What is Critical Discourse Analysis?

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: Excellent, Shaqra University (Faculty of Education), course: CDA, language: English, abstract: In this paper, a historical outline of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) will be presented, and some notions and concepts, such as discourse, critical, text, and semiosis, will be clarified. In doing so, many relationships of CDA to other components such as social structure, social event, social practice, and orders of discourse are introduced in such ways that grant redefinitions to discourse and discourse analysis as well as show why CDA is critical and how its constructing components (critical, discourse, and analysis) draw its meaning and contribute to form its aims and principles.

Ph. D. in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), lecturer of English and translator, faculty of education, Shaqra University, interested in linguistic, discursive, and pragmatic writings and researches as well as translation from English into Arabic and vice versa. Email: aelsharkawy@su.edu.sa