Advances in Critical Discourse Studies collects ground-breaking scholarship and cutting-edge research which reflects significant shifts in Critical Discourse Studies, exploring the field from theoretical, analytic and methodological perspectives. Innovative chapters analyse a diverse range of discourses including journalism, mass media, political communication, policy documents, interviews, photographic archive and official bodies.
The chapters in Part I explore Critical Discourse Studies from the point of view of history, memory, identity politics, and discourse, analysing salient examples of how memory and recollection of the past shapes understandings and narratives of the present, and visions of future societies. Part II explores problem-oriented analysis in Critical Discourse Studies and examines the roles that discourse plays in the formation, perpetuation and transformation of class relations. Finally, Part III explores a methodological issue by looking at the benefits of reinforcing fieldwork and ethnographic analysis in Critical Discourse Studies. The case studies throughout the book demonstrate that analytic research contributes significantly to the in-depth and in-situ research of a variety of increasingly complex social, historical, political and economic contexts.
This book was originally published as three special issues of the journal Critical Discourse Studies.
This book collects ground-breaking scholarship and cutting-edge research which reflects significant shifts in Critical Discourse Studies, exploring the field from theoretical, analytic and methodological perspectives. It was originally published as three special issues of the journal Critical Discourse Studies.
Part I: Discourse, History and Memory
1. On the politics of remembering
(or not) Ruth Wodak and John E. Richardson
2. Trauma, discourse and
communicative limits Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley
3.
Recontextualising fascist ideologies of the past: right-wing discourses on
employment and nativism in Austria and the United Kingdom John E. Richardson
and Ruth Wodak
4. The unbearable lightness of identity: membership, tradition
and the Jewish anti-Semite in Gershom Scholems letter to Hannah Arendt David
Kaposi
5. Constructing the past and constructing themselves: the Uruguayan
militarys memory of the dictatorship Mariana Achugar
6. Dealing with a
traumatic past: the victim hearings of the South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission and their reconciliation discourse Annelies
Verdoolaege
7. No reconciliation without redress: articulating political
demands in post-transitional South Africa Aletta J. Norval Part II: Class and
Discourse
8. Renewing an academic interest in structural inequalities David
Machin and John E. Richardson
9. The denial of class struggle by British
Governments in their anti-union discourse (19782007) Claudia Ortu
10.
Urbanisation: Discourse class gender in mid-Victorian photographs of maids
reading the archive of Arthur J. Munby Sarah Edge
11. (Mis)recognition and
the middle-class/bourgeois gaze: A case study of Wife Swap Samantha A. Lyle
12. Doing class: A discursive and ethnomethodological approach C.M. Scharff
13. Underclass and ordinary people discourses: Representing/re-presenting
council tenants in a housing campaign Paul Watt
14. A war on the poor:
Constructing welfare and work in the twenty-first century Greg Marston Part
III: Ethnography and Critical Discourse Analysis
15. Ethnography and critical
discourse analysis: towards a problem-oriented research dialogue Michal
Krzyzanowski
16. The sounds of silence in educational tracking: a
longitudinal, ethnographic case study Rebecca Rogers
17. The patients world:
discourse analysis and ethnography Dariusz Galasinski
18. Critical discourse
analysis and the ethnography of language policy David Cassels Johnson
19.
Political communication, institutional cultures and linearities of
organisational practice: a discourse-ethnographic approach to institutional
change in the European Union Michal Krzyzanowski
20. The role of internal
guidelines in shaping news narratives: ethnographic insights into the
discursive rhetoric of Middle East reporting by the BBC and Al-Jazeera
English Leon Barkho
John E. Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in Media Communication and Studies at Loughborough University, UK.
Michal Krzyzanowski is a Professor in Media and Communication at Örebro University, Sweden.
David Machin is a Professor in Media and Communication at Örebro University, Sweden.
Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK.
