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Areas of improvement:
-Practical applications. How do you do critical discourse analysis, how can it be used and in what fields -Background on the history and founders of critical discourse analysis. What each person actually contributed to the field of critical discourse analysis.

Sources for wiki page:

Critical Discourse Analysis

The Craft of Research -Booth

I used this book in my SIS 206 class to understand research methods including critical discourse analysis. I think it offers a lot of insight into the practicalities of applying critical discourse analysis.

Critical Discourse Analysis and the Study of Reading and Writing

I think this also gives practical tips on applying critical discourse analysis but with a focus on reading and writing instead of more generally as the first source.

A Review on Critical Discourse Analysis

This adds to the second point of improvement for the article. It offers a more detailed history of discourse analysis along with background on the founders of critical discourse analysis and what they added to the field.

Roger Fowler and Gunther Kress
Roger Fowler and Gunther Kress first coined the term "Critical Linguistics" in their book "Language and Control." In this book, Fowler focused mainly on the theoretical and methodological aspects of critical linguistics, while Kress wrote on the application of Critical Discourse Analysis in popular discourse. This helped to popularize Critical Discourse Analysis as a tool in linguistics.

Methodology
Fairclough discussed the term Critical Discourse Analysis in his book Language and Power. Fairclough introduced the concepts that are now viewed as vital in Critical Discourse Analysis such as "discourse, power, ideology, social practice and common sense." He argues that language should be analyzed as a social practice through the lense of discourse in both speaking and writing.

Teun A. van Dijk's approach to Critical Discourse Analysis combines cognitive theories with linguistic and social theories. Van Dijk uses cognition as the middle layer of a three-layer approach consisting of discourse, cognitive and society. By intergrating a cognitive approach, researchers are better able to understand how larger social phenomenon are reinforced through popular, everyday discourse. Critics of this practice point out that his approach focuses on the reproduction of ideologies rather than the transformation.

Ruth Wodak's has developed a framework based on the systemic collection of sample texts on a topic to better understand the the interrelationship of discourses that exist within the field. This framework allows for the disucssion and analysis of ideaologies involved in a set of discourses. The macro level of analysis is helpful in understanding how macrostructures of inequality persist through discursive processes across multiple sites and texts.

Good work on evaluating the article -- have you found anymore sources beside the Booth book? -- Shannon

Fairclough and van Dijk are both important names currently mentioned in the article, but if you can flesh them out more, that would be a great contribution. djg (talk) 04:01, 22 February 2019 (UTC)