Minggu, 16 Oktober 2016
Norman Fairclough
Posted by Restina Dayanti on 03.13
Norman Fairclough
Norman Fairclough was born in 1941. He is emeritus Professor
of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is one of the founders of CDA
(Critical Discourse Analysis) as a branch of sociolinguistics or discourse
analysis that looks at the influence of power relations on the context and
structure of writings.
Fairclough’s
theories have been influenced by Mikhail Bakhtin and Michael Halliday on the
linguistics field, and ideology theorists such Antonio Gramsci, Louis
Althusser, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu on the sociological one.
Since the
early 1980s, Fairclough’s research has focused on Critical Discourse Analysis,
including the place of language in social relations of power and ideology, and
how language figures in processes of social change. Over the past three years
he has been working specifically on aspects of ‘transition’ in Central and
Eastern Europe, especially Romania, from a discourse analytical perspective. This
research is based upon the theoretical claim that discource is an element of
social life which is dialectically interconnected with other elements, and may have
constructive and transformative effects on other elements.
His own
recent contribution to this research has included three main elements:
Theoretical development of CDA to
enhance its capacity to contribute to this area of social research.
Developing approaches to linguistic
analysis of text and interactions which are adapted to social research.
Application of this theory and method
in researching aspects of contemporary social change.
Fairclough’s line
of study also called Textually Oriented Discourse Analysis (TODA) is specially
concerned with the mutual effects of formally linguistic textual properties,
sociolinguistics speech genres, and formally sociological practices.
His book Languge and Power (1989) now
in a revised third edition 2014, explored the imbrications between language and
social institutional practices and of wider political and social structures.
Senin, 03 Oktober 2016
CDA & Political Discourse
Posted by Restina Dayanti on 18.42
1. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
Critical Discourse Analysis has been since 1952 when Zellig Harris created an article that its title is Discourse Analysis in language journal. In 1970's, the analysts realized that to be more critical when analyze a text or discourse is extremely important. Then, many experts try to make theories of CDA.
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a branch of linguistics
that seeks to understand how and why certain texts affect readers and hearers.
Through the analysis of grammar, it aims to uncover the 'hidden ideologies'
that can influence a reader or hearer's view of the world. Analysts have looked
at a wide variety of spoken and written texts – political manifestos,
advertising, rules and regulations – in an attempt to demonstrate how text
producers use language (wittingly or not) in a way that could be ideologically
significant. According to Fairclough (1995), CDA is one of Discourse Analysis branches that focuses on the connections and interactions between language use, ideology, power, discourse, and socialcultural change.
CDA is not a monolithic method or field of study but rather a
loose agglomeration of
approaches to the study of discourse, all of which are located broadly within
the tradition
of critical social research that has its roots in the work of the Frankfurt School
(Wodak and Meyer 2001). Though having developed, at least initially, largely independently
of each other, these approaches are united by a concern to understand how
social power, its use and abuse, is related to spoken and written language.
2. Political Discourse
Political discourse
is about the text and talk of professional politicians or political institutions,
such as presidenta and prime ministers and other members of government,
parliament or political parties, both at the local, national and international
levels. Some of the studies of politicians take a discourse analytical approach
(Carbó 1984; Dillon et al. 1990; Harris 1991; Holly 1990; Maynard.
This way of defining political discourse ishardly different
from the identification of medical, legal or educational discoursewith the
respective participants in the domains of medicine, law or education.This is
the relatively easy part (if we can agree on what `politics' means).
From the interactional
point of view ofdiscourse analysis, we therefore should also include the
various recipients inpolitical communicative events, such as the public, the
people, citizens, the`masses', and other groups or categories. That is, once we
locate politics and itsdiscourses in the public sphere, many more participants
in political communicationappear on the stage.
Obviously, the same is true for the definition of the field of
media discourse,which also needs to focus on its audiences. And also in
medical, legal or educational
discourse, we not only think of participants such as doctors, lawyers or
teachers, but also of patients, defendants and students. Hence, the
delimitation of
political discourse by its principal authors' is insufficient and needs to be extended
to a more complex picture of all its relevant participants, whether or not these
are actively involved in political discourse, or merely as recipients in one-way
modes of communication.
