Doing Discourse Analysis in Critical Geopolitics

This paper seeks to contribute towards a more explicit and candid discussion of the methodologies of discourse analysis within critical geopolitics. Proposing a classification along the three core dimensions of context (proximate or distal), analytic form (post-/structuralist or interpretive-explanatory) and political stance (involved or detached), it examines the ways in which critical geopolitics scholarship has…

December 29, 20210Comments

ByMartin Müller

Discourse Analysis Interviews

CDA: Future Directions – Interview With Norman Fairclough Part VII

Rebecca Rogers: Can you talk about future directions for CDA? Norman Fairclough: I wouldn’t like to speak on behalf of CDA. I mean what is interesting now is that it is being taken up so widely and in so many different disciplines that it has now become something thank goodness that it could not be…

December 27, 20210Comments

ByRebecca Rogers and Norman Fairclough

Discourse Analysis Interviews

CDA in Education – Interview With Norman Fairclough Part VI

Rebecca Rogers: How do you teach? Norman Fairclough: Well, how I teach. I guess the way I prefer to teach these days is to teach groups of not linguists or people with a particular background in discourse analysis, so that is the first thing to say. So my preferred groups for teaching are people doing…

December 27, 20210Comments

ByRebecca Rogers and Norman Fairclough

Discourse Analysis Interviews

CDA: Changes in Approach – Interview With Norman Fairclough Part V

Rebecca Rogers: Can you talk about your thinking as you have moved from one project to the next? How have your questions developed? Norman Fairclough: Yeah. I’ve said in the plenary here that the way I tend to see this has been embarking on a research topic, one has to undergo a process of constructing…

December 27, 20210Comments

ByRebecca Rogers and Norman Fairclough

Discourse Analysis Interviews

CDA: Context – Interview With Norman Fairclough Part IV

Rebecca Rogers: Can you talk about your views on context? Norman Fairclough: I find the idea of saying let’s talk about texts and contexts problematic and I would just assume not start there. I would start with social events and social practices, and social structures. I would be interested in understanding the dialectical relations between…

December 27, 20210Comments

ByRebecca Rogers and Norman Fairclough

CDA as Approach, Stance Method(s) - Interview With Norman Fairclough Part III

Discourse Analysis Interviews

CDA as Approach, Stance, Method(s) – Interview With Normal Fairclough Part III

Rebecca Rogers: Can you talk about the various approaches to CDA? And, then, how your own approach fits into the various traditions? Norman Fairclough: Again, I want to complicate that because I think it is risky classifying too sharply between different approaches. I would not… I find it difficult to say what my own approach…

December 27, 20210Comments

ByRebecca Rogers and Norman Fairclough

Discourse Analysis Interviews

Personal History With Critical Discourse Analysis – Interview With Norman Fairclough Part II

Rebecca Rogers: Can you talk through why you thought to bring together these ideas? Norman Fairclough: I started in linguistics, the appointment that I first had at Lancaster was a very strange one in a sense because I was appointed to teach varieties of English and writing systems and was forgotten about as soon as…

December 27, 20210Comments

ByRebecca Rogers and Norman Fairclough

Discourse Analysis Interviews

History of Critical Discourse Analysis – Interview With Norman Fairclough Part I

Rebecca Rogers: What do you see as the history of CDA? Norman Fairclough: I guess that is two different questions. Do you mean the history of this particular network? Or the history of critical work on language and discourse? Because I think they are two very different things. RR: Good point. Can you talk a…

December 27, 20210Comments

ByRebecca Rogers and Norman Fairclough

Discourse Analysis

An Interview With Norman Fairclough

Norman Fairclough Emeritus Professor, University of Lancaster, UK Q: Your name, Professor Norman Fairclough, is automatically associated with Critical Discourse Analysis. Would you like to circumscribe, theoretically speaking, this area of studies? A: Yeah… I think it began in Britain. I mean in a sense it is very difficult to trace its beginning, because elements of this…

December 26, 20210Comments

ByIsabel Simões-Ferreira and Norman Fairclough

Discourse Analysis Psychology

Discursive Psychology: Introduction

What Is Discursive Psychology? Discursive psychology (DP) is the application of discourse analytic principles to psychological topics. In psychology’s dominant ‘cognitivist’ paradigm, individuals build mental representations of the world on the basis of innate mental structures and perceptual experience, and talk on that basis. The categories and content of discourse are considered to be a…

December 25, 20210Comments

ByDerek Edwards and Jonathan Potter