Journal 6 (second module)

Conducting a CDA seems to be a very long process that have many components to take into account. In today's session, I just got explanations and examples of the first dimension of CDA presented by Fairclough, which is the description, that concerns to analyze the linguistic parts of the text. How this analysis on a word level can be interpreted and tell us too much about not just what but how are things said. This first layer have three parts, which are vocabulary, grammar, and textual structures; and within them there many questions that we as researcher have to focus on in order to have a clear undertanding of the text. Those essentially focus on experiential, relational, and expressive values of the words. These values involve the knowledge and beliefs, social relationship, and social identities withing the words. Some of them can be explicit and others can be implicit. The important issue is that we as consumers of the text could analyze these values in order to unveil the real meaning of the text and how relations of power can be seen within it. 

Glossary:

Euphemism: a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

Classification schemes: They means "categories".

Agent: It is the participant of the sentence who complete an action. Also called the subject of a sentence.

Patient: It is the participant of the sentence who the actions in made on. Also called the object of a sentence.

Event: It is presented when in a sentence there is not an animate agent. 

Non-directed action: It is presented when in a sentence there is an animate agent. 

Possessive attribute: It concerns with belongings but only when the verb "to have" is used.

Non-possessive attribute: It concerns with belongings using all verbs except "to have".