The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies
provides a state-of-the-art overview of the important and rapidly developing field of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). Forty-one chapters from leading international scholars cover the central theories, concepts, contexts and applications of CDS and how they have developed, encompassing:
approaches
analytical methods
interdisciplinarity
social divisions and power
domains and media.
Including methodologies to assist those undertaking their own critical research of discourse, this
Handbook
is key reading for all those engaged in the study and research of Critical Discourse Analysis within English Language and Linguistics, Communication, Media Studies and related areas.