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Critical Discourse Analysis and the Rhetoric of Critique

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Critical Discourse Analysis

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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 cross-disciplinary teaching and research which has been widely drawn upon in the social sciences and the humanities (for example, in sociology, geography, history and media studies), and has inspired critical language teaching at various levels and in various domains’ (1999, p. 1). One sign of this success has seen the establishment of the term ‘Critical Discourse Analysis’, together with its abbreviation CDA, to denote a distinct and substantial body of work.

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  1. Michael Billig
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Politics and Identity at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Research Associate at the Research Centre for Discourse, Netherlands

    Gilbert Weiss PhD (Social and Economic Sciences) (Social and Economic Sciences)

  2. Director of the Research Centre for Discourse, University of Vienna, Austria

    Ruth Wodak (Professor of Applied Linguistics) (Professor of Applied Linguistics)

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Billig, M. (2003). Critical Discourse Analysis and the Rhetoric of Critique. In: Weiss, G., Wodak, R. (eds) Critical Discourse Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230514560_2

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