Wodak

Ruth Wodak, Professor in Discourse Studies
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University
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http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/staff http://www.univie.ac.at/discourse-politics-identity FEMINIST CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY GENDER STUDIES

Outline of Lecture: 1. Introducing FCDA 2. Implications for interdisciplinary Gender Studies 3. Two examples: “Voices from ‘below’ and ‘above’ – Identity Politics and the Discourse-Historical Approach in CDA 4. Analyzing female leadership: Interviews with female managers, architects, MEPs 5. “Voices of Migrants” in EU countries 6. Conclusions
Programme of CDA (Principles) (Wodak 2001):

1) The approach is interdisciplinary. Problems in our societies are too complex to be studied from one perspective. This entails different dimensions of interdisciplinarity: theories draw on neighbouring disciplines and try to integrate other/new theories. Teamwork consists of different researchers from different traditionally defined disciplines working together. Lastly, also the methodologies are adapted to the data under investigation. 2) The approach is problem-oriented. Social problems are the items of research, such as “racism, identity, gender, social change”, which, of course, are and could be studied from manifold perspectives. The CDA dimension, discourse and text-analysis, is one of many possible approaches. 3) The theories as well as the methodologies are usually eclectic; i.e., theories and methods are integrated which are adequate in understanding and explaining the object under investigation. 4) Research in CDA should incorporate fieldwork and ethnography to explore the object under investigation (study from the inside) as a precondition for any further analysis and theorizing. This approach enables to avoid to `”fit the data to illustrate a theory”. Rather, we deal

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