Hart Christopher, Cap Piotr (eds.) Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 641 p. — ISBN10: 1441141634, 13 9781441141637.CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoretical and empirical developments. It presents an up-to-date survey of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), covering both the theoretical landscape and the analytical territories that it extends over. It is intended for critical scholars and students who wish to keep abreast of the current state of the art.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the chapters are organised around different methodological perspectives for CDS (history, cognition, multimodality and corpora, among others). In the second part, the chapters are organised around particular discourse types and topics investigated in CDS, both traditionally (e.g. issues of racism and gender inequality) and only more recently (e.g. issues of health, public policy, and the environment).
This is, altogether, an essential new reference work for all CDS practitioners.Part. Dimensions of Discourse:Historia Magistra Vitae The Topos of History as a Teacher in Public Struggles over Self and Other Representation, Metaphor in the Discourse-Historical Approach, Argumentation Analysis and the Discourse-Historical Approach A Methodological Framework, It Is Easy to Miss Something You Are Not Looking For A Pragmatic Account of Covert Communicative Infl uence for (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Discourse-Cognition-Society Current State and Prospects of the Socio-Cognitive Approach to Discourse, Applying Social Cognition Research to Critical Discourse Studies The Case of Collective Identities, Construal Operations in Online Press Reports of Political Protests, Expanding CDS Methodology by Cognitive-Pragmatic Tools Proximization Theory and Public Space Discourses, ‘Bad Wigs and Screaming Mimis’ Using Corpus-Assisted Techniques to Carry Out Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representation of Trans People in the British Press, Digital Argument Deconstruction An Ethical, Software-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis for Highlighting Where Arguments Fall Apart, Critical Discourse Analysis and Multimodality, Sound and Discourse A Multimodal Approach to War Film Music.
Part. Domains of Discourse: ‘American Ways of Organizing the World’ 1 Designing the Global Future through US National Security Policy, ‘Yes, We Can’ The Social Life of a Political Slogan, Media Discourse in Context, Media Discourse and De/Coloniality A Post-Foundational Approach, Discourse and Communication in the European Union A Multi-Focus Perspective of Critical Discourse Studies, The Discursive Technology of Europeans’ Involvement EU Culture and Community of Practice, The Privatization of the Public Realm A Critical Perspective on Practice and Discourse, Pushed out of School A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Policies and Practices of Educational Accountability 1, Immigration Discourses and Critical Discourse Analysis Dynamics of World Events and Immigration Representations in the British Press, Race and Immigration in Far- and Extreme-Right European Political Leaflets, Critical Studies of Health and Illness Discourses, Public Health in the UK Media Cognitive Discourse Analysis and its Application to a Drinking Water Emergency, Ecolinguistics and Erasure Restoring the Natural World to Consciousness, Values, Assumptions and Beliefs in British Newspaper Editorial Coverage of Climate Change.