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Summary

This book is divided into two parts, Argumentation in Critical Discourse
Analysis and Questions and Doubts about Visual Argumantation, each part
containing two chapters.

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In the first chapter, Topoi in Critical Discourse Analysis, I am concerned with
how topoi are used (and misused) in the Discourse-Historical Approach.

The Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA), pioneered by Ruth Wodak
(see Wodak, de Cillia, Reisigl, Liebhart 1999; Wodak, van Dijk 2000;
Wodak, Chilton 2005; Wodak, Meyer 2006; Wodak 2009), is one of the ma-
jor branches of critical discourse analysis (CDA). In its own (programmat-
ic) view, it embraces at least three interconnected aspects:

(1) ‘Text or discourse immanent critique’ aims at discovering inter-
nal or discourse-internal structures.

(2) The ‘socio-diagnostic critique’ is concerned with the demystify-
ing exposure of the possibly persuasive or ‘manipulative’ charac-
ter of discursive practices.

(3) Prognostic critique contributes to the transformation and im-
provement of communication. (Wodak 2006: 65)

CDA, in Wodak’s view,

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