Discourse and Power

Author:   Teun A van Dijk
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9780230574083


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   20 August 2008
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Teun A van Dijk
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.543kg
ISBN:  

9780230574083


ISBN 10:   0230574084
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   20 August 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

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.

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'Discourse and Power is...a valuable and important collection' - Wu-Peng, Jiangsu University Discourse & Communication


'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 Sociolinguistics


Author Information

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.

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