Critical Discourse Analysis : An Interdisciplinary Perspective.

Critical Discourse Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Perspective -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Introductory Aspects of Critical Discourse Analysis -- Critical Discourse Analysis: An Overview -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Key Concepts in CDA -- Conclusion -- References -- Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- General Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics -- Pragmatics -- Conclusion -- References -- Systematic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Use of Systemic Functional Linguistics in CDA -- Four Grammatical Concepts for CDA -- Conclusion -- References -- What Is a Text? Questions of Boundaries and Limits -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Interrogating the Idea of 'Text' -- Bourdieu: Thinking about Limits -- Text, Context and Commentary -- Conclusion -- References -- Applying Membership Categorisation Analysis to Discourse: When the "Tripwire Critique' Is not Enough -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Categorial Organisation: Membership Categorisation -- Membership Categorisation Devices -- Conclusion -- References -- Critical Discourse Analysis and the Problem of Methodology -- Abstract -- Introduction -- CDA and Methodology -- Three Critical Questions for Methodological Debate in CDA -- Reflexivity and Methodology: The Case of Ethnography -- Conclusion -- References -- The Antinomies of Power in Critical Discourse Analysis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Power as Domination: Negative Power -- Power as Knowledge: Positive Power -- Reformulating a Critical Discourse Ethics -- Conclusion -- References -- Being Self-critical in Research as a Meaning Making Process -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Meaning of Meaning -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Critical Discourse Analysis across Disciplines.

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Language Planning (LP): Constraints and Applications of the Critical in Language Planning -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Language Planning (LP) -- Interests of State -- Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) -- Relentlessly Critical -- CDA and LP -- Conclusion -- References -- Exploring the Relationship between Social Epidemiology and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Determinants of Health -- What Is Social Epidemiology? -- Social Epidemiology Research -- Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Epidemiology -- Conclusion -- References -- The Internet: A Critical Perspective -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Global Village -- Censorship and Control -- The Global Battlefield -- Conclusion -- References -- Talk at Work: Creating Worker Identities -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Talking up "Work", "Workers" and "Workplace Literacy" -- Describing Work in Today's Workplaces -- Offering Accounts of Literacy at Work -- Causes and Consequences of Poor Literacy at Work -- Creating Worker Identities -- Consequences of Workplace Talk -- Conclusion -- References -- Performance Anxieties: Grammar and Teacher Identity -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Theoretical Framework - Discourse and Identity -- The Pre-service Teachers -- Dominant Discourses - The Discourse 'Plane' of Education and Grammar -- Not just One Discourse - Sites of Resistance -- Discourse Positions - Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar -- Conclusion -- References -- Being Critical about Metaphor -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Conceptual Metaphor Theory -- Other Explanations of Metaphor -- Critical Discourse Analysis and Metaphor -- Conclusion -- References -- Constructing Public Opinion through Metaphors -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Metaphors, Thought and Ideology -- Metaphors we Live by -- Disease Metaphors -- The War Metaphor.

The Marketization of Discourse -- Conceptual Metaphors and Image Metaphors -- The Effect of Metaphors -- Conclusion -- References -- Constructing Social Responsibility through Corporate Sustainability Reporting -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Context: Corporate Sustainability and Social Responsibility -- Methodology -- Findings -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Museums and Critical Discourse Analysis: Disentangling Exhibition Narratives -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework - Background to the Study -- Museums and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Medical Interview: A Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Macro Perspective of the Doctor's Control -- Micro Levels Mechanisms of Control -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Critical Discourse Analysis across Cultures -- Pronominal Reference as Discursive Strategy in Conflict Rhetoric: Insights into the Speeches of Political Figures in the Vanguard of Nigeria's "June 12" Crisis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 'June 12' Crisis -- Data for the Study -- Theoretical Underpinning -- Unmasking the Hidden Meaning -- Conclusion -- References -- Culture and Globalisation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Methodology of the Study -- Contextualization of Achebe's Things Fall Apart -- Critical Discourse Analysis of Proverbs in Things Fall Apart -- Description of Proverbs from Things Fall Apart as Text -- Conclusion -- References -- 'In the Pursuit of Justice': The Discursive Construction of America as Global Policeman in the New World Order -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Policing the New World Order -- Conclusion -- References -- Charismatically (Re) Constructing New Zealand Identity -- Abstract -- Introduction -- New Zealand - An Insecure Nation -- The Real McCormick.

Deconstructing McCormick -- Discursive Practice - Creative Processes at Work -- Socio-Cultural Practice - Who's Pulling McCormick's Strings? -- Conclusion -- References -- Indonesian Islamist Media: A Struggle Against or A Legitimacy of the Dominant Ideology? -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Sabili as a Case Study -- The Production of Sabili at a Glance -- Sabili: Defending Islam through Texts -- A Struggle or a Legitimacy? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Power, Language, and Literacy Education: The Case of Early Reading and Writing in China -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Yuwen ( 文), Literacy, Reading and the Acculturation of the Literate Subject -- Historical and Political Residues -- Current Yuwen Discipline -- The Moon, the Picnic, and the Daughter -- Conclusion -- References -- Contributors -- Index.