Journal articles: 'Critical discourse theory'

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Laclau, Ernesto, and Roy Bhaskar. "Discourse Theory vs Critical Realism." Alethia 1, no. 2 (July 12, 1998): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/aleth.v1i2.9.

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Bloom, Peter. "Discourse theory and critical media politics." Critical Discourse Studies 11, no. 2 (March 4, 2014): 246–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2014.895076.

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Brock, André. "Critical technocultural discourse analysis." New Media & Society 20, no. 3 (November 11, 2016): 1012–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816677532.

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Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) is a multimodal analytic technique for the investigation of Internet and digital phenomena, artifacts, and culture. It integrates an analysis of the technological artifact and user discourse, framed by cultural theory, to unpack semiotic and material connections between form, function, belief, and meaning of information and communication technologies (ICTs). CTDA requires the incorporation of critical theory—critical race, feminism, queer theory, and so on—to incorporate the epistemological standpoint of underserved ICT users so as to avoid deficit-based models of underrepresented populations’ technology use. This article describes in detail the formulation and execution of the technique, using the author’s research on Black Twitter as an exemplar. Utilizing CTDA, the author found that Black discursive identity interpellated Twitter’s mechanics to produce explicit cultural technocultural digital practices—defined by one investor as “the use case for Twitter.” Researchers interested in using this technique will find it an intervention into normative and analytic technology analyses, as CTDA formulates technology as cultural representations and social structures in order to simultaneously interrogate culture and technology as intertwined concepts.

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Ludes, Peter, Winfried Nöth, and Kathrin Fahlenbrach. "Introduction: Critical Visual Theory." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12, no. 1 (March 21, 2014): 202–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v12i1.559.

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The studies selected for publication in this special issue on Critical Visual Theory can be divided into three thematic groups: (1) image making as power making, (2) commodification and recanonization, and (3) approaches to critical visual theory. The approaches to critical visual theory adopted by the authors of this issue may be subsumed under the following headings (3.1) critical visual discourse and visual memes in general and Anonymous visual discourse in particular, (3.2) collective memory and gendered gaze, and (3.3) visual capitalism, global north and south.

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Ludes, Peter, Winfried Nöth, and Kathrin Fahlenbrach. "Introduction: Critical Visual Theory." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12, no. 1 (March 21, 2014): 202–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/vol12iss1pp202-213.

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The studies selected for publication in this special issue on Critical Visual Theory can be divided into three thematic groups: (1) image making as power making, (2) commodification and recanonization, and (3) approaches to critical visual theory. The approaches to critical visual theory adopted by the authors of this issue may be subsumed under the following headings (3.1) critical visual discourse and visual memes in general and Anonymous visual discourse in particular, (3.2) collective memory and gendered gaze, and (3.3) visual capitalism, global north and south.

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Flatschart, Elmar. "Critical Realist Critical Discourse Analysis: A Necessary Alternative to Post-marxist Discourse Theory." Journal of Critical Realism 15, no. 1 (January 2016): 21–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2015.1118588.

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Al-Momani, Hassan Ali. "Political Discourse of Jordan: A Critical Discourse Analysis." International Journal of English Linguistics 7, no. 2 (January 20, 2017): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v7n2p90.

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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.

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Cap, Piotr. "Proximization Theory and Critical Discourse Studies: A Promising Connection?" International Review of Pragmatics 5, no. 2 (2013): 293–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-13050208.

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The goal of this paper is to show how proximization theory, a recent cognitive-pragmatic model of crisis and threat construction, can be applied in Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). It is argued that the rapidly growing, intergeneric field of CDS is in need of new, interdisciplinary methodologies that will allow it to account for an increasingly broader spectrum of discourses, genres and thematic domains. Thus, proximization theory is used as a candidate methodological tool to handle three sample discourses—health, environment, modern technology—with a view to further applications. The results seem promising: the theory elucidates well the key features of public discourses within the CDS scope, for instance legitimization patterns in policy communication. Equally promising seem the prospects for proximization theory itself to continue to draw empirically from the expanding CDS territory.

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Forst, Rainer. "Committed critical theory." Philosophy & Social Criticism 44, no. 2 (January 21, 2018): 126–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453717752776.

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In this article, I comment on Stephen White’s version of critical theory as presented in A Democratic Bearing. I specifically focus on his version of the “colonization thesis” and the social analysis this leads to. I also scrutinize his normative framework, especially the claim of non-foundationalism and the difference between his view and Kantian discourse theory.

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Ahmed, Masood. "Critical Discourse Analysis: A Critical Approach To Expose Hidden Realities In The Discourse Of Sustainable Development." IBT Journal of Business Studies 15, no. 2 (2019): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2019.15.02.01.

