Discourse analysis as critique

Critical Discourse Analysis and the Rhetoric of Critique

It is not difficult to make claims for the academic success of Critical Discourse Analysis. Chouliaraki and Fairclough begin their new book Discourse in Late Modernity with the statement: ‘Critical discourse analysis ... has established itself internationally over the past twenty years or so as a field of crossdisciplinary teaching and research which has been widely drawn upon in the social sci...

Critical Analysis of a Website: A Critique Based on Critical Applied Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis

E-learning was easily found through browsing internet, which was mostly free of charge and provided various learning materials. Spellingcity.com was one of e-learning websites for teaching and learning English to learn spelling, vocabulary and writing, which offered various games and activities for young learners, 6 until 8 year old learners in particular. The content of the websites was suffic...

Sociology as Public Discourse and Professional Practice: A Critique of Michael Burawoy*

In this article I discuss Burawoy’s (2005) argument for public sociology in the context of the sociologist as both citizen and as social scientist; that is, as simultaneously a member of any ‘society’ being researched and as researcher claiming validity for the knowledge produced by research. I shall suggest that the relation between citizenship and social science necessarily places a limit on ...

Advertising as Communicative Discourse: An Analysis

The task of modern creativity in advertising is to find fresh, interestprovoking ways of conveying meaningful information realistically and on the reader‟s own terms. As Nilsen says, “in many ways, advertisers are today‟s pop culture poets. They value the power and the flexibility of the English language just as much as do their literary colleagues on college campuses and writing colonies.” 2 T...

Discourse Analysis As Theory and Method