Description
This engaging 2005 introduction offers a critical approach to discourse, written by an expert uniquely placed to cover the subject for a variety of disciplines. Organised along thematic lines, the book begins with an outline of the basic principles, moving on to examine the methods and theory of CDA (critical discourse analysis). It covers topics such as text and context, language and inequality, choice and determination, history and process, ideology and identity. Blommaert focuses on how language can offer a crucial understanding of wider aspects of power relations, arguing that critical discourse analysis should specifically be an analysis of the 'effects' of power, what power does to people, groups and societies, and how this impact comes about. Clearly argued, this concise introduction will be welcomed by students and researchers in a variety of disciplines involved in the study of discourse, including linguistics, linguistic anthropology and the sociology of language.
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2 Critical Discourse Analysis
2.2 CDA: ORIGINS AND PROGRAMME
2.3 CDA AND SOCIAL THEORY
2.4 THEORY AND METHODOLOGY: NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH
2.5 THE PROS AND CONS OF CDA
Theoretical and methodological defects
The potential and limitations of CDA
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3.1 INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT IS/AS CRITIQUE
3.2 CONTEXT: SOME GENERAL GUIDELINES
Interpretation and contextualisation
Contextualisation is dialogical
Context is local as well as translocal
The danger of ethnocentrism in context
3.3 TWO CRITICAL CONCEPTIONS OF CONTEXT
The backgrounding of context: Critical Discourse Analysis
Talk in-and-out-of interaction: Conversation Analysis
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4 Language and inequality
4.1 THE PROBLEM: VOICE AND MOBILITY
4.2 TOWARDS A THEORY OF VOICE
Functional relativity and mobility
Difference and value: orders of indexicality and pretextuality
4.3 TEXTS THAT DO NOT TRAVEL WELL: INEQUALITY, LITERACY, AND GLOBALISATION
4.4 INEQUALITY AND THE NARRATIVE ORDER
Suffering as a way of life
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5 Choice and determination
5.1 INTRODUCTION: CHOICE OR VOICE?
5.3 CREATIVE PRACTICE AND DETERMINATION
5.4 CREATIVITY WITHIN CONSTRAINTS: HETERO-GRAPHY
Documents made for reading?
The non-exchangeability of literacy values
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6.2 TIMES AND CONSCIOUSNESS: LAYERED SIMULTANEITY
6.3 CONTINUITIES, DISCONTINUITIES, AND SYNCHRONISATION
6.4 SPEAKING FROM AND ON HISTORY 1: ‘THEY DON’T
LIKE US-us’
6.5 SPEAKING FROM AND ON HISTORY 2: ‘LET’S ANALYSE’
Separating text and history
The making of history: whose background?
Synchronisation: the viewpoint of post-communism
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7.2 THE TERMINOLOGICAL MUDDLE OF IDEOLOGIES
Cognitive/ideational versus material
The different faces of hegemony
Mentalities, public opinion, and worldviews
7.3 POLYCENTRIC SYSTEMS, LAYERED IDEOLOGIES
7.4 SOCIALISM AND THE SOCIALISTS
7.5 SLOW SHIFTS IN ORTHODOXY
Metadiscourse and the 'debate'
Fragments from the debate on integration
Dogmatisation versus reformulation: manipulating the interpretational space
Conclusions: the slow shift in orthodoxy
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8.2 IDENTITIES AS SEMIOTIC POTENTIAL
Identity, inequality, and the world system
8.3 WHAT IS LEFT OF ETHNOLINGUISTIC IDENTITY?
8.4 SPACE, PLACE, AND IDENTITY
8.5 THE WORLD SYSTEM IN ACTION
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9 Conclusion: Discourse and the social sciences
Appendix: English translation of the documents
in chapter 5
Discourse
：A Critical Introduction
( Key Topics in Sociolinguistics )
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