Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Interdisciplinarity

Gilbert Weiss, Ruth Wodak

Palgrave Macmillan, Feb 22, 2003 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 321 pages

Can discourse analysis techniques adequately deal with complex social phenomena? What does "interdisciplinarity" mean for theory building and the practice of empirical research? This volume provides an innovative and original debate on critical theory and discourse analysis, focussing on the extent to which critical discourse analysis can and should draw on the theory and methodology of a range of disciplines within the social sciences.

About the author

Gilbert Weiss and Ruth Wodak are both at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Interdisciplinarity; Language in Social Life Series
• Editors: Gilbert Weiss, Ruth Wodak
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
• ISBN: 0333970233, 9780333970232
• Length: 321 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory