批判性话语分析对教育研究的意义

The Contribution of Critical Discourse Analysis to Educational Research

围绕着语言与社会之间的双向建构,英国社会语言学家费尔克拉夫深入探讨了话语在何种程度上受制于具体的社会情境,又在何种程度上积极地推动社会变迁。在方法论上,由于批判性话语分析特别强调在情境中体会语义和语用,所以民族志与文本分析必须在研究过程中相互交织在一起。在意义诠释的基础上,批判性话语分析还具有一层"批判的维度"。研究者需借助社会学及教育学的相关理论去挖掘蕴含在文本之中的权力。从批判性话语分析的视角出发来研究教育问题,我们能够获得以往的社会研究模式无法提供的新视野。

Centering on the bi-directional construction of language and society, Fairclough, the sociolinguist of the UK, has deeply studied in which level the disourse has been restricted by specific social environment, and in which level the disourse has initiatively promoted social transformation. In methodology, since the critical discourse analysis （CDA） has especially emphasized on the understanding of semantics and pragmatics, therefore, ethnography and text analysis should be intertwined in the research process. On the basis of meaning interpretation, CDA has also had ＂critical dimension＂. The researchers should explore the power containing in the text with the help of relevance theories of sociology and pedagogy. Studying educational problems in the perspective of CDA, we can obtain a new field that the former social research mode could not provide.