Showing posts with label Power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Power. Show all posts

Friday, 19 April 2013

How to do CDA


One of many good pages on CDA from Strathclyde, giving some details and discussion of elements of language you can focus on when looking for the way texts wield power and seek to influence readers.


http://www.strath.ac.uk/aer/materials/6furtherqualitativeresearchdesignandanalysis/unit3/howtodocda-languageaspects/

Monday, 15 April 2013

Critical Discourse Analysis: A Primer

Good summary of CDA approaches, designed to use language tools to identify the power relationships in a text.

http://www.kon.org/archives/forum/15-1/mcgregorcda.html