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The acceptability of sustainable development as the concept to response to increasing social environmental challenges has led many firms to adopt sustainable development in the form of corporate sustainability. However, the evidence show there is little impact of the so called sustainable activities of the firms on the society and environment and business as usual continues. In the paper it is suggested that to understand why such impact has not occurred we need to look at the current discourses on sustainable development and corporate sustainability through the lens of critical theory and its methodology of critical discourses analysis. Major discourses prevailing in Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability have been discussed. It is found out that dominant discourse of Business Case for Sustainability is marginalizing the other discourses that favor nature or society over economics as the central theme of sustainability. The implications of the findings is such that unless the dominant discourse Business Case for Sustainability is not challenged the goals of Sustainable Development would remain elusive and the path towards social and environmental degradation would continue.

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Box, Richard C. "Critical Theory and the Paradox of Discourse." American Review of Public Administration 25, no. 1 (March 1995): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/027507409502500101.

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Cap, Piotr. "Discourse studies: Between social constructionism and linguistics. A critical overview." Topics in Linguistics 20, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/topling-2019-0006.

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Abstract This paper gives a critical overview of the analytical approaches dominating the field of discourse studies in the last three decades, from the perspective of their philosophical and formative bases: social constructionism and linguistics. It explores different conceptions of the theoretical nexus between these two bases leading to the emergence of three distinct yet complementary strands of thought (i-iii). The paper starts with poststructuralist views of discourse salient in (i) Laclau and Mouffe’s Discourse Theory. Laclau and Mouffe’s assumption that no discourse is a closed entity but rather transformed through contact with other discourses is taken as the introductory premise to present a large family of (ii) critical discourse studies, characterized as text-analytical practices explaining how discourse partakes in the production and negotiations of ideological meanings. Finally, the paper discusses (iii) three recent discourse analytical models: Discourse Space Theory, Critical Metaphor Analysis and the Legitimization-Proximization Model. These new theories take a further (and thus far final) step towards consolidation of the social-theoretical and linguistic bases in contemporary discourse studies. The empirical benefits of this consolidation are discussed in the last part of the paper, which includes a case study where the new models are used in the analysis of Polish anti-immigration discourse.

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E, Marissa K. L. "Analyzing neoliberal discourse: An integrated dialectical-relational critical discourse analysis-discourse theory framework utilizing conceptual metaphor." Text & Talk 40, no. 2 (February 25, 2020): 147–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-2055.

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AbstractAn integrated Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-Discourse Theory (DT) framework is proposed that utilizes the Dialectical-Relational (DR) approach from CDA as its primary basis and incorporates DT concepts of articulation and nodal point to further develop DR and thus enhance descriptions and analyses of the complex, shifting and contingent nature of meaning making in discourses of late modernity that impact the construction of social realities (logic) and subjectivity. This paper argues that the addition of the above DT concepts enhances the description and analysis of the dynamics of meaning making by focusing on shifting and contingent meanings present in discourses operating within and between particular social contexts as a means to specifically and systematically capture the influence of context-specific ideologies. Furthermore, using DR allows for the inclusion of the relative permanence of social structures in dialectical relation with processes of meaning making which avoids the risk of a radical contingency that DT potentially entails. The framework is demonstrated using conceptual metaphors in the context of Singapore higher education discourse to show how neoliberalism as a seemingly hegemonic phenomenon operates as a variegated mobile technology adapting to its specific context by manifesting context-specific meanings, thus reflecting characteristics of complexity, non-permanence and contingency.

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Yoh, Keonjong. "Critical Theory and a New Ethics of Narrative." Criticism and Theory Society of Korea 27, no. 3 (October 31, 2022): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.19116/theory.2022.27.3.207.

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Current crisis of the humanities is closely involved with hyper-institutionalization and professionalization of academic critical discourse and the humanities education. We have narrowed down humanities education to the point where it no longer provides the enhanced capacity for civic engagement. As an alternative to the current crisis of the humanities, this article proposes a new ethics of narrative. According to Martha Nussbaum, narrative imagination is a capacity to enter into and understand the experiences and lives of the others. New ethics of narrative emphasizes the vital role of narrative imagination in cultivating the powers of judgment and sensibility of a mature and responsible person, by exploring how the ability to be a sympathetic reader of another person’s story can be a basic qualification of democratic and cultivated citizen. This ability contributes to moral development of a citizen by fostering the capacity to understand people who may act from very different motives, identities and experiences.

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Pavlichenko, Larysa V. "POLARIZATION IN MEDIA POLITICAL DISCOURSE ON THE WAR IN UKRAINE: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 2, no. 24 (December 20, 2022): 214–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2022-2-24-18.

