Discourse and Power
Published on 20. August 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-230-57409-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'Discourse and Power is...a valuable and important collection' - Wu-Peng, Jiangsu University Discourse& Communication 'This book is very useful in bringing together van Dijk's earlier, well-known work in CDS, and in continuing to promote the interdisciplinary approach to analyzing data.' - Journal of SociolinguisticsMore details
Edition
2008
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-57409-0 (9780230574090)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-07299-3
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Person
TEUN VAN DIJK is Professor of Critical Discourse Analysis at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He holds two honorary doctorates and has lectured widely in many countries, especially in Latin America. He is the editor of The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (4 vols, 1985) the introductory book Discourse Studies (2 vols., 1997) as well as the reader The Study of Discourse (5 vols., 2007). He has founded 6 international journals, Poetics, Text (now Text& Talk), Discourse& Society, Discourse Studies, Discourse& Communication and the internet journal in Spanish Discurso& Sociedad (www.dissoc.org), of which he still edits the latter four.
Content
Preface.- Introduction: Discourse and Domination.- Structures of Discourse And Structures of Power.- Discourse, Power and Access.- Critical Discourse Analysis.- Discourse and Racism.- Discourse and the Denial Of Racism.- Political Discourse and Political Cognition.- War Rhetoric of a Little Ally. Political implicatures of Aznar's Legitimization of the War in Iraq.- Discourse and Manipulation.- Contextualization in Parliamentary Discourse. Aznar, Iraq and the pragmatics of lying.- Bibliography.- Indexes.