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This chapter sheds light on contemporary developments in Critical Discourse Studies, which has progressively established itself as an autonomous branch of critique, albeit arguably its final bounds have not been adequately circumscribed so far. In essence, “proper” linguistics and its sub-disciplines constitute the stepping stone and major source of theorization in this expanding area of research, which is still, however, in contiguity with social theory and even those disciplines that are not necessarily language oriented. It is fairly noted that vital insights, particularly from psychology and sociology, have left a paramount impact on our understating of the other non-linguistic aspects of human language, interaction and communication. Through a long phase of metamorphosis, the general theory of discourse has evolved and generated a relatively large body of literature, especially over the last two decades.
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Without reducing SLF to a mere speculative theory in linguistics, the critique mentioned a number of drawbacks in the ways in which the theory dealt with language and language use. A detailed critique on Hallidy’s SFL is explained in van Dijk (2008), “Context and Language”, pp. 28–55.
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The disciplines which are primarily concerned with the cognitive phenomenon are heavily cited. Particular insights are taken from contemporary research findings in social neuroscience, social psychology, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, ethnography and anthropology.
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Douifi, M. (2018). Contemporary Orientations in Discourse Studies. In: Language and the Complex of Ideology. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76547-1_3
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