Critical Discourse Analysis Theory and Interdisciplinarity

by Weiss, Gilbert; Wodak, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780230555143
• ISBN10: 0230555144
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Can discourse analysis techniques adequately deal with complex social phenomena? What does " interdisciplinarity" mean for theory building and the practice of empirical research? This original volume debates critical theory and discourse analysis, focusing on the extent to which CDA can draw on a range of disciplines in the social sciences.

Author Biography

Gilbert Weiss is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Salzburg. Austria. He is the author or editor of several books, including European Union Discourses on Un/employment ( with Peter Muntigl and Ruth Wodak, 2000).

Ruth Wodak is Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK and head of the Wittgenstein Research Centre "Discourse-Politics-Identity" at the University of Vienna. Among other honours, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996. She has published many books; among the most recent are: The Discursive Construction and Representation of Politics in Action, The Construction of History. Remembering the War of Annihilation (with H. Heer, W. Manoschek, A. Pollak, translated from the German) ,and Voices of Migrants (with G. Delanty, P. Jones).

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Theory, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Discourse Analysis;G.Weiss

Critical -- Critical -- Critical

Critical Discourse Analysis and the Rhetoric of Critique

Critical Discourse Analysis and the Development of New Science

Reflexivity and the Doubles of Modern Man: The Discursive Construction of Anthropological Subject Positions

Debating And Practising Interdisciplinarity

The Discourse-Knowledge Interface

Critical Discourse Analysis and Evaluative Meaning; Interdisciplinarity as a Critical Turn

Texts and Discourses in the Technologies of Social Organisation

Identities in Flux: Arabs and Jews in Israel

Political and Somatic Alignment: Habitus, Ideology and Social Practice

Voicing the 'Other': Reading and Writing Indigenous Australians

From Theory To Social And Political Practice

Activist Sociolinguistics in a Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective

Discourse at Work: When Women Take on the Role of Manager

Cross-Cultural Representation of 'Otherness' in Media Discourse

Interaction Between Visual and Verbal Communication: Changing Patterns in the Printed Media

Index

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