Critical Discourse Analysis / Studies: New Trends and Perspectives

Authors
MAjid Khosrvi Nik 1
Esmaeil Yazdan Pour 2
1 Newcastle
2 free reaserch
Abstract
 
Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) or Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has become one of the most popular research approaches in Social Sciences but what is CDS and what kind of trajectory it has gone through? How does CDS approach stand in relation to other trends in Humanities and Social Sciences and what does it have to offer to them? More importantly, how does a CDS approach view social realities and how it may proceed to cover them? In this interview, Dr. Majid KhosraviNik –a Lancaster university graduate and a Lecturer in Media & Discourse Studies at Newcastle University, reviews the roots, trends and future agendas of the field and elaborates on the challenges and adaptations of CDS in different historical moments in order to illustrate how the approach has developed over time and renewed its theoretical and methodological engagements to maintain its core principles and relevance throughout the past few decades. In the final section, Dr. KhosraviNik discusses the consequences and conditions of production and consumption of discourses in the age of digital interactive media and throws some lights on how a Social Media Critical Discourse Studies approach can be envisaged.

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  • Receive Date 14 June 2017