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Essay On Critical Discourse Analysis

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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a multi-way approaches on how the discourse view the language based on the social practice and how the social and political domination influences the reproduction of the text and talk. In Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) the reproduction of text is not only on the denotative meaning but on the connotative as well. Sometimes, many representations can be made only from one simple sentence structure. In this paper, we try to analyze how Anastasia G. Stamou criticizes a Greek newspaper regarding the issue of protestors and the non-protestors. But the writer has centralized more about the non-protestors; about how the frequent interaction between the protestors and the non-protestors affecting them. In conjunction with the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) paradigm, the way the data has been analyzed and the …show more content…

(page 14) From this article we can also state that the author is not creating all the claims out of thin air. The findings of how this protest impacted reader’s view towards it, is backed up by solid reasoning. Not just that, her theories are also created in reference with the work of famous researchers such as Fairclough, Van Dijk, and Fowler whose work are in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis and Linguistic Analysis.
-The present analysis study belongs to the theoretical approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA; Fairclough, 1989, 1992, 1995; Van Dijk, 1993,1996), which is rooted in Critical Linguistic (Fowler et al., 1979; Hodge and Kress, 1993). (page 6) In terms of position, she remains standing on neutral ground to avoid any bias claims. Anastasia take into consideration the point of those who are affected by the protest whether it is good or

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