Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis

Wodak, Ruth; Meyer, Michaël

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“…Our analysis follows the critical tradition inspired by poststructuralist discourse analysis (Foucault 1994) as well as critical methodologies developed in applied linguistics (Fairclough and Wodak 1997, Wodak and Meyer 2002, Fairclough 2003. In recent years, organization scholars have applied these ideas in critical organizational discourse analyses (Phillips and Hardy 2002, Hardy and Phillips 2004, Mumby 2004, Fairclough 2005.…”

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On the Problem of Participation in Strategy: A Critical Discursive Perspective

Mantere

Vaara

2008

Organization Science

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We still know little of why strategy processes often involve participation problems. In this paper, we argue that this crucial issue is linked to fundamental assumptions about the nature of strategy work. Hence, we need to examine how strategy processes are typically made sense of and what roles are assigned to specific organizational members. For this purpose, we adopt a critical discursive perspective that allows us to discover how specific conceptions of strategy work are reproduced and legitimized in organizational strategizing. Our empirical analysis is based on an extensive research project on strategy work in 12 organizations. As a result of our analysis, we identify three central discourses that seem to be systematically associated with nonparticipatory approaches to strategy work: “mystification,” “disciplining,” and “technologization.” However, we also distinguish three strategy discourses that promote participation: “self-actualization,” “dialogization,” and “concretization.” Our analysis shows that strategy as practice involves alternative and even competing discourses that have fundamentally different kinds of implications for participation in strategy work. We argue from a critical perspective that it is important to be aware of the inherent problems associated with dominant discourses as well as to actively advance the use of alternative ones.

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Section: A Critical Organizational Discourse Perspectivementioning

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On the Problem of Participation in Strategy: A Critical Discursive Perspective

Mantere

Vaara

2008

Organization Science

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“…A similar situation exists in the domain of Critical Discourse Analysis (e.g. Fairclough 2003;Fairclough and Wodak 1997;Hart 2011;Wodak and Meyer 2009). Despite the ubiquitousness of trust in social interaction and its importance in the dynamics of persuasion and social influence, it has not, to our knowledge, been the subject of systematic investigation in this area.…”

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A model of trust-repair discourse

Fuoli

Paradis

2014

Journal of Pragmatics

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This article proposes a novel theoretical framework for examining trust-repair discourse. The model identifies two fundamental discourse strategies available to the trust-breaker when trust is at stake (i) to engage with and act upon the discourses that represent a potential source of distrust -neutralize the negative, (ii) to communicate a trustworthy discourse identity -emphasize the positive. These strategies are realized in discourse through the use of dialogic engagement and evaluative/a↵ective language, respectively. The ultimate communicative goal of the strategies is that of promoting the addressees' positive (re-)assessment of the speaker's ability, integrity and benevolence. The model is applied to the analysis of the CEO letter published by BP one year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The analysis has the twofold purpose of demonstrating the viability of the model and determining the discourse strategies deployed by the CEO to repair trust in the company after the accident.

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“…However, ideology makes itself felt in a language even though there may not becontradictions Thompson (1990) in Wodak and Meyer (2001) points out that ideology is the study of the ways in which meaning is constructed and conveyed by symbolic forms of various kinds. In conclusion, Wodak and Meyer (2001) say that ideology is the basic social representations of social groups. It has a schematic structure that represents the self-image of each group, featuring membership devices, aims, activities, norms, and resources of each group.…”

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“…People can convey their ideologies through the choice of words. To comprehend the ideology, language study is necessary to conduct as ideology is constructed and conveyed by symbolic forms of various kinds (Thompson in Wodak & Meyer, 2001). People cannot perceive or interpret a social group's ideology by giving free judgment.…”

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The Language and Ideology of Capital Punishment for Drug Convicts Found in Selected Opinions in the Jakarta Post

Isti’anah¹

2016

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Abstract:This research is an investigation into the language use in people's opinions of capital punishment for drug convicts in The Jakarta Post. Capital punishment was executed to six drug convicts on January 18 th , 2015. Controversy about this action has risen before and after the execution. People give their opinions in social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and newspapers. The Jakarta Post is a well-known English newspaper in Indonesia which has a lot of readers. People choose this newspaper to convey their ideas so that their opinions will be read by people around the world. As the issue about capital punishment is popular recently, this research attempts at finding out people's ideology about capital punishment for drug convicts. Critical discourse analysis was conducted in this research as an approach to figure out how language use by the people can reveal their ideology of capital punishment. This research focused on observing four opinions of capital punishment for drug convicts in The Jakarta Post. The analysis shows that material processes dominate the opinions, followed by relational, mental and verbal processes. The ideologies revealed in the opinions are power, pessimism, and criticism. Before the execution, pessimism dominates the opinions, while after the execution criticism appears most in the opinions.

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Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis

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On the Problem of Participation in Strategy: A Critical Discursive Perspective

On the Problem of Participation in Strategy: A Critical Discursive Perspective

A model of trust-repair discourse

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