B11. Analysing Discourse I and II – Analysing Politics: Theories, Methods and Applications
Can be taken as two one-week courses. Both one-week courses can each be taken without the other.
C03 - Week 1: Analysing Discourse I – Analysing Politics: Theories, Methods and Applications
D03 - Week 2: Analysing Discourse II – Analysing Politics: Theories, Methods and Applications
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as an empirical
approach to research on dynamics of contemporary political and institutional change. The course
aims to highlight key approaches in CDA and especially its so-called ‘Viennese’ or Discourse-Historical
Approach (DHA), widely recognised for its systematic and empirically funded work on both national
and supranational politics in Europe. The course presents CDA as both theory and practice and does
so at the background of various linguistic and social-scientific approaches to text and discourse
studies as well as at the background of developments in social and political theory. The course takes place in a 1+1 format so both weeks can be taken independently or as a one 2-week module (advisable). The first Week of the course is devoted to theoretical and analytical groundwork with students being introduced to history and development of text and discourse studies as well as to CDA and its relationship to other approaches in discourse analysis. Students are also made initially familiar with key steps and categories of CDA/DHA-inspired analysis. During Week two, students further their analytical skills while using various analytical categories and paths and different types of empirical material analysed in a series of in- and out-of-class individual and group assignments. They are also presented with a series of applications of CDA/DHA in various analyses of contemporary political and institutional discourse.
Short Bio
Michał Krzyżanowski is Full Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Örebro University, Sweden. He previously worked at the Universities of Aberdeen and Lancaster in the UK, University of Vienna, Austria, and at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. In 2011, he was also a Visiting Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Örebro University. He has guest-lectured widely, including at the Universities of Bremen, Brussels (VUB), Florence (EUI), Milan (Bicocca), Tilburg or Umeå. Michał is Executive Editor of Journal of Language and Politics and serves on editorial boards of such journals as, inter alia, Critical Discourse Studies or Qualitative Sociology Review. He also co-edits Book Series Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies. Michał’s research focuses on discourse and communication in the context of socio-political, organisational and institutional change in Europe from the point of view of media and the public sphere, communication in/of national and supranational politics and organisations, social and political identities, multilingualism, linguistic and cultural diversity, and discrimination and social exclusion. He has also worked on developing new approaches in qualitative research methodology and critical discourse studies. He has published widely incl. in such journals as Discourse & Society, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, Critical Discourse Studies or Journal of Language and Politics and is the author and editor of several major monographs and anthologies in critical discourse research on media, political and organizational communication. He is co-editor of the widely acclaimed Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences (with R. Wodak, 2008; Polish translation 2011). His other book publications include: Multilingual Encounters in Europe’s Institutional Spaces (with J. Unger and R. Wodak, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), Advances in Critical Discourse Studies (with J.E. Richardson, D. Machin and R. Wodak, 2013), Ethnography and Critical Discourse Analysis (2011); The Discursive Construction of European Identities (2010); European Public Sphere and the Media: Europe in Crisis (with A. Triandafyllidou and R. Wodak, 2009); The Politics of Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria (with R. Wodak, 2009); Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (with A. Galasińska, 2008); (Un)Doing Europe: Discourses and Practices of Negotiating the EU Constitution (with F. Oberhuber, 2007).
