Martin & Rose (2007: 315):
Pushing this a step further, we are suggesting that the main focus of CDA work has been on hegemony, on exposing power as it naturalises itself in discourse, and thus feeling in some sense part of the struggle against it. (We might characterise this as a trajectory of analysis flowing through Marx, Gramsci and Althusser.) Janks and Ivanic’s (1992) salutary work on emancipatory discourse strikes us as the exceptional in its orientation to texts that make the world a better place, confirming this trend. We are arguing that we need a complementary focus on community, taking into account how people get together and make room for themselves in the world in ways that redistribute power without necessarily struggling against it. (Gore’s (1993) discussion of Foucault in relation to notions of empowerment in critical and feminist pedagogy are relevant here, especially in relation to the de-demonisation of power.)
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[1] To be clear, academics writing papers for other like-minded academics is part of the struggle against power in the same way that two workmates talking in a pub about their unfair boss is part of a struggle against power.
[2] To be clear, texts alone do not make the world a better place. Texts can make people feel that the world is a better place, and/or encourage people to act to try and make the world a better place.
[3] To be clear, this is sociology, not linguistics.
[4] As Bertrand Russell observed in The History Of Western Philosophy, social power is power over each other.
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