The USAL-UVA Linguistics Research Seminars 2021-2022 (6)

About the event

04/29/2022 16:30

Salamanca, Spain

Organized by Javier Ruano-García (USAL), Laura Filardo-Llamas (UVA)

Categories:: Humanities and sociocultural

Keywords:: Cognitive Linguistics; critical discourse analysis; event-structure; experimental methods

Testing for Textual Effects in Critical Discourse Analysis

Christopher Hart (University of Lancaster)

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has been accused of over-interpreting the effects of textual choices on readers’ attitudes and opinions and of offering instead overly-subjective analyses of texts. To counter these arguments, various ways of triangulating analyses have been developed, including the use of corpus linguistic and experimental methods. In this talk, I introduce recent experimental work which has been carried out primarily within cognitive linguistic approaches to CDA. I will present three experimental projects: (i) event-structure in discourses of civil disorder; (ii) metaphor in discourses of immigration; and evidentially in discourses of military intervention. Across the three case studies, I will cover issues of experimental design, methods and analysis. Results from the three case studies show that textual choices like transitivity and metaphor do matter but that reader-responses are more nuanced than is sometimes assumed.

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