REALISMO CRÍTICO E ANÁLISE CRÍTICA DO DISCURSO: MODELO ANALÍTICO EXPLANATÓRIO

• Main Author: Solange M. Barros
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Goiás 2017-12-01
• Series: Linguagem: Estudos e Pesquisas
• Subjects: Critical realism; Critical discourse analysis; Social realist ontology
• Online Access: https://www.revistas.ufg.br/lep/article/view/54477/26060

In this article, I present a theoretical essay on critical realism and critical discourse analysis. I try to show the approximations and implications between these two approaches. The work is divided into four sections. In the first, I discuss Bhaskar's philosophy of critical realism. In the second, I present Fairclpugh’s approach to critical discourse analysis. In the third section, I show some implications of critical realism for discourse studies. I argue, in the light of Fairclough, Jessop and Sayer's thought, that discourse can not be reduced only to the play of signs without identifying and exploiting the extra-semiotic conditions that make it possible and guarantee its effectiveness. In the fourth and last section, I discuss the analytical model based on Bhaskar's ‘explanatory criticism’.