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As I'm sure most reading this will agree, this article needs major re-editing. I realise that nobody has to wait for consensus, but does anybody know of any academic (sub-)discipline articles that may provide a useful template for this one? It would make sense to cover CDAs history, some of its methods (certain methods are more associated with CDA than others - I've never seen a social network diagram in a CDA analysis for example, but have certainly seen terminology from systemic-functional grammar), the sorts of "texts" that are studied (e.g. topics such as gender, the media, and racism reoccur), etc. Not sure where wikipedia stands on how much depth to go into criticisms, but it would make sense to have a section for these given that a number of articles that have criticised CDA are listed in the further reading section. Many of these criticisms have been answered by more recent research (e.g. through developing a cognitive approach, or by using methods derived from corpus linguistics). All of these issues are worth including in an article such as this but given the variability between disciplinary articles, I'm not sure what best practice is in this case. Any thoughts? <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/176.249.118.164|176.249.118.164]] ([[User talk:176.249.118.164|talk]]) 22:00, 2 December 2012 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
== Laclau ==
It seemed rather odd for Ernesto Laclau to be included in the list of notable CDA theorists/practitioners. His discourse theory is distinctly different from that of, for example, Fairclough (who's approach rests on Roy Bhaskar's critical realist ontology, something I believe Laclau explicitly rejects). Unlike the other academics in the list, I don't believe that Laclau has ever affiliated himself with the 'CDA' school of thought, and I suspect he would find the whole CDA programme problematic. I have removed his name from the list, but if someone can provide some clear evidence from his writings that he is indeed a CDA practitioner, please do include him again.
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