Critique, the discourse–historical approach, and the Frankfurt School

Forchtner, Bernhard

doi:10.1080/17405904.2011.533564

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“…Although this article does not delve deeply into the ins and outs of a Habermasian conception of legitimation, the idea that legitimation resides in a discourse which is at its very core amenable to multimodality is fundamental to the rest of the argument. Forchtner's (2011) discussion of the relationship between the DHA and the Frankfurt School further strengthens the rationale for linking the analytical approach and a study of legitimation.…”

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Multimodal legitimation: Selling Scottish independence

Mackay

2015

Discourse & Society

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This article introduces a framework for analysing multimodal legitimation. Building upon work on legitimation by Van Leeuwen and Van Dijk, a six-layer framework is proposed. This framework pulls together the main aspects of legitimation -seen as a complex and multifaceted concept and practice -which need to be looked into if we are to fully appreciate its functioning in general or any specific instance of its deployment. Using the proposed framework, a video, produced by the Scottish National Party (SNP) encouraging a 'Yes' vote in the Scottish referendum on independence, is analysed.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 90%

Multimodal legitimation: Selling Scottish independence

Mackay

2015

Discourse & Society

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“…Here, the DHA draws on Wengeler's and Kienpointer's contextspecific notion of topos, defined as semiotically manifested 'figures of thought in approaching a political issue' (Wengeler 2003, 67). These conclusion rules are either sound or fallacious, enabling or preventing the more or less undistorted exchange of standpoints through particular ways of representing events, objects or persons (Reisigl 2014;Forchtner 2011;.…”

Section: Analyzing the Debate: The Discourse-historical Approachmentioning

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‘The man who hated Britain’ – the discursive construction of ‘national unity’ in theDaily Mail

Stoegner

Wodak

2015

Critical Discourse Studies

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In the fall of 2013 the British right-wing tabloid Daily Mail triggered a fierce controversy in the British media and public sphere, focused on the topics of antisemitism and patriotism/nationalism. It was sparked by the publication of an article on the famous British economist Ralph Miliband with the provocative headline "The man who hated Britain". The lead refers directly to the current leader of the British Labour Party, Ed Miliband: "Ed Miliband's pledge to bring back socialism is homage to his Marxist father. So what did Miliband Snr really believe in? The answer should disturb everyone who loves this country". In this paper, we analyse how Ralph Miliband is discursively constructed as a dangerous 'Other' in the Daily Mail, and the way in which this construction is subsequently politically instrumentalized in a campaign against his son, Ed Miliband. We focus on how a particular concept of national unity is constructed in this case with reference to the stereotype of the 'disloyal, intellectual, international, non-authentic Jew'. This figure emerges as the 'Iudeus ex machina' in the scenario of impending doom in order, we assume, to distract attention from domestic politics and the structural issues facing British society and the British economy. In our analysis we tackle the multi-layered and complex interdependencies of -mostly coded -antisemitic and nationalist rhetoric with the help of an interdisciplinary framework that integrates theoretical approaches to secondary antisemitism, nationalism, media studies, and Critical Discourse Studies, and related methodologies.

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“…However, the insights of discourse theory and analysis have not yet been systematically analysed by the most important authors of the Frankfurt School (for a systematic analysis of the relation of discourse, critique and the Frankfurt School, see also Forchtner, 2011;Forchtner and Tominc, 2012). Axel Honneth (1991), who is the current director of the Institute for Social Research, understands the work of (the early) Foucault as a possible means of overcoming the sociological deficit of the first generation of Critical Theory.…”

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Discourse analysis as immanent critique: Possibilities and limits of normative critique in empirical discourse studies

Herzog

2016

Discourse & Society

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Although discourse analysts often conceive of their work as critical, there is little theoretical discussion regarding the possibility of normative critique in the scientific community of discourse analysis. Rarely are the normative grounds and normative scope of such a critique clear. Thus, this article attempts to find theoretically robust and practical answers to the following question: 'How is a normative critique possible?' In seeking my answer, I first provide a short overview of the possibilities of normative critique in critical discourse analysis. Second, I offer an argument in favour of immanent critique while explaining both its advantages and its theoretical and practical problems. Finally, I demonstrate how sociological discourse analysis and immanent critique can mutually benefit from one another. The theses I formulate and defend are as follows: Although the notion of immanent critique cannot adequately answer methodological questions, these answers can be found in several recent proposals on discourse analysis. Additionally, a combination of the dialectical approaches to immanent critique and discourse analysis might help overcome the methodological deficit of Critical Theory. Finally, this combination can resolve several theoretical deficits in discourse theory.

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Critique, the discourse–historical approach, and the Frankfurt School

Cited by 64 publications

References 10 publications

Multimodal legitimation: Selling Scottish independence

Multimodal legitimation: Selling Scottish independence

‘The man who hated Britain’ – the discursive construction of ‘national unity’ in theDaily Mail

Discourse analysis as immanent critique: Possibilities and limits of normative critique in empirical discourse studies

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