CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS[CDA]

CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS[CDA]

Introduction

 

The research is set to conduct a critical discourse analysis of the short news article. Since the publication of Norman Fairclough’s Language and Power and Ruth Wodak’s Language, Power and Ideology Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has not only grown into a significant field of research in its own but also has been widely adopted by researchers in a range of disciplines from Biblical studies (Van Noppen 1996) to urban planning (Hastings 1999).In the overall introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis (1995), a collection of his papers written during the 1980s,  Fairclough described CDA as having “passed through the first flush of youth” and “embarked upon the maturation process”. CDA has indeed sought a reputation, although it has built up formidable weaponry, and demonstrated considerable skill in using its manoeuvres. In my opinion, it has hardly if ever, advanced beyond a guerilla sniping from the margins to a successful assault on the cannon’s mouth. The main innovation incorporated by Critical Discourse Analysis is the integration of the role of audiences in the interpretation of discourse and the extension of the scope of analysis beyond the textual, .

extending it to intertextual report. Critical Discourse Analysis does not have a unitary theoretical framework or methodology. It is best viewed as a shared perspective comprising a variety of approaches instead of a school. Historically, Critical Discourse Analysis is an evolution from the Critical Linguistics developed in late 1979 by several theorists at the University of East Anglia. In this discussion am going to focus on the Critical Discourse Analysis as a tool to analyze the short new article to understand how discourse is implicated in relations of power. By employing Fairclough’s model for CDA, which has three inter-related dimensions of discourse; The object analysis, the process analysis, and the socio-historical conditions governing these processes. I will analyze the article into description, interpretation, and explanation parts to be able to focus on the signifiers that make up the text.