CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Agenda
Definitions Theoretical viewpoints

Practice

Critical discourse analysis

The analysis of texts in context

Discourse
a form of power that circulates in the social field and can attach to strategies of domination as well as those of resistance (Diamond and Quinby, 1988, p. 185)

Types of discourse
Informative Persuasive

Entertaining

Types of arguments
Non-artistic Artistic
Rational (logos) Emotional (pathos) Ethical (ethos)

Slippery arguments
Faulty generalizations Ad hominem Ad populum Red herring The complex question

Parts of the discourse

Introduction Statement of fact Confirmation Refutation Conclusion

Types of introductions
inquisitive paradoxical corrective preparatory narrative

What can be controlled?

Topics Meaning, form, style Volume Words use Action & interaction