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Critical discourse analysis (CDA) stems from a critical theory of language which sees the use of language as a form of social practice. All social practices are tied to specific historical contexts and are the means by which existing social relations are reproduced or contested and different interests are served. It is the questions pertaining to interests that relate discourse to relations of power. How is the text positioned or positioning? Whose interests are served by this positioning? Whose interests are negated? What are the consequences of this positioning? Where analysis seeks to understand how discourse is implicated in relations of power it is called critical discourse analysis. Fairclough's (1989Fairclough's ( , 1995) ) model for CDA consists of three interrelated processes of analysis which are tied to three interrelated dimensions of discourse. These three dimensions are: 1. the object of analysis (including verbal, visual or verbal and visual texts); 2. the processes by which the object is produced and received(writing/speaking/designing and reading/listening/viewing) by human subjects; 3. the socio-historical conditions that govern these processes.

Author

Hilary Janks

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

1997

Language

EN