Methods of Critical Discourse Studies
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This is a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach, readers gain a rich understanding of the many angles into critical discourse analysis, the fundamentals of how analysis works and examples from written texts, online data and images. This new edition: expands coverage of multimodality adds two new chapters on social media and analysis of online data supports learning with a guided introduction to each chapter includes a new and extended glossary Clearly written, practical and rigorous in its approach, this book is the ideal companion when embarking on research that focuses on discourse and meaning-making.
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One student's social practice analysis concluded that the AI's conception of sustainability was essentially a luxury good that ignored thrift, repair, and local production models common in Zambia, effectively exporting a Western capitalist model of conscious consumption.
“One student's social practice analysis concluded that the AI's conception of sustainability was essentially a luxury good that ignored thrift, repair, and local production models common in Zambia, effectively exporting a Western capitalist model of conscious consumption (Smith & Jones, 2024;Wodak & Meyer, 2016).”
From Integrating AI Literacy and Critical Discourse Analysis into the 21st-Century University Curriculum (2026) · cites this paper as Wodak & Meyer, 2016
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“Go to hell fucking faggots, may you die!” framing the LGBT subject in online comments
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“In line with critical discourse analysis, CTDA also considers the situations, institutions, power dynamics, and social context that frame certain discourse(s) to be crucial (Wodak & Meyer, 2015).”
BackgroundIntegrating AI Literacy and Critical Discourse Analysis into the 21st-Century University Curriculum
Siame, P. (2026) · International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific purposes · doi:10.52919/ijmlsp.v8i01.146
- Authors
- Wodak, R., & Meyer, M.
- ORCID
- Wodak, Ruth
- Venue
- SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Published
- 2016
- OpenAlex
- W2261772377
- Cited by
- 1,592
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 212 · 2025: 167 · 2024: 184 · 2023: 211 · 2022: 139 · 2021: 131 · 2020: 274 · 2019: 101 · 2018: 98 · 2017: 52 · 2016: 23
- FWCI
- 205.57
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks (publishedVersion)
- WU Research (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Cultural and political discourse analysis
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Discourse and Social Analysis
- Keywords
- critical discourse analysis, multimodality, social media, online data, images, written text, meaning-making, discourse analysis methods
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