Expert of Critical Discourse Analysis

isabela fairclough 

Biography isabela fairclough

isabela fairclough was Born in Nuriootpa, South Australia, Australia on 21 Mar 1850 to John Fairclough and Sara Hill Hickman. Isabela married Otto George Klem and had 6 children .Isabela’s is main research intersts are in critical discourse analysis and argumentation theory, especially the modeling and critical evaluation of public deliberative practice and the study of argumentation in instutional context. She is recent publications have investgated political discourse analysis in the UK in the contect of the post economi critis. Isabela is the research active in language, linguistics culture society and isabela is member in the research i unit for speech and language.

In political discourse analisis and other recent publications, isabela has focuses on the analysis of practical reasoning and deliberation in politic texts. Isabela has developed the analytical framework of critical discourse analysis.

Isabela has a phd in applied linguistics form the university of lancester at 2004 with a thesis on the contribution of public intellectuals to the legitimation of liberalism in the transition from communis eastern Europe. In 2010, isbela is a course leader  in the program MA is theprogram in discourse and argumentation studies in university, faculty of foreigh languages and literature. She I teaches about the critical discourse analysis and media discourse, pragmatic and critia thingking. She also a member of the center of excellence for the study of cultural identity and british cultural studies center at the university of lanchester.

Between 2008-2013 isabela working on a number of English for academic purposes programmes at the university of lancester, Manchester and centreal lanchester and was course leaders or UCLan’s international foundation programme between 2011-2013, she is has extensive experience of working as an IELTS and Cambridge examiner and summer lecturer for the university of Manchester. She is a member propesional in Isabela fairclough has membership of profesional, such as : ISSA (International Society for the Study of Argumentation), ILIAS (International Learned Institude for Argumentation Studies), in Amsterdam,  PSA (Political Studies Assosiation), UK and Britis Assosiation for Applied Linguistics (BAAL).

Books :

·         Fairclough, I (2015). Evaluating policy as pratical argument the public debate over the first UK austerity budged.  

·         Fairclough, I (2013). Argument, deliberation, dialectic and the nature of political: A CDA perspective. Political studies review.

·         Fairclough, I (2012) political discourse analisis, London: routledg

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Branch of Discourse Analysis

The branch of Discourse Analysis

1. Critical Discourse Analysis

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a branch of linguistics that seeks to understand how and why Certain texts affect readers and hearers. Through the analysis of grammar, it aims to uncover the 'hidden ideologies' that can influence a reader or hearer's view of the world. Analysts have looked at a wide variety of spoken and written texts – political  manifestos, advertising, rules and regulations – in an attempt to demonstrate how text producers use language (wittingly or not) in a way that could be ideologically significant. 

CDA is not a monolithic method or field of study but rather a loose agglomeration of approaches to the study of discourse, all of which are located broadly within the tradition of critical social research that has its roots in the work of the Frankfurt School (Wodak and Meyer 2001). Though having developed, at least initially, largely independently of each other, these approaches are united by a concern to understand how social power, its use and abuse, is related to spoken and written language.

2. Political Discourse 

            Political discourse is about the text and talk of professional politicians or political institutions, such as presidenta and prime ministers and other members of government, parliament or political parties, both at the local, national and international levels. Some of the studies of politicians take a discourse analytical approach (Carbó 1984; Dillon et al. 1990; Harris 1991; Holly 1990; Maynard.

This way of defining political discourse ishardly different from the identification of medical, legal or educational discoursewith the respective participants in the domains of medicine, law or education.This is the relatively easy part (if we can agree on what `politics' means).

From the interactional point of view ofdiscourse analysis, we therefore should also include the various recipients inpolitical communicative events, such as the public, the people, citizens, the`masses', and other groups or categories. That is, once we locate politics and itsdiscourses in the public sphere, many more participants in political communicationappear on the stage.

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