Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Interdisciplinarity [Paperback]

Can discourse analysis techniques adequately deal with complex social phenomena? What does 'interdisciplinarity' mean for theory building and the practise of empirical research? This volume provides an innovative and original debate on critical theory and discourse analysis, focussing on the extent to which CDA can and should draw on the theory and methodology of a range of disciplines within the social sciences.Preface Introduction; G. Weiss and R. Wodak SECTION ONE: CRITICAL - CRITICAL - CRITICAL Critical Discourse Analysis and the Rhetoric of Critique; M. Billig Critical Discourse Analysis and the Development of New Science; C. Gouveia Reflexivity and the Doubles of Modern Man - The Discursive Construction of Anthropological Subject Positions; M. W.Jorgensen SECTION TWO: DEBATING AND PRACTISING INTERDISCIPLINARITY Critical Discourse Analysis and Evaluative Meaning; Interdisciplinarity as a Critical Turn; P. Graham The Discourse-Knowledge Interface; T. A.van Dijk 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 Practise; S. Scollon Voicing the 'Other': Reading and Writing Indigenous Australians; J. Martin SECTION THREE: FROM THEORY TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PRACTISE? Activist Sociolinguistics in a Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective; P. O'Connor Discourse at Work: When Women Take on the Role of Managers; L. Martin-Rojo and C. Gomes-Esteban Cross-Cultural Representation of 'Otherness' in Media Discourse; C. C. Coulthard Interaction Between Visual and Verbal Communication - Changing Patterns in the Printed Media; C. AnthonissenCHRISTINE ANTHONISSEN Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Western CapeMICHAEL BILLIG Professor of Social Sciences, Loughborough UniversityCARMEN ROSA CALDAS-COULTHARD Senior Lecturer, Centre for English Language Studies, University of BirminghamMARCELO DASCAL Professor of Philƒ"