CDA批评话语分析简介

Outline

Definition

The aims of CDA

The principle of CDA

The sets of CDA

Methodology

Critical discourse analysis, an analytic method springing up in

late 1970s and early 1980s, mainly studies public discourses and non-literature discourses. It attaches great importance to analyzing production, transmission and reception of discourse under social and historical background. It aims to disclose relations among language, power and ideology. It methodology is built on Halliday’s systemic-functional linguistics.

Definition

Critical discourse analysis(CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach

to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social

practice and focuses on the ways social and political domination are reproduced in text and talk.

CDA is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily

studies the way social power abuse, dominance and inequality are enacted, reproduced and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context. With such dissident research, critical discourse analysts take

explicit position, and thus want to understand, expose, and ultimately resist social inequality.

The Aims of CDA

The purpose of critical discourse analysis is to focus on social

and political problems, mainly those involving inequality and power dominance. The reaction of people of different sexual orientations, classes, age groups, locations and other groups all vary according to their own ideologies. The ultimate goal is to change or stop the social or political problem of inequality.

The principles of CDA

Fairclough and Wodak summarize the main tenets of CDA:

CDA addresses social problem;

Power relations are discursive;

Discourse constitutes society and culture;

Discourse does ideological work;

Discourse is historical;

The link between text and society is mediated; Discourse analysis

is interpretative and explanatory; Discourse is a form of social action;

The sects of CDA

1.Fairclough Lancaster School 社会变革论

2.Wodak Vienna School 语篇历史法

3.Wetherell Loughborough School 话语心理学

4.Kress& Van Leeuwen 社会符号法

5.Van Dijk 社会认知法

Methodology

CDA mainly has three ways, which are systemic functional grammar analysis, genre analysis of the inter-level and historical background discourse analysis. These three methods focus on different aspects and complement one another. They enable critical discourse analysis to be the important complement of the

traditionally social and cultural analysis as well as a kind of social activity, which boosts the progress of human society.