PhD course: Critical Analysis of Political Discourse

Tutors: Prof. Norman Fairclough, University of Lancaster; Assoc. Prof. Lilie Chouliaraki, Copenhagen Business School Time: October 24th-26th,2006. Place: Department of Political Science, KU. Room to be confirmed. Limit: 25 students Course Language: English

Content
This three-day PhD course extends the critical discourse analysis tradition by addressing two relatively neglected questions. How can critical discourse analysis be applied by political analysts unfamiliar with linguistics? How can critical discourse analysis incorporate the study of images (still and moving) to contribute to the study of mediated political communication? The course is designed for Ph.D.-students primarily interested in political analysis but also address the interests of a broad spectrum of Ph.D. students, including sociologists, psychologists and media and cultural studies students. This PhD course on the analysis of political discourse draws on Norman Faircloughs and Lilie Chouliarakis most recent work on critical discourse analysis. On the one hand, Fairclough has been developing Critical Discourse Analysis to a direction that makes it easily accessible and usable to political scientists and, more generally, to social scientists. On the other hand, Chouliaraki has been developing Critical Discourse Analysis to a direction that incorporates visual and multi-modal meaning-making as constitutive of the mediation of political discourse. The Ph.D. course builds on these two newly developed directions by presenting a theoretical and an empirical component for each direction. On the first day, Fairclough and Chouliaraki will address theoretical and epistemological issues of the critical analysis of political discourse. Fairclough will discuss the epistemological premises of practice, discourse and text in the context of political analysis; Chouliaraki will discuss multi-modality as a way of studying mediated political discourse, particularly the strategies of justification and legitimation of political discourse in the news. On the second day, Fairclough will discuss textual analysis as a method of social scientific research and present a variety of political discourse materials; Chouliaraki will present the Analytics of Mediation, a framework for the analysis of mediated political discourse that shapes cosmopolitan sensibilities and political consciousness among media users. The third day will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to discuss discourse-related issues of their own work with Fairclough and Chouliaraki.

Schedule: Critical Analysis of Political Discourse

Monday, October 24th, 2005 09.30- 10.15 Fairclough: Analysing discourse as a moment of the social This lecture will sketch out a version of critical discourse analysis and show how it can be used as a resource in transdisciplinary social research and political analysis. 10.15-10.45 Discussion 10.45-11.15 Coffee Break 11.15-12.00 Choliaraki: Theory and Research in the study of mediated political communication This lecture outlines the theoretical premises and the research questions that dominate the study of political discourse in the media. 12.00-12.30 Discussion 12.30-13.30 Lunch break 13.30-16.00 Seminar work with the texts of Fairclough and Chouliaraki 19.00- Course dinnner. Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 09.30- 10.15 Fairclough: Textual analysis as a method in social research. This lecture will focus specifically on the linguistic study of texts as a method in social research and political analysis. 10.15-10.45 Discussion 10.45-11.15 Coffee Break 11.15-12.00 Chouliaraki: An Analytics of Mediation This lecture introduces a framework for the analysis of news broadcasts on human suffering and war with a view to show how (often implicit) political discourse remains a keycomponent of the news agenda. 12.00-12.30 Discussion 12.30-13.30 Lunch break 13.30-16.00 Seminar work with the texts of Fairclough and Chouliaraki

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 This day offers the PhD students two opportunities: 1. The PhD student sends a one-page description of his/her project, plus two concrete project-related questions, to the course organisers. 2. The Ph.D. Student sends his/her own paper (max 15 pages) in which Discourse Analysis is used or discussed; the paper will be opposed by other Ph.D. Students and commented by Fairclough or Chouliaraki. In this way, the session is dedicated to constructive discussion and commentary on the students written descriptions. The precise schedule of the final PhD course day depends on the number of project proposals submitted for discussion. 09.30 - 11.00 Discussion of students DA-related empirical work 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break 11.15-13.00 Discussion of students DA-related empirical work 13.00-14.00 Lunch 14.00-16.00 Discussion and end of PhD Course

Reading list
For both tutors 1999 L Chouliaraki & N Fairclough Discourse in Late Modernity Edinburgh University Press (a version of CDA similar to the one I shall sketch out here) For Norman Fairclough 2003 Analyzing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research Routledge 2002 (with Eve Chiapello) Understanding the new management ideology. A transdisciplinary contribution from Critical Discourse Analysis and New Sociology of Capitalism. Discourse & Society 13.2 (a collaboration with the co-author with Luc Boltanski of La Nouvelle Esprit du Capitalisme, a transdisciplinary dialogue between DA and new sociology of capitalism) 2002 (with Bob Jessop and Andrew Sayer) Critical realism and semiosis Journal of Critical Realism 5.1 (a theoretical paper which will be reflected to a degree in my version of CDA here) 2001The discourse of New Labour: critical discourse analysis, unit in M Wetherell et al (eds) Discourse as Data: A guide for Analysis, Sage and the Open University 229-266. Unit in moduleD843 Discourse Analysis, Open University Masters in Social Science Programme (written specifically as an introduction to CDA as a method)

2001 Critical discourse analysis as a method in social scientific research, in R Wodak & M Meyer (eds) Methods in Critical Discourse Analysis, Sage, 121-38 (also written specifically as an introduction to CDA as a method) 2001 The dialectics of discourse Textus XIV.2 , pages 231-242 (a short theoretical paper on the dialectics of discourse) 2000 Discourse, social theory and social research: the discourse of welfare reform, Journal of Sociolinguistics 4.2 (addresses aspects of CDA as a method in social research) For Lilie Chouliaraki Necessary readings: 2005 Media, Ethics and Globalisation chapter three, The Analytics of Mediation Sage, London 2004 September 11th. The Politics of Pity in Discourse and Society special issue on September 11th, Edwards J. & Martin J. (eds),Sage, London (also below in 2003a) 2000 Political Discourse in the News: Democratising Responsibility or Aestheticizing Politics? in Discourse & Society Vol.11 Nr.3 pp. 293-314, London Supplementary readings: 2005 Introduction in the Journal of Language and Politics special issue on The Soft Power of War, Lilie Chouliaraki (ed), Benjamins Publications, Amsterdam 2005 Media Discourse as Public Sphere in Howarth D. & Torfing J. (eds) Discourse Theory and European Policy Palgrave, London 2002 The Contingency of Universality. Thoughts on Discourse & Realism in Social Semiotics Vol.10 Nr 2 pp. 83-115 Sydney & London