ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on a paper by Rebecca Rogers and Mosley Wetzel, as it is specifically oriented towards positive discourse analysis (PDA). He discusses the origins of the term PDA, provides an outline of work that self-identifies as such, including a brief overview of his own case study in Guyana, and suggests some underlying principles in considering how the term might operate as a point of reference within critical discourse in general. The author considers additional features of the "P" in PDA that arise from specific research orientations. Social activism is the focus of research by S. Humphreys who uses a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) based approach "to account for intertextual resources deployed by one adolescent activist across multiple texts in a complex network of social affiliations". The SFL-based approach shows "how particular patterns of manifest intertextuality enable the young activist to build solidarity with his fellow young affiliates and to mobilise social action".
