Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- 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
- cognitive psychology
- New Labour
- discourse analysis
- corpus linguistics
- British Politics
About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language and the Complex of Ideology
Book Subtitle: A Socio-Cognitive Study of Warfare Discourse in Britain
Authors: Mohamed Douifi
Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76547-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76546-4Published: 10 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09519-2Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76547-1Published: 26 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-5990
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Media and Communication, British Politics, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology