This paper surveys critical discourse studies to the present and claims that, to avoid lapsing
into comfortable orthodoxy in its mature phase, CDS needs to reassert its transformative …

Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical
Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the …

This book is written with two main types of reader in mind: students and researchers in social
science and humanities who have little if any background in language analysis (eg in …

This article has the following two overarching aims. First, it traces the development of
multimodal discourse analysis and sets out its main descriptive and analytical parameters; in …

Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth, CDA) is based upon a view of semiosis as an
irreducible element of all material social processes (Williams 1977). We can see social life …

This paper examines the construction of a strategic plan as a communicative process.
Drawing on Ricoeur's concepts of decontextualization and recontextualization, we …

We live in a fast-moving world where many important characteristics of societies are
changing everyday. Space and time have become unstable through technologization and …

This paper discusses important and fruitful links between (Critical) Discourse Analysis and
Pragmatics. In a detailed analysis of three utterances of an election speech by the Austrian …

Shadows of Power examines public policy and in particular, the communicative processes of
policy and decision-making. It explore the important who, how and why issues of policy …

Despite increasing interest in the discursive aspects of strategy, few studies have examined
strategy texts and their power effects. We draw from Critical Discourse Analysis to better …