The Discourse-Historical Approach

Wodak, Ruth

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“…The analysis of these texts relies on the discourse-historical approach and conceptual history from the family of critical discourse analysis (CDA) (Wodak, 2001(Wodak, , 2008Krzyzanowski, 2010;Krzyzanowski & Wodak, 2011). The data used in the analysis comprise, first, the policy texts produced by the EUA -namely, the Declarations (EUA 2001(EUA , 2003(EUA , 2005(EUA , 2007a(EUA , 2009(EUA , 2011 of the EUA biennial convention, which represents the highest level of formality among EUA events and, consequently, documents.…”

Section: Problem Definition Theoretical and Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

University Autonomy, Agenda Setting and the Construction of Agency: The Case of the European University Association in the European Higher Education Area

Nokkala

Baćević

2014

European Educational Research Journal

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This article analyses the ways in which a policy actor constructs its agency through the production of knowledge. Taking the example of the concept of 'autonomy' as constructed in the discourse of the European University Association (EUA), the article draws on the theory of discursive framing and agenda setting, as well as on Meyer and Jepperson's heuristic of agentic actors, to show how the practice of knowledge production can shape the European higher education policy. The article offers a contribution to the debate aiming to develop a more critical perspective on the development of the European Higher Education Area, which sees the process as constituted through the activities of, and the negotiations between, different political actors.

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Section: Problem Definition Theoretical and Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

University Autonomy, Agenda Setting and the Construction of Agency: The Case of the European University Association in the European Higher Education Area

Nokkala

Baćević

2014

European Educational Research Journal

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“…Reisigl and Wodak 2001;van Dijk 2000a/b;van Leeuwen and Wodak 1999;Wodak 2001;Wodak and Sedlak 2000). Especially in the discourse-historical approach, analysis is conducted against the theoretical background of pragma-dialectics (van Eemeren and Grootendorst 1992) and in particular the notions of fallacy (e.g.…”

Section: Critical Discourse Analysis and Argumentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This topos is apprehended in right-wing discourse calling for more restrictive immigration policy based on claims that immigrants are exploiting asylum laws and/or welfare systems. Reisigl and Wodak (2001) and Wodak (2001) identify a number of topoi which are said to be typical of discourse on immigration. The implicit conclusion in all of these topoi seems to be the need for redressive, discriminatory actions restricting the rights and freedoms of immigrants and asylum seekers.…”

Section: Critical Discourse Analysis and Argumentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rather, the argument scheme is invoked by the premise and, in turn, facilitates the inferential step toward the presupposed conclusion. Such argument schemes can be expressed as conditional statements (Wodak 2001). To give one example extensively employed in anti-immigration discourse, the topos of abuse can be expressed as: "if a right or an offer for help is abused, the right should be changed, or the help should be withdrawn, or measures against the abuse should be taken" (Wodak 2001: 77).…”

Section: Critical Discourse Analysis and Argumentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Argumentation meets adapted cognition: Manipulation in media discourse on immigration

Hart

2013

Journal of Pragmatics

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Critical discourse analysis has focussed extensively on argumentation in anti-immigration discourse where a specific suite of argumentation strategies has been identified as constitutive of the discourse. The successful perlocutionary effects of these arguments are analysed as products of pragmatic processes based on 'common-sense' reasoning schemes known as topoi. In this paper, I offer an alternative explanation grounded in cognitiveevolutionary psychology. Specifically, it is shown that a number of argumentation schemes identified as recurrent in anti-immigration discourse relate to two cognitive mechanisms proposed in evolutionary psychology: the cheater detection and avoidance mechanism (Cosmides 1989) and epistemic vigilance (Sperber et al. 2010). It is further suggested that the potential perlocutionary effects of argument acts in anti-immigration discourse, in achieving sanction for discriminatory practices, may arise not as the product of intentionalinferential processes but as a function of cognitive heuristics and biases provided by these mechanisms. The impact of such arguments may therefore be best characterised in terms of manipulation rather than persuasion.

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“…Wodak (Reisigl and Wodak, 2001;Wodak, 2002) is an approach grounded on a concept of social critique involving three main interconnected aspects, the first two associated with the dimension of cognition, and the last one related to the dimension of action. However, I will not adopt any of these frameworks here for at least two main theoretical reasons.…”

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A critical discourse analysis approach to news discourses and social practices on race in Brazil

Magalhães¹

2006

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In this paper I set out from Brazilian social theories on race to analyse a contemporary corpus of news reports in a Brazilian broadsheet newspaper. The aim is investigating change in mediated discourses on race. Based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and with the help of corpus linguistics methodological tools I focus on lexical items used to categorise race, the semantic relations created and their association with discourse representation in the newspaper. The combined analysis of semantic relations and interdiscursivity has allowed for the perception of tensions over the use of terms from different semantic fields to categorize race and of conflicting discourses of race classification in the paper. The analysis has also allowed for a cautious interpretation of dialogicality and of different orientations to racial difference, following the social research inventories in Fairclough (2003) in the reports. KEY-WORDS: race classification; semantic relations; interdiscursivity; dialogicality; race discourses.RESUMO: Neste trabalho parto de teorias sociais sobre a questão racial para analisar um corpus de reportagens contemporâneas de um jornal brasileiro de grande circulação. O objetivo é investigar a mudança nos discursos mediados sobre a questão racial. Com base na teoria da Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD) e com o suporte de ferramentas metodológicas da lingüística de corpus, focalizo os itens lexicais usados para categorizar raça e as relações semânticas que estes constroem associados com a representação de discurso no jornal. A análise combinada das relações semânticas e da interdiscursividade permitiu perceber que há uma tensão no uso de termos de campos semânticos diferentes para categorizar a questão racial e discursos conflitantes sobre a classificação de raça no D.E.L.T. A., 22:2, 2006 (275-301) 276 D.E.L.T.A., 22:2 jornal. A análise também permitiu uma interpretação cautelosa da dialogicidade e das diversas orientações para a diferença racial, utilizando os inventários de pesquisa social de Fairclough (2003).

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The Discourse-Historical Approach

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University Autonomy, Agenda Setting and the Construction of Agency: The Case of the European University Association in the European Higher Education Area

University Autonomy, Agenda Setting and the Construction of Agency: The Case of the European University Association in the European Higher Education Area

Argumentation meets adapted cognition: Manipulation in media discourse on immigration

A critical discourse analysis approach to news discourses and social practices on race in Brazil

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