抄録
Practitioners of critical discourse analysis uncover ideological assumptions and patterns of domination in text. Although various methods are employed, there is a tendency of practitioners to oversimplify the interpretation of their findings. In this paper we suggest that the findings be assessed in terms of their ethical implications and progress toward social renewal. Examples of this assessment are taken from a large on-going study of the texts produced in the aftermath of the Tokai Village nuclear accident in 1999. These examples are drawn from corpus data, ethnographic data, and interpretive analyses of the researchers.
