Chapter 15Critical discourse analysis
Background
We take discourse to mean, in general, a system of social relations (Howarth, 1998, p. 275). This system is based on power distribution in which all social actors are involved, regardless of which social group or structure they represent. Power distribution determines the nature of the interaction of social actors; this interaction is political (in the most general sense of the word) because it leads to ‘the construction of antagonisms and the drawing of political frontiers between insiders
and outsiders
’ (Howarth, 2000, p. 9). In short, discourse articulates all stages of the struggle for power; this articulation is done by ...
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