DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN THE UZBEK CONTEXT: INSIGHTS FROM FAIRCLOUGH, KRESS, AND TAYLOR

Abstract

Discourse analysis has already become a central focus of research across linguistics, social sciences, media and education. The following article is synthesizing three strands, namely Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, Gunther Kress’s multimodal social-semiotic approach, and Simon Taylor’s broad overview of discourse analysis. Along with explicating core concepts, this paper discusses methodological implications in Uzbekistan, with recent Uzbek studies of educational and identity discourse. This article argues that merging CDA with power, ideology in multimodal analysis can provide a framework for examining contemporary communicative events in Uzbekistan’s multilingual context.