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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.
Context
Context
What is Context?
A broad characterization of discourse as a communicative event not only features the various levels, structures or strategies of text and talk discussed in the previous chapter, but also those of the context. Despite many informal discussions in socio-linguistics, pragmatics and discourse studies of this notion of context, there is strictly speaking no theory of what exactly a ‘context’ is.1 The term itself suggests that it is all that comes ‘with the text’, that is, the properties of the ‘environment’ of discourse.
I shall stay as close as possible with this linguistic version of the commonsense notion of context, and define it as the structured set of all properties of a social situation that are possibly relevant for the production, structures, interpretation and ...
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