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How text and talk in the socio-political context resists or reproduces social power abuse, dominance and inequality

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type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context.

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studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context

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Scholarly discourse are inherently part of and influenced by social structure, and produced in social interaction

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it aims to offer a different “mode” or “perspective” of theorizing, analysis, and application throughout the whole field.

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Explicit awareness of their role in society

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CDA analyzes how language is used to maintain and challenge power structures in society.

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Discourse both reflects and enacts power relationships, reinforcing or challenging dominance and inequality.

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Also vital for all discourse and communication is who controls the topics (semantic macrostructures) and topic change, as when editors decide what news topics will be covered. Clear example of normalizing power!

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It focuses primarily on social problems and political issues, rather than on current paradigms and fashions

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micro v. macro structures

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there are many types of CDA, and these may be theoretically and analytically quite diverse.

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"It focuses primarily on social problems and political issues, rather than on current paradigms and fashions."

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Contextually based control derives from the fact that people understand and represent not only text and talk, but also the whole communicative situation

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virtually all levels and structures of context, text, and talk can in principle be more or less controlled by powerful speakers, and such power may be abused at the expense of other participants.

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The major point of our work is that racism (including antisemitism, xenophobia, and related forms of resentment against “racially” or ethnically defined Others) is a complex system of social and political inequality that is also reproduced by discourse in general, and by elite discourses in particular.

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It tries to explain discourse structures in terms of properties of social interaction and social structure

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CDA will ask questions about the way specific discourse structures are deployed in the reproduction of social dominance

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groups have (more or less) power if they are able to (more or less) control the acts and minds of (members of) other groups

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Many studies on ethnic and racial inequality reveal a remarkable similarity among the stereotypes, prejudices, and other forms of verbal derogation across discourse types, media, and national boundaries.

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Given the role of political discourse in the enactment, reproduction, and legitimization of power and domination, we may also expect many critical discourse studies of political text and talk.