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This book explores the problem-oriented interdisciplinary research
movement comprised of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and
Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) for scholars, teachers, and
students from many backgrounds. Beginning with a Preface by
renowned CDA/CDS scholar Ruth Wodak, it introduces CDA/CDS through
examples of what its research looks like, delineates various
precursors to CDA/CDS and important foundational concepts and
theories, and traces its development from its early years until it
became established. After the relationship between CDA and CDS is
discussed, seven commonly cited approaches to CDA/CDS are outlined,
including their connections and differences, their origins and
development, major and associated scholars, research focus(es), and
central concepts and distinguishing features. After a summary of
critiques of CDA/CDS and responses by CDA/CDS scholars, the book
provides an overview of its salient connections to other
interdisciplinary areas of scholarship such as critical applied
linguistics, education, anthropology/ ethnography,
sociolinguistics, gender studies, queer linguistics, pragmatics and
ecolinguistics. The final chapter describes how scholars use their
knowledge of CDA/CDS to make a difference in the world.
In the newly-identified genre of medieval patience literature,
female protagonists move to the center of the action-an unusual
advance for medieval literature. In addition, the patience genre
shifts from one mainly concerned with mimicry to one mainly
concerned with reduplication, so that fresh interpretations of
early medieval works can arise and exciting revisions to
genre-theory can develop, often from a surprisingly feminist point
of view. As a result, this book helps to redress popular notions of
the Middle Ages as a time when women had 'no rights' and 'no
voices' and were treated as mere sex objects and as the property of
men.
"Reading this volume transported me back to Harvard and MIT lecture
halls of the 1960s, where weekly Roman Jakobson would spellbind his
audience (this reviewer included), developing his vision of
language through impassioned exposition, deft and devastating
allusions to critical literature, anecdotes with the force of
parables, metaphors of mythic imagery, and above all else
overriding verbal artistry: truly in his own phrase, 'In the poetry
of grammar'. The Sound Shape of Language, his collaboration with
Linda R. Waugh, a scholar who has devoted considerable attention to
an exposition and elaboration of Jakobsonian views, fortunately has
preserved in print the authoritative lectorial voice." Michael
Silverstein in Journal of Communication
First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical
categories associated with the verb as they are used by speakers
and writers in real discourses and texts. Focusing on tense,
aspect, mood, and voice in French, Spanish, and Italian, each
chapter underscores the importance of context in our understanding
of how grammatical categories work. Above and beyond their basic
'grammatical functions', categories of the verb are shown to
operate in such capacities as structuring information in discourse,
establishing point of view in a text, and creating textual
cohesion. Importantly, this volume reflects the crucial role
discourse-pragmatics factors play in our interpretation of the
meanings of categories of grammar.
First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical
categories associated with the verb as they are used by speakers
and writers in real discourses and texts. Focusing on tense,
aspect, mood, and voice in French, Spanish, and Italian, each
chapter underscores the importance of context in our understanding
of how grammatical categories work. Above and beyond their basic
'grammatical functions', categories of the verb are shown to
operate in such capacities as structuring information in discourse,
establishing point of view in a text, and creating textual
cohesion. Importantly, this volume reflects the crucial role
discourse-pragmatics factors play in our interpretation of the
meanings of categories of grammar.
This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a
focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female suffers in
particular. Using feminist revisions of genre-theory, Waugh
analyses the concept of counterfeit consciousness in the works of
Margery Kempe and Chaucer among others.
The establishment of language as a focus of study took place over
many centuries, and reflection on its nature emerged in relation to
very different social and cultural practices. Written by a team of
leading scholars, this volume provides an authoritative,
chronological account of the history of the study of language from
ancient times to the end of the 20th century (i.e., 'recent
history', when modern linguistics greatly expanded). Comprised of
29 chapters, it is split into 3 parts, each with an introduction
covering the larger context of interest in language, especially the
different philosophical, religious, and/or political concerns and
socio-cultural practices of the times. At the end of the volume,
there is a combined list of all references cited and a
comprehensive index of topics, languages, major figures, etc.
Comprehensive in its scope, it is an essential reference for
researchers, teachers and students alike in linguistics and related
disciplines.
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