Abstract
The book deals with the discourse analysis conceived as a generally valid methodology and focuses on some of its approaches suitable for linguistic analysis of texts. It explains what discourse has meant since Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge till today (the ways discourse is defined by modern scholarly disciplines).
In short excurses it deals with discourse and discourse analysis in sociology, philosophy, literary theory and education and it namely points out linguistic aspects of discourse analysis and its possibilities to describe discourse through analysis of text. The book lists the most influential names of discourse analysis and their methods.
Our particular analysis has been inspired both by individual methods and by Fairclough's book Analysing discourse (2003). The analytical part is divided into two sections.
The first section brings examples that demonstrate by which social conditions current media discourse is formed, the second section with individual phenomena with regard to discourse analysis, for example with quotes in media text. It points out how different discourse strategies of individual media can influence the form of quotations.
We also show how categorically bound predicates can be produced by context or how the meaning of a word can be influenced by the meaning of another word. The book also takes account of texts presented by other media.