Critical discourse analysis and its critics

Pragmatics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Breeze
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Reader Response ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
The Status

This article briefly reviews the rise of Critical Discourse Analysis and teases out a detailed analysis of the various critiques that have been levelled at CDA and its practitioners over the last twenty years, both by scholars working within the “critical” paradigm and by other critics. A range of criticisms are discussed which target the underlying premises, the analytical methodology and the disputed areas of reader response and the integration of contextual factors. Controversial issues such as the predominantly negative focus of much CDA scholarship, and the status of CDA as an emergent “intellectual orthodoxy”, are also reviewed. The conclusions offer a summary of the principal criticisms that emerge from this overview, and suggest some ways in which these problems could be attenuated.

scholarly journals Uyghur and China in The American Media Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of CNN News Articles

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Prayudha Prayudha ◽  
Ma’ruf Fawwaz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Text Representation ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
The Status ◽  
American Media ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Descriptive Method

This paper analyzes the textual aspects in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) Norman Fairclough model of CNN news discourse about Uyghur issue. When this research is conducted, there are only at least five articles specifically discussing Uyghur issue that are 29th December 2011, 29th February 2012, 29th February 2012, 30th October 2013, and 5th September 2014 publications. The research focuses on analyzing the text representation and the relation between participants in the discourse. Objectives of the paper are: 1) to analyze the text representation of news in the news channel of CNN related to the Uyghur case, and 2) to analyze the relation between participants in the news channel of CNN related to the Uyghur case. The subject of this paper is Uyghur issue as reflected in the news articles of CNN International. The paper applies qualitative descriptive method. As a consequence: CNN often put formality features and a vague vocabulary to block and obscure the negative value from the readers to China. The relation here is presented by CNN to China rather than CNN to Uyghur. It is reflected by the power of the status of China.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Editorial Article (The Audience Affecting the Writer's Ideology and Lexical Choice)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Sanaa Hssni Al-Marayat
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Great Support ◽  
The Status

This paper reports on the findings of how the status of the audience affects the discourse of the writer in terms of the lexical choice and ideology. The data are elicited through a questionnaire that consists of (11) questions represent lexical choice and ideology. Analysis of the data suggests that there is a great support and satisfaction about the ideology of the editor more than some of the lexical choice questions. In addition, the editor was somewhat successful in reflecting what the audience thinks of. The study concludes with some implications and recommendations in the field of discourse analysis.

Inside the Propaganda Machine of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its Evolution Following the Rise of Islamic State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Bartolucci
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Visual Propaganda

The strategic communication of violent extremist organizations have evolved dramatically in the past few years. This chapter examines the evolution of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in relation to the Islamic State (IS) by showing that the two movements have always had different worldviews and, consequently, very different communicative strategies and discourses. To this end, this chapter presents the results of a detailed analysis of texts produced by AQIM and of an analysis of the visual propaganda of IS both performed through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis.

Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wodak
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches

This paper discusses important and fruitful links between (Critical) Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics. In a detailed analysis of three utterances of an election speech by the Austrian rightwing politician Jörg Haider, it is illustrated in which ways a discourse-analytical and pragmatic approach grasps the intricacy of anti-Semitic meanings, directed towards the President of the Viennese Jewish Community. The necessity of in-depth context-analysis in multiple layers (from the socio-political context up to the co-text of each utterance) moreover emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary approaches when investigating such complex issues as racism and anti-Semitism as produced and reproduced in discourse. More specifically, the relevance of pragmatic devices such as insinuations, presuppositions and implicatures, is discussed when analyzing instances of ‘coded language’, i.e., utterances with indirect and latent racist and anti-Semitic meanings as common in official discourses in Western Europe.

“We should…” versus “We will…”: How do the governments report their work in “One Country Two Systems”? A corpus-driven critical discourse analysis of government work reports in Greater China

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Meng ◽  
Yao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Greater China ◽  
Government Work ◽  
One Country Two Systems ◽  
The Government ◽  
First Person Plural

AbstractCritical discourse analysis (CDA) in conjunction with a corpus-driven analytical methodology has evolved into a powerful qualitative and quantitative tool for deconstructing and studying political discourse. This study utilizes a corpus-driven CDA approach to examine the dynamics of power distance and the ideological stance in the context of Greater China, as conveyed in the 2013 Report on the Work of the Government of Mainland China and the Policy Address in Hong Kong. Concordancing software was used to generate frequency lists, co-selection patterns, and concgrams for detailed analysis. In particular, study examines differences in usage of the first-person plural pronoun

scholarly journals Discursive Strategies on Ridwan Kamil’s Status Update: a Critical Discourse Analysis

Humaniora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Yudhy Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Written Expression ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
The Impact

