Summary
Contents
Subject index
The definition of ideology continues to occupy scholars across a wide range of disciplines. In this book, Teun A van Dijk sketches a challenging new multidisciplinary framework for theorizing ideology. He defines ideology as the basis of the social representations of a group, its functions in terms of social relations between groups, and its reproduction as enacted by discourse. Contemporary racist discourse is examined to illustrate these ideological relations between cognition, society and discourse.
Conclusions
Conclusions
Instead of a lengthy discussion of the findings of this theoretical study, I shall merely list its major conclusions in the form of brief statements.
General
1 Within the vast field of the study of ideology, a multidisciplinary theory is needed to account for the nature, the structures and the functions of ideology.
2 In this study, this multidisciplinary approach is represented by an analysis of ideology in terms of the ‘triangle’ of (social) cognition, society and discourse. This complex disciplinary basis is necessary to avoid reduction. Especially lacking in earlier work is insight into the socio-cognitive nature and functions of ideologies, and how these are related to their expression and reproduction in discourse.
3 Many of the traditional approaches to ideology are rather of a philosophical than ...
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