Week 13: Agenda, Principles and Aims
It is said that our words are never neutral, they are pregnant with meanings and ideology. This section discusses some principles of critical discourse analysis, such as the explicit sociopolitical stance of discourse analysts, and a focus on dominance relations by elite groups and institutions as they are being enacted, legitimated or otherwise reproduced by text and talk. One of the crucial elements of this analysis of the relations between power and discourse is the patterns of access to (public) discourse for different social groups. Theoretically it is shown that in order to be able to relate power and discourse in an explicit way, we need the cognitive interface of models. knowledge, attitudes and ideologies and other social representations of the social mind, which also relate the individual and the social, and the micro- and the macro-levels of social structure.
- 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
