Since its birth in Britain in the late 1970s, critical discourse analysis (CDA, for short) has attracted great attention of western linguists. At present, some scholars in our country have devoted themselves to the ...Since its birth in Britain in the late 1970s, critical discourse analysis (CDA, for short) has attracted great attention of western linguists. At present, some scholars in our country have devoted themselves to the study of CDA and the study results are rewarding. However, some insufficiencies do exist in the research, such as the over-simplification of theories, excessive attention paid to theories rather than practice and neglect of nurturing critical thinking etc. Therefore, the author proposes to associate CDA with cognitive linguistics and interpret the research methods and the practical values of CDA in a wholly new perspective in terms of the analysis of the cohesion of the cognitive schema, ideology and notions from the information receivers and senders.展开更多
文摘Since its birth in Britain in the late 1970s, critical discourse analysis (CDA, for short) has attracted great attention of western linguists. At present, some scholars in our country have devoted themselves to the study of CDA and the study results are rewarding. However, some insufficiencies do exist in the research, such as the over-simplification of theories, excessive attention paid to theories rather than practice and neglect of nurturing critical thinking etc. Therefore, the author proposes to associate CDA with cognitive linguistics and interpret the research methods and the practical values of CDA in a wholly new perspective in terms of the analysis of the cohesion of the cognitive schema, ideology and notions from the information receivers and senders.