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The war unleashed by Russia in 2022 is widely presented in online versions of English-language newspapers; Ukraine is constantly in the epicentre of the world news. This study highlights political and ideological contexts of the war in Ukraine, the sociopolitical and cognitive aspects of news according to an interdisciplinary approach considering the language as a social practice. The article highlights the polarization in the presentation of the events and the main actors entitled in the discursive strategies, representing the dichotomy In- versus Out-group. The study is aimed at the investigation of the ideological structures and their manifesting linguistic devices in political discourse based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of discursive strategies for constructing the images of Ukraine and Russia in the British and American press. The integrated Critical Discourse Analysis was applied to the research of the news to study the media discourse and the language, where CDA focuses on social practice, social power and ideology. Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) is used to research the ideology of war images presented in the language of news reports. The relevance of this study determined by the aim is to show the main discursive strategies of polaeization in political media discourse. The research methods of the article combine three vectors of the analysis by Fairclough with explanatory tools (by van Dijk), and the elements of stylistic analysis and Critical Metaphor Analysis. The illustrative material was collected by information search and continuous sample from the open access newspapers and magazines issued in the US and Great Britain (The Daily Mail, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and others). Conclusion. This research argues that polarisation is being demonstrated in the media discourse on the war in Ukraine in 2022. The taxonomy of the identified discursive strategies of polarization deployed in the media political discourse includes labelling, evidentiality, number game, hyperbolism, victimization, personalization and analogy, that can either be used singly or intervened. The discursive strategy of evidentiality is applied to authorities, officials, witnesses that are accepted as trustworthy sources of data; the number game strategy combined with victimization are verbalized by metaphoric simile, metonymy, enumerating and magnifying the numbers with the modifying adverbs; the strategy of hyperbole conveys the positive impression of the in-group and negative acts magnification of the out-group verbalized by metaphor, metonymy, metaphtonymy; the personalization strategy is deployed with the purpose of foregrounding the positive actions of the in-group that implies negative out-group actions; the strategy of analogy is applied in the comparison of the war in Ukraine and the struggle of the Ukrainians for their independence with other historical events. Linguistic means used to realize the discursive strategies of polarization include the conceptual metaphor, metonymy, simile, idioms, metaphtonymy, intertextual allusion and personification.

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Krause, Monika. "The Politics of Critical Theory: Language/Discourse/Society." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 35, no. 1 (January 2006): 86–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009430610603500163.

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Allen, R. "Critical Theory and the Paradox of Modernist Discourse." Screen 28, no. 2 (June 1, 1987): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/screen/28.2.69.

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Dallmayr, Fred. "Freud, Nietzsche, Lacan: A discourse on critical theory." International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 2, no. 4 (June 1989): 467–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01391971.

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Valentini, Laura. "Human rights and discourse theory: some critical remarks." Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 17, no. 6 (July 17, 2014): 674–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2014.930781.

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Farid Khafaga, Ayman. "Discourse Interpretation: A Deconstructive, Reader-oriented Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 6, no. 2 (January 4, 2017): 138. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.2p.138.

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This paper is based on the premise that discourse is always under the influence of different ideological readings which not only formulate its meaning but inspire various interpretations as well; hence, it needs a theoretical cover that could justify its multiplicity of meaning. This paper, therefore, discusses the possibility of introducing a deconstructive, reader-oriented approach (DRA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a model of discourse interpretation. The paper tries to appraise the theoretical framework of CDA and to offer an overview of the fundamental propels of its interpretative task in the light of two poststructuralist literary theories: the deconstruction theory and the reception theory. The paper also endeavours to emphasize the deconstructive nature of CDA by shedding lights on its relationship with the above mentioned theories. The conclusion drawn from this paper shows that introducing a deconstructive, reader-oriented approach to CDA is relevant to the latter's interpretative nature enough to diminish a part of the criticism levelled against its interpretative framework concerning plurality of meaning; and to establish some sort of exoneration for its theoretical shortcomings. The paper recommends that DRA will bridge the gap between theory and practice as it offers a theoretical base to discourse which could advocate its critiques regarding diversity of interpretation.Keywords: Critical discourse analysis, deconstructive, reader-oriented approach, deconstructionism, interpretation, responsiveness

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Putri, Lucia, Diana Rozelin, and Chandri Febri Santi. "CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AT INSTAGRAM’S CAPTION IN ADVERTISEMENT OF PONDS." Nazharat: Jurnal Kebudayaan 26, no. 02 (December 3, 2020): 345–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.30631/nazharat.v26i02.33.

