Figure (1) Fairclough’s three diamenttional analytical frame work (Adopted from Norman Fairclough’s (1995) “Discourse and Social Change” book)
1) Text: The first level of discourse analysis is based on written or spoken text (Fairclough 1995). In this level the researcher identify actually about what the text represent. In this stage the analysis is descriptive, in many ways, the text is described as a form of linguistic analysis, in which usually searching for vocabularies (metaphore, lexical choice), grammar (transitivity, passive and active voice), structure etc… (Fairclough 2003). In this assignment spoken text is describing using lexical choice, structure exchange and topic control in the textual level.
2) Discourse practice: The second …show more content…
Based on this assignment in this session the power relationship between therapist and the patient will be explained.
Criticism related to Fairclough’s CDA
Some criticisms are existing regarding the three diamenttional framework introduced by Fairclough (Lawson 2008). In which one of the main arguments is the considerable overlap among those three dimensions, that means any analysis level of text involve some discourse and vice-versa (Lawson 2008). Therefore, Fairclough agreed the designation of analytical topics as one or the other in his approach is rather vague (Faircough 1992).
Widdowson’s (1995) argues about the difficulties that made by the vast number of textual features associated with the three diamenttional framework, this may be difficult to get some sense to those who are not members of the discourse society or who had no previous experience with discourse analysis . Moreover, Widdowson (1995) argues that Fairclaiugh failure to explain the clearly about confusing terminologies. For instance, the difference cohesion and text structure. Widdowson, (2004) also believe that Fairclough’s approach is not actually a method of analysis but an approach to …show more content…
Textual Level
Vocabulary usages in medical communication:
The use of different vocabularies in medical interviews or medical communication can be explained in terms of lexical occurrence (Adegbite and Odebunmi 2006). Lexical choice can be considered as the reflection of culture. Therefore, it is important to examine the classification in language to bring out different ideologies embedded between the lines (Weiwei and Weihua 2015). The lexical selection related to the selected extract are explained by using plane word, technical word, affirmity and negatives.
Plane words: These kind of words usually used in everyday speech but in the above conversation these word are used to explain the disease condition and complaints of patient.
Technical word: These word are specific words that use in medical field
Dexis: Person deixis exists in the interaction in form of personal pronouns. In the above extract I,you is used in many
1) Text: The first level of discourse analysis is based on written or spoken text (Fairclough 1995). In this level the researcher identify actually about what the text represent. In this stage the analysis is descriptive, in many ways, the text is described as a form of linguistic analysis, in which usually searching for vocabularies (metaphore, lexical choice), grammar (transitivity, passive and active voice), structure etc… (Fairclough 2003). In this assignment spoken text is describing using lexical choice, structure exchange and topic control in the textual level.
2) Discourse practice: The second …show more content…
Based on this assignment in this session the power relationship between therapist and the patient will be explained.
Criticism related to Fairclough’s CDA
Some criticisms are existing regarding the three diamenttional framework introduced by Fairclough (Lawson 2008). In which one of the main arguments is the considerable overlap among those three dimensions, that means any analysis level of text involve some discourse and vice-versa (Lawson 2008). Therefore, Fairclough agreed the designation of analytical topics as one or the other in his approach is rather vague (Faircough 1992).
Widdowson’s (1995) argues about the difficulties that made by the vast number of textual features associated with the three diamenttional framework, this may be difficult to get some sense to those who are not members of the discourse society or who had no previous experience with discourse analysis . Moreover, Widdowson (1995) argues that Fairclaiugh failure to explain the clearly about confusing terminologies. For instance, the difference cohesion and text structure. Widdowson, (2004) also believe that Fairclough’s approach is not actually a method of analysis but an approach to …show more content…
Textual Level
Vocabulary usages in medical communication:
The use of different vocabularies in medical interviews or medical communication can be explained in terms of lexical occurrence (Adegbite and Odebunmi 2006). Lexical choice can be considered as the reflection of culture. Therefore, it is important to examine the classification in language to bring out different ideologies embedded between the lines (Weiwei and Weihua 2015). The lexical selection related to the selected extract are explained by using plane word, technical word, affirmity and negatives.
Plane words: These kind of words usually used in everyday speech but in the above conversation these word are used to explain the disease condition and complaints of patient.
Technical word: These word are specific words that use in medical field
Dexis: Person deixis exists in the interaction in form of personal pronouns. In the above extract I,you is used in many