Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition

by Christopher Hart
Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027206341
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Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is an exciting research enterprise in which scholars are concerned with the discursive reproduction of power and inequality. However, researchers in CDS are increasingly recognising the need to investigate the cognitive dimensions of discourse and context if they want to fully account for any connection between language, legitimisation and social action. This book presents a collection of papers in CDS concerned with various ideological discourses. Analyses are firmly rooted in linguistics and cognition constitutes a major focus of attention. The chapters, which are written by prominent researchers in CDS, come from a broad range of theoretical perspectives spanning pragmatics, cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics. The book is essential reading for anyone working at the cutting edge of CDS and especially for those wishing to explore the central place that cognition must surely hold in the relationship between discourse and society.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies

by John Flowerdew
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies
Author: John Flowerdew
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 789
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317576497
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The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies provides a state-of-the-art overview of the important and rapidly developing field of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). Forty-one chapters from leading international scholars cover the central theories, concepts, contexts and applications of CDS and how they have developed, encompassing: approaches analytical methods interdisciplinarity social divisions and power domains and media. Including methodologies to assist those undertaking their own critical research of discourse, this Handbook is key reading for all those engaged in the study and research of Critical Discourse Analysis within English Language and Linguistics, Communication, Media Studies and related areas.

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

by Deborah Schiffrin
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Author: Deborah Schiffrin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 872
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0470751983
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The Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis. Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis. Offers an overview of how different disciplines approach the analysis of discourse. Provides analysis of a wide range of data, including political speeches, everyday conversation, and literary texts. Includes a varied range of theoretical models, such as relevance theory and systemic-functional linguistics; and methodology, including interpretive, statistical, and formal methodsFeatures comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis.

Discourse and Context

by Teun A. van Dijk
Discourse and Context
Author: Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-02-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521130301
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How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is a monograph which presents a multidisciplinary theory of context and the way context influences language use and discourse. Unlike in earlier approaches, contexts are not defined as objective social 'variables', such as gender or age. Rather, they are constructs of the participants themselves, that is, 'subjective definitions of the communicative situation' that are made explicit in the sociocognitive notion of context models. These models dynamically control all language use, make sure that discourses are appropriate in the communicative situation and hence are the basis of pragmatics. In this book, context models are studied especially from a (socio) linguistic and cognitive perspective. In another book published by Cambridge University Press, Society and Discourse, Teun A. van Dijk develops the social psychological, sociological and anthropological dimensions of the theory of context.

Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis

by Christopher Hart
Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443806625
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In contemporary linguistics, both cognitive and critical approaches to language have been elaborated in some detail. Unfortunately, the two perspectives have seldom converged, despite the potential theoretical advances such collaboration offers. The contributions to this volume explore the convergence of cognitive and critical trends in the guise of cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis. The volume addresses a range of socio-political discourses in various international contexts, including discourses on nation, education, immigration, and war. One single integrated model is not presented, but rather, a number of methodologies are developed and assessed across the chapters. The application of established cognitive linguistic theories, including conceptual metaphor theory, conceptual blending theory and frame semantics, are discussed, as well as developing theories, such as metaphor power theory and discourse space theory. The book is of value to anyone interested in the interaction between language, mind, and society, including both students and scholars of cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis.

Discourse and Power

by Teun A van Dijk
Discourse and Power
Author: Teun A van Dijk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137072997
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Teun van Dijk is one of the founders of Critical Discourse Studies and this collection brings together some of his most important writing, framed by new introductory material. He examines the role of discourse in the reproduction of power and domination in society and the ways in which media and political elites control access to public discourse.

Methods of Critical Discourse Studies

by Ruth Wodak
Methods of Critical Discourse Studies
Author: Ruth Wodak
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473934257
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This is a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach, readers gain a rich understanding of the many angles into critical discourse analysis, the fundamentals of how analysis works and examples from written texts, online data and images. This new edition: expands coverage of multimodality adds two new chapters on social media and analysis of online data supports learning with a guided introduction to each chapter includes a new and extended glossary Clearly written, practical and rigorous in its approach, this book is the ideal companion when embarking on research that focuses on discourse and meaning-making.

Cognitive Discourse Analysis

by Thora Tenbrink
Cognitive Discourse Analysis
Author: Thora Tenbrink
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2020-02-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108529925
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Analysing language data systematically and looking closely at how people formulate their thoughts can reveal astonishing insights about the human mind. Without presupposing specific subject knowledge, this book gently introduces its readers to theoretical insights as well as practical principles for systematic linguistic analysis from a cognitive perspective. Drawing on Thora Tenbrink's twenty years' experience in both linguistics and cognitive science, this book offers theoretical guidance and practical advice for doing cognitive discourse analysis. It covers areas of analysis as diverse as attention, perspective, granularity, certainty, inference, transformation, communication, and cognitive strategies, using inspiring examples from many different projects. Simple techniques and tools are used to allow readers new to the subject easy ways to apply the methods, without the need for complex technologies, whilst the cross-disciplinary approach can be applied to a diverse range of research purposes and contexts in which language and thought play a role.

Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse

by Hart Christopher Hart
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse
Author: Hart Christopher Hart
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1474450016
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Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary and political genres. The book presents new insights into the workings of textual phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis and also sheds light on more elusive, epiphenomenal qualities such as a text's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness. It also takes new strides in cognitive text analysis by exploiting experimental and ethnographic methods to empirically investigate readers' reception of, and resistance to, texts.