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Critical discourse analysis and its critics

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This article briefly reviews the rise of Critical Discourse Analysis and teases out a detailed analysis of the various critiques that have been levelled at CDA and its practitioners over the last twenty years, both by scholars working within the “critical” paradigm and by other critics. A range of criticisms are discussed which target the underlying premises, the analytical methodology and the disputed areas of reader response and the integration of contextual factors. Controversial issues such as the predominantly negative focus of much CDA scholarship, and the status of CDA as an emergent “intellectual orthodoxy”, are also reviewed. The conclusions offer a summary of the principal criticisms that emerge from this overview, and suggest some ways in which these problems could be attenuated.
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2021. ‘Context, gestures, and smiles’: investigating linguistic and cultural attitudes in Rick Steves’s European phrasebooks. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 19:6 ► pp. 838 ff. DOI logo
Munro, Jane A. & Anna D. Beck
2021. The Effect of UK Nursing Policy on Higher Education Wound Care Provision and Practice: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice 22:2 ► pp. 134 ff. DOI logo
Power, Kate
2021. Institutions. In Analysing Religious Discourse, ► pp. 126 ff. DOI logo
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2020. THE IMAGE OF ARAB IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH PRESS: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS. International Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities 10:02 ► pp. 116 ff. DOI logo
Barrado–Timón, Diego A.
2020. The Meaning and Content of the Concept of the Social in the Scientific Discourse on Urban Social Sustainability. City & Community 19:4 ► pp. 1103 ff. DOI logo
Cresswell, James & Paul Sullivan
2020. Bakhtin’s chronotope, connotations, and discursive psychology: towards a richer interpretation of experience. Qualitative Research in Psychology 17:1 ► pp. 121 ff. DOI logo
Erforth, Benedikt
2020. Multilateralism as a tool: Exploring French military cooperation in the Sahel. Journal of Strategic Studies 43:4 ► pp. 560 ff. DOI logo
Horrod, Sarah
2020. Investigating Policy Processes and Discourses in Higher Education: The Theoretical Complementarities of Bernstein's Pedagogic Device and Critical Discourse Studies. In Theory and Method in Higher Education Research [Theory and Method in Higher Education Research, ], ► pp. 147 ff. DOI logo
Karimullah, Kamran
2020. Sketching women: a corpus-based approach to representations of women's agency in political Internet corpora in Arabic and English. Corpora 15:1 ► pp. 21 ff. DOI logo
Ashraf, Muhammad Junaid, Faiza Muhammad & Trevor Hopper
2019. Accounting signifiers, political discourse, popular resistance and legal identity during Pakistan Steel Mills attempted privatization. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 60 ► pp. 18 ff. DOI logo
Açıkgöz, Selçuk, Reinhard Haudenhuyse & Hülya Aşçı
2019. Social inclusion for whom and towards what end? A critical discourse analysis of youth and sport policies in Turkey. Journal of Youth Studies 22:3 ► pp. 330 ff. DOI logo
Cap, Piotr
2019. Discourse studies: Between social constructionism and linguistics. A critical overview. Topics in Linguistics 20:2 ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
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2021. On the development of the social-linguistic nexus in discourse research. Pragmatics and Society 12:2 ► pp. 309 ff. DOI logo
Jackson Inderberg, Tor Håkon & Ian Bailey
2019. Changing the record: Narrative policy analysis and the politics of emissions trading in New Zealand. Environmental Policy and Governance 29:6 ► pp. 409 ff. DOI logo
Lok, Jaco
2019. Why (and How) Institutional Theory Can Be Critical: Addressing the Challenge to Institutional Theory’s Critical Turn. Journal of Management Inquiry 28:3 ► pp. 335 ff. DOI logo
Murphy, James
2019. Introduction. In The Discursive Construction of Blame, ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Sengul, Kurt
2019. Critical discourse analysis in political communication research: a case study of right-wing populist discourse in Australia. Communication Research and Practice 5:4 ► pp. 376 ff. DOI logo
Shin, Dongil
2019. Analyzing media discourse on the development of the National English Ability Test (NEAT) in South Korea. Language Testing in Asia 9:1 DOI logo
Theng Ong, Theng & Robert M. McKenzie
2019. The language of suffering: Media discourse and public attitudes towards the MH17 air tragedy in Malaysia and the UK. Discourse & Communication 13:5 ► pp. 562 ff. DOI logo
Cristina Caimotto, Maria & Federico Gaspari
2018. Corpus-based study of news translation: challenges and possibilities. Across Languages and Cultures 19:2 ► pp. 205 ff. DOI logo
Donoghue, Matthew
2018. Beyond Hegemony: Elaborating on the Use of Gramscian Concepts in Critical Discourse Analysis for Political Studies. Political Studies 66:2 ► pp. 392 ff. DOI logo
Guion Akdağ, Emma & Dalene M. Swanson
2018. Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities. European Journal of Higher Education 8:1 ► pp. 67 ff. DOI logo
Haider, Ahmad S.
