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DE CANO, DHAREN P. 11/9/2019

1801-00346 BSE ENGLISH 2A

BSEE 110 STYLISTICS AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

INSTRUCTOR: MR. FED MENDOZA

REACTION PAPER # 8 : CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

TEUN A. VAN DIJK
I. SUMMARY

 Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is also known as critical discourse studies

(CDS).
 It is a viewpoint of multidisciplinary communication studies that explicitly
target on the discursive reproduction of power abuse such as prejudice,
discrimination and domination.
 Make use of all important approach of the humanities and social sciences in
the study of in the study of relevant social issues.
 The CDS structure not only describe the discourse framework but does so
through a sociocognitive interface that associates psychological depiction of
conversational and other social context.
 Power conceptualized as a restriction for instance, control of the framework of
context, text or talk, and thus indirectly people’s mind.

II. REACTION
We might identify CDA as a problem-oriented interdisciplinary
research development classifying different approaches with various philosophical
models, analysis design and plan. While CDA has expanded its approach to bring
upon other theories of language, especially those of Foucault (Fairclough, 1995)
and lately Laclau and Mouffe (Jorgensen and Phillips, 2002), the association
between semantic structures and systems of power has remained important
factors. Critical Discourse Analysis has now rigidly established itself as a ground
within the humanities and social sciences, to the extent that it is broadly used to
stands for as an approach to language study demonstrate across a range of
analysis is close to becoming an “intellectual orthodoxy” (Billig, 2002). As we
have seen, those who engaged within the field of CDA have hardly to uphold their
own political stands, their own research should be “critical” in all aspects. It is
also noticeable that the heterogeneous quality of CDA’s intellectual inheritance
set a complex task for the researcher trying to fragment carefully what the
arguments for a particular viewpoint might be. Given the compelling diversity of
CDA’s intellectual origin, it is at least astonishing that there is a little controversy
within CDA circles about their compatibility. As Slembrouck points out (2001:41-
 42), “CDA continuous to be unclear about its exact preferences for a particular
social theory.” In the above perspective it is required to to go back to the vital
questioning whether the distinct range of theories that are conducted by various
researchers is a strength or a weakness.

III. CONCLUSION
Critical Discourse Analysis attempt an encouraging paradigm to single
out and understanding the procedure ideology functions in and through discourse.
Its specific strength is that it connects the divergence between real language
phenomena and the workings of power in society. It would be inappropriate if this
essential mission were to be subverting by methodological flaw and philosophical
drawback.