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Methods of Critical Discourse Studies

Third Edition
Edited by:
  • Ruth Wodak - Lancaster University, UK, University of Lancaster, UK
  • Michael Meyer - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria


October 2015 | 272 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

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.

This new edition:

  • expands coverage of multimodality
  • adds two new chapters on social media and analysis of online data
  • supports learning with a guided introduction to each chapter
  • includes a new and extended glossary

Clearly written, practical and rigorous in its approach, this book is the ideal companion when embarking on research that focuses on discourse and meaning-making.

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

New to the Third Edition of Methods of Critical Discourse Studies:

 

  • Expanded coverage of multimodality
  • Chapters on social media and analysis of online data
  • A guided introduction to each chapter
  • A new and extended glossary
  • Updated pedagogy: student-focussed examples, further reading lists, and tasks/activities 
  • Expanded coverage of multimodality
  • Chapters on social media and analysis of online data
  • A guided introduction to each chapter
  • A new and extended glossary
  • Updated pedagogy: student-focussed examples, further reading lists, and tasks/activities