2018. Using corpus linguistic techniques in (critical) discourse studies reduces but does not remove bias: Evidence from an Arabic corpus about refugees. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 55:1 ► pp. 89 ff. DOI logo
Liu, Yuanyuan
2018. Staging Repentance: A Discourse Analysis of Mediated Confession in Xi Jinping's First Five-Year Term. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 47:3 ► pp. 17 ff. DOI logo
Radavoi, Ciprian N. & Yongmin Bian
2018. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's environmental and social policies: a critical discourse analysis. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 34:1 ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
YETİM, Mustafa & Ramazan ERDAĞ
2018. Uluslararası İlişkilerde Eleştirel Söylem Analizi: Revizyonist Söylemin Gelişimi. İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 5:1 ► pp. 79 ff. DOI logo
Brownlow, Charlotte, Lindsay O’Dell & Tanya Machin
2017. Understanding the Autistic Individual: A Practical Guide to Critical Discourse Analysis. In A Practical Guide to Social Interaction Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, ► pp. 141 ff. DOI logo
Leipold, Sina & Georg Winkel
2017. Discursive Agency: (Re‐)Conceptualizing Actors and Practices in the Analysis of Discursive Policymaking. Policy Studies Journal 45:3 ► pp. 510 ff. DOI logo
Regmi, Kapil Dev
2017. Critical Discourse Analysis: Exploring its Philosophical Underpinnings. Méthod(e)s: African Review of Social Sciences Methodology 2:1-2 ► pp. 93 ff. DOI logo
Regmi, Kapil Dev
2019. Critical policy sociology: key underlying assumptions and their implications for educational policy research. International Journal of Research & Method in Education 42:1 ► pp. 59 ff. DOI logo
Smirnova, Anastasia, Helena Laranetto & Nicholas Kolenda
2017. Ideology through sentiment analysis: A changing perspective on Russia and Islam in NYT. Discourse & Communication 11:3 ► pp. 296 ff. DOI logo
Thurnell-Read, Thomas
2017. ‘What’s on your Bucket List?’: Tourism, identity and imperative experiential discourse. Annals of Tourism Research 67 ► pp. 58 ff. DOI logo
Zienkowski, Jan
2017. The Pragmatic Dimension of Discourse as Articulation. In Articulations of Self and Politics in Activist Discourse, ► pp. 91 ff. DOI logo
Zienkowski, Jan
2017. Discourse Theory on the Logics of Articulation, Politics and Subjectivity. In Articulations of Self and Politics in Activist Discourse, ► pp. 35 ff. DOI logo
Zienkowski, Jan
2019. Politics and the political in critical discourse studies: state of the art and a call for an intensified focus on the metapolitical dimension of discursive practice. Critical Discourse Studies 16:2 ► pp. 131 ff. DOI logo
Clarke, David A.G. & Jamie Mcphie
2016. From places to paths:Learning for Sustainability, teacher education and a philosophy of becoming. Environmental Education Research 22:7 ► pp. 1002 ff. DOI logo
Hayes, Sarah
2016. Learning from a Deceptively Spacious Policy Discourse. In Research, Boundaries, and Policy in Networked Learning, ► pp. 23 ff. DOI logo
Pietikäinen, Sari
2016. Critical debates: Discourse, boundaries and social change. In Sociolinguistics, ► pp. 263 ff. DOI logo
Sullivan, Paul
2016. Nietzsche or Aristotle: The implications for social psychology. Theory & Psychology 26:3 ► pp. 393 ff. DOI logo
O'Rourke, Brendan K.
2015. Enabling deeper and more transferable analysis of economic expert discourse: A Commentary on Maesse's Economic Experts. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 10:3 ► pp. 306 ff. DOI logo
Wild, Mary, Carolyn Silberfeld & Beverley Nightingale
2015. More? Great? Childcare? A discourse analysis of two recent social policy documents relating to the care and education of young children in England. International Journal of Early Years Education 23:3 ► pp. 230 ff. DOI logo
Eder, Franz X. & Oliver Kühschelm
2014. Bilder – Geschichtswissenschaft – Diskurse. In Bilder in historischen Diskursen, ► pp. 3 ff. DOI logo
Kamasa, Victoria
2014. Techniki językoznawstwa korpusowego wykorzystywane w krytycznej analizie dyskursu. Przegląd. Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej 10:2 ► pp. 100 ff. DOI logo
Rich, Kyle Andrew & Audrey R. Giles
2014. Examining Whiteness and Eurocanadian Discourses in the Canadian Red Cross’ Swim Program. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 38:5 ► pp. 465 ff. DOI logo
Gough, Brendan, Majella McFadden & Matthew McDonald
2013. Reflections on Critical Social Psychology. In Critical Social Psychology, ► pp. 273 ff. DOI logo
Smith, Karen
2013. Critical Discourse Analysis and Higher Education Research. In Theory and Method in Higher Education Research [International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 9], ► pp. 61 ff. DOI logo
Wijsen, Frans
2013. ‘There are radical Muslims and normal Muslims’: an analysis of the discourse on Islamic extremism. Religion 43:1 ► pp. 70 ff. DOI logo
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2017. Discourse and identity formation [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 73], DOI logo
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