critical linguistics and its examples 批评语言学及其例子分析.pptVIP

Critical Linguisticsand Its examples Definition Critical linguistics (CL) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) can best be defined as a shared perspective on doing linguistic, semiotic or discourse analysis (van Dijk 1993b: 131). Although CL and CDA are by many linguists seen as quite different in methodology, they can both be said to occupy the same paradigmatic space’. CL may be defined as fundamentally interested in analyzing opaque as well as transparent structural relationships of dominance, discrimination, power and control as manifested in language. In other words, CL aims to in