Texts and Practices Revisited

Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard is Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK, where she taught and researched for many years (1996–2012). She has published extensively in the areas of Critical Discourse Analysis, Media, Gender Studies, Social Semiotics and Visual Communication. Her most recent publication is the edited volume Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism, Routledge, 2020.Malcolm Coulthard is Emeritus Professor of Forensic Linguistics at the University of Aston, UK, and Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. He was one of the founders of the School of Discourse Analysis at the University of Birmingham and his book An Introduction to Discourse Analysis was the groundbreaking work for the area of Discourse Analysis. Recent publications include: A Handbook of Forensic Linguistics, 2021 and (with Alison Johnson and David Wright) An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence, 2017.

Over a quarter of a century has passed since the first path-breaking volume entitled Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis. That volume charted the emergence of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a radical new field in the study of language in social life, with the editors and the contributors being key players in the definition of the field, and developing new lines of theory-building and of research practice. The publication of this new volume, Texts and Practices Revisited, represents another significant landmark in the CDA field. It showcases the strengths of the early work, alongside new lines of critical inquiry that have been developed and consolidated by different generations of CDA scholars, in different regions of the world. Both volumes will be read together by future scholars. Together, they provide a unique overview of the powerful conceptual compasses that have been designed and recalibrated within the field. They also provide invaluable insights into the ways in which these analytic approaches have been applied in research that is committed to the unveiling of the role of discourse and ideologies in the construction, and reproduction, of asymmetries of power and social inequalities.-- Marilyn Martin-Jones, University of Birmingham, UKLike the publication of the ground-breaking first edition of Texts and Practices, Texts and Practices Revisited marks another key moment in the development of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). It features new and revised contributions by many of the original contributors to the first edition—all still leading figures in CDA—and combines these with cutting-edge work by younger scholars of CDA. The collection expands the geopolitical breadth of the original edition and broadens the range of data examined: multimodal ‘texts’ figure prominently as do texts facilitated by new media technologies. The collection provides a state-of-art treatment of current issues and analytic concepts in CDA and is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of discourse in the perpetuation of social inequalities. -- Susan Ehrlich, York University, Canada

• AcknowledgementsList of Contributors 1 Introduction Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcolm CoulthardChapter 2Critical LinguisticsRoger Fowler and Gunther KressChapter 3Technologisation of Discourse RevisedNorman FaircloughChapter 4Transmedia Identities: Critical Analysis and New MediaJay LemkeChapter 5Performance and politicsTheo van LeeuwenChapter 6Euphemizing Exclusion and the racialization of spaceRuth WodakChapter 7The Official VersionMalcolm CoulthardChapter 8Social Movement Discourse Teun van DijkChapter 9The anti-establishment discourses of the radical right in Spain and their political implications.Luisa Martín Rojo Chapter 10Negative Discourse Analysis, Narrative, and Post-Literate CulturePhil GrahamChapter 11Analyzing discourses in diagrams, flow charts and data presentationDavid MachinChapter 12 CDA as local praxis: Educational media and antigender/sexuality discourse in news reports in UruguayGermán CanaleChapter 13Disgusting politics: circuits of affect and the making of President BolsonaroRodrigo BorbaChapter 14Ageism, sexism and semiotic representation Carmen Rosa Caldas-CoulthardChapter 15Multimodal Biography of a Revolutionary FeministMary TalbotIndex