Week 11: Critical Discourse Analysis
Critical discourse analysis is a contemporary approach to the study of language and discourses in social institutions. Drawing on poststructuralist discourse theory and critical linguistics, it focuses on how social relations, identity, knowledge and power are constructed through written and spoken texts in communities, schools and classrooms. This article describes the historical contexts and theoretical precedents for sociological models for the study of language, discourse and text in education. It then outlines key terms, assumptions and practices of critical discourse analysis. It concludes by describing unresolved issues and challenges for discourse analysis and sociology of education.
This section introduces CDA, talks about its historical development and gives an overview.
- Week 1: Introduction
- Week 2: Approaches to DA
- Week 3: Forms n Functions of Discourse
- Week 4: The Role of Context in Interpretation
- Week 5: Topic and Representation of Discourse Content
- Week 6: Staging and the Representation of Discourse Structure
- Week 7: Information Structure
- Week 8: The Nature of Reference in Text and Discourse
- Week 9: Coherence in the Interpretation of Discourse
- Week 10: Conversational Analysis
- Week 11: Critical Discourse Analysis
- Week 12: CDA - Approaches n Framework
- Week 13: Agenda, Principles and Aims
- Week 14: Language n Ideology
- Week 15: Discourse, Gender n Identity
- Week 16: Multimodal Discourse Analysis
- Reference Books
- Chapters 17
- Department English
- Teacher
Hafiz Ahmad Bilal
