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TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical discourse analysis in political studies.
AU - Farrelly, Michael
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - In the first sections of this article I give a simple and general account of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and how it might contribute to the theoretical and methodological repertoire of political studies through its discourse-dialectical theory of how discourse figures as an aspect of social practices without reducing those practices to discourse. In the final section I give a short illustrative example of how a CDA approach to detailed textual analysis might also be applied to specific texts (or groups of texts) in the political arena: in the example I take the press release in which the national UK government heralded its recent ‘empowerment’ White Paper, ‘Communities in Control’.
AB - In the first sections of this article I give a simple and general account of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and how it might contribute to the theoretical and methodological repertoire of political studies through its discourse-dialectical theory of how discourse figures as an aspect of social practices without reducing those practices to discourse. In the final section I give a short illustrative example of how a CDA approach to detailed textual analysis might also be applied to specific texts (or groups of texts) in the political arena: in the example I take the press release in which the national UK government heralded its recent ‘empowerment’ White Paper, ‘Communities in Control’.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9256.2010.01372.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9256.2010.01372.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 30
SP - 98
EP - 104
JO - Politics
JF - Politics
SN - 0263-3957
IS - 2
ER -