Summary
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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.
Ideological Discourse Structures
Ideological Discourse Structures
Introduction
The expression of ideology in discourse is usually more than just an explicit or concealed display of a person's beliefs, but mostly also has a persuasive function: speakers want to change the mind of the recipients in a way that is consistent with their beliefs, intentions and goals. This means that a more detailed study of ‘ideological discourse structures’ has implications for our insight into the ways in which discourse is used to express ideologies and at the same time into processes of reception and persuasion. That is, I here focus on the double-edged core of the ideological reproduction process, namely, the ways in which ideologies are expressed and spread within groups as well as across group boundaries in society ...
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