Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis -- Principles of Power Relations & Social Construction

This video is a general introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis. It gives its definition and elaborates some of its principles and fundamentals. Specifically, it describes first two principles of critical discourse analysis from Brian Paltridge.
Critical research on discourse has the following general properties, among others:
It focuses primarily on social problems and political issues rather than the mere study
of discourse structures outside their social and political contexts.
This critical analysis of social problems is usually multidisciplinary.
Rather than merely describe discourse structures, it tries to explain them in terms of
properties of social interaction and especially social structure.
More specifically, CDA focuses on the ways discourse structures enact, confirm, legitimate, reproduce, or challenge relations of power abuse (dominance) in
society.
Fairclough and Wodak (1997) summarized the main tenets of CDA as follows:
1 CDA addresses social problems.
2 Power relations are discursive.
3 Discourse constitutes society and culture.
4 Discourse does ideological work.
5 Discourse is historical.
6 The link between text and society is mediated.
7 Discourse analysis is interpretative and explanatory.
8 Discourse is a form of social actions.

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