Methods of Critical Discourse Studies

Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. Her research interests focus on discourse studies; identity politics; racism, antisemitism and other forms of discrimination; and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work. She was awarded the Lebenswerk-Preis in 2018, which honors outstanding life work of personalities who are promoting and achieving gender equality.She was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996 and an Honorary Doctorate from University of Örebro in Sweden in 2010. She has held visiting professorships in University of Uppsala, Stanford University, University Minnesota, University of East Anglia, and Georgetown University (Washington, DC). She is a member of the British Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Academia Europaea.  In 2008, she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament (at University Örebrö).Ruth is co-editor of the SAGE journal Discourse & Society, and of the journals Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of Language and Politics. Recent book publications include: The discourse of politics in action: ‘Politics as Usual’ (2011), Critical Discourse Analysis (4 volumes, 2013), Migration, Identity and Belonging (with G. Delanty and P. Jones, 2011), The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the German Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation (with H. Heer, W. Manoschek, and A. Pollak, 2008), The Politics of Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria (with M. Krzyzanowski, 2009), The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics (with B. Johnstone and P. Kerswill, 2010), Analyzing Fascist Discourse: Fascism in Talk and Text (with J. E. Richardson, 2013), and Rightwing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse (with M. KhosraviNik and B. Mral, 2013). Michael Meyer is Professor for Business Administration at Vienna University of Economics and Business.

This volume offers the most thorough introduction to current methods and areas of application of critical discourse analysis, collecting and representing the work of the leading scholars in the field. This book is a must and an invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in the nexus between discourse, power and society.

• Chapter 1: Critical Discourse Studies: History, Agenda, Theory, and Methodology - Ruth Wodak & Michael MeyerChapter 2: The Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) - Martin Reisigl and Ruth WodakChapter 3: Critical Discourse Studies: A Sociocognitive Approach - Teun A. van DijkChapter 4: A dialectical-relation approach to critical discourse analysis in social research - Norman FaircloughChapter 5: Analysing discourses and dispositives: a Foucauldian approach to theory and methodology - Siegfried Jäger and Florentine MaierChapter 6: Discourse as the recontextualization of social practice – a guide - Theo van LeeuwenChapter 7: Checks and balances: how corpus linguistics can contribute to CDA - Gerlinde MautnerChapter 8: Critical Analysis of Visual and Multimodal Texts - Dennis Jancsary, Markus A. Höllerer, Renate E. MeyerChapter 9: Critical discourse studies and social media: power, resistance and critique in changing media ecologies - Majid KhosraviNik and Johann W. Unger