批评性话语分析.pdf

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/~iverse areas as pragmatics, conversation analysis,
narrative analysis, rhetoric, stylistics, sociolinguistics, ethnography, or media analysis,
among others.
Discourse analysis and societyCrucial for critical discourse analysts is the explicit awareness of their role in society.
Continuing a tradition that rejects the possibility of a 'value-free' science, they argue that
science, and especially scholarly discourse, are inherently part of, and influenced by
social structure, and produced in social interaction. Instead of denying or ignoring such a
relation between scholarship and society, they plead that such relations be studied and
accounted for in their own right, and that scholarly practices should be based on such
insights. Theory formation, description and explanation, also in discourse analysis, are
socio-politically 'situated', whether we like it or not. Reflection the on role of scholars in
society and the polity thus becomes inherent part of the discourse analytical enterprise.
This may mean, among other things, that discourse analysts conduct research in solidarity
and cooperation with dominated groups.
Critical research on discourse needs to satisfy a number of requirements in order to
effectively realize its aims:
- As is often the case for more marginal research traditions, CDA research has to be
'better' than other research in order to be accepted.
- It focuses primarily on social problems and political issues, rather than on current
paradigms and fashions.
- Empirically adequate critical analysis of social problems is usually multidisciplinary .
- Rather than to merely describe discourse structures, it tries to explain them in terms of
properties of social interaction and especially social structure.
- More specifically CDA focuses on the ways discourse structures enac