critical discourse

collocation in English

meaningsofcriticalanddiscourse

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critical
adjective
uk
/ˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl/
saying that someone or something is bad ...
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discourse
noun
uk
/ˈdɪs.kɔːs/us
/ˈdɪs.kɔːrs/
languagespecialized
the use of language to communicate in speech or writing, or an example ...
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(Definition ofcriticalanddiscoursefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To better understand how rock critics frame their evaluations we can look at thecriticaldiscoursesurrounding artists who are critically dismissed.
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It seems to me that we have no end ofcriticaldiscourseanalysis which focuses on power and how it oppresses.
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The emergingcriticaldiscourseon working-class poetry, for example, is one such.
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Pursuing such concrete perspectives may relieve thecriticaldiscourseanalyst of the temptation to make unwarranted claims on a political level.
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Usingcriticaldiscourseanalysis, she shows how the arguments, gender assumptions, and associated linguistic resources exhibit gendered differences in discourse.
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The book is interesting, and one of a kind in the field of sociolinguistics andcriticaldiscourseanalysis.
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The analytical approach, informed by sociolinguistic theory,criticaldiscourseanalysis and social anthropology, draws on a particular field of practice - foreign- and second-language teaching.
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How music and society correspond is part of an interpretive process occurring incriticaldiscourseand in the imaginative reception of cultural expression.
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Theircriticaldiscourseis the reducible gap between the new worlds uncovered by science and the fantastic strange worlds of the imagination.
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Both these studies clearly demonstrate the utility ofcriticaldiscourseanalysis.
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Exposing these ideological positions is the domain ofcriticaldiscourseanalysis.
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Three additional focal areas of legal language research include speech act analysis, discourse interaction, andcriticaldiscourseanalysis.
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The coverage is particularly wide (reading, writing,criticaldiscourseanalysis, genre, grammar, concordancing, etc.) but the overall effect is remarkably coherent.
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Criticaldiscourseanalysis has also become an emerging focus.
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The fact is that all such terms are only effective as initial referents in any givencriticaldiscourse.
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It was in moments of questioning like these that architecture, engineering andcriticaldiscoursereally melded and valuable discussion occurred.
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This work exemplifies the analytical power ofcriticaldiscourseanalysis by illustrating how language is utilised as a tool for political ends.
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Not surprisingly, though, the authors focus their attention on the former rather than the latter, an all too common practice amongcriticaldiscoursescholars.
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So, if much of moderncriticaldiscoursesought to chart connections between writers, autobiography is noteworthy in that the emergence of these relationships is central to its discursive strategy.
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