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Context - Interview With Norman Fairclough Part IV

CDA: Context – Interview With Norman Fairclough Part IV

Rebecca Rogers: Can you talk about your views on context? Norman Fairclough: I find the idea of saying let’s talk about texts and contexts problematic and I would just assume not start there. I would start with social events and social practices, and social structures. I would be interested in understanding the dialectical relations between…

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CDA as Approach, Stance Method(s) - Interview With Norman Fairclough Part III

CDA as Approach, Stance, Method(s) – Interview With Normal Fairclough Part III

Rebecca Rogers: Can you talk about the various approaches to CDA? And, then, how your own approach fits into the various traditions? Norman Fairclough: Again, I want to complicate that because I think it is risky classifying too sharply between different approaches. I would not… I find it difficult to say what my own approach…

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Personal History With Critical Discourse Analysis - Interview With Norman Fairclough Part II

Personal History With Critical Discourse Analysis – Interview With Norman Fairclough Part II

Rebecca Rogers: Can you talk through why you thought to bring together these ideas? Norman Fairclough: I started in linguistics, the appointment that I first had at Lancaster was a very strange one in a sense because I was appointed to teach varieties of English and writing systems and was forgotten about as soon as…

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