REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Critical Discourse Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Intertextuality
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Reading an introduction to discourse analysis: theory and method by j. p. gee (1999). Reading how to do critical discourse analysis: a multimodel introduction by d. machin & a. mayr (2012). Focus: the naming and visual representation of persons. Representational strategies: the realm of semiotic choices that a communicator can choose from to decide how to represent social actors or participants. Allow us to place people in the social world. Allows us to highlight certain aspects of identity we wish to draw attention to or omit. Result: connoting sets of ideas, values and sequences of activity that are not necessarily overtly articulated. Van dijk: the news aligns us alongside or against people -> ideological squaring. Texts often use referential choices to create opposites, to make events and issues appeal simplified in order to control their meaning. Representational choices will always bring associations of values, ideas and activities, such as.
