COMS 3407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Teun A. Van Dijk, Critical Discourse Analysis, Ruth Wodak
3 Apr 2020
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Critical discourse analysis (cda) emerged in the late 1980s, but it has roots in the writings of antonio gramsci, louis althusser, j rgen habermas, and michel foucault. It is currently one of the most prevalent forms of discourse analysis, having overtaken even framing whom has developed a specific approach to cda. Its main advocates are norman fairclough, ruth wodak, and teun a. van dijk, each of. It tends to assume that it alone is discourse analysis, but one of the purposes of this. Cda"s stated goal is to unmask, or perform an autopsy on, the operations of power though discourse by unpacking and exposing discursive techniques associated with legitimation, dissimulation, reification, and other ideological processes that have become. Cda emphasizes its role in excavating & exposing ideology. Anything that is said or written about the world is articulated from a particular ideological position. Yet ironically, cda cannot by itself detect and describe an actual ideology!