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Critical discourse analysis (CDA) provides theories and methods for the empirical study of the relations between discourse and social and cultural developments in different social domains. CDA is not only a description and interpretation of discourse in context, but also offers an explanation of why and how discourses work. The writer interests in discussing Critical discourse analysis (CDA) because by using the critical discourse analysis (cda) this can express how community ideology about an event. The aims of the research are : (1) to elaborate of textual features of the advertisement, (2) to find out of discursive thecnique of the advertisement, (3) to find out social feature of the adevertisement. In this research, the writer applies the theory of Fairclough with three dimensional models by as supporting theory to answer the problem of the research. This research is qualitative research that focused on qualitative research by Hill Way in Kaelan and uses technique purposive sampling by Sugiyono. The writer found on the research that: (1) there are four textual features in the advertisement, (2) the tecniques of discursive found in the advertisement are two tecniques, with celebrity endorsement and scientific evindence, (3) to know how ideology and consumers views of this advertisement

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Widdowson, H. G. "Discourse analysis: a critical view." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 4, no. 3 (August 1995): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394709500400301.

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Discourse analysis is in vogue as a field of enquiry, particularly in the guise of critical discourse analysis, which employs procedures not essentially different from literary criticism to identify ideological bias in texts. This article argues that, perhaps as a consequence, there is a good deal of conceptual confusion in the field. One example is the uncertainty of the scope of description, which is reflected in the ambiguity of the term 'function' and the failure to distinguish between text and discourse. Another is the tendency to equate social and linguistic theory with political commitment which raises the question of the relationship between analysis and interpretation. It is argued that this confusion makes suspect some of the principles and practices of critical discourse analysis, and calls into question the validity of the notion of authentic language currently prevalent in language pedagogy.

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Parvin, Anna. "A New Discourse out of a Dark Atmosphere: Critical Discourse Analysis of Iran’s Eleventh Presidential Election." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 57 (August 2015): 10–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.57.10.

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This paper tries to indicate how the candidates of Iran’s eleventh presidential election attempted to rise to power by the means of language. In this analysis, the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe is applied. The candidates tried to win the battlefield of election by creating exclusion borders and excluding their rivals. Critical discourse analysis is a methodology that can reveal ideological purposes behind the political discourses to reflect the hidden Realities. The study of the debates between presidential candidates shows that Hassan Rouhani was elected because he could exclude other discourses resulting from the rising sociopolitical crisis. Nevertheless, He could not articulate his floating signifiers and his discourse was not hegemonic.

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Xiong, Xuejiao. "A Critical Analysis on the Non-equivalence Between Bertha’s Identity and Discursive Power." Scientific and Social Research 3, no. 3 (October 4, 2021): 55–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.36922/ssr.v3i3.1147.

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Bliss is one of Katherine Mansfield’s masterpieces, which is a short story containing a large number of discourses, i.e. speeches. Previous scholars analyzed this classical novel from many perspectives, among them the discursive power is less mentioned and is worth discussing. This paper applying critical discourse analysis theory on discursive power and the interrelation between discourse and power, discusses the non-equivalence between the identity and discursive power of the heroine, Bertha, aiming to provide a new perspective to appreciate the novel and unveil the power in discourse of the novel.

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Cap, Piotr. "A critical note on the evolution of social theoretical and linguistic underpinnings of contemporary discourse studies." Jezikoslovlje 20, no. 2 (December 11, 2019): 325–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.12.

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This paper gives a critical overview of analytical approaches dominating the field of discourse studies in the last three decades, from the perspective of their philosophical and formative bases: social constructionism and linguistics. It explores different conceptions of the theoretical nexus between these two bases leading to the emergence of three distinct yet complementary strands of thought (i–iii). The paper starts with poststructuralist views of discourse salient in (i) Laclau and Mouffe’s Discourse Theory. Laclau and Mouffe’s assumption that no discourse is a closed entity but rather transformed through contact with other discourses is taken as the introductory premise to present a large family of (ii) critical discourse studies, characterized as text-analytical practices explaining how discourse partakes in the production and negotiations of ideological meanings. Finally, the paper discusses (iii) three recent discourse analytical models: Discourse Space Theory, Critical Metaphor Analysis, and Legitimization-Proximization Model. These new theories make a further (and thus far final) step toward consolidation of the social-theoretical and linguistic bases in contemporary discourse studies. The empirical benefits of this consolidation are discussed in the last part of the paper, which includes a case study where the new models are used in the analysis of Polish anti-immigration discourse.

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Cap, Piotr. "On the development of the social-linguistic nexus in discourse research." Pragmatics and Society 12, no. 2 (June 3, 2021): 308–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.19056.cap.

