CDA and Regional Geographic

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For this time i will explain you about branch discourse analysis. I choose branch discourse analysis consist of 2 critical discourse analisis and geographic so enjoy for read my blog

Critial discourse analisis

For the expert ,Ruth wodak she said for definition about critical discourse analisis is analyses what makes critical discourse analysis "critical", distinguishes criticalness from dogmatism, but expounds upon the relationship between critique and norms. Finally, she discusses how "integrative indisciplinarity" might help us with problems of disciplinary incommensurability.

"Critical" means not taking things for granted, opening up complexity, challenging reductionism, dogmatism and dichotomies, being self-reflective in my research, and through these processes, making opaque structures of power relations and ideologies manifest. "Critical", thus, does not imply the common sense meaning of "being negative"—rather "skeptical".                  

One of the most important developments in CDA is a new focus on identity politics ("transition and social change"), language policies, and on integrating macro social theories with linguistic analysis. Moreover, the analysis of new genres (visual, Internet, film, chat rooms, SMS, and so forth; "multimodality"). Basically, the following approaches/trends can be distinguished which I have summarised extensively in my chapter in SEALE, GIAMPETRO, GUBRIUM and SILVERMAN, 2004 (however, all typologies do not really fit; totally different classification would emerge

 So about the ruth wodak explanation i get the conclusion what is the critical discourse analisis, Critical discourse analisis is about the interdisciplinarity,methodologi,transition and social change to  make be better life and the process chalengging making opaque structures of power relations and ideologies manifest.

About Ruth WODAK

Ruth WODAK has held a personal chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University since September 2004. She moved from Vienna, Austria, where she had been full professor of Applied Linguistics since 1991. She has remained co-director of the Austrian National Focal Point (NFP) of the European Monitoring Centre for Racism, Xenophobia and Anti-Semitism.

In addition to various other prizes, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996, which made six years of continuous interdisciplinary team research possible. The main projects focussed on "Discourses on Un/employment in EU Organisations"; "Debates on NATO and Neutrality in Austria and Hungary"; "The Discursive Construction of European Identities"; "Attitudes towards EU-Enlargement; Racism at the Top"; "Parliamentary Debates on Immigration in six EU countries"; and "The Discursive Construction of the Past—Individual and Collective Memories of the German Wehrmacht and the Second World War". In October 2006 she was awarded the Woman's Prize of the City of Vienna.

Her research is mainly located in Discourse Studies and in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Together with her colleagues and Ph.D students in Vienna (Rudolf DE CILLIA, Gertraud BENKE, Helmut GRUBER, Florian MENZ, Martin REISIGL, Usama SULEIMAN, Christine ANTHONISSEN), she elaborated the "Discourse-Historical Approach in CDA" which is interdisciplinary, problem-oriented, and analyses changes in discursive practices over time and in various genres.  

Ruth's research agenda focuses on the development of theoretical approaches in discourse studies (combining ethnography, argumentation theory, rhetoric and functional systemic linguistics); gender studies; language and/in politics; prejudice and discrimination.

She is a member of the editorial board of a range of linguistic journals, co-editor of the journal Discourse and Society and editor of Critical Discourse Studies (together with Norman FAIRCLOUGH, Phil GRAHAM and Jay LEMKE) and of the Journal of Language and Politics (together with Paul CHILTON). Together with Greg MYERS, also at Lancaster University, she edits the book series DAPSAC (Benjamins). She was also section editor of "Language and Politics" for the Second Edition of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. She is chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel for the EURYI award, in the European Science Foundation.

Ruth WODAK has held visiting professorships in Uppsala, Stanford University, University of Minnesota and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. In the spring of 2004, she was awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Recently, she was awarded the Karen Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament and will be staying at University of Örebro, Sweden, from March to June 2008 (and possibly for another three months in 2009 and in 2010). Publications include:

·         Wodak, Ruth & Paul Chilton (Eds.) (2005). New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

·         Weiss, Gilbert & Wodak, Ruth (Eds.) (2003). CDA. Theory and Interdisciplinarity. London: Palgrave/MacMillan.

·         Reisigl, Martin & Wodak, Ruth (2001). Discourse and Discrimination. London: Routledge.

·         Van Dijk, Teun & Wodak, Ruth (Eds.) (2000). Racism at the Top. Klagenfurt: Drava

·         Wodak, Ruth (1997). Gender and Discourse. London: Sage.

·         Wodak, Ruth (1996). Disorders of Discourse. London: Longman

Regional Geographic

According by paul claval Geography is described as the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. Also, geography seeks to understand where things are found, why they are there, and how they develop and change over time. Whereas cartography is defined as the art and science of graphically representing a geographical area (on a map or chart) and it may involve the superimposition of political, cultural, or other non geographical divisions into the representation of a geographical area.

The two elements seem to be linked and complementary even if they can work alone, without taking the other in count. But because geographers deal with points or lines, they also need precise areal data in order to examine and describe how human culture interacts with the natural environment, and the way that locations and places can have an impact on people. That’s why cartography is useful to geographers because it gives them a vertical vision and a synthetic image of various data thanks to their map and all the informations they include.

So by i to understanding about regional geographic is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. Also, geography seeks to understand where things are found, why they are there, and how they develop and change over time. And then geographic process addapted society for the comunnicaton and relationship for the human

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 references

http://www.qualitative-research.net/inde.php/fqs/article/view/255/561

https://emurbanism.weblog.tudelft.nl/2014/09/16/regional-geography-past-and-present-by-paul-claval-reading/

https://www.scribd.com/document/211037824/Paul-Claval-Regional-Geography

https://www.corwin.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/24615_01_Wodak_Ch_01.pdf