On Doing Critical Discourse Analysis
Abstract
Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth CDA) is a recent multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to the study of discourse. More than one discipline can be found to be involved in this approach, psychology, sociology, mass communication, law, literature, political sciences, and social psychology. All dimensions of language are getting involved in this trend, syntax, semantics, pragmatics etc. CDA manipulates the process of the dramatization of the opposition between in group members and out-group members crystallized in a set of discursive strategies cognitively and culturally constrained These strategies include lexicalization, framing, presupposition, figurative language , hedging postures etc., Throughout CDA, it becomes possible to trace realizations of personality and speakers ability to control others cognitively via maneuvers of language.