Discourse Analysis

A qualitative method for examining language, narratives, rhetorical structures, and communicative practices in texts and talk to reveal how meanings, representations, identities, and power relations are produced, sustained, or contested in political contexts.

A family of qualitative and quantitative methods for examining how language use—at the level of sentences, turns, texts, and intertextual sequences—constructs meanings, social identities, institutions and power relations across contexts by analysing rhetorical strategies, coherence/cohesion, genre conventions, framing and interactional practices.