Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies

by Hart, Christopher; Cap, Piotr

• ISBN13: 9781474295000
• ISBN10: 1474295002
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-01-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Critical discourse studies is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for dynamically analysing evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoretical and empirical developments. It presents an up-to-date survey of critical discourse studies (CDS), covering both the theoretical landscape and the analytical territories that it extends over. It is intended for critical scholars and students who wish to keep abreast of the current state of the art.

The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the chapters are organised around different methodological perspectives for CDS (history, cognition, multimodality and corpora, among others). In the second part, the chapters are organised around particular discourse types and topics investigated in CDS, both traditionally (e.g. issues of racism and gender inequality) and only more recently (e.g. issues of health, public policy, and the environment).

This is, altogether, an essential new reference work for all CDS practitioners.

Author Biography

Christopher Hart is Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK

Piotr Cap is Professor of Linguistics, University of Lodz, Poland.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction - Christopher Hart and Piotr Cap
PART I Dimensions of Discourse
History
2. Argumentation Analysis and the Discourse-Historical Approach. A Methodological Framework, Martin Reisigl
3. Metaphor in the Discourse-Historical Approach, Andreas Musolff
Argumentation
4. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Topos of History as a Teacher in Public Struggles over Self- and Other-Representation, Bernard Forchtner
5. It Is Easy To Miss Something You Are Not Looking For: A Pragmatic Account of Covert Communicative Influence for (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Steve Oswald
Social Cognition
6. Discourse-Cognition-Society: Current State and Prospects of the Socio-Cognitive Approach to Discourse, Teun van Dijk
7. Applying Social Cognition Research to Critical Discourse Studies: The Case of Collective Identities, Veronika Koller
Conceptualisation
8. A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Language, Mind and Ideology, Christopher Hart
9. Expanding CDS Methodology by Cognitive-Pragmatic Tools: Proximization Theory and Public Space Discourses, Piotr Cap
Corpora
10. 'Bad Wigs And Screaming Mimis': Using Corpus-Assisted Techniques to Carry Out Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representation of Trans People in the British Press, Paul Baker
11. Deconstructing Arguments via Text Mining of Their Online Discussion Forums: A Practical Digitally-Based Analysis, Kieran O'Halloran
Sound and Vision
12. Critical Discourse Analysis and Multimodality, Theo van Leeuwen
13. Sound and Discourse: A Multimodal Approach to War Film Music, David Machin
PART II Domains of Discourse
Political Discourse
14. American Ways of Organizing the World: Designing the Global Future through U.S. National Security Policy, Patricia Dunmire
15. 'Yes, We Can': The Social Life of a Political Slogan, Adam Hodges
Media Discourse
16. Media Discourse in Context, Anita Fetzer
17. Media Discourse and De/Coloniality: A Post-Foundational Approach,
Felicitas Macgilchrist
European Union
18. Discourse and Communication in the European Union: A Multi-Focus Perspective of Critical Discourse Studies, Michal Krzyzanowski
19. The Discursive Technology of Europeans' Involvement: EU Culture and Community of Practice, Elena Magistro
Public Policy
20. The Privatisation of the Public Realm: A Critical Perspective on Practice and Discourse, Gerlinde Mautner
21. Pushed out of School: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Policies and Practices of Educational Accountability, Rebecca Rogers
Race and Immigration
22. Immigration Discourses and Critical Discourse Analysis: Dynamics of World Events and Immigration Representations in the British Press, Majid KhosraviNik
23. Race and Immigration in Far- and Extreme-Right European Political Leaflets, John Richardson and Monica Colombo
Health
24. Critical Studies of Health and Illness Discourses, Nelya Koteyko
25. Public Health in the UK Media, Olivia Knapton and Gabriella Rundblad
Environment
26. Ecolinguistics and Erasure, Arran Stibbe
27. Values, Assumptions and Beliefs in British Newspaper Editorial Coverage of Climate Change, Cinzia Bevitori
Index