Linda R. Waugh

University of Arizona | UA

The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other disciplines, and also when applied to an ever broader range of topics. Individual chapters are concerned not only with some fundamental issues of defining and delimiting metaphor and metonym...

This book explores the problem-oriented interdisciplinary research movement comprised of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) for scholars, teachers, and students from many backgrounds. Beginning with a Preface by renowned CDA/CDS scholar Ruth Wodak, it introduces CDA/CDS through examples of what its research looks...

This chapter clarifies and underscores the importance of interdisciplinarity in CDA/CDS research, and then provides an overview of its salient and well-known connections to other areas of scholarship. While we do not claim to capture every area that CDA/CDS has influenced or been influenced by, we cover those that explicitly make a connection to, a...

This chapter introduces the volume, and defines Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)/Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and its aims, along with a brief explanation of our use of the acronym CDA/CDS in the book. In addition, it provides three recent examples of different types of studies published in major journals that accept work in CDA or CDS. These...

This chapter describes how scholars use their knowledge of CDA/CDS to make a difference in the world. The work of twenty-one scholars (along with their autobiographies) ranging from well known figures in the field such as Ruth Wodak, Teun van Dijk, David Machin, Theo van Leeuwen, and Rebecca Rogers to lesser known (and often emerging scholars), is...

This chapter describes precursors to CDA, and important foundational concepts and theories. We first review briefly the ideas of the British linguist, John Rupert Firth, and his anthropologist colleague, Bronislaw Malinowski, and then discuss Michael Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) and Language as...

The chapter begins by briefly discussing the general domain of discourse analysis (DA) (including text linguistics), van Dijk’s (1985) Handbook of Discourse Analysis, and an explanation of how DA set the stage for the development of CDA. We then describe the emergence of critical discourse analysis (CDA) following a small symposium in Amsterdam in...

This chapter discusses further the relationship between CDA and CDS, and the panoply of work in CDA/CDS, and then outlines the seven most common and best known approaches that are frequently cited in the literature, are used in the most publications, have appeared in major journals in the field (e.g., Discourse and Society, Critical Discourse Studi...

Chapter 5 addresses various critiques of CDA/CDS along with the responses to them, including recent changes in focus and direction. We begin with a discussion of Widdowson’s well-known critique of CDA and Fairclough’s (and later, Wodak’s) response to it, followed by critiques of what ‘critical’ in ‘critical discourse analysis/studies’ means, as wel...

This book explores the problem-oriented interdisciplinary research movement comprised of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) for scholars, teachers, and students from many backgrounds. Beginning with a Preface by renowned CDA/CDS scholar Ruth Wodak, it introduces CDA/CDS through examples of what its research looks...

This paper explores the implications of prevailing attitudes about language variety found in a case study of a large, university SHL program. First, a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach was employed to examine the ideological underpinnings of the presentation of varieties of Spanish (including those of U.S. Spanish) in textbooks used in the...

While access to technology presents language learners with a view of the second language (L2) and culture that is very broad and current, foreign language curricula tend to be outdated and much narrower in scope, and they usually do not incorporate critical perspectives. Following the lead of researchers who seek to use education as a bottom-up met...

Although the role of high-ranking American bankers and financiers in the financial crisis of 2008 is known, almost none have been imprisoned for their crimes. Similarly, in Italy, Mafia groups continue to grow and increase their reach in the corporate and global sphere. This study examines a possible indication as to why these groups have not been...

This chapter introduces the transdisciplinary research movement of critical discourse analysis (CDA) beginning with its definition and recent examples of CDA work. In addition, approaches to CDA such as the dialectical relational (Fairclough), sociocognitive (van Dijk), discourse historical (Wodak), social actors (van Leeuwen), and Foucauldian disp...

Roman Jakobson was one of the major linguists, literary theorists, and semioticians of the twentieth century, and one of its most creative minds. He contributed to linguistics major fundamental concepts and showed the importance for linguistics of such diverse issues as child language acquisition, poetry, the act of communication, and typology and...

This chapter traces twentieth-century interest within linguistics and other disciplines in the analysis of meaning in texts and contexts. Early approaches equated meaning with lexical meaning, although some differentiated sense and referent (Ogden and Richards) and analyzed the various senses of a word (Wittgenstein, prototype theory). Two groups d...

There is agreement among many linguists that we should study all linguistic categories in real discourse usage. But what has not received as much theoretical attention, and what will be addressed here, is the fact that general discourse types (genres) set a frame which determines the functional nature of the categories which are used within that fr...