These essays, written between 2004 and 2010, feature different aspects of Configural Discourse Analysis (CDA) |
introduction to configural discourse analysis
Discourse Analysis discusses the various components of CDA. This is not an essay on the "methodology" of CDA but a prototype of a discourse analysis that focuses comparatively on the narrative structures of various story tellings.
The Tortoise and the Hare examines the narrative structures of analogous tellings of the Aesop fable by comparing them to the oldest prototype of the tale.
WII Propaganda Films is a confirmation of Bassinger's argument that a genre, the Combat Film, was created during WWII to stir support for the war and that the genre continues well into the 1950s. The analysis shows a common narrative structure whose prototype is the film, Bataan.
Everything is Illuminated is a CDA of inter-cultural communication. It demonstrates the ways that the two main figures in the film are involved in narrative transpositions by adopting each other's discourse.
Isiah Thomas – Anucha Browne Sanders Sexual Harassment Trial is a detailed CDA of the news stories in five New York papers of one day in the trial. It studies how each reporter builds a different "text-world" (or story world) to represent the events of the trial.
Configural Discourse Analysis & Framing
CBS Promos of NCIS-LA is a study of the way CBS pomoted a new series, NCIS-LA, by making it appear to be a clone of its most popular series, NCIS.
Meet the Parents (Kevin Harvey) [not yet posted]
concerns of incoming college students
Concerns of Incoming College Students (Tom Moss) [not yet posted]
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