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Abstract This paper gives a critical overview of analytical approaches dominating the field of discourse studies in the last three decades, from the perspective of their philosophical and formative bases: social constructionism and linguistics. It explores different conceptions of the theoretical nexus between these two bases leading to the emergence of three distinct yet complementary strands of thought (i–iii). The paper starts with poststructuralist views of discourse salient in (i) Laclau and Mouffe’s Discourse Theory. Laclau and Mouffe’s assumption that no discourse is a closed entity but rather transformed through contact with other discourses is taken as the introductory premise to present a large family of (ii) critical discourse studies, characterized as text-analytical practices explaining how discourse partakes in the production and negotiations of ideological meanings. Finally, the paper discusses (iii) three recent discourse analytical models: Discourse Space Theory, Critical Metaphor Analysis and the Legitimization-Proximization Model. These new theories take a further step toward consolidation of the social-theoretical and linguistic bases in contemporary discourse studies. The empirical benefits of this consolidation are discussed in the last part of the paper, which includes a case study where the new models are used in the analysis of Polish anti-immigration discourse.

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Wiley, Michael. "Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical Theory. Edited by Michael Macovski." Wordsworth Circle 29, no. 4 (September 1998): 219–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/twc24044080.

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Froomkin, A. Michael. "Habermas@Discourse. Net: Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace." Harvard Law Review 116, no. 3 (January 2003): 749. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1342583.

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Wandel, Torbjörn. "The power of discourse: Michel Foucault and critical theory." Cultural Values 5, no. 3 (July 2001): 368–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14797580109367237.

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Matytsina, Marina. "Critical Discourse Analysis: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 3 (November 2019): 206–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2019.3.17.

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The article is devoted to formation and development of discourse analysis as an effective method to study functional aspects of political communication in global political space. It reports on main theoretical and methodological approaches to critical analysis of political discourse. Mainly, it deals with theoretical and methodological perspectives of three leading schools of critical discourse analysis: discourse analysis of N. Fairclough, that presents a relational approach to considering social problems in their relation to textual analysis; socio-cognitive theory of T.A. van Dijk, oriented to investigating relations between cognitive structures, discourse and social coordination; discourse analysis of R. Wodak, that uses historical approach to discourse and is aimed at description of powerful language of the elite that helps to maintain dominance in society. The paper characterizes some frameworks of critical analysis of political discourse, including the Duisburg School of Critical Discourse Analysis (S. Jäger, F. Maier), System-Functional and Social-Semiotic Theory (M. Halliday, T. van Leeuwen), and Mediated Discourse Analysis (R. Scollon, S. Scollon). It is stated that within its boundaries critical discourse analysis includes a variety of approaches, analytical tools and methodologies. The author underlines that scientific consideration of critical discourse analysis will demonstrate its potential and prospects for integrating this interdisciplinary qualitative methodology into a set of empirical tools of modern political science.

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Zuo, Xinya. "A Study of Discourse Strategies from the Perspective of Critical Analysis." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 8 (August 1, 2019): 996. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0908.16.

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Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a form of reflective inspection of how discourses shape and influence us. It has been applied widely especially in political discourses which analyzes the potential characteristics of language and the social and cultural background generated in the text, committed to exposing the complex relationship between language, power and ideology with the aid of critical thinking. Generally, the theoretical framework of CDA is based on Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics. Halliday believes that language has three metafunctions, namely ideational function, interpersonal function and textual function. These three achievements meet the needs of language users in three aspects including the description of the experience of objective world, the construction of social relations and the organization of discourse. As an important theory in systemic functional grammar, transitive system embodies the ideational function of language, which expresses people’s real world experiences and the inner world in several processes. In addition, this kind of theory is based on the semantic configuration of Actor+Process. Therefore, this paper will make a critical discourse analysis of Donald Trump’s inauguration speech in 2017 from the aspect of linguistic transitive system. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the language skills used by Mr.Trump and the discourse generating patterns of his presidential image, so that we can explore the ideology reflected behind the language and dig into the process of building the image of the president of the United States in Donald Trump’s inauguration speech.

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Ingram, Allan. "Review: Conrad's Fiction as Critical Discourse." Literature & History 1, no. 2 (September 1992): 119–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030619739200100226.

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You, Haiyue. "A Proximization Study of Critical Discourse Analysis." BCP Social Sciences & Humanities 17 (May 10, 2022): 328–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v17i.674.

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This paper analyzes Biden’s 2022 State of the Union Address using proximization theory to investigate how Biden legitimized his policies in his State of the Union Address. The study finds that Biden fully utilized temporal, spatial and axiological proximization theories in his State of the Union Address. In terms of spatial proximization, Biden mainly mentioned numerous entities that might bring threats to America to create fear in the minds of the audience, thus achieving the purpose of policy legitimization. On temporal proximization, Biden proximzed the events that happened in the past or the events in the future to the present to cause the panics. The axiological proximization was mainly manifested in the construction of positive values for America and in emphasizing harms and negative values of the entities that threaten America. This study provides insights into the application of the spatial-temporal-axiological model of proximization theory to the State of the Union Address.

