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Darian A Wallis

Michel Pêcheux's theory of language and ideology and method of automatic discourse analysis: A critical introduction

Keywords: discourse analysis, language and ideology, Syntactic Analysis, Text Analysis, Michel Pcheux

This article presents a detailed exposition of Michel Pêcheux's approach to the study of the relations between language and ideology. Pêcheux's method of automatic discourse analysis (AAD) and his meta-theory of discourse are discussed and critically assessed, and examples of empirical studies in this tradition are described. In addition, the manual AAD-syntactic analysis phase is discussed in relation to a mini-study of English discourse. In conclusion, some similarities and differences of AAD and critical discourse analysis (CDA) are identified, as well as a summary of Pêcheux's specific contributions to knowledge.

Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0165-4888
Volume: 27, 03/2007
Pages: 251 - 272

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