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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. What is Discourse Analysis? is an accessible introduction to an empirical research approach which is widely used in the social sciences and related disciplines. This book explores the idea of how meaning is socially constructed and how 'talk' and text can be interpreted. The challenges of discourse analysis are outlined as well as helpful ways to approach them - from finding the right starting point, processing and interpreting data through to building an argument. Discourse analysts work with language data, including talk, documents and broadcast material. Researchers in different traditions study interactions and social practices, meaning-making and larger meaning systems, and contests and conflicts around collective identities, social norms and subjectification. What is Discourse Analysis? addresses new researchers and other academics interested in language and its associated practices. The book outlines the history of discourse analysis, its key concepts and theorists and its uses and challenges. Discussions of published studies illustrate the use of the approach to investigate a range of research topics, such as gender, health and national identities. The book also addresses the practical aspects of discourse analysis, providing clear guidance on data collection and data processing, including transcription and selection. Covering important topics,What is Discourse Analysis? draws from recent articles to show how discourse analysis works in action. Common questions about discourse analysis are presented in a lively and accessible Q&A format. This book will be an essential resource for all researchers working with discourse analysis.

Intro -- Critical Discourse Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Perspective -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Introductory Aspects of Critical Discourse Analysis -- Critical Discourse Analysis: An Overview -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Key Concepts in CDA -- Conclusion -- References -- Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- General Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics -- Pragmatics -- Conclusion -- References -- Systematic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Use of Systemic Functional Linguistics in CDA -- Four Grammatical Concepts for CDA -- Conclusion -- References -- What Is a Text? Questions of Boundaries and Limits -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Interrogating the Idea of 'Text' -- Bourdieu: Thinking about Limits -- Text, Context and Commentary -- Conclusion -- References -- Applying Membership Categorisation Analysis to Discourse: When the "Tripwire Critique' Is not Enough -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Categorial Organisation: Membership Categorisation -- Membership Categorisation Devices -- Conclusion -- References -- Critical Discourse Analysis and the Problem of Methodology -- Abstract -- Introduction -- CDA and Methodology -- Three Critical Questions for Methodological Debate in CDA -- Reflexivity and Methodology: The Case of Ethnography -- Conclusion -- References -- The Antinomies of Power in Critical Discourse Analysis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Power as Domination: Negative Power -- Power as Knowledge: Positive Power -- Reformulating a Critical Discourse Ethics -- Conclusion -- References -- Being Self-critical in Research as a Meaning Making Process -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Meaning of Meaning -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Critical Discourse Analysis across Disciplines.

Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) is a multimodal analytic technique for the investigation of Internet and digital phenomena, artifacts, and culture. It integrates an analysis of the technological artifact and user discourse, framed by cultural theory, to unpack semiotic and material connections between form, function, belief, and meaning of information and communication technologies (ICTs). CTDA requires the incorporation of critical theory—critical race, feminism, queer theory, and so on—to incorporate the epistemological standpoint of underserved ICT users so as to avoid deficit-based models of underrepresented populations' technology use. This article describes in detail the formulation and execution of the technique, using the author's research on Black Twitter as an exemplar. Utilizing CTDA, the author found that Black discursive identity interpellated Twitter's mechanics to produce explicit cultural technocultural digital practices—defined by one investor as "the use case for Twitter." Researchers interested in using this technique will find it an intervention into normative and analytic technology analyses, as CTDA formulates technology as cultural representations and social structures in order to simultaneously interrogate culture and technology as intertwined concepts.

The study is about Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) which aimed to explore ideology in protest songs of Punk Rock music. The protest emerges due to dissatisfaction with any program or policy of the government or other organization. The musician sees these relevant parties as superior who have overused their power and ideology to control people and cause them suffered. Their music is a representation of their rejection of the condition and the system. Through their lyrics, they intent on raising people's awareness of the existing issue and persuading them to agree with their beliefs and to fight for a change. The study has to investigate two research questions such as 1) What are the dominant ideologies revealed in Anti-Flag's song lyrics? 2) How are the ideologies revealed in the songs through the use of linguistic features? The study is library research that used CDA and Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) as basic theories. Under three dimensional framework of CDA: social practice, discourse practice, and textual analysis the study is directed to find out the social issues inside the 15 songs lyrics of Anti Flag and analyze the text with the help of SFG. The significance of this study is that it informs two main ideologies presented in selected songs of Anti-Flag are the anti-authoritarianism: anti-capitalism and anti-nationalism and the social movement and explains how the linguistic features work to present the ideologies.

Gender and discourse interface in many more epistemological sites than can be represented in one collection. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis therefore focuses on a principled diversity of key sites within four broad areas: the media, sexuality, education and parenthood. The different chapters together illustrate how taking a discourse perspective facilitates understanding of the complex and subtle ways in which gender is represented, constructed and contested through language. The book engages critically with long-running and on-going debates, but also reflects and develops current understandings of gender, identity and discourse, particularly the shift from 'gender differences' to the discoursal shaping of gender. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis thus offers not only insights and methodologies of new empirical studies but also careful theorisations, in particular of discourse, text, identity and gender. The collection is a valuable resource for researchers, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates working in the area of gender and discourse.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- 1 Discourse in late modernity -- 2 Social life and critical social science -- 3 Discourse -- 4 The critical analysis of discourse -- 5 Narratives o f late modernity and a research agenda for CDA -- 6 Language, space and time -- 7 Discourse, difference and the openness of the social -- 8 Critical discourse analysis and linguistics -- Bibliography -- Index