Self-Representation
Silencing Children and Teenagers (As Learners)
CDA as Local Praxis: Some Final Remarks
Research Tasks
Notes
References
Chapter 13 Disgusting Politics: Circuits of Affects and the Making of Bolsonaro
Introduction
Affective Communicability
Resentful Straight Men
Circuits of Disgust and the Making of Bolsonaro
Final Remarks
Research Task
Notes
References
Chapter 14 Ageism, Sexism, and Semiotic Representation
Introduction
Ageism
Ageing
Ageism in Discourse – Words and Images
Coda – Resisting Voices
Research Tasks
Notes
References
Chapter 15 Multimodal Biography of a Revolutionary Feminist
References
Index