Approach
Following my supervisor’s advice, I began collecting media reports, documentary comments, and online discussions about rural girls’ education in China. I realized these texts do more than describe—they shape ideology. As someone deeply interested in textual interpretation, I chose Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as my methodology. CDA allows me to uncover how media, policy, and public voices construct the image of the “rural girl to be rescued.” I plan to analyze selected media texts, comment threads, and promotional narratives to explore how language reflects and reinforces educational inequality.
The CDA model proposed by Fairclough (Citation2003) has three dimensions for discourse analysis: text, discursive practice and social practice.
FCDA(may be useful): FCDA is a specific application of critical discourse analysis (CDA), which combines feminist theory with the framework of critical discourse analysis to reveal and challenge gender inequality, gender prejudice and power relations embodied in discourse.
