Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies

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.

Piotr Cap is Professor of Linguistics, University of Lodz, Poland.

Christopher Hart is Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics at Northumbria University, USA.

Introduction, Chris Hart and Piotr Cap \ Part I: Interdisciplinarity \ I.i: History \ 1. Critic and crisis: Old debates and new faces, Ruth Wodak \ 2. Discourse, history and narrativity: Reasonable and fallacious arguments about learning the lessons of history, Bernhard Forchtner \ I.ii: Social Cognition \ 3. Discourse and cognition, Teun A. van Dijk \ 4. Applying social cognition research to critical discourse studies, Veronika Koller \ I.iii: Metaphor \ 5. Purposeful metaphor in the language of the far-right, Jonathan Charteris-Black \ 6. Metaphor in the Discourse-Historical Approach, Andreas Musolff \ I.iv: Linguistic Pragmatics \ 7. Towards new criteria for the identification of communicative genres: A contribution from pragmatics, Piotr Cap \ 8. It is easy to miss something you are not looking for: A pragmatic account of covert communicative influence, Steve Oswald \ I.v: Cognitive Linguistics \ 9. Deictic Discourse Space Theory DDST, Paul Chilton \ 10. Schematisation and attention as sites of ideological difference in conceptualisation, Christopher Hart \ I.vi: Corpora \ 11. Corpus-based methodology and critical discourse studies: Context, content, computation, Costas Gabrielatos \ 12. Electronic deconstruction: A new form of corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis, Kieran O'Halloran \ I.vii: Multimodality \ 13. Critical analysis of multimodal discourse, Theo Van Leeuwen \ 14. A critical multimodal discourse analysis of war movie theme music, David Machin \ Part II: Genres and Domains \ II.i: Media Discourse \ 15. Media discourse in context, Anita Fetzer \ 16. Othering and saming in the media: A post-foundational approach, Felicitas Macgilchrist \ II.i: Political Discourse \ 17. ‘American ways of organizing the world': Democratic peace as legitimation strategy, Patricia Dunmire \ 18. 'Yes, We Can': Discourse, power and the social life of a political slogan, Adam Hodges \ International Institutional Discourse \ 19. Discourse and communication in the European Union, Michal Krzyzanowski \ 20. Towards a European community of practice: The technology of EU citizens' agency, Elena Magistro \ II.ii: Public Policy \ 21. The privatisation of the public realm: A critical perspective on practice and discourse, Gerlinde Mautner \ 22. Imposing the ‘enabling' state? A corpus-aided critical discourse analysis of UK education policy, Jane Mulderrig \ II.iii: Race and Immigration \ 23. Race and immigration in far- and extreme-right European discourse, John E. Richardson and Monica Colombo \ 24. The British press and discourses of immigration: the dynamics of world events and representations, Majid Khosravinik \ II.iv: Health \ 25. Public health in UK media: Cognitive Discourse Analysis and its application to a drinking water emergency, Olivia Knapton and Gabriella Rundblad \ 26. Critical studies of health and illness discourses, Nelya Koteyko \ II.v: Environment \ 27. Values, assumptions and beliefs in climate change reporting, Cinzia Bevitori \ 28. Time to reconnect. discourse, ecology and erasure, Arran Stibbe \ Bibliography \ Index

Affiliations


Sylvia Adamson, Professor, University of Sheffield, UK \ Derek Attridge, Professor, University of York, UK \ Joe Bray, University of Sheffield, UK \ Beatrice Busse, Professor, University of Bern, Switzerland \ Andrew Caink, Principal Lecturer, University of Westminster, UK \ Ron Carter, Professor, University of Nottingham, UK \ Jonathan Culler, Professor, Harvard University, USA \ Jonathan Culpeper, Professor, Lancaster University, UK \ Cathy Emmott, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, UK \ Olga Fischer, Professor, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands \ Joanna Gavins, University of Sheffield, UK \ Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz, Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK \ Sarah Grandage, Teaching Associate, University of Nottingham, UK \ Keith Green, Principal Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, UK \ Jane Hodson, University of Sheffield, UK \ Lesley Jeffries, Professor, University of Huddersfield, UK \ Geoffrey Leech, Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University, UK \ Michaela Mahlberg, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, UK \ Dan McIntryre, University of Huddersfield, UK \ David Mial, Professor, University of Alberta, Canada \ Sara Mills, Professor, Sheffield Hallam University, UK \ Rocio Montoro, Lecturer, University of Granada, Spain \ Nina Nørgaard, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark \ Sara Pons-Sanz, Lecturer, University of Westminster, UK \ Elena Semino, Professor, Lancaster University, UK \ Mick Short, Professor, Lancaster University, UK \ Paul Simpson, Professor, Queen's University Belfast, UK \Gerard Steen, Professor, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands \ Peter Stockwell, Professor, University of Nottingham, UK \ Michael Toolan, Professor, University of Birmingham, UK \ Willie van Peer, Professor, University of Munich, Germany \ Katie Wales, Special Professor, University of Nottingham, UK \ Sonja Zynger, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil