Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis

This book is designed as an introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and gives an overview of the various theories and methods associated with this sociolinguistic approach. It also introduces the reader to the leading figures in CDA and the methods to which they are most closely related. The text aims to provide a comprehensive description of the individual methods, an understanding of the theories to which methods refer and a comparative treatment of each of these methods so that students may be able to determine which is the most appropriate to select for their particular research question. Given the balance between theory and application, plus the intended audience - no previous knowledge of CDA is assumed - Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis should be useful reading for both students and researchers in the fields of linguistics, sociology, social psychology and the social sciences in general.?

Contents
Acknowledgements vi
List of contributors vii
1 What CDA is about ± a summary of its history, iportant
concepts and its developments 1
Ruth Wodak
2 Between theory, method, and politics: positioning of the
approaches to CDA 14
Michael Meyer
3 Discourse and knowledge: theoretical and methodological
aspects of a critical discourse and dispositive analysis 32
Siegfried JaÈger
4 The discourse±historical approach 63
Ruth Wodak
5 Multidisciplinary CDA: a plea for diversity 95
Teun A. van Dijk
6 Critical discourse analysis as a method in social scienti®c
research 121
Norman Fairclough
7 Action and text: towards an integrated understanding of
the place of text in social (inter)action, mediated discourse
analysis and the problem of social action 139
Ron Scollon
References 184
Index 196

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