A new agenda in (critical) discourse analysis : theory, methodology, and interdisciplinary / edited by Ruth Wodak, Paul Chilton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wodak, Ruth, 1950-

Chilton, Paul A. (Paul Anthony)

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 13.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture, 1569-9463 ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Critical discourse analysis.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

xiii, 321 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2005.

Summary:

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge the discourses of our day. It is time for A New Agenda in the field. The present book is essential for anyone working broadly in the field of discourse analysis in the social sciences. The book includes often critical re-assessments of CDA's assumptions and methods, while proposing new route-maps for innovation. Practical analyses of major issues in discourse analysis are part of this agenda-setting volume.

Contents:

A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

References

I. Interdisciplinarity and (C)DA

Three models of interdisciplinarity

The centralist model

The pluralist model

The integrationist model

Integrating discourse analysis with other disciplines

Discourse analysis and social theory

Discourse analysis and history

Discourse analysis and ethnography

The elements of integrated research projects

Ongoing development of theories and methods

Analysis of discursive practices in specific social settings

Creation of new resources and new uses of existing resources

Missing links in mainstream CDA

1. The critical stance

2. Claims and aims of CDA

3. What is missing from CDA

4. Why CDA needs to consider mind

5. Some aspects of cognitive and evolutionary psychology relevant to CDA

5.1. Modularity of mind

5.2. Intuitive psychology (`theory of mind')

5.3. Machiavellian intelligence

5.4. Intuitive biology

6. Beyond modules: Cognitive fluidity

7. The point of all this for CDA

8. A cognitive approach to racism

9. Using cognitive models of discourse

10. Passive receptors or critical instinct? Do we need CDA?

11. Implications for CDA

Notes

Critical discourse analysis in transdisciplinary research

Some recent research on governance

Enhancing research on governance through developing the dialogue with CDA

Genre

Linguistic analysis of texts

Enhancing CDA through transdisciplinary dialogue

Transdisciplinarity and the dialectics of discourse

Conclusion: View of CDA

Contextual knowledge management in discourse production

Introduction

The definition of knowledge

Types of knowledge.

Context as mental model

The K-device

K-strategies

Personal knowledge

Interpersonal knowledge

Group knowledge

Institutional or organizational knowledge

National knowledge

Cultural knowledge

Processing assumptions

Knowledge management in CDA

An example

Conclusions

Note

Appendix

Lighting the stove

Two examples

The ontogenesis of practice: Internalization

The interdisciplinary linking of activity theory and practice theory

RUN TRILOGY: From historical body to text via action: Externalization

The discourse cycle: Semiotic cycles as the theoretical linkage of action and discourse

II. Implementing interdisciplinarity

Analyzing European Union discourses

1. Introduction

2. Theory formation

3. EU discourses: The complexity of "text in context''

4. EU discourses and European identities: Our theoretical framework

5. Perspectives and open questions

'European identity wanted!'

1. Introduction: European Convention and EU's political identity

2. Analytical standpoint

3. Empirical data

4. Analytical methodology

5. The European Convention as an arena of institutional communication

5.1. Examining communication flows in the European Convention

5.2. Observing plenary sessions of the European Convention

6. Exploring characteristics of the 'EU discourse about the future of Europe'

6.1. The "mainstream voice''

6.2. Mainstream vs. non-mainstream and the dissolution of national standpoints in the European Convention

6.3. "Adjusting'' to the mainstream? On the characteristics of discourse of Convention members from the EU-Candidate countries

7. Conclusions and final remarks

Deliberation or 'mainstreaming'?

1.1. Fieldwork at the European Convention.

1.2. Empirical research and theoretical interpretation: A critique of "deliberation''

2. The European Convention: Context, structure, functioning

2.1. Pre-history and context

2.2. Elements of functioning of the Convention: Deliberation or 'mainstreaming'?

2.3. An alternative hypothesis: Mainstreaming

3. Instead of conclusions: A frame of reference for researching the European Convention

It is not sufficient to have a moral basis, it has to be democratic too''

The national and the European 'we'

The Swedish concepts of state, nation and 'Europe'

Empirical findings

Conclusion

Language, psychotherapy and client change

2. Three models of interdisciplinarity

3. Theories of change

3.1. Language: System and instance

3.2. Semogenesis: Three perspectives on system change

3.3. Change in psychotherapy: A narrative perspective

4. An integrated view of the narrative therapy process

4.1. Logogenesis: Genre and its relationship to client change

4.2. Client ontogenesis: Scaffolding client change

5. Discussion: Which contextual factors influence change?

6. Conclusion: Bridging the 2 disciplines

III. Inside and outside traditional disciplines

Anthropology of institutions and discourse analysis

Studying a working group in the United Nations

Discourses in the UN

Reports, authors and voices

Researchers in or out?

Discourses in a multicultural environment: The problem of unity and diversity

Thinking process: Content and values in political institutions

The demand for pluridisciplinarity

The role of a political identity code in defining the boundaries of public and private*

Appendix.

Social order and disorder

2. Institutions and institutional arrangements

3. Institutional problem-solving paradigms

4. The gaps and anomalies of institutional paradigms

5. Institutional paradigms expressed in key discourses

5.1. Key components of discourse

6. Systemic problems and types of discourse

7. The dynamics of interrelated subcomplexes

8. The dynamics of policy paradigms, paradigm competition, and paradigm shifts and related discourses

8.1. Paradigmatic phases and paradigm shifts

Acknowledgement

Biographical notes

Name index

Subject index

The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152962

9781282152960

1282152963

9789027292322

9027292329

OCLC:

237387023