Contemporary critical discourse studies

"CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoretical and empirical developments. It presents an up-to-date survey of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), covering both the theoretical landscape and the analytical territories that it extends over. It is intended for critical scholars and students who wish to keep abreast of the current state of the art. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the chapters are organised around different methodological perspectives for CDS (history, cognition, multimodality and corpora, among others). In the second part, the chapters are organised around particular discourse types and topics investigated in CDS, both traditionally (e.g. issues of racism and gender inequality) and only more recently (e.g. issues of health, public policy, and the environment). This is, altogether, an essential new reference work for all CDS practitioners"--

1. Introduction / Christopher Hart and Piotr Cap -- PART I Dimensions of Discourse -- History -- 1. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Topos of History as a Teacher in Public Struggles over Self- and Other-Representation / Bernard Forchtner -- 2. Metaphor in the Discourse-Historical Approach / Andreas Musolff -- Argumentation -- 3. Argumentation Analysis and the Discourse-Historical Approach: A Methodological Framework / Martin Reisigl -- 4. It Is Easy To Miss Something You Are Not Looking For: A Pragmatic Account of Covert Communicative Influence for (Critical) Discourse Analysis / Steve Oswald -- Social Cognition -- 5. Discourse-Cognition-Society: Current State and Prospects of the Socio-Cognitive Approach to Discourse / Teun van Dijk -- 6. Applying Social Cognition Research to Critical Discourse Studies: The Case of Collective Identities / Veronika Koller -- Conceptualisation -- 7. Construal Operations in Online Press Reports of Political Protests / Christopher Hart -- 8. Expanding CDS Methodology by Cognitive-Pragmatic Tools: Proximization Theory and Public Space Discourses/ Piotr Cap -- Corpora -- 9. 'Bad Wigs And Screaming Mimis': Using Corpus-Assisted Techniques to Carry Out Cri…