ENGL292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Discourse Analysis, Raymond Williams, Clan Maclean

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL292
• Professor: Nadine Gingrich

Document Summary

Language is a product of those who use it. Not done intentionally, just the way things are. The capacity to impose and maintain a particular structure in society. Your idea of world making the idea of world making. Rhetorical situation has to be discovered by someone. This is what we decide is worth looking at. Most belief about the world is acquired through discourse. How ideological of text and the representation of the world around them. How did they express the underlying ideologies in the text. Practices as they are experienced appear as reciprocally confirming. Realized complex with ever changing pressures and limits. Allows us to see processes that go into them. Always changing, being challenged, is resisted, and is constantly reconfirmed. Lives in inequality of society through economic and political power. Their image of world making should be dominant. How the war on drunk driving distracts from the real danger.