Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? -- Discourse -- The social nature of discourse -- The object of critique -- 1.2 THE CRITICAL POOL -- American linguistic anthropology -- Sociolinguistics -- 1.3 FIVE PRINCIPLES -- 1.4 CENTRAL PROBLEMS: THE ORGANISATION OF THE BOOK -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- 2 Critical Discourse Analysis -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 CDA: ORIGINS AND PROGRAMME -- The origins of CDA -- The CDA programme -- 2.3 CDA AND SOCIAL THEORY -- 2.4 THEORY AND METHODOLOGY: NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH -- 2.5 THE PROS AND CONS OF CDA -- Theoretical and methodological defects -- The potential and limitations of CDA -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- 3 Text and context -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT IS/AS CRITIQUE -- 3.2 CONTEXT: SOME GENERAL GUIDELINES -- Interpretation and contextualisation -- Contextualisation is dialogical -- Context is local as well as translocal -- The danger of ethnocentrism in context -- 3.3 TWO CRITICAL CONCEPTIONS OF CONTEXT -- The backgrounding of context: Critical Discourse Analysis -- Talk in-and-out-of interaction: Conversation Analysis -- 3.4 FORGOTTEN CONTEXTS -- Resources as contexts -- Fragment (1) -- Translation -- Text trajectories -- Fragment (2) -- Data histories -- 3.5 CONCLUSIONS -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- 4 Language and inequality -- 4.1 THE PROBLEM: VOICE AND MOBILITY -- 4.2 TOWARDS A THEORY OF VOICE -- Functional relativity and mobility -- Difference and value: orders of indexicality and pretextuality -- 4.3 TEXTS THAT DO NOT TRAVEL WELL: INEQUALITY, LITERACY, AND GLOBALISATION -- Example 1 -- Example 2 -- Example 3 -- 4.4 INEQUALITY AND THE NARRATIVE ORDER -- Where is the suffering? -- Discussion -- Suffering as a way of life -- 4.5 CONCLUSIONS.

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- 5 Choice and determination -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION: CHOICE OR VOICE? -- 5.2 THE ARCHIVE -- 5.3 CREATIVE PRACTICE AND DETERMINATION -- 5.4 CREATIVITY WITHIN CONSTRAINTS: HETERO-GRAPHY -- Documents made for reading? -- The non-exchangeability of literacy values -- 5.5 CONCLUSIONS -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- 6 History and process -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 TIMES AND CONSCIOUSNESS: LAYERED SIMULTANEITY -- 6.3 CONTINUITIES, DISCONTINUITIES, AND SYNCHRONISATION -- 6.4 SPEAKING FROM AND ON HISTORY 1: 'THEY DON'T LIKE US-us' -- 6.5 SPEAKING FROM AND ON HISTORY 2: 'LET'S ANALYSE' -- Separating text and history -- The making of history: whose background? -- The historical account -- Soviets are Russians -- The absent voice -- Synchronisation: the viewpoint of post-communism -- 6.6 CONCLUSIONS -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- 7 Ideology -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 THE TERMINOLOGICAL MUDDLE OF IDEOLOGIES -- Cognitive/ideational versus material -- Whose ideology and why? -- The different faces of hegemony -- Mentalities, public opinion, and worldviews -- 7.3 POLYCENTRIC SYSTEMS, LAYERED IDEOLOGIES -- 7.4 SOCIALISM AND THE SOCIALISTS -- The modern world -- Modern socialism -- The individual voice -- Socialists in 1998 -- 7.5 SLOW SHIFTS IN ORTHODOXY -- Metadiscourse and the 'debate' -- Fragments from the debate on integration -- Dogmatisation versus reformulation: manipulating the interpretational space -- Dogmatisation -- Reformulations -- Right-wing appropriation -- Conclusions: the slow shift in orthodoxy -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- 8 Identity -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- 8.2 IDENTITIES AS SEMIOTIC POTENTIAL -- Unpredictable mobility -- Identity, inequality, and the world system -- 8.3 WHAT IS LEFT OF ETHNOLINGUISTIC IDENTITY? -- 8.4 SPACE, PLACE, AND IDENTITY -- 8.5 THE WORLD SYSTEM IN ACTION -- Transcript.

Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Part 4 -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- 9 Conclusion: Discourse and the social sciences -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Appendix: English translation of the documents in chapter 5 -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

This 2005 book offers a critical approach to discourse, outlining the basic principles, methods and theory of critical discourse analysis.

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