Verbatim · Method guide

Van Dijk's CDA codebook template

Critical discourse analysis (the ideological square)

Verbatim offers this as a guided flow: it names each step and maps it onto the real Verbatim tool that performs it, and reports — from your real artefacts only — which steps show evidence of completion. It is a procedural guide, never an automatic analysis: no theme is invented, nothing is auto-coded, and the reading and interpretation stay yours.

The discourse-structure indicators (a deductive starting codebook)

1. Denial / disclaimer
2. Implication / presupposition
3. Actor description
4. Polarisation
5. Level of description
6. Examples
7. Rhetoric
8. Reported speech

Reference: van Dijk, T. A. (2003), Ideology and discourse: A multidisciplinary introduction, Pompeu Fabra University — the ideological square (positive in-group self-presentation, negative out-group presentation) and its discourse-structure indicators (denial/disclaimer, implication/presupposition, actor description, polarisation, level of description, examples, rhetoric, reported speech), as tabulated by Sallan Gül & Kahya Nizam (2021), Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, p.193-194