The research was aimed to know the impact of a written expression through social media toward the people who read it. The analysis was performed in accordance with the theories of strategy, discourse analysis, and critical discourse analysis put by Wodak and Meyer (2001) and Renkema (2009), and the theories of internet and language by Crystal (2004). The data were taken from the page of Ridwan Kamil, Mayor of Bandung in that social media. The research needed to see the strategy in his status update (written expression). From the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) point of view, it can be understood the way people transfer their ideas and thoughts showed their power and influenced the people through some certain strategies. The results of the research show (1) all strategies are used in his status update, namely the referential/nomination, the predication, the argumentation, the perspectivation and the intensification strategies, (2) there are always some implicit and explicit intentions that are shared through the status update, and (3) there are some certain aspects that affect the readers of the status update.

scholarly journals Linguistic Features of Kakawing Speeches: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-238
Author(s):  
Alyanah Pantao
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Close Family

This study took a serious and more probing look at one of the most interesting and well-developed art forms – i.e. Meranaw orature, rhetoric, or public speaking, specifically ceremonial speeches delivered at formal occasions during weddings. The study is qualitative and ethnographicas as it involved participant-observation.  Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as enunciated by Norman Fairclough (1995) and Textual Analysis of Teun Van Dijk (1998), this study aimed to identify the linguistic features of the ceremonial speeches and discover the values reflected that shaped the ideology of the Meranaws. The values dicoveres were classified to three frameworks-social, political and religious.The findings revealed that Meranaw speech is rich with islamic lexicons that praises Allah, compliments and honorifics, lietmotifs, local words, idiomatics expression and figures of speech which describes the nature of marriage and its relevance in Meranaw society. The study revealed that the values identified defined and shaped what is essential among the Meranaws-the concept of Bangsa (clan). Marriage among the Meranaws is not just a union between the bride and groom but the union of the clans to maintan the status que of the family and preserve purity of the blood line. Marriage is used to impower and elevate the status of the family through kathothonganaya (close family ties), kapagisa-isa (unity) and kambatabata (tightening relationship).

scholarly journals Pseudo Neutrality in Intra-State Conflict: Myanmar’s Official Discourse on Rakhine

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 25-52
Author(s):  
Kenneth Houston
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Salvation Army ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural Pressures

Although the most recent manifestation of conflict in Rakhine can be traced to the coordinated attack on Myanmar security forces in August 2017 by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (hereafter ARSA), it goes without saying that the problem has a longer history. For this paper a corpus of official Myanmar government sources was examined qualitatively using the critical discourse analysis (CDA) method. Within the official pronouncements of the Myanmar state since August 2017 we can discern the discursive strategies deployed to balance the competing pressures of national and international legitimation of the Myanmar government. In name and through action, Myanmar has marginalized the Rohingyas. However, beyond this obvious imperative additional and more subtle strategies have been deployed in Myanmar’s official discourse, which attempts to position the Myanmar state as a neutral arbiter in a subnational dispute and one that seeks to distance itself from previous political arrangements. The paper focuses on these other discursive strategies which evince conformity to undercurrents of socio-cultural pressures from grassroots extremist Buddhist actors within Myanmar. Ultimately, there is no escaping Official Myanmar’s responsibility for the status and plight of the Rohingya. The prognosis for external pressure to exert any normative influence on Myanmar will be limited. The official discourse betrays the ongoing attempts by the new government to balance these competing pressures at the expense of genuine neutrality and its responsibilities.

scholarly journals Political Discourse of Jordan: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Ali Al-Momani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Psychological Dimensions

Based on the critical discourse analysis theory, the main purpose of this study is to highlight the social and psychological dimensions of the political discourse of Jordan through analyzing king Abdullah’s address to the American Congress in 2007 from socio-cognitive, socio-ideological, and socio-stylistic perspectives. Additionally, the paper uses the critical discourse analysis theory to examine selected quotations from the king’s address in order to see how the Jordanian political discourse is influenced by the status, ideologies, and attitudes of the congressmen to whom it is directed.

Representations of Saudi Male’s Guardianship System and Women’s Freedom to Travel in Western Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariq Elyas ◽  
Abdulrahman Aljabri
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
Recent Reform ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Western Media

There has been a tremendous interest in the Western media concerning the status of women in Saudi Arabia. The recent reform in women’s rights and guardianship system has Western media gone into motion frenzy. A few research has been done on the representation of Saudi women in Arabic newspapers, but there is a scarce of research in Western English newspapers to date. This article exercises a critical discourse analysis approach to investigate the language used in three famous Western newspapers to uncover the hidden ideologies behind the representation of Saudi women’s guardianship system. To this end, van Dijk’s (2004) analytical framework was employed to reveal the underlying ideologies of six reports by The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Toronto Star. The findings show that the three newspapers have expressed the notion of “otherness” in their descriptions of Saudi Arabia and Saudi women. Furthermore, the newspapers have shared the employment of consensus and negative other-presentation to portray Saudi women as being oppressed and subordinate.

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