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Athar, Sania, Muhammad Yousaf, and Azhar Habib. "Us vs Them Positioning in Academic Setting: A Critical Discourse Perspective." Global Language Review III, no. I (December 30, 2018): 97–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2018(iii-i).06.

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This study attempts to analyze gender positioning in different social settings. For this purpose, Muted Group Theory plus Van Dijks Model (2007) from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) have been employed to inspect gender positioning in the academic setting in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. These models help in identifying the relation between various individuals and promoting person to person interaction. The gender critical discourse analysis helps in dissecting the irregularities in gender positioning and imbalances found between the males and females especially using language and the power relations which are built through various discourses. The different discourses gathered in this research study are qualitative in nature and are gathered from three famous universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The investigation uncovered that desultory techniques are used by male and female to support or resist each other.

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Vamanu, Iulian. "Fake News and Propaganda: A Critical Discourse Research Perspective." Open Information Science 3, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 197–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opis-2019-0014.

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Abstract Having been invoked as a disturbing factor in recent elections across the globe, fake news has become a frequent object of inquiry for scholars and practitioners in various fields of study and practice. My article draws intellectual resources from Library and Information Science, Communication Studies, Argumentation Theory, and Discourse Research to examine propagandistic dimensions of fake news and to suggest possible ways in which scientific research can inform practices of epistemic self-defense. Specifically, the article focuses on a cluster of fake news of potentially propagandistic import, employs a framework developed within Argumentation Theory to explore ten ways in which fake news may be used as propaganda, and suggests how Critical Discourse Research, an emerging cluster of theoretical and methodological approaches to discourses, may provide people with useful tools for identifying and debunking fake news stories. My study has potential implications for further research and for literacy practices. In particular, it encourages empirical studies of its guiding premise that people who became familiar with certain research methods are less susceptible to fake news. It also contributes to the design of effective research literacy practices.

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Magala, Slawomir. "Critical theory: 15 years later." Critical perspectives on international business 2, no. 3 (July 1, 2006): 183–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17422040610682764.

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PurposeThe pupose of this paper is to explore the role of criticism in the growth of academic communities and their organizational transformations.Design/methodology/approachThrough a comparison between the Frankfurter School of critical thought with contemporary critical management studies, possible routes for further development of the latter are explored.FindingsThe cognitive turn in behavioural sciences and the bureaucratic professionalization of knowledge‐intensive occupations are a serious threat to the possible development of critical management studies.Practical implicationsBy focussing on implications of the Frankfurter School of social thought, critical management studies can establish itself as a more profound and fundamental form of research within social sciences.Originality/valueThe goal is to make the Frankfurter School a salonfähig discourse for managerial establishments.

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Fleming, Ted. "Critical Theory and Transformative Learning." International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology 9, no. 3 (July 2018): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijavet.2018070101.

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Mezirow relies on the critical theory of Habermas to give his theory of transformative learning rigor. Yet critiques persist and focus on whether the theory has an adequate understanding of the social dimension of learning and whether it is overly rational. This article addresses these issues and explores relevant ideas from Habermas and Honneth. Critical theory has evolved and Honneth's theory of recognition has implications for transformative learning. Following the communicative turn of Habermas, Honneth makes recognition and freedom key concepts that contribute to developing transformative learning theory. Intersubjectivity and recognition become the necessary preconditions for critical reflection, discourse, democracy and transformative learning. Freedom is also reconfigured and these ideas address the main critiques of transformation theory.

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Fathabadi, Jassem. "A Weberian Framework for Critical Discourse Analysis." Issues in Social Science 10, no. 2 (December 25, 2022): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/iss.v10i2.20606.

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Discourse analysis, since its emergence, has gone through various changes and modifications, especially in the trend coming to prominence as critical discourse analysis. This trend has always manifested the impact of brilliant ideas by great intellectuals from different disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, and social theory. Max Weber is one of the towering figures in the history of sociology whose method of conducting sociological analysis, especially the concept of ideal types, has not been adequately utilized in discourse studies. Throughout years, critical discourse analysis has been criticized on account of its founding assumptions, vagueness, preferences for a particular social theory, lack of rigor, unsystematic nature, lack of methodological consistency, nontransparent research procedures, etc. Simply stated, using its theories in conducting actual analysis has always been a problem for researchers. This study is an attempt to propose a framework using Weber’s ideas and methodology which enables researchers to utilize discourse theories in practice. The Weberian framework does not reject other theories within the field as it is in line with an orientation termed hyper-differentiation of theories in which theories coexist rather than compete with each other.

