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Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis provides a representative collection of work which, while authored by the pioneering researchers of the first wave of CDA, illustrates their most recent concerns and their latest analytical techniques.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
1 Introduction
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcolm Coulthard
Chapter 2
Critical Linguistics
Roger Fowler and Gunther Kress
Chapter 3
Technologisation of Discourse Revised
Norman Fairclough
Chapter 4
Transmedia Identities: Critical Analysis and New Media
Jay Lemke
Chapter 5
Performance and politics
Theo van Leeuwen
Chapter 6
Euphemizing Exclusion and the racialization of space
Ruth Wodak
Chapter 7
The Official Version
Malcolm Coulthard
Chapter 8
Social Movement Discourse
Teun van Dijk
Chapter 9
The anti-establishment discourses of the radical right in Spain and their political
implications.
Luisa Martín Rojo
Chapter 10
Negative Discourse Analysis, Narrative, and Post-Literate Culture
Phil Graham
Chapter 11
Analyzing discourses in diagrams, flow charts and data presentation
David Machin
Chapter 12
CDA as local praxis: Educational media and antigender/sexuality discourse in news reports in Uruguay
Germán Canale
Chapter 13
Disgusting politics: circuits of affect and the making of President Bolsonaro
Rodrigo Borba
Chapter 14
Ageism, sexism and semiotic representation
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
Chapter 15
Multimodal Biography of a Revolutionary Feminist
Mary Talbot
Index
About the author
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard is Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK, where she taught and researched for many years (1996–2012). She has published extensively in the areas of Critical Discourse Analysis, Media, Gender Studies, Social Semiotics and Visual Communication. Her most recent publication is the edited volume Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism, Routledge, 2020.
Malcolm Coulthard is Emeritus Professor of Forensic Linguistics at the University of Aston, UK, and Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. He was one of the founders of the School of Discourse Analysis at the University of Birmingham and his book An Introduction to Discourse Analysis was the groundbreaking work for the area of Discourse Analysis. Recent publications include: A Handbook of Forensic Linguistics, 2021 and (with Alison Johnson and David Wright) An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence, 2017.
Summary
Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis provides a representative collection of work which, while authored by the pioneering researchers of the first wave of CDA, illustrates their most recent concerns and their latest analytical techniques.
