Scribd
Upload
51 views

Critical Discourse Analysis

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) aims to illuminate social problems and contribute resources to overcome them. CDA examines the relationship between power and discourse and how social inequality is constructed and resisted through language. CDA is interdisciplinary, focuses on the relationship between discourse and society, and aims to uncover implicit or hidden aspects of discursively enacted dominance and underlying ideologies. The goals of CDA include investigating social inequality as expressed through language use, making societal disparities transparent, and exploring the social functions and ideological investments of language.

Uploaded by

fitri mar ah
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
51 views

Critical Discourse Analysis

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) aims to illuminate social problems and contribute resources to overcome them. CDA examines the relationship between power and discourse and how social inequality is constructed and resisted through language. CDA is interdisciplinary, focuses on the relationship between discourse and society, and aims to uncover implicit or hidden aspects of discursively enacted dominance and underlying ideologies. The goals of CDA include investigating social inequality as expressed through language use, making societal disparities transparent, and exploring the social functions and ideological investments of language.

Uploaded by

fitri mar ah
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 5

Critical Discourse

Analysis
CDA
• Fairclough (2001), defines CDA as “a form of critical social
science geared to illuminating the problems which people are
confronted with by particular forms of social life, and to
contributing resources which people may be able to draw upon
in tackling and overcoming those problems” (p.125).
• Kazemian & Hashemi (2014), CDA is an interdisciplinary
analytical viewpoint which looks into the relationship between
power and discourse, and particularly it investigates the way in
which authority, dominance and social inequality are
constructed, sustained, reproduced and resisted in the discourse
of written texts and spoken words.
Critical research on discourse, Van Dijk (2003) argues, needs to
satisfy a number of requirements in order to effectively realize its
aims:
• CDA it is problem-or issue-oriented
• CDA work is typical inter- or multidisciplinary, and especially
focuses on the relations between discourse and society
• CDA does not characterize a school
• CDA is about the underlying ideologies, that play a role in the
reproduction of or resistance against dominance or inequality
• CDA studies are geared to uncovering, revealing or disclosing
what is implicit, hidden or otherwise not immediately obvious
in relations of discursively enacted dominance or their
underlying ideologies
The aims of CDA
• Wodak (2001) contends that CDA aims to investigate critically
social inequality as it is expressed, signalled, constituted,
legitimized and so on by language use (or in discourse).
• Meyer (2001), CDA aims to make transparent the discursive
aspects of societal disparities and inequalities.
• Fairclough (1992:315) states the objectives of CDA in more
practical terms when he postulates that the aims of CDA are to
explore the social function of language, to describe linguistic
processes in social terms, and to reveal the „ideological‟ and
political investments‟.
Conclusion
Critical discourse analysis is the study of the study of discourse
with a broader view. if the analysis discourse only examines the
context of a text while CDA is not only the context but the parts
that form the basis of the formation of discourse such as the
background of an author, how the discourse relates to existing
social conditions. CDA has the aim to describe and explore social
conditions in the linguistic process to express ideological
challenges and other social conditions in writing and orally.

You might also like