The Practice of Critical Discourse Analysis: an Introduction

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Routledge, Nov 26, 2013 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 216 pages
This book provides an introduction to the aims, theories and practices of critical discourse analysis (CDA).
It is mainly concerned with the linguistic aspects of CDA. It provides an introduction to the different types of language analysis that are employed in CDA (frequency analysis, coversation, transitivity and reference, and figurative language, for example) and seeks to provide readers with the skills to apply them in different contexts to various types of texts: political speeches, marketing pieces, literary works, advertising, multimedia persuasive texts, discourses on race, gender, and politics.

 

Contents

Acknowledgements
Discourse and social context
Position and point of view
Intertextual analysis
Figurative language metaphor and message
The construction of identity
Politeness power and solidarity
The discourse of prejudice
The discourse of consumerism
Activities
Activities
Notes
References
Index
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Meriel Bloor is a Fellow of the Centre for English Language Teaching at the University of Warwick. She is also a Visiting Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Birmingham.
Thomas Bloor is a Fellow of the School of Languages and Social Sciences at Aston University.

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