Critical Discourse Analysis on Critical

Listening
CDA is quite similar to Text-
Context Analysis/Discourse
Analysis
Discourse Analysis
How is a text created?
CONTEXT

TEXT
How is a text created?
What is context?
CONTEX is an environment or situation where A TEXT
occurs.
The context is the the situation where A TEXT is being
realized.
The CONTEXT where A TEXT occurs refers to the
CONTEXT of SITUATION
The CONTEXT of SITUATION is NON VERBAL
INVIRONMENT (WHO is talking to WHOM, WHEN,
WHERE, AND HOW)
The relation of
TEXT and CONTEXT
The Relation of Text and Context
What is textual function?
It enables us to create a text which means that our speech
is organized in a way that it makes sense in the contexts
and satisfies its function as a message (language is a
message, having a structure and contributing to a larger
textual unit )
Is it a text? What is the context?
Is it a text? What is the context?
CDA(Critical Discourse Analysis)
Text

Context Context

Context
What kind of analysis is this?
Level One:
What is represented, and what is not?
What are the broad themes and patterns?
Level Two:
Employing tools of CDA to analyze how the
structure and form of language express meaning
Employing these tools to interrogate negotiation of
power and authority in schooling
CDA in the field

Across the social fields of schooling and the academy

Different knowledge holds different positions of
status
Power is conferred based on differing positions and
forms of capital
Analysis of language and ideologies will partially
reflect these positions
What is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)?
MacLure (2003)
Allan Luke (1995): ‘one of the main tasks of discourse
analysis is to ‘disarticulate’ the texts of everyday life
as a way of ‘disrupting common sense’ about the
naturalness or inevitability of identities, values and
concepts, thus showing the workings of power and
material interests in the most seemingly innocent of
texts.’ (p9)
What is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)?
MacLure (2003)
‘A discourse-based educational research would set
itself the work of taking that which offers itself as
common-sensical, obvious, natural, given or
unquestionable, and trying to unravel it a bit – to open
it up to further questioning.’ (p9)
Gee’s notion of Discourse
In simple terms: An identity kit which comes
complete with the appropriate costume and
instructions on how to act, talk, and often write, so
as to take on a particular role that others will
recognise.
Fairclough’s dimension of discourse and
discourse analysis

Conditions of production & interpretation

Process of production & interpretation

Socio
Text
cultural
practice
Discourse practice
Fairclough’s dimension of discourse and
discourse analysis

Conditions of production & interpretation

Explanation: why
is it this way?
Process of production &
(social analysis) interpretation
Socio
cultura
l Text
Interpretation: practic
e Discourse practice
what does it all
mean?
(processing
analysis)
Description: what does it look
like? (text analysis)
CDA
Text

Context Context

Context
CDA
Halal
Food

Socio-cultural-
Educational
religious
Background practices

Language
learnt
CDA
KPOP

Honorific Clothing
Title Style

Food