Discurso y Poder

by Teun A. van Dijk

Teun Van Dijk is one of the most influential and significant scholars Critical Discourse analysis. This collection brings together his most important writing, with a substantial introduction, positioning the essays for the undergraduate market within the context of his own work and within broader developments in CDA. Teun Van Dijk's work is already widely studied at undergraduate level, and this new collection will make his work more accessible and easily available to the undergraduate student. It will also include suggestions for further study.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction

417 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2008

About the author

Teun Adrianus van Dijk, is a scholar in the fields of text linguistics, discourse analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. With Walter Kintsch he contributed to the development of the psychology of text processing.

Reviews

[Ade Bailey]

Clear and accessible. Throughout, I was thinking of the interplay between academic discourse (as power) and its treatment of discourse and power.

I think that for people unfamiliar with critical discourse analysis this book provides as good introduction which will achieve a 'leap' in the way texts are received.

[Juan Hernández]

Interesante y exhaustivo análisis de las diversas formas en que el poder utiliza el discurso para afianzar y legitimar sus fines.

Incluye varios análisis de casos concretos, aunque breves.

[Andrea Michelena]

soy fan de van Dijk

[Florencia]

Libro bastante escabroso, demasiado académico por momentos (y por lo mismo algo árido), pero interesante para hacer una lectura sobre le discurso político y empresarial de estos tiempos.

[Bruce Martin]

Dated contrasted with 2015, but foundation discusses of critical discourse analysis CDA (or CD Studies) to understand van Dijk's later more specific researches. Introduction for CDA for serious reader. Would like to see more attention to education as much as the attention to press and parliamentarian discourse is written. But it is what it is.

Discuss about race in several chapters very useful in discourse analysis, prescient of contemporary calls for denials against racist discourse in press.

[Guillermo]

En la revista Discurso y Sociedad escribí una reseña en español de este libro. Puede consultarse en http://www.dissoc.org/ediciones/v05n0...

I wrote a review of this book in Spanish in the journal Discurso y Sociedad. It is available at http://www.dissoc.org/ediciones/v05n0...