ABSTRACT
Discourse Studies are concerned with the study of the interaction of text and context, and Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) are concerned with a critical approach to such analysis. A particular type of contextual relation that has received a lot of attention in CDS is that of intertextuality the process whereby textual features of one text reappear in another. Conversation Analysis (CA) views context as constructed moment by moment through conversational moves. As far as it might be applied in CDS, CA allows critical discourse analysts to do fine-grained analysis of naturally occurring data in real-life contexts. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is an approach to grammar and discourse that has a three-dimensional model of context: field of discourse, tenor of discourse and mode of discourse. SFL enables critical discourse analysts to identify form-function links and thereby to relate language form to context.
