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Thematic Dossiers / Dossiers thématiques

Critical Discourse Analysis: Exploring its Philosophical Underpinnings

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Pages 93-107 | Published online: 14 Dec 2017
 

ABSTRACT

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) stresses that language use, discourse, and communication should be studied in their social, cultural and political contexts. A considerable amount of literature has been produced and the use of CDA as a research methodology has been so wide across various disciplines of social sciences. The current body of literature in the field reflects two major aspects of CDA: Linguistic aspect and critical aspect. However, the philosophical aspect of CDA, especially its ontological and epistemological underpinnings, which in a sense guides other two aspects, is not fully elaborated. This paper summarizes linguistic and critical aspects of CDA and explores major philosophical underpinnings of CDA with the help of four aporias of research methodology introduced by Patti Lather.

RÉSUMÉ

L'analyse critique du discours (ACD) pose que l'utilisation du langage, du discours, et de la communication devrait être étudiée dans leurs contextes sociaux, culturels et politiques. Une quantité considérable de textes a été ainsi produit et l'utilisation de l’ACD en tant que méthodologie de recherche a été large dans différentes disciplines des sciences sociales. Le corpus actuel de la littérature dans le domaine reflète deux aspects majeurs de l'ADC: aspect linguistique et aspect critique. Cependant, l'aspect philosophique de l'ACD, en particulier ses fondements ontologiques et épistémologiques, qui dans un sens orientent les deux autres aspects, n'est pas encore pleinement élaboré. Ce papier revient sur les aspects linguistiques et critiques de l'ACD et explore les principaux fondements philosophiques de l’ACD avec l'aide de quatre aporias de la méthodologie de recherche introduite par Patti Lather.

Acknowledgements

The preliminary draft of this paper was presented in the Doctoral Seminar in Advanced Methodologies in Education organized in January 2013. The Seminar was facilitated by Dr André Elias Mazawi, professor at the Department of Educational Studies, UBC. The author would like to thank Dr Mazawi and all the participants of the seminar for their valuable comments and suggestions for the improvement of this paper.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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