Since the 1980s, there has been a growing body of critical theory in information systems research. A central theoretical foundation of this research is Habermas’ theory of communicative action, which focuses on implications of speech and proposes general normative standards for communication. Habermas also places particular emphasis on the importance of the public sphere in a democratic society...

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...

As part of the Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture series, this volume mainly introduces the interdisciplinary and multi-methodological character of (critical) discourse analysis (CDA). Some of the contributions were further developed through discussion at the workshop on ‘New Agenda in CDA’ that was convened in 2003 at the University of Vienna. The intention of the editors wa...

CDA is an approach to the analysis of language use that, based on the claims of van Dijk(1995), has a social and ideological approach to discourse. Critical discourse analysis gainssignificance particularly with the analysis of political texts considering their role inestablishing force, identity, and political ideology. This study took an initiative criticalperspective towards the rather under...

using a critical discourse analytic model of translation criticism, the present study attempts to explore the effect of ideology and idiosyncrasy on the lexical choices in translation studies. the study employed a descriptive approach to answer two research questions: is there any relationship between ideology and idiosyncratic features of translators' lexical choices? and if yes, can it be ana...

This study examines the ideological content of six internationally-used ELT textbooks, three British and three American. Applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis (CDA), three aspects of the conversations in the textbooks, i.e. content, relations, and positions were examined. Results suggest that in terms of content, British textbooks tend to entertain the students while...

The paper argues that CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis) provides an appropriate research framework for analyzing textbooks with regard to the identification of cultural depictions. By drawing some examples concerning the techniques used in textbook analysis, this paper has come to suggest that each technique reflects aspects of the three major paradigms such as positivism, critical theory and i...

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...

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is an effective method of the analysis. It aimed at analyzing special relationship between power and traditional ideology in implied discourse. Traditional always analyzes structure composition terms linguistic features, CDA makes language more creative. deeply explores inherent potential systematically interprets deep meaning This paper will take specific corp...