Discourse in Late Modernity : Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis

Lilie Chouliaraki

ISBN 10: 0748610820 / ISBN 13: 9780748610822

Published by Edinburgh University Press Sep 1999, 1999

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Neuware - This pilot volume launches the Critical Discourse Analysis series by setting out a new and distinctive theoretical grounding for the subject. The authors identify and set out to meet three contemporary challenges corresponding to the problems, issues, and struggles of contemporary life; to ground critical discourse analysis in a coherent social theory and theory of critical social scientific research; and to clarify its relationship to other types of social analysis and to linguistics.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discourse in Late Modernity : Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Sep 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748610820
• ISBN 13: 9780748610822
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 232W x 152H x 13D millimeters 232 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 277 grams

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Synopsis

Discourse in Late Modernity sets out to show that critical discourse analysis is strongly positioned to address empirical research and theory-building across the social sciences, particularly research and theory on the semiotic/linguistic aspects of the social world. It situates critical discourse analysis as a form of critical social research in relation to diverse theories from the philosophy of science to social theory and from political science to sociology and linguistics. First, the authors clarify the ontological and epistemological assumptions of critical discourse analysis - its view of what the social world consists of and how to study it - and, in so doing, point to the connections between critical discourse analysis and critical social scientific research more generally. Secondly, they relate critical discourse analysis to social theory, by creating a research agenda in contemporary social life on the basis of narratives of late modernity, particularly those of Giddens, Habermas, and Harvey as well as feminist and postmodernist approaches. Thirdly, they show the relevance of sociological work in the analysis of discursive aspects of social life, drawing on the work of Bourdieu and Bernstein to theorise the dialectic of social reproduction and change, and on post-structuralist, post-colonial and feminist work to theorise the dialectic of complexity and homogenisation in contemporary societies. Finally, they discuss the relationship between systemic-functional linguistics and critical discourse analysis, showing how the analytical strength of each can benefit from the other.* Sets out a new and distinctive theoretical grounding and research agenda for critical discourse analysis* Interdisciplinary in scope* Draws on a broad range of theories and approaches

About the Authors

Lilie Chouliaraki is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Norman Fairclough is Professor of Language in Social Life at Lancaster University.