CURRENTS IN LANGUAGE STUDIES

Analysis Sheet

Instructions: Fill out the required information under each column below. Indicate the evidence from the actual text assigned to you.

Current (Topic) Critical Discourse Analysis

Proponent/s: Marianne Jorgensen, Louise J. Phillips
Answer Evidence from the Text
Main Argument Critical discourse analysis explores the relations of -Critical discourse analysis provides theories and methods for the
language use and society in order to rectify injustice and empirical study of the relations between discourse and social and cultural
inequality in society. developments in different social domains.
-Critical discourse analysis is intended to generate
critical social research, that is research that contributes to the rectification
of injustice and inequality in society.
Sub-Argument 1 Furclough’s Three Dimensional Model is a useful -The general purpose of the three-dimensional model is, then, to provide
analytical framework for empirical research on an analytical framework for discourse analysis. The model is based
communication and society. on, and promotes, the principle that texts can never be understood or
analysed in isolation – they can only be understood in relation to webs
of other texts and in relation to the social context.
Sub-Argument 2 Communicative events have a dialectical relationship -The discourse order is a system, but not a system in a structuralist sense.
with orders of discourse. That is, communicative events not only reproduce orders of discourse,
but can also change them through creative language use.
Sub-Argument 3 Interdiscursivity and intertextuality are part of critical -Interdiscursivity occurs when different discourses and genres are
discourse analysis. articulated together in a communicative event.
-Interdiscursivity is a form of intertextuality. Intertextuality refers to
the condition whereby all communicative events draw on earlier events.
One cannot avoid using words and phrases that others have used before.
-Fairclough sees it (interdiscursivity and intertextuality) as a mark of both
stability and instability, both continuity
and change.
Sub-Argument 4 Discourses are ideological and hegemonic. -Ideology, for Fairclough, is ‘meaning in the service of power’. More
precisely, he understands ideologies as constructions of meaning that
contribute to the production, reproduction and transformation of
relations of domination. Ideologies are created in societies in which
relations of domination are based on social structures such as class and
gender.
-Hegemony is not only dominance but also a process of negotiation out
of which emerges a consensus concerning meaning. The existence of such
competing elements bears the seeds of resistance since elements that
 challenge the dominant meanings equip people with resources for
resistance.
Limitations

Prepared by:
1. Aduca, Justine
2. Tutoy, Earlene