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Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
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Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis

Article outline
  • 1.Definitions
  • 2.Historical note
  • 3.Principles of CL
  • 4.Trends
  • 4.1Social Semiotics
  • 4.2‘Orders of discourse’ and Foucauldian poststructuralism
  • 4.3The socio-cognitive model
  • 4.4Discourse-Historical approach
  • 4.5Lexicometry
  • 4.6“Lesarten” approach
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 3 October 2022
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