Papers
In rough order of submission and year. Jump to papers posted in: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
2007
Teun A. van Dijk
Racism, the Press and Freedom of Expression (pdf 22kb)
posted 2/1/2007
“A summary, in the form of 10 theses, of my expert statement for ECRI in the fall meeting on racism and freedom of the press in Strasburg.”
Robert de Beaugrande
The case against Critical Discourse Analysis re-opened: In search of Widdowson’s ‘Pretexts’ (pdf, 101kb)
posted 9/20/2006
An extended critique of Text, Context, Pretext, “Widdowson’s (2004) latest and largest – and, one ardently hopes, last – assault on ‘(Critical) Discourse Analysis’.”
John Richardson
Chapter 5: Social Practices (pdf, 2.7MB)
posted 6/29/05
In this chapter, I have examined some of the social practices of journalistic discourse. That is, the relationships between journalism and the wider social world analysed across three levels: economic practices, political practices and ideological practices. In doing so, I have hopefully made the case for a materialist approach to CDA to replace the current idealism. By materialism I mean “an ethnographic eye for the real historical actors, their interests, their alliances, their practices and where they come from, in relation to the discourses they produce” and the social groups (or class) that the discourse is produced for (Blommaert, 1999: 7). In examining the social practices of newspaper discourse from a class-conscious perspective, I have drawn attention to (and hopefully helped to reduce) a yawning gap in current CDA literature: the contribution that newspaper discourse plays in the reproduction of capitalist exploitation and class based inequality.
Francesca Bargiela
The discourses of economic globalization: a first analysis. (pdf, 264 KB)
Posted 12/28/04
This essay, still in draft form, offers a first critical analysis of some of the discourses of economic globalization, using business and management periodicals as textual sources. This is the original, unpublished version of a paper first posted on the LNC 06/00.
John Richardson
Islamophobia (pdf, 149 KB)
posted 9/26/04
The chapter is to be published in Allen & Birt (eds.), perhaps sometime early 2005.
Norman Fairclough
To appear in L. Young (ed) Systemic Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, Continuum (for 2003) – Critical Discourse Analysis in Researching Language in the New Capitalism: Overdetermination, Transdisciplinarity and Textual Analysis. (link)
Fairclough, N., Simon Pardoe & Bron Szerszynski
Critical discourse analysis and citizenship (link)
To appear in A. Bora & H. Hausendorf (eds) Constructing Citizenship John Benjamins (for 2003).
Norman Fairclough -
Semiotic aspects of social transformation and learning (link)
To appear in R. Rogers (ed) New Directions in Critical Discourse Analysis: Semiotic Aspects of Social Transformation and Learning Erlbaum 2003e.
Martin Hultman -
Racism discourse (re)exploited: The demonstrations at the EU-summit in Gothenburg 2001 and its racialisation by Swedish news media. (original)
Bob Jessop
Governance and metagovernance. (pdf, 272 KB)
posted 9/05/03
For H. Bang, ed., Governance, Governmentality, and Democracy, Manchester Manchester University Press, in press.
Bob Jessop
Cultural Political Economy. (pdf, xKB)
posted 9/05/03
For A. Barry and D. Slater, eds, The Economy, London Routledge, in press.
Bob Jessop
Informational Capitalism and Empire: The Post-Marxist Celebration of US Hegemony in a New World Order. (pdf, 136 KB)
posted 9/05/03
English version of a paper that appeared in German as ‘Informationskapitalismus und EmpireVerklaerungen der US-Hegemonie’, Das Argument, 248, 777-790.
Susan Dodd
The Writing of the Westray Story: A discourse analysis of the aftermath of the Westray coal mine explosion. (pdf, 2 MB)
posted 20/05/03
Susan Dodd’s doctoral thesis — not for citation without permission.
Gary Webster:
Feral – A poem. (pdf, 40 KB)
Gary Webster
Funky Business. (pdf, 308 KB)
posted 24/04/02
This paper analyses popular American management literature and its close Swedish emulations, like Funky Business by Nordstr?m and Ridderstr?le. The paper outlines a methodology for analysing and actively intervening in these contestable spaces of discourse.
The following three papers (combined in one original document) are from the Language and Ideology Group at Lancaster on the War on Terrorism. All diverse methods. All excellent reading. posted 03/02/2002 (pdf, 804 KB)
- Zones of indistinction – Security, terror, and bare life. By Bulent Diken & Carsten Bagge Laustsen.
- The public of the media – a discourse analytical view on the Suns review of dissenting views on the war in Afghanistan.
- The war on terrorism: the importance of discourse by N.M. Montessori.
- Jane Mulderrig
- Notes and quotes : one - posted 29/03/00 - (pdf, 292 KB)
- Notes and quotes : two – Mostly about money. posted 29/05/00 (pdf, 252 KB)
- Notes and quotes : three - Mostly about labour. posted 08/26/2001 (pdf, 253 KB)
Learning to labour: the discursive construction of social actors in New Labour’s education policy. (pdf, 304 KB)
posted 17/12/02
This article critically assesses the social identities, relations and practices of participants in education under New Labour. It combines sociological critique of education policy reform and analysis of the discourse representation of government, teachers, and pupils in two policy texts. Education is theoretically positioned in terms of its relationship with the economy and broader state policy. It is postulated that an instrumental rationality underlies education policy discourse, manifested in the pervasive rhetoric and values of the market in the representation of educational participants and practices. This is theorised as an indicator of a general shift towards the commodification of education and the concomitant consumerisation of social actors. Further, it is argued that discourse plays a significant role in constructing and legitimising post-welfare learning policy as a key aspect of the ongoing project of globalization.
Paul Chilton
2 America 11 September 200. Commentary by on the events of 11 September 2001. (pdf, 128 KB)
Vaughan Dutton (pdf, 228 KB)
posted 10/17/2001
The United Nations Development Programme as technology of neo-liberal imperialism Examines the role of development in neo-liberalism expansion. More specifically, it is shown how subjects of development are rendered amenable to the operations of neo-liberalism. Work in this area is surprisingly rare – especially since development may constitute the primary mode whereby neo-liberalism extends its reach. Comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Norman Fairclough, Bob Jessop, and Andrew Sayer.
Critical Realism and Semiosis. (pdf, 296 KB)
posted 09/14/2001
A paper linking critical realist, semiological, and critical discourse approaches to social theory and analysis. Final Version revised by all three authors of Paper presented to International Association for Critical Realism Annual Conference, Roskilde, Denmark, 17-19th August 2001.
A bunch of notes and quotes
Written by Phil Graham during his investigation of the current state of global capitalism; a haphazard collection of ramblings on the various organising themes that have defined capitalism as such. They are disorganized in no specific order. Please feel free to use them.