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Belfrage, Claes Axel, and Felix Hauf. "Operationalizing cultural political economy: towards critical grounded theory." Journal of Organizational Ethnography 4, no. 3 (October 12, 2015): 324–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/joe-01-2015-0002.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to take conceptual and methodological steps towards the elaboration of the critical grounded theory (CGT) method. Design/methodology/approach – Starting from conceptual issues with mapping everyday discourses and practices in their broader societal context in organisational ethnography, cultural political economy (CPE) is proposed as a suitable theoretical framework for integrating the cultural dimension of discourses and imaginaries into political-economic analyses of organisation and management. The CGT method is introduced for empirical operationalisation. Findings – Grounded theory tools for working with ethnographic data can be employed within critical approaches such as CPE although they originate from positivist social science. The need to combine ethnographic fieldwork with substantial theoretical work and/or critical discourse analysis may be met by CGT, which affords the ethnographic strengths of grounded theory without, however, bracketing the critical-theoretical insights of CPE. Research limitations/implications – The usefulness of CGT has been tentatively tested, but requires thorough meta-theoretical and methodological development, which is what is undertaken here. Social implications – CGT expects and takes account of the social implications of its employment in the field. Originality/value – First steps towards a new critical method for organisation and management studies are taken. Although originating from concern with CPE, the CGT method may appeal to a wider audience of critical scholars across the social sciences.

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Cap, Piotr. "Representation, conceptualization and positioning in Critical Discourse Analysis." International Review of Pragmatics 12, no. 2 (August 19, 2020): 272–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-01202004.

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Abstract The present paper explores the current nexus between Cognitive Linguistics (CL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), focusing on theories of conceptual positioning, distancing and perspective-taking in discourse space. It assesses the strengths, limitations, and prospects for further operationalization of positioning as a valid methodology in CDA, and political discourse studies in particular. In the first part, I review the cognitive models of positioning that have made the most significant contribution to CDA. Discussing Deictic Space Theory and Text World Theory, among others, I argue that these models reveal further theoretical potential which has not been exploited yet. While they offer a comprehensive and plausible account of how representations and ideologically charged worldviews are established, they fail to deliver a pragmatic explanation of how addressees are made to establish a worldview, in the service of speaker’s goals. The second part of the paper outlines Proximization Theory, a discursive model of crisis and conflict construction in political discourse. I argue that, unlike the other models, it fully captures the complex geopolitical and ideological positioning in political discourse space, providing a viable handle on the dynamics of conflict between the opposing ideologies of the space.

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Li, Wei. "Rethinking Critical Metaphor Analysis." International Journal of English Linguistics 6, no. 2 (March 29, 2016): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v6n2p92.

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<p>Critical Metaphor Analysis is concerned with integrating critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics to explore implicit speaker intentions and covert power relations through the analysis of metaphoric expressions. CMA has been a meaningful enrichment of both Critical Discourse Analysis and Conceptual Metaphor Theory. This paper aims to give an overview of the formation of CMA, the research findings, the existing problems and the possible solutions.</p>

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Lubin, Orly, and Robert de Beaugrande. "Critical Discourse: A Survey of Literary Theorists." Poetics Today 12, no. 1 (1991): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1772992.

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Colapietro, Vincent. "Ubiquitous Mediation and Critical Interventions." International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems 1, no. 2 (July 2011): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsss.2011070101.

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From a pragmatist perspective, the inaugural concern of Peirce’s formal theory (mediation? representation? translation?) cannot be separated from the eventual form in which this theory ought to be cast. Moreover, it cannot be severed from the emerging goals of an evolving process of theoretical elaboration. Peirce’s semeiotic culminates in methodeutic. The form in which the theory of signs is most appropriately cast is arguably a reflexive, normative inquiry into the conditions and forms of inquiry. It is, however, possibly something wider – a rhetoric inclusive of more than the discourses and disciplines of the experimental sciences (i.e., a rhetoric inclusive of artistic works no less than practical communication). An account of the most rudimentary and pervasive form of semiosis (grammar in Peirce’s sense being one of the names for this account) must ultimately give way to a nuanced understanding of historical practices such as experimental inquiry, artistic innovation, practical discourse, and possibly much else.

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Sahmeni, Emi, and Nur Afifah. "Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in Media Discourse Studies: Unmask the Mass Media." REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language 1, no. 2 (August 25, 2019): 39–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/reila.v1i2.2764.

