Methods of Critical Discourse Studies

This is a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach, readers gain a rich understanding of the many angles into critical discourse analysis, the fundamentals of how analysis works and examples from written texts, online data and images.

Chapter 1: Critical Discourse Studies: History, Agenda, Theory, and Methodology - Ruth Wodak & Michael MeyerChapter 2: The Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) - Martin Reisigl and Ruth WodakChapter 3: Critical Discourse Studies: A Sociocognitive Approach - Teun A. van DijkChapter 4: A dialectical-relation approach to critical discourse analysis in social research - Norman FaircloughChapter 5: Analysing discourses and dispositives: a Foucauldian approach to theory and methodology - Siegfried Jäger and Florentine MaierChapter 6: Discourse as the recontextualization of social practice - a guide - Theo van LeeuwenChapter 7: Checks and balances: how corpus linguistics can contribute to CDA - Gerlinde MautnerChapter 8: Critical Analysis of Visual and Multimodal Texts - Dennis Jancsary, Markus A. Höllerer, Renate E. MeyerChapter 9: Critical discourse studies and social media: power, resistance and critique in changing media ecologies - Majid KhosraviNik and Johann W. Unger