Can discourse analysis techniques adequately deal with complex social phenomena? What does'interdisciplinarity'mean for theory building and the practise of empirical research? This original volume debates critical theory and discourse analysis, focussing on the extent to which CDA can draw on a range of disciplines in the social sciences.

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CHRISTINE ANTHONISSEN is an Associate Professor and Chairperson , Department of General Linguistics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. MICHAEL BILLIG is Professor of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK CARMEN ROSA CALDAS-COULTHARD is Senior Lecturer, Centre for English Language Studies, University of Birmingham, UK MARCELO DASCAL is Professor of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel CONCEPCIÓN GÓMEZ ESTEBAN is Associate Professor of Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain CARLOS A.M. GOUVEIA is Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Lisbon, Portugal PHIL GRAHAM is Professor of Communication and Culture in the Creative Industries Faculty of Queensland University of Technology, Australia MARIANNE W. JØRGENSEN is Assistant Professor in the Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Linkoping University, Sweden JAY L.LEMKE is Professor of Educational Studies, University of Michigan, USA J. R. MARTIN is Professor in Linguistics ( Personal Chair), at the University of Sydney, Australia LUISA MARTÍN ROJO is Associate Professor in Linguistics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain PATRICIA O'CONNOR is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University, USA SUZANNE SCOLLON is an independent scholar based in Haines, Alaska, USA TEUN A. VAN DIJKis Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Theory, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Discourse Analysis; G.Weiss & R.Wodak PART 1: CRITICAL - CRITICAL - CRITICAL Critical Discourse Analysis and the Rhetoric of Critique; M.Billig Critical Discourse Analysis and the Development of New Science; C.A.M.Gouveia Reflexivity and the Doubles of Modern Man: The Discursive Construction of Anthropological Subject Positions; M.W.Jørgensen PART 2: DEBATING AND PRACTISING INTERDISCIPLINARITY The Discourse-Knowledge Interface; T.A.van Dijk Critical Discourse Analysis and Evaluative Meaning; Interdisciplinarity as a Critical Turn; P.Graham Texts and Discourses in the Technologies of Social Organisation; J.Lemke Identities in Flux: Arabs and Jews in Israel; M.Dascal Political and Somatic Alignment: Habitus, Ideology and Social Practice; S.Scollon Voicing the 'Other': Reading and Writing Indigenous Australians; J.R.Martin PART 3: FROM THEORY TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PRACTICE Activist Sociolinguistics in a Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective; P.O'Connor Discourse at Work: When Women Take on the Role of Manager; L.Martín-Rojo & C.Gómez Esteban Cross-Cultural Representation of 'Otherness' in Media Discourse; C.R.Caldas-Coulthard Interaction Between Visual and Verbal Communication: Changing Patterns in the Printed Media; C.Anthonissen Index