Some of the snags of interdisciplinarity: from life forms into form of life studies

mattos-parreira, merja

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mattos-parreira, merja

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In this paper I look at some central problems, which have been puzzling me in my PhD research, when applying an interdisciplinary approach to data. My thesis is about the reader’s identity construction in the English-language newspapers in Portugal, about the expatriates’ textual positions in these newspapers. The theoretical framework I refer to is part of the wider and heterogeneous field of critical language analysis – a combination of linguistic and social analysis. This differs from many other forms of linguistic analysis because it studies language as a social practice that mediates reality.