Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture #43

by Christopher Hart (Editor)

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.

240 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2011

About the author

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Christopher Hart is Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University where he teaches courses in cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis. His research investigates the link between language, cognition and action in social and political contexts of communication. He is author of “Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Science: New Perspectives on Immigration Discourse (Palgrave, 2010) and “Discourse, Grammar and Ideology: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2014).