Author:
Title: Vzaimosviaz’ “Diskurs-Obshchestvo”: Kognitivnyi podkhod k kriticheskomu diskurs-analizu
Journal: Proceedings of Ural State
Pedagogical University. Linguistics.
Year: 2006
Volume: 19
Pages: 107-116
Language of publication: Russian
Abstract
MEDIATION
BETWEEN DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY:
ASSESSING
COGNITIVE APPROACHES IN CDA
While reviewing relevant recent research, it becomes apparent that
cognitive approaches have been rejected and excluded from Critical Discourse
Analysis by many scholars out of often unjustified reasons. This article
argues, in contrast, that studies in CDA would gain
significantly through integrating insights from socio-cognitive theories into
their framework. Examples from my own research into the comprehension and
comprehensibility of news broadcasts, Internet discussion boards as well as
into discourse and discrimination illustrate this position. However, I also
argue that there are salient limits to cognitive theories which have to be taken
into account, specifically when proposing social change via rational/cognitive
insights. Examples from recent political debates on immigration and from the
election campaign in the