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The purpose of this paper is to know how CDA unraveling the covert ideologies while researching the existence of power in media discourse studies. This study reviewed sixteen journal articles to examine the ways and methods to discover the social phenomenon while revealing the authentic identity of the social actors. It was found that CDA has been used extensively to unmask the ideologies which classify the oppressed group while presenting a positive image for the group with the highest authority. The theory proposed by Teun Van Dijk seems the most used theories used when it related to unmask the media profiling. There are three elements in the theory of CDA Van Djik that plays an important role in the research is Macrostructure, superstructure and microstructure. This study manage to reveals that mass media play an important role in the production of trust, prejudice and dominance over social contexts.

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Marpurdianto, Kharis. "Mobile Operator Advertising: Critical Discourse Analysis." Linguistic, English Education and Art (LEEA) Journal 4, no. 1 (December 30, 2020): 222–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.31539/leea.v4i1.1359.

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This research examines contextual meaning contained in the mobile operator’s advertisement in Indonesia. It focuses on how the form of cohesion and coherence, the form of word choice, and the grammatical element found in mobile operator’s advertising discourse in Indonesia. A descriptive qualitative method with the content analysis technique is used as the methodology in this study. Using these methods, the researcher can give a wider understanding of the linguistic lessons through the theory of critical discourse analysis. The data is taken from mobile operator’s advertisement and some books and journals. As a result of this study, the researcher found a form of word choice, cohesion and coherence as well as grammatical elements that emerged in mobile operator’s advertisement discourse including non-standard variety. The advertisement language replicates from competitors that feature cheap phone rates. Moreover, there is a contextual meaning in word choice of Indonesian discourse in mobile carrier advertisement. Keywords: Advertisement, Mobile Operator, Critical Discourse Review.

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Orpin, Debbie. "Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10, no. 1 (March 11, 2005): 37–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.10.1.03orp.

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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has often proved fruitful in providing insights into the relationship between language and ideology. However, CDA is not without its critics. Constructive criticism has been offered by Stubbs, who suggests bolstering CDA by using a large corpus as the basis on which to make reliable generalisations about language use. Taking up that suggestion, this paper reports on a study of a group of words semantically related to corruption. In the study, corpus methodology is used to manipulate the data: concordances and collocational tools are used to provide semantic profiles of the words and highlight connotational differences, and to identify the geographical locations that the words refer to. It is argued that words with a noticeably negative connotation tend to be used when referring to activities that take place outside of Britain, while less negative words are used when referring to similar activities in British contexts. CDA theory is drawn on to interpret the ideological significance of the findings.

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Benoit, William L., and Anne Czerwinski. "A Critical Analysis Of USAir's Image Repair Discourse." Business Communication Quarterly 60, no. 3 (September 1997): 38–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/108056999706000304.

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Faced with a crisis, what can a business say? Crisis communication literature tends to focars on what to do before and after a crisis and on the kinds of crises corporations face. Less attention is given to the options available within mes sages about a crisis. The theory of image restoration provides a useful key to composing such messages. This article applies the theory to one case study in image repair discourse: USAir's response to media coverage of the crash of one of its aircraft in Pittsburgh in 1994. Introducing such case studies in the classroom helps students to understand the basic tenets of persausion in the highly charged context of repairing a corporate reputation after an attack.

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Ewing, Bronwyn. "Theorizing Critical Discourse Theory and Analysis for Investigating Mathematics Classrooms." Creative Education 08, no. 13 (2017): 2064–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ce.2017.813140.

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WIDDOWSON, H. G. "REVIEW ARTICLE: The Theory and Practice of Critical Discourse Analysis." Applied Linguistics 19, no. 1 (April 1, 1998): 136–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/19.1.136.

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Estol, Judith, Mark Anthony Camilleri, and Xavier Font. "European Union tourism policy: an institutional theory critical discourse analysis." Tourism Review 73, no. 3 (August 20, 2018): 421–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-11-2017-0167.

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Purpose This research uses the institutional theory perspective to better understand the social dynamics of the European Union (EU) tourism policy and its directions. The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate the processes, content and outcomes of EU tourism policy. Design/methodology/approach A thorough literature review involving a critical discourse analysis on the regulative, normative and cultural elements of institutionalisation improves our understanding of the EU policy, in terms of its processes, content and outcomes. Therefore, this paper explores how the European institutions have incrementally legitimised tourism policy among Member States. Findings Over the years, the EU’s policies were intended to enhance the European single market whilst supporting the growth of the industrial competitiveness, sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship. This has inevitably led to the development of new policies in the realms of tourism. Originality/value This contribution has identified a gap in academic research, as it reports about the evolution of EU tourism policy and on the conditions of how it has been planned, organised and implemented. It also exposes the challenges of institutionalising tourism policy in intergovernmental institutions.

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