This paper presents a reflection on the process of doing critical discourse research. Examples from a current project on the discursive construction of ‘older worker’ identity are used to illustrate how major challenges inherent in undertaking discourse research can be addressed. These involved initial justifications of discourse theory as a research framework, research design and the selection...

This paper addresses higher level organization in discourse prosody. Fluent speech prosody of text reading illustrated higher level speech planning above phrases and prosody segments above intonation units. Adopting a top-down perspective allowed clearer reflection of scope and unit involved. We examined large amount of speech data via a corpus approach, studied read discourse through perceived...

Academic discourse has always been the focus of many linguists, especially those who have been involved with English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and discourse analysis. Persuasion, as part of rhetorical structure of academic writing, is partly achieved by employing modality markers.  Adopting a descriptive design, the present study was carried out to compare the use of modality markers in terms...

Recently, constructing professional identity has received an increasing attention. By adopting and adapting analytical tools of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study explored the ways through which identities of the qualitative researchers had been projected in 4 applied linguistics articles. This study intended to find out whether the authors of qualitative research articles in applied...

The paper considers problems and possibilities connected with governing and realising the ―transition to sustainability‖—or at least to a more deeply resilient energy system. Conceptually its focus is on neo-institutional analysis and critical discourse analysis and the development of a discourse-institutional perspective. The first strand of the paper outlines the limitations of and potential ...

By adopting the corpus-based approach, present study compares frequency of use, semantic distribution, and stance expression shell nouns in “N + that” clause popular science discourse compared with academic writing. The results show that, firstly, use is lower than that discourse. Secondly, coverage smaller discourse, but its proportion distribution roughly same, mainly including mental linguis...

A new HR system was introduced into a Dutch hospital. The system implied collaborative work among its users. The project planning seemed to be reasonably straightforward: the system’s introduction was intended to take place evolutionarily, including pilots in different departments and appropriate feedback. After some time, the system was successfully adopted by one group of users, but failed wi...