Article
Critical Discourse Analysis in Education
Encyclopedia of Language and Education
(2008)
Abstract
Education researchers from around the globe have turned to critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a way to describe, interpret, and explain important educational problems. CDA is an interdisciplinary set of theoretical and analytic tools applied to the study of the relationships between texts (spoken, written, multimodal, and digital), discourse practices (communicative events), and social practices (society‐wide processes) (Blommaert and Bulcaen, 2000; Collins, 2004; Fairclough, 1993; Luke, 1995/1996). Luke ( 2002) defines CDA as a “a principled and transparent shunting back and forth between the microanalysis of texts using various tools of linguistic, semiotic, and literary analysis of social formations, institutions, and power relations that these texts index and construct” (p. 100). CDA focuses on how language as a cultural tool mediates relationships of power and privilege in social interactions,...
Keywords
- critical race theory,
- critical discourse analysis,
- discourse practice,
- literacy curriculum,
- systemic functional linguistic
Disciplines
Publication Date
2008
DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-30424-3
Citation Information
Rogers R. (2008) Critical Discourse Analysis in Education. In: Hornberger N.H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Boston, MA