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JWST555-22 JWST555-TannenJanuary 16, 201517:43 Printer Name: Yet to ComeTrim: 244mm 170mmUNCORRECTED PROOFS22 Critical Discourse AnalysisTEUN A. VAN DIJK0 Introduction: What Is Critical Discourse Analysis?Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is discourse analytical research that primarily stud-ies the way social-power abuse and inequality are enacted, reproduced, legitimated,and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context. With suchdissidentresearch, critical discourse analysts take an explicit position and thus want to under-stand, expose, and ultimately challenge social inequality. This is also why CDA may becharacterized as asocial movementof politically committed discourse widespread misunderstanding of CDA is that it is a specialmethodof doing dis-course analysis. There is no such method: in CDA all methods of the cross-disciplineof discourse studies, as well as other relevant methods in the humanities and socialsciences, may be used (Wodak and Meyer 2008; Titscheret al.)

JWST555-22 JWST555-Tannen January16,2015 17:43 PrinterName:YettoCome Trim:244mm× 170mm PROOFS CriticalDiscourseAnalysis 471 various communicative, social, or institutional roles and identities, as well as their

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