ABSTRACT
One of the major innovations in recent years within Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is its use of corpora. A key advantage of what is often referred to as 'corpus-based CDA' is that analysts can go beyond single texts and conveniently explore, in a quantitative manner, patterns of ideological meaning in a large number of texts. Another important advantage of corpus-based CDA is that it is the software which suggests what is significant in the texts for the analyst to examine – not the analyst. For Levinas, a dominant tendency in Western philosophy had been philosophical autonomy – philosophical orientation from Self. This chapter focuses on two giants of Western philosophy: Immanuel Kant and Martin Heidegger. Derrida's ethical outlook is fundamentally shaped by that of Levinas: Faced with a thinking like that of Levinas. He argues that ethics should be founded on the willingness to welcome the Other into one's home.
