· 2017· Book chapter
The Discourse-Historical Approach
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Short summary
The Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) is a method for analyzing discourse, integrating sociolinguistics, pragmatics, text linguistics, Critical Theory, history, argumentation theory, and politolinguistics.
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Key points
- The DHA integrates multiple linguistic and theoretical fields, including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, Critical Theory, and history.
- It offers a specific research practice with outlined heuristic steps for discourse analysis.
- The approach is compared to other discourse-analytical methods, including Critical Discourse Studies.
- The DHA requires further theoretical and methodological development, especially concerning the historical dimension of discourse and its link to discrimination.
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Abstract
This chapter introduces the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA). It explains basic characteristics and research interests and sketches the influences of sociolinguistics, pragmatics and text linguistics on the one hand, and of Critical Theory, history, argumentation theory and politolinguistics on the other hand. The chapter covers central features and claims of the DHA and compares them with other discourse-analytical approaches, including approaches to Critical Discourse Studies. It outlines heuristic steps of a research practice designed for this specific approach. Changing discourses on migration and asylum discourses on changing national and supranational identities, discourses on climate change, discourses on new media. In order to do justice to its empirical objects, the DHA will have to look at new relationships between discourse and discrimination, and it will have to advance its theoretical and methodological development, also with respect to the question of what it means to analyse the historical dimension of discourses.
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