Language and the Complex of Ideology
A Socio-Cognitive Study of Warfare Discourse in Britain
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Beschreibung
This book undertakes a systematic analysis of the workings of ideology in discourse, using an interdisciplinary approach that links language, cognition and society. Through examination of two corpora - a collection of British newspaper articles and a set of political speeches - the author examines Britain's involvement in the Iraq War (2003), and critically assesses the language practices which constructed a pro-war ideology under Tony Blair's premiership. Drawing on a constellation of concepts from van Dijk's socio-cognitive model, this book carries out both qualitative and quantitative analyses and conceptualises discourse as a nonlinear, highly discursive and socio-cognitive phenomenon. This innovative work will appeal to students and scholars of Cognitive Linguistics, Quantitative Linguistics, Social Constructivism, Critical Discourse Analysis, Political Sciences and Communication Studies.
This book undertakes a systematic analysis of the workings of ideology in discourse, using an interdisciplinary approach that links language, cognition and society. Through examination of two corpora - a collection of British newspaper articles and a set of political speeches - the author examines Britain's involvement in the Iraq War (2003), and critically assesses the language practices which constructed a pro-war ideology under Tony Blair's premiership. Drawing on a constellation of concepts from van Dijk's socio-cognitive model, this book carries out both qualitative and quantitative analyses and conceptualises discourse as a nonlinear, highly discursive and socio-cognitive phenomenon. This innovative work will appeal to students and scholars of Cognitive Linguistics, Quantitative Linguistics, Social Constructivism, Critical Discourse Analysis, Political Sciences and Communication Studies.
Applies a multifaceted methodology to examine how ideology is embedded in the micro and macro structures of language Provides a theoretically-grounded and empirically illustrated critique of the scope and limitations of Critical Discourse Studies Conducts an exhaustive quantitative analysis of the lexico-semantic components of a large corpus of news articles and political speeches
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Mohamed Douifi
Themen in »Language and the Complex of Ideology«
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) ideology Political discourse media discourse Tony Blair Iraq war newspapers language, cognition and society social cognition Cognitive Linguistics Teun A. van Dijk micro and macro structures Social Constructivism Quantitative Linguistics