This document discusses critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the relationship between discourse and power. CDA examines how social power is abused and reproduced through text and talk. The goals of CDA are to understand, expose, and resist social inequalities that are enacted through discourse. CDA takes a multidisciplinary approach and views discourse as inherently part of social structures and power relationships, rather than being value-neutral. It focuses on how discourse confirms, legitimizes, and challenges social relations of power and dominance.

1. Discourse And Power
Dr. Syed Kazim Shah
Transcribed by Kalsoom Jahan GCUF

2. Power and discourse at descriptive
level
Critical discourse analysis
A type of discourse analytical research that
primarily studies the way social power
abuses, dominates, and inequalities or
enacted.
Reproduce and resisted by the text and talk
in social and political context.

3. How social power is abused
Here Van Dijk is subjective.
Text and talk is representative in power abuse
and dominates social power.
It deals with relationship between discourse and
power with aims of understanding exposing ,
resisting against social inequalities
It deals with discourse and power

4. Discourse and Power
To understand this relationship
To expose this relationship
Resist if there is a social inequality
Text is not tool but a product

5. Discourse and Power
Discourse structure confirms, Legitimise,
Reproduce relation in power and
dominance in society
Rejects the value free science
Inherently the part of social structure and
influenced by social interaction.

6. Discourse and Power
Social power , social relationship, they are
not value free.
CDA not so much directions, school of
specialization, rather it aims or prospect
of theorising and analysing application
though out the whole field.
It focuses on the objectives of CDA

7. Discourse and Power
Its not a discipline but brings different
modes of analysing.
More or less prospects in other
discipline like ethnographic and media
analysis, but the CDA has tried to
collect these in one multidisciplinary
approach of CDA
.

8. The aims of CDA
CDA must have to be better as compared to
other researches.
Sociological.
Psychological,
ethnographical
cultural
A multidisciplinary Approach

9. The aims of CDA
Second point is it focuses primarily on social
problems and political issues rather than on current
paradigm and fashion.
CDA is usually multidisciplinary
Mainly describe the social structure and explains it
in social interaction.

10. The aims of CDA
Linguistic structure are related to the social
structure.
More specifically CDA focuses on the way is
discourse structure enact, confirm, legitimise
, reproduce and challenge relation of power
and the dominance of society.

11. The aims of CDA
Fairclough , Woodak and Van Dijk have
similar points
CDA addresses social problems
Power relations are discursive
Manipulative, created structures
Discourse constitute society and
culture

12. The aims of CDA
Discourse does ideological work
Discourse is historical
Link between text and society is
mediated
Interpretative and explanatory.
Discourse is a form of social action.

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