ENGLISH TEXTUAL GRAFFITI IN THE LIGHT OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
The present paper views pieces of graffiti as a specific type of discourse and tries to apply the critical discourse analysis to its textual and pictorial forms. The paper groups graffiti into four discourse types - argumentation, narration, description and exposition. It analyzes and models the ways graffiti texts unfold and cooperate with the accompanying pictorial resources as well as discursively interact with the audience. The critical discourse analysis model in the paper is based on van Dijk’s socio-cognitive, Wodak’s historical and Fair-clough’s discourse as a social practice approach.