Social media can be conceptualized as an emerging frontier where new forms of social relations causing power differences and other forms of unacceptable social practices develop at the intersection of human collective communicative acts and information technology. This emergence has created a need for considering novel approaches for investigating these emerging phenomena in social media. In th...

this study sought to investigate identity construction in english language learners using critical discourse analysis (cda). to that end, a number of western cultural points extracted from interchange series were integrated into a questionnaire, asking learners to display their own feelings, behaviors, actions and reactions to the points raised. the questionnaire-generated data coupled with int...

In this study, Van Dijk’s (1998) model of CDA was utilized in order to examine the representation of Iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by British news casting companies. The analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....

It is not difficult to make claims for the academic success of Critical Discourse Analysis. Chouliaraki and Fairclough begin their new book Discourse in Late Modernity with the statement: ‘Critical discourse analysis ... has established itself internationally over the past twenty years or so as a field of crossdisciplinary teaching and research which has been widely drawn upon in the social sci...

abstract through the interpretation of texts, and subsequent creation of social reality, mediated representations are often seen to be presented within the certain of ideological discourses that reflect the existing power structures. the main objective of this paper is to analyze television commercials with an emphasis on gender roles to decode the main elements of a dominant discourse (preferr...

Although Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has been developing rapidly, it faces strong criticism from scholars due to its lack of attention to the cognitive aspects of discourse. As a fundamental cognitive tool to conceptualize the world, metaphor plays a vital role in constructing social reality. Providing a particular perspective of viewing the reality, metaphor forms an important part of id...

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has become a widely used academic research method in the social, political, educational, and linguistic sciences. This paper aims to explain how teacher-student dialogic is presented evaluated differently persuade students. Van Dijk's (2004) framework, identify discursive structures that lead ideologically based parochial, context, ideology, social cognition. T...

The increasingly used method of corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has recently been criticised for lacking identifiable and accountable methods in its qualitative analyses. For example, manual concordance analysis (a popular corpus technique involving the ‘close reading’ text) rarely explicates involved – that is, if any at all. This article seeks to strengthen context press rep...

The last fifteen years has seen a proliferation of studies and the emergence of a promising field of research in what could be called disciplinary discourse studies or the study of discourse and disciplinarity, using a range of more or less linguistic theoretical tools (register analysis, genre analysis, various varieties of discourse analysis, socio-cultural theory, social semiotics, and, more...