The Venice Architecture Biennale emerged with post-modern thought in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is a medium where political, economic cultural transformations are experienced field of architecture mainstream global discussed shared. Over time, has created focal point manifestos produced, while bringing together architectural products ideas ambiguity boundaries local architecture. Bienni...

This paper reports a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) exploring the nature, causes and epistemic effects of knowledge recontextualization in ‘official’ Key Stage Five History curriculum England. “Recontextualization” refers to inevitable changes that occur as it is ‘pedagogized’, due value-laden practices contexts which enact shape curriculum-making. accredited examination specifications three...

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) could be seen as a theory in qualitative more than in qualitative stud- ies. This might have led to difficulty in doing CDA. Accordingly, this study attempted to develop a quan- titative profile in the form of an analytic rubric. For this purpose, Fairclough’s model of CDA was select- ed as the research framework. The techniques used for structuring analy...

In this paper I extend the scope of the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by incorporating Langacker’s model of Cognitive Grammar in a critical analysis of press reports of violence in two political protests. In doing so, I address issues recently raised against CDA concerning cognitive equivalence. The paper presents an analysis of the alternative conceptualisa...

This study investigates some the reading passages in terms of hortatory messages. To this end amethodology based on Critical Discourse Analysis was adopted. The reading texts from ELTtextbooks were examined through a model which drew on Fairclough's approach to CDA,specifically (Fairclough, 2003) in which three characteristic features of hortatory texts areintroduced. The analysis reveals that ...

The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on the CDA framework and attitudinal model of appraisal theory. According to CDA, the categories of deception, power relations, manipulation, authority, legitimation, and ideology were considered in the analysis of the texts an...

This study investigates some the reading passages in terms of hortatory messages. To this end a methodology based on Critical Discourse Analysis was adopted. The reading texts from ELT textbooks were examined through a model which drew on Fairclough's approach to CDA, specifically (Fairclough, 2003) in which three characteristic features of hortatory texts are introduced. The analysis reveals t...