Fairclough (1993) defines CDA as discourse analysis which aims to explore often opaque relationships of causality and determination between discursive practices, events and texts, and wider social and cultural structures, relations and processes; to investigate how such practices, events and texts arise out of and are ideologically shaped by relations of power and struggles over power.
Foucault suggests the following questions for CDA of the text Who is doing what to whom? Whose interests the text is serving? How is the reader/listener/viewer positioned? Who or what is included or excluded? What power relationships are in play? What ideology is at work?
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