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5. BEYOND SCIENCE AND IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE: DEVELOPMENTS IN CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2002

Allan Luke
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Abstract

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is an explicitly normative analysis of how texts and discourses work in ideological interests with powerful political consequences. This chapter provides an historical overview of CDA, placing it in the long lineage of attempts to develop a normative political linguistics beginning with Voloshinov. Recent approaches and procedures are discussed. These attempt to bring together text analysis with contemporary social, political, and cultural theory. The case is made that new conditions of economic and cultural globalization have created theoretical and empirical challenges for CDA and, more generally, for a critical applied linguistics. It is argued that these will require that CDA augment its strong focus on ideology critique with the study of texts that model the productive uses of power and discourse in new conditions.

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Research Article
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 22 , March 2002 , pp. 96 - 110
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The author wishes to thank Mary McGroarty for editorial assistance and advice; Carmen Luke and Alaister Pennycook for resources and ideas; Salla Lahdesmaki of the University of Helsinki, Yonjg Bing Liu, Katie Weir, and Margaret Kettle for rich discussion in the ongoing doctoral seminar on CDA at the University of Queensland.