Translation Embedded Approach (TEA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) : Interpreting the Post-Reform Discursive Construction of "Chinese Socialism" and Intellectuals / Yue Zhou (Joe) Lin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Yue Zhou (Joe), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2025.

Summary:

Researchers committed to uncovering sociopolitical subliminal messages in texts and their sociopolitical implications have long considered critical discourse analysis (CDA) to be a powerful method. However, it is always a challenge to apply CDA to the study of a source text written in a language foreign to the target audience. This necessitates translation as a method of transferring the meaning of the source text to a target text. However, the transfer process is necessarily interpretative, which also speaks to the hermeneutic nature of CDA, so that each transfer is also a creation of new meaning and new knowledge. What facilitates this is a Translation Embedded Approach (TEA) to CDA. One of its kind is presented here as a method case that focuses on the discourse or discursive construction of Chinese socialism and intellectuals in postreform China. A major advantage of the TEA to CDA is its procedural flexibility. For example, to support a doctoral-level research design, the TEA to CDA streamlines the procedures of Norman Fairclough's Dialectical Relational Approach and Ruth Wodak's Discourse Historical Approach. A key component of the TEA to CDA is the dialogic differentiation of translation strategies and meaning-making within a meaning field. This enables researchers to uncover different sociopolitical meanings from a wide range of interpretations. However, this could also complicate negative and positive critiques of CDA. The TEA to CDA introduced here acknowledges compromises. The TEA to CDA is scientific but never resorting to scientism or the positivist tendency. When assessing validity and reproducibility, the TEA to CDA encourages the Bilingual-Researcher-as-Translator, an alternative to back translation.

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ISBN:

1-03-622139-3

9781036221393

OCLC:

1523170291