Sabtu, 24 September 2016
Definition of Discourse Analysis
Posted by Restina Dayanti on 02.42
A. Definition of Discourse
· (Crystal
1992:25)
"Discourse: a continuous stretch of
(especially spoken) language larger than a sentence, often constituting a
coherent unit such as a sermon, argument, joke, or narrative".
· Dakowska, being aware
of differences between kinds of discourses indicates the unity of communicative
intentions as a vital element of each of them. Consequently she suggests using
terms ‚text’ and ‚discourse’ almost interchangeably betokening the former
refers to the linguistic product, while the latter implies the entire dynamics
of the processes (Dakowska 2001:81).
·
According to Cook (1990:7) novels, as
well as short conversations or groans might be equally rightfully named
discourses.
. Discourse
is written as well as spoken: every utterance assuming the a speaker Foucault,
1972: 80) The specification with the term is that ‘discourse must be used with
its social purpose’ this is the main specification of discourse.
B. Definition
Analysis
·
Discourse analysis does not presuppose a bias towards
the study of either spoken or written language. In fact, the monolithic
character of the categories of speech and writing has been widely
challenged,especially as the gaze of analysts turns to multi-media texts and
practices on the Internet.
Stef Slembrouck (DA web page)
·
Analysis means to break something up into
parts,pieces, reason, or steps and look how those peces are related to each other.
· While Nunan (1993), states the definition of discourse
linguistics as the study of how stretches of language used in communication
assume meaning, purpose and unity for their users: the quality of coherence (an
interaction of text with given participants/context).
C. Definition of
Discourse Analysis
·
Brown and Yule (1983) ) observe that DA examines
“how addressers construct linguistic messages for addressees and how
addressees work on linguistic messages in order to interpret them.”
·
Stubbs (1983:1) describes Discourse Analysis thus: The term discourse analysis is very ambiguous. It refers mainly to the
linguistic analysis of naturally occurring connected speech or written
discourse. Roughly speaking, it refers to attempts to study the organization of
language above the sentence or above the clause, and therefore to study larger
linguistic units, such as conversational exchanges or written texts. It follows
that discourse analysis is also concerned with language use in social contexts,
and in particular with interaction or dialogue between speakers.
·
Discourse analysis does not presuppose a bias towards
the study of either spoken or written language. In fact, the monolithic
character of the categories of speech and writing has been widely
challenged,especially as the gaze of analysts turns to multi-media texts and
practices on the Internet.
Stef Slembrouck (DA web page)
· Discourse analysis is sometimes defined as the
analysis of language 'beyond the sentence'. This contrasts with types of analysis more typical of
modern linguistics, which are chiefly concerned with the study of grammar: the
study of smaller bits of language, such as sounds (phonetics and phonology),
parts of words (morphology), meaning (semantics), and the order of words in
sentences (syntax). Discourse analysts study larger chunks of as they flow
together.
Deborah Tannen (From Linguistic Society of America web
·
While Nunan (1993), states the definition of discourse
linguistics as the study of how stretches of language used in communication
assume meaning, purpose and unity for their users: the quality of coherence (an
interaction of text with given participants/context).
So, we can conclude that Discourse Analysis is the study language and the deeper meaning in ways language
is used. People use various ways of communication not only by verbal
conversations but also letters, e-mail, and even body language. The
object of discourse analysis is all these kinds of communication.The main concerns of discourse analysis as how speakers
take and relinquish the role of speaker, how social roles affect
discourse options in terms of who speaks when and what they can talk
about, how non-verbal signaling works and how the actual form of
utterances is conditioned by the social relationship between the
participants. Discourse analysis is focused on the relationship
between a speaker and a listener and the context of situation.
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Needs Analysis (ESP)
Posted by Restina Dayanti on 06.17
NEEDS ANALYSIS
(Module of
Economic Students)
Submitted as One of
Assignments of ESP
Course
Taught by Indah
Muzdalifah,
M.Pd
By
Kristina
Dayanti
(1488203029)
ENGLISH EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AND TEACHERS TRAINING
UNIVERSITY OF LANCANG
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