The Literature Review of Domestic Researches on Critical Discourse Analysis in Recent Ten Years

【Abstract】This thesis reviews the domestic researches on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) in the recent ten years to show the domestic research status. Through analyzing 38 academic papers on CDA published in CSSCI source journals from 2009 to June 2019, the thesis focuses on three categories of research contents: the theoretical review, theoretical extension and text analysis. The thesis shows that the development of the domestic research status presents an interdisciplinary trend and the research methods become more diversified.

【Key words】CDA; literature review; domestic researches

【作者簡介】刘康桥，北京林业大学外国语言文学专业研究生。

1. Introduction

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a branch of discourse analysis which examines the relationship between linguistic patterns of a text or talk and its relevant social structure and ideologies. The term CDA was first proposed in Faircloughs Language and Power in 1989. Fairclough (1995) defines CDA as “an social practice” and Van Dijk (1998) holds the view that CDA is a typical analytical tool that mainly studies social power abuse, inequality in text and talk in the social and political context. Since the 1990s, domestic linguists have started the researches on critical linguistics. This thesis is going to make a literature review of 38 academic papers of CDA collected from CNKI net which are published on the core journals from 2009 to June 2019. From this literature review, there will be a more comprehensive, and clearer understanding of the current research status in the field of CDA.

2. The Domestic Research Status in the Recent Ten Years

As for the papers about theoretical review, they are trying to introduce and review the CDA study home and abroad from different perspectives. Wei Xinxin (2010) summarized the literary criticism basis and Wu Jianguo (2015) pointed out that theories of CDA absorbed the achievements of social science and philosophical theory. Liu Lihua (2016) introduced the newly development of theories from the perspective of the media critical consciousness. As for the papers about theoretical extension, the most significant development is to absorb the achievements of cognitive linguistics and corpus linguistics. Hu Yunfei (2009) discussed the disciplinary orientation of CDA study from the cognitive perspective in detail. Tian Hailong (2013) discussed two approaches, the cognitive discourse analysis and cognitive context analysis, to study CDA. Qian Yufang (2010) introduced the research method to adapt corpus linguistics to CDA study. Ma Xiaoli (2016) demonstrated how to research on CDA based on the corpus linguistics. CDA gradually influence the study of education as well. There are 9 papers researching on CDA by analyzing news discourses. He Yongcheng (2009) analyzed the image of China conducted in western mass media. Yang Na and Wu Peng (2012) discussed a report on Chinese women from New York Times. Fang Gege (2018) compared the propagation effect of the Belt and Road Initiative home and abroad by adapting theories of CDA through analyzing specific news discourses.

3. Conclusion

Through reviewing and concluding the research contents of 38 papers concluded linguistic, social, educational and general categories, the thesis finds the domestic CDA study has realized the significant development from the theoretical review, theoretical extension and text analysis. In general, the domestic CDA study is gradually merging with the researches abroad and presents the trend of the diversification of research methods, the expansion of research contents, and the localization of research issues.

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