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This novel and important book brings together insights from cultural studies and critical discourse analysis to examine the fruitful links between the two. Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis shows that critical discourse analysis is able to provide the analytic context, skills and tools by which we can study how language constructs, constitutes and shapes the social world and demonstrates in detail how the methodological approach of critical discourse analysis can enhance cultural studies. In a richly argued discussion, the authors show how marrying the methodology of critical discourse analysis with cultural studies enlarges our understanding of gender and ethnicity.
Tools for Discourse Analysis
Tools for Discourse Analysis
In this chapter we will be outlining a version of CDA with which we have sympathy. This exposition has two main aims. First, and locally within this book, we want to draw up a set of tools for the analysis of the data in Chapters 4, 5 and 6. The discussion aims to generate a discourse-analytic ‘tool-kit’ that we can draw upon to demonstrate how constructions of realities are achieved within our data. Second, and more globally, this exposition serves one of the main aims of the book: to provide cultural studies practitioners with an analytic template that could be used in studying social life. Cultural studies, while more and more often making claims about the discursive construction ...
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