Critical Discourse Analysis - Key Sources

CDA note

One crucial presupposition of adequate critical discourse analysis is understanding the nature of social power and dominance. Once we have such an insight, we may begin to formulate ideas about how discourse contributes to their reproduction. (254). Van Dijk, T. A. (1993)

Blommaert, J. (2005). Discourse : a critical introduction (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Caldas-Coulthard, C. R., & Coulthard, M. (Eds.). (2023). Texts and practices revisited : essential readings in critical discourse analysis (Second edition.). Routledge.

Chouliaraki, L., Fairclough, N. (1999). Discourse in late modernity : rethinking critical discourse analysis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Crick, N. (Ed.). (2025). The Routledge handbook of rhetoric and power (First edition.). Routledge.

Fairclough, I., Fairclough, N. (2013). Political Discourse Analysis: A Method for Advanced Students. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.

Fairclough, N. (2001). Language and Power. Germany: Longman.

Fairclough, N. (2003). Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research. Psychology Press.

Fairclough, N. (2005), ‘Discourse analysis in organization studies: The case for critical realism’. Organization Studies, 26(6), 915–39.

Fairclough, N. (2013). Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language. Routledge.

Foucault, M. (1980). Power/knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977. United Kingdom: Pantheon Books.

Friginal, E., & Hardy, J. A. (Eds.). (2020). The Routledge handbook of corpus approaches to discourse analysis (1st ed.). Routledge.

Jacoby, R. (1975). Social amnesia : a critique of contemporary psychology. Transaction Publishers.

Herman,E.S. and Chomsky, N. (1988) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books.

Rogers, R. (2011). BECOMING DISCOURSE ANALYSTS: CONSTRUCTING MEANINGS AND IDENTITIES. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 8(1), 72–104.

Rogers, R., & Wetzel, M. M. (2014). Designing critical literacy education through critical discourse analysis : pedagogical and research tools for teacher researchers.

Sinclair, J., & Carter, R. (2004). Trust the text : language, corpus and discourse (1st ed.). Routledge.

Stubbs, M. (1996), Text and Corpus Analysis. London: Blackwell.

Van Dijk, T. A. (1993). Principles of critical discourse analysis. Discourse & Society, 4(2), 249–283.

Van Dijk, T. A. (1997). Discourse studies : a multidisciplinary introduction. Sage Publications.

Van Dijk, T. A. (2010). Discourse and Context: A Sociocognitive Approach. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Wodak, R. (1989). Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in Political Discourse. Netherlands: J. Benjamins Publishing Company.

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