The essay discusses some of the theoretical and methodological criticism against Critical Discourse Analysis, focusing especially on the charge of belaboring the obvious, of providing empirical findings that were already implicit in the research premises and/or that were attainable by the average lay reader of the texts without the application of peculiar analytical techniques. Instead of following the sharpest critics in their overall rejection of CDA, the author looks for possible methodological solutions to improve its explanatory and critical purposes. In particular, she suggests to identify clearly the unit of analysis and to keep it fixed during the analytical process; in addition, she proposes to look more systematically for hidden meaning structures, revisiting the classical works by Propp and Toulmin.
AIS
2016/8
Beyond the obvious. Suggestions to empower critical discourse analysis (Beyond the obvious. Ways to empower critical discourse analysis), di Fiammetta Corradi
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Fiammetta Corradi
Fiammetta Corradi è assegnista di ricerca presso l’Università degli Studi di Pavia, dove insegna Survey Research Methods. Tra le sue pubblicazioni, si ricordano «Mercanti di rischio e restauratori di fiducia: ricostruire la fiducia sistemica mediante discorsi pubblici», Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 2012; Giustificare la guerra al terrorismo: ricchezza e qualità dell’argomentazione pubblica, in Rositi (a cura di), La Ragione politica. I discorsi dei leader politici, Liguori, 2013; The richness and quality of normative public argumentation: one method, two case studies in LFP – Laboratorio di Politica Comparata e Filosofia Pubblica del Centro Einaudi, LPF Working Papers (in corso di stampa).
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- pp:39-60
- DOI: 10.1485/AIS_2016/8_OTTOBRE_3366434