Texts and Practices Revisited Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

1 Introduction

Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcolm Coulthard

Chapter 2

Critical Linguistics

Roger Fowler and Gunther Kress

Chapter 3

Technologisation of Discourse Revised

Norman Fairclough

Chapter 4

Transmedia Identities: Critical Analysis and New Media

Jay Lemke

Chapter 5

Performance and politics

Theo van Leeuwen

Chapter 6

Euphemizing Exclusion and the racialization of space
Ruth Wodak

Chapter 7

The Official Version

Malcolm Coulthard

Chapter 8

Social Movement Discourse

Teun van Dijk

Chapter 9

The anti-establishment discourses of the radical right in Spain and their political

implications.

Luisa Martín Rojo

 
Chapter 10

Negative Discourse Analysis, Narrative, and Post-Literate Culture

Phil Graham

Chapter 11

Analyzing discourses in diagrams, flow charts and data presentation

David Machin

Chapter 12

CDA as local praxis: Educational media and antigender/sexuality discourse in news reports in Uruguay

Germán Canale

Chapter 13

Disgusting politics: circuits of affect and the making of President Bolsonaro

Rodrigo Borba

Chapter 14

Ageism, sexism and semiotic representation

Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

Chapter 15

Multimodal Biography of a Revolutionary Feminist

Mary Talbot

Biography

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, UK