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Biografisk notat
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.'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
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.
1 Teun van Dijk is a highly influential scholar and one of the founders of Critical Discourse Studies
2 This collection brings together some of his most important writing on Discourse and Power, framed by new Introductory material
3 Power and domination in society is a timely and relevant subject, touching on issues of racism and media control