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Title: Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis by Ruth Wodak, Michael Meyer ISBN: 0-7619-6154-2 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 29 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great and accessible overview
Comment: As a beginning student of CDA, I was pleased to read this volume, which almost serves as a personal valet welcoming one into this growing area of Linguistics. In a short and very readable book, we get the latest theories and methods in concise language that covers a lot of ground quickly. If you have read Titscher, Meyer, Wodak, and Vetter's "Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis" (Sage, 2000), you'll be relieved to see that this book is more focused and, for the most part, less technical. That's not to say that it's any less powerful, because the flip-side is that with this volume's emphasis only on CDA, we are reminded again and again of the ethical and emancipatory imperative of the CDA researcher.
Wodak herself introduces CDA's geneaology up to the present. Meyer then provides a concise discussion of methods, winding up his chapter with the admonition that CDA is not yet a unified discipline, but is nonetheless a constellation of approaches and methods that are likely approaching something resembling more of a singularity that at present - if more research is done in the field. Siegfried Jager's chapter on Discourse and Knowledge is a nice surprise from a lesser-known German analyst, who fortifies and corrects some of Foucault's conceptualizations about discourses and dispositifs and provides a trialectical model for looking at action, discourse, and manifestation. We then get a sound overview of Wodak's Historical CDA method and van Dijk's more social-cognitive method, followed by an overview of Fairclough's sociologically-oriented theory and Ron Scollon's micro-social critical discourse analysis.
The book is honest about CDA's "growth areas" and the criticisms it has received, and calls rather commonsensically for more research in order to shore up some of its weaknesses or areas that have not yet been fully explored. For the beginning researcher in CDA who is unsure about how to design his or her research proposal, this book provides solace via its characterization of CDA as hermeneutic rather than positivistic. In other words, there is always room for improvement.
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Title: Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language by Norman Fairclough ISBN: 0582219841 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $27.30 |
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Title: Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis by Ruth Wodak, Stefan Titscher, Michael Meyer, Eva Vetter ISBN: 0761964835 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 22 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method by James Paul Gee ISBN: 0415211867 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Doing Discourse Analysis : Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text by Linda A. Wood, Rolf O. Kroger ISBN: 0803973519 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 11 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Language and Power (Language in Social Life) by Norman Fairclough ISBN: 0582414830 Publisher: Pearson ESL Pub. Date: 26 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.93 |
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