This book collects ground-breaking scholarship and cutting-edge research which reflects significant shifts in Critical Discourse Studies, exploring the field from theoretical, analytic and methodological perspectives. It was originally published as three special issues of the journal Critical Discourse Studies.

Part I: Discourse, History and Memory 1. On the politics of remembering (or not) Ruth Wodak and John E. Richardson 2. Trauma, discourse and communicative limits Michael Pickering and Emily Keightley 3. Recontextualising fascist ideologies of the past: right-wing discourses on employment and nativism in Austria and the United Kingdom John E. Richardson and Ruth Wodak 4. The unbearable lightness of identity: membership, tradition and the Jewish anti-Semite in Gershom Scholem’s letter to Hannah Arendt David Kaposi 5. Constructing the past and constructing themselves: the Uruguayan military’s memory of the dictatorship Mariana Achugar 6. Dealing with a traumatic past: the victim hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and their reconciliation discourse Annelies Verdoolaege 7. ‘No reconciliation without redress’: articulating political demands in post-transitional South Africa Aletta J. Norval Part II: Class and Discourse 8. Renewing an academic interest in structural inequalities David Machin and John E. Richardson 9. The denial of class struggle by British Governments in their anti-union discourse (1978–2007) Claudia Ortu 10. Urbanisation: Discourse class gender in mid-Victorian photographs of maids – reading the archive of Arthur J. Munby Sarah Edge 11. (Mis)recognition and the middle-class/bourgeois gaze: A case study of Wife Swap Samantha A. Lyle 12. Doing class: A discursive and ethnomethodological approach C.M. Scharff 13. ‘Underclass’ and ‘ordinary people’ discourses: Representing/re-presenting council tenants in a housing campaign Paul Watt 14. A war on the poor: Constructing welfare and work in the twenty-first century Greg Marston Part III: Ethnography and Critical Discourse Analysis 15. Ethnography and critical discourse analysis: towards a problem-oriented research dialogue Michal Krzyzanowski 16. The sounds of silence in educational tracking: a longitudinal, ethnographic case study Rebecca Rogers 17. The patient’s world: discourse analysis and ethnography Dariusz Galasinski 18. Critical discourse analysis and the ethnography of language policy David Cassels Johnson 19. Political communication, institutional cultures and linearities of organisational practice: a discourse-ethnographic approach to institutional change in the European Union Michal Krzyzanowski 20. The role of internal guidelines in shaping news narratives: ethnographic insights into the discursive rhetoric of Middle East reporting by the BBC and Al-Jazeera English Leon Barkho