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Review of Communication, Special issue on CDS and Comm, 2018
In this introductory essay, we interrogate the relationship between Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and communication studies, ultimately arguing for a firmer cross-fertilization between the two. We start by tracing the events that led to this special issue as a way to document the relatively brief, scattered, but at the same time promising trajectories of CDS within communication scholarship. We then take a step back and outside of the discipline to locate different precursors, practitioners, and outlets that contributed to shaping a unique approach to sociodiscursive phenomena first labeled as Critical Discourse Analysis. Next, we identify the more recent, broadening turn toward CDS, and its implications in terms of theories, methods, and objects of study. Drawing on scholarship in communication studies and related disciplines, as well as on the contributions to this special issue, we end by reviewing different challenges and possibilities for the traversing trajectories of CDS and communication studies.
Invited Seminar Critical Discourse Studies: Precursors, Practitioners, Potential Paths
2021
This class introduces students to the different precursors, practitioners, and potential paths shaping a unique approach to socio-discursive phenomena first labeled as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). We will first locate the less immediately recognizable, but highly influential, precursors and intellectual sources of CDA in Critical Linguistics but also Cultural Studies. Next, we will review the work of different practitioners that played a key role in the institutionalization of the CDA "brand," namely Norman Fairclough, Teun A. van Dijk, and Ruth Wodak. We will then trace the more recent, broadening turn toward Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and its implications in terms of theories, methods, and objects of study-including a series of rethinkings along, feminist, nonwhite, and decolonial perspectives. Drawing on scholarship in media and communication, as well as related disciplines, we will review and assess the different challenges and possibilities for the traversing trajectories of CDS and media/communication studies.
Critical discourse analysis and media studies
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies, 2017
There are two ways to set up a discussion of critical discourse analysis and media studies. First, we would privilege something called Critical Discourse Analysis, the capitalized identity embodied in the acronym “CDA”. This approach has some obvious advantages. It gives an immediate focus and coherence to the discussion. It suggests reflection on a particular research tradition now well-known across the social sciences.
" Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is committed to showing how talk and texts serve the interests of those with power in a society. From its initially European linguistic roots, CDA has become an influential international, interdisciplinary tradition. This chapter sketches CDA’s background including its theoretical roots and key scholars. Six areas in current research are illustrated, along with a sampling of CDA work around the world. The focal criticisms that have been directed at CDA scholarship are described. In closing, we suggest CDA’s potential in five areas of Communication (rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, mass communication, organizational communication, and language and social interaction) and provide an appendix of CDA vocabulary."
Forthcoming in Review of Communication This essay is both a scholarly and personal endeavor to hold Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and its shift toward Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) accountable to claims of doing critique. We first, deconstruct CDA, and its slippage into an unaccountable ontology of intentionality, hiddenness, and hegemony. As an example of how unaccountable claims might shortchange what critical discourse work can accomplish, we take our own analysis to task. Next, we examine the concerted effort of CDS scholars to reconstruct and reclaim CDA critique by way of reflexivity, multimodality, and interdisciplinarity. We close with a proposal: if CDA’s unfolding into CDS supports an evolution of the critical as material action, then it must move us to do something that matters. We offer some suggestions about how to move forward.
Review of Communication, 2018
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a particular strand of discourse analysis that focuses on the role of language in society and in political processes, traditionally targeting texts produced by elites and powerful institutions, such as news and political speeches. The aim is to reveal discourses buried in language used to maintain power and sustain existing social relations. However, since the internet and social media have come to define much of the way that we communicate, this brings numerous challenges and also opportunities for CDA. The relationship between text and ideology, and between the author and reader, appears to have changed. It is also clear that new methods are required for data collection, as content takes new forms and also moves away from running texts to language that is much more integrated with forms of design, images, and data. Also, new models are required to address how the technologies themselves come to shape the nature of content and discourse.
Communication and Discourse Theory. Collected Works of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group, 2019
This introduction to the edited volume Communication and Discourse Theory aims to reflect on the interaction between discourse theory and the study of media and communication, and the Brussels Discourse Theory Group’s contribution to it. The chapter starts with a summary of the main tenets of Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory, and touches upon its methodological/analytical translation in discourse-theoretical analysis (DTA). A next main part of the chapter discusses how discourse theory has been put to use for the analysis of communication and media, distinguishing four thematic areas: (1) communication, rhetoric, and media strategies, (2) discourses in media organizations, (3) media identities, practices, and institutions, and (4) media and agonistic democracy. In the next part, we single out two areas that are currently being developed in the Group, and have thus far remained under-developed, theoretically as well as empirically, from a discourse-theoretical perspective: the relation between the discursive and the material, and the relation between media, communication, and audiences. Finally, the chapter provides a short overview of the other chapters in this book.
Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth CDA) has been interested in contentious social and political issues, including various identity constructs such as minority, class, gender, and national identity. The bulk of research has attended to these issues by applying a range of theoretical approaches (socio-cognitive, socio-cultural, and socio-historical) as well as analytical categories (methods). Some studies within the hard core of CDA have concentrated on discourse as manifested in communication at the interpersonal level, 1 or taken a triangulatory approach in their data sources: combining bottom up language-use employing focus groups and interviews, along with top-down language-use using political communication. However, media discourses, as explicit discursive power sources in modern society, have attained considerable attention in CDA.
Bridging Critical Discourse Analysis in Media Discourse Studies
Indonesian EFL Journal
The precarious and critical period of the initiation of Discourse Analysis was populer at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of 2000s. Various approaches and frameworks were proposed during the time especially in the field of Applied Linguistics. This is including Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as one of its leading areas.� This present study aimed at exploring and catching out how the CDA� presentation in overall related to Media studies and how it can be applicable to uncover an unseen ideologies while examining the existence of media discourse studies. The study is considering 25 journal studies to scrutinize the ways and methods used in discern social phenomena while illuminating the true characteristics of the social actors. As result, it was revealed that� CDA is used openly to expose ideologies that somehow differentiate oppressed groups by offering a dummy image used by the highest authority or elite.Keywords: CDA; ideology; media discourse; social actors; power.