BETWEEN SEMIOSIS AND SOCIAL PRACTICE: FAIRCLOUGH’S VERSION OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
BETWEEN SEMIOSIS AND SOCIAL PRACTICE: FAIRCLOUGH’S VERSION OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Fairclough’s Version of Critical Discourse Analysis

Summary/Abstract: This article provides an overview of how texts have been researched in developments of Discourse Analysis that have considered the interplay of social practices and linguistic structures. This survey cannot leave out the social theories that deal with semiotic analysis and how the semiotic dimension of communication is linked to corresponding social practices. In this socio-linguistic narrative, Fairclough’s pioneering theories in Critical Discourse Analysis would assume a key position in what is to follow below, starting from earlier developments in Discourse Analysis, cultural studies and semiotics. What is more, discourse has a constructive impact on aspects of identity, a central concept in many approaches related to culture and its critical investigation.

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