Memorable Quotes # 11: Critical Discourse Analysis

(Book: Wood, L.A. & Kroger. R.O. (2000). Doing Discourse Analysis: Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.) 


“[For] critical discourse analysis (CDA; Fairclough & Wodak, 1997) [...] the emphasis is [...] on the understanding of discourse in relation to social problems; to social structure variables such as race, gender, and class; and above all power.” (p. 21)