Critical Discourse Analysis [Multiple-component retail product]

This thorough and massive reference reprints 66 seminal journal articles on all aspects of critical discourse studies, a social science that draws from such fields as rhetoric, linguistics, anthropology, and literary studies to examine the relationship between language and society. The volumes focus in turn on concepts, history, and theory; methodologies; case studies of doing critical discourse analysis; and applications, interdisciplinary perspectives, and new trends. The topics include theoretical and methodological aspects of Foucauldian critical discourse analysis and dispositive analysis, a context-sensitive approach to analyzing talk in strategy meetings, towards a systematization of critical discourse analysis categories in the representation of social groups, Slovenia as a case study in the media representation of the discrimination against the Roma in eastern Europe, reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West, and visual arguments in political leaflets of Austrian and British far-right parties. The volumes are paged separately. There is no index. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This four-volume set brings together seminal articles on the subject from varied sources, creating an invaluable roadmap for scholars seeking to consolidate their knowledge of CDA, and of its continued development.

Since the late 1980s, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has become a well-established field in the social sciences. However, in contrast with some branches of linguistics, CDA is not a discrete academic discipline in the traditional sense, with a fixed set of research methods. The manifold roots of CDA lie in a myriad of disciplines including rhetoric, anthropology, philosophy and cognitive science, to name a few. This four-volume set brings together seminal articles on the subject from varied sources, creating an invaluable roadmap for scholars seeking to consolidate their knowledge of CDA, and of its continued development. Sculpted and edited by a leading voice in the field, this work covers the interdisciplinary roots, the most important approaches and methodologies of CDA, as well as applications in other disciplines in an updated and comprehensive way.