Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is an exciting research enterprise in which scholars are concerned with the discursive reproduction of power and inequality. 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.

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction (by Hart, Christopher); 3. (Critical) Discourse analysis and pragmatics: Commonalities and differences (by Reisigl, Martin); 4. Discourse, knowledge, power and politics: Towards critical epistemic discourse analysis (by Dijk, Teun A. van); 5. Constraining Context: A Pragmatic Account of Cognitive Manipulation (by Maillat, Didier); 6. Axiological Proximization (by Cap, Piotr); 7. Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Linguistics as tools for ideological research: A diachronic analysis of feminism (by Nunez-Perucha, Begona); 8. Analysing lesbian identity in discourse: Combining discourse-historical and socio-cognitive approaches (by Koller, Veronika); 9. The Ideological Construction of European Identities: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Linguistic Representation of the Old vs. New Europe Debate (by Sing, Christine S.); 10. Moving beyond metaphor in the cognitive linguistic approach to CDA: Construal operations in immigration discourse (by Hart, Christopher); 11. Effective vs. Epistemic Stance and Subjectivity in Political Discourse: Legitimising Strategies and Mystification of Responsibility (by Marin Arrese, Juana I.); 12. Notes on contributors; 13. Index

CDA, and by extension CDS generally, is well served by this new collection of nine chapters, which make use of advances in the cognitive sciences to address both contextual and cognitive factors affecting language in use.