Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (Introducing Qualitative Methods series)

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As a good introduction to the field of critical discourse analysis, and its various aims, philosophies, and methods, this book is to be highly recommended. I particularly appreciated the examples - detailed and interesting, they are a tremendous aid in learning to use the methods covered.

Author(s): Professor Ruth Wodak, Michael Meyer
Series: Introducing Qualitative Methods series
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Year: 2002

Language: English
Pages: 201

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
List of contributors......Page 8
1 What CDA is about - a summary of its history, important concepts and its developments......Page 10
Notes......Page 21
2 Between theory, method, and politics: positioning of the approaches to CDA......Page 23
Notes......Page 32
3 Discourse and knowledge: theoretical and methodological aspects of a critical discourse and dispositive analysis......Page 33
Notes......Page 62
4 The discourse-historical approach......Page 64
Notes......Page 95
5 Multidisciplinary CDA: a plea for diversity......Page 96
6 Critical discourse analysis as a method in social scientific research......Page 122
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......Page 140
Appendix 1......Page 138
Appendix 2......Page 139
References......Page 185
Index......Page 197