Can discourse analysis techniques adequately deal with complex social phenomena? What does 'interdisciplinarity' mean for theory building and the practise of empirical research? This original volume debates critical theory and discourse analysis, focussing on the extent to which CDA can draw on a range of disciplines in the social sciences.
Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Theory, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Discourse Analysis; G.Weiss & R.Wodak PART 1: CRITICAL - CRITICAL - CRITICAL Critical Discourse Analysis and the Rhetoric of Critique; M.Billig Critical Discourse Analysis and the Development of New Science; C.A.M.Gouveia Reflexivity and the Doubles of Modern Man: The Discursive Construction of Anthropological Subject Positions; M.W.Jřrgensen PART 2: DEBATING AND PRACTISING INTERDISCIPLINARITY The Discourse-Knowledge Interface; T.A.van Dijk Critical Discourse Analysis and Evaluative Meaning; Interdisciplinarity as a Critical Turn; P.Graham Texts and Discourses in the Technologies of Social Organisation; J.Lemke Identities in Flux: Arabs and Jews in Israel; M.Dascal Political and Somatic Alignment: Habitus, Ideology and Social Practice; S.Scollon Voicing the 'Other': Reading and Writing Indigenous Australians; J.R.Martin PART 3: FROM THEORY TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PRACTICE Activist Sociolinguistics in a Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective; P.O'Connor Discourse at Work: When Women Take on the Role of Manager; L.Martín-Rojo & C.Gómez Esteban Cross-Cultural Representation of 'Otherness' in Media Discourse; C.R.Caldas-Coulthard Interaction Between Visual and Verbal Communication: Changing Patterns in the Printed Media; C.Anthonissen Index
