Discourses are the sets of meanings which constitute objects, and a discourse, then, is indeed a "representational practice" (Woolgar, 1988, p.93).
Fairclough's concept of discourse is referred to as social practice; discourse as "a part of social change" (2015, p.37), as "discourse has an effect on social structures, as well as being determined by them, and so contributes to social continuity and social change" (2015: 51).
FAIRCLOUGH'S THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF BLAKE'S "AH SUN-FLOWER!"
Articulation means specific discourse for getting other meaning signifier systems and giving new meanings and identities to them, for example if an Islamic discourse attempts to enter the liberal discourse concepts in its semantic framework and give new meanings to them, articulation has happened.
Van Dijk (1993) in an article entitled "principles of critical discourse analysis" discuss some principles of critical discourse analysis, such as the explicit sociopolitical stance of discourse analysts, and a focus on dominance relations by elite groups and institutions as they are being enacted, legitimated or otherwise reproduced by text and talk.
Critical Discourse Analysis of Clinton's Orations at Presidential Elections in 2016
Fairclough analyzes the association between discourse and power from a political point of view.
Literature on CDA reveals that it is frequently applied on political discourse, to assess how politicians exercise their power, authority and tend to inject their thoughts and ideologies through the powerful weapon of language.
Persuasion and Political Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Imran Khan's Election Speech (2013)
In this study, I investigated the women's understandings of this discourse. I used Discourse with a capital D to refer to the dominant discourse on Jordanian women in the society as relayed by the participants while I used discourse(s) (lower case) to refer to other non-dominant but competing discourses.
How do professional Jordanian women understand and make meaning of how the society views them as women (what is their understanding of the capital D discourse concerning Jordanian women)?
Uncertainty and Resistance in Jordanian Women's Perceptions of their Positionings in Society
Hall rejects the hard essentialist and modernist view of identity and conceptualizes identity in terms of self and the other by integrally relating them.2 He argues that "As a process, as a narrative, as a
discourse, it's identity is always told from the position of the other.
Representation of the Afghan National Identity in Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns
Part I (chapters 1-3), written by Shi-xu, presents an Asian paradigm of development
discourse studies with three approaches: paradigmatic, theoretical, and empirical.
Discourses of the Developing World: Researching Properties, Problems and Potentials
This edited book examines computer-mediated communication while keeping the theoretical tools of the
discourse analysis handy.
Tannen, Deborah and Trester, Anna Marie, Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media
This definitive collection of previously published, unpublished, and commissioned scholarly texts examines the emerging field of lacanian
discourse analysis and the ways in which this new research has inspired and revitalized the tradition of
discourse analysis.
Lacan, discourse, event; new psychoanalytic approaches to textual indeterminacy
Gee (1999) posits the importance of considering big-D
Discourse in contrast to little-d
discourse in theorizing about how language is used to create meaning.
Teacher, researcher, and accountability discourses: creating space for democratic science teaching practices in middle schools
In addition to the polemical texts that he is known for, Danish religious philosopher S|ren Kierkegaard (1813-55) also wrote a number of philosophical
discourses, and Kangas finds that it is in these that he ventures most freely in thought.
Errant Affirmations: On the Philosophical Meaning if Kierkegaard's Religious Discourses