Advanced Training Course: Discourse-Historical Approach to Critical Discourse Studies
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A Three-Day Advanced Training Course:
Discourse-Historical Approach to Critical Discourse Studies
TLU Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Lifecourse Studies
November 16th-18th, 2022
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) – and its central, Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) – as the key critical, qualitative approaches to analysing dynamics of discourse within and beyond contemporary public spheres. The course highlights how analytically deploying CDS in general and the DHA in particular can help critically and systematically deconstruct discursive dynamics and recontextualization of discursive strategies in traditional and online (including social) media and across other modes of political, policy and institutional communication thus helping assess the wider role of discourse in building and engineering wider social dynamics.
The course starts with a general introduction to Critical Discourse Studies and its (inter)disciplinary origins, before discussing the key concepts and approaches in CDS as well as considering the latter more widely, including from a perspective of qualitative analysis and qualitative research design. The above focus then continues further with the detailed discussion of the CDS’ Discourse-Historical Approach when the key DHA-specific levels and categories of analysis are introduced along with various types of analysis focussed on, inter alia, recontextualization of discourses across spatial and temporal scales.
The course subsequently moves its focus to discussing application of CDS/DHA across various contexts as well as by showcasing different pathways of context-specific and comparative analysis. At first, the course focuses on the notion of ‘discursive shifts’ and shows how their analysis connected to the exploration of a wider set of discursive strategies can help in, e.g., examination of contemporary (right-wing) populism and far-right nativism and their pervasiveness as well as impact on normalisation of wider politics of othering and exclusion. On the other hand, a DHA-based analysis of discourses and concepts – within the so-called Discourse-Conceptual Analysis (or DCA) – is also showcased while using the examples from, inter alia, media discourse or policy analysis and while exploring new dynamics of discourse defined by neoliberal as well as anti- and post-democratic conditioning. Last but not least, the course also highlights the so-called Discourse-Ethnographic Analysis – or DEA – which provides a combination of CDS/DHA and critical-ethnographic analysis in order to explore dynamics of discourse and communication in a strongly context-based on-site analysis of organisational and political-institutional spaces.
The training course is organized by the Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Life Course Studies (IET) and it is funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund (ASTRA project "TLU TEE Tallinn University as a promoter of intelligent lifestyle").
About the Instructor
Prof. Michał Krzyżanowski holds the Chair in Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden, where he is currently Deputy Head at the School/Department of Informatics and Media as well as Director of Research at the Uppsala University’s Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR). He is one of the leading international scholars working on critical discourse studies of politics of exclusion with special focus on European far right and other challenges to democracy in the context of global rise of right-wing populism and neoliberalism. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the international Journal of Language and Politics and a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies book series as well as sitting on a number of boards in various journals in critical discourse studies and wider qualitative social research. He is also widely known for his teaching of qualitative methods and critical discourse studies to students across social and political sciences and humanities across Europe, USA, China and Australia. He is also a recurrent convenor of widely attended classes in Critical Discourse Studies organised Methods Schools of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). More information:
