Nov 19
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/contemporary-critical-discourse-studies-9781441141637/
Editor: Christopher Hart
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472527042 Pages: 416 Price: U.K. £ 99.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441141637 Pages: 648 Price: U.K. £ 100
Abstract:
CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoretical and empirical developments. It presents an up-to-date survey of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), covering both the theoretical landscape and the analytical territories that it extends over. It is intended for critical scholars and students who wish to keep abreast of the current state of the art.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the chapters are organised around different methodological perspectives for CDS (history, cognition, multimodality and corpora, among others). In the second part, the chapters are organised around particular discourse types and topics investigated in CDS, both traditionally (e.g. issues of racism and gender inequality) and only more recently (e.g. issues of health, public policy, and the environment).
This is, altogether, an essential new reference work for all CDS practitioners.
Nov 19
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Discourse, Grammar, and Ideology
Subtitle: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/discourse-grammar-and-ideology-9781441133571/
Author: Christopher Hart
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441104854 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 74.99
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441101358 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 74.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441133571 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
Researchers in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and image) can play in revealing ideological properties of texts and discourse in social and political contexts. The book takes the reader through three distinct grammatical frameworks – functional grammar, multimodal grammar and cognitive grammar. Using examples taken from a range of discourses relating to globalisation, including discourses of immigration, war, corporate practice and political protests, the book demonstrates the individual utility and the interconnectedness of these models inside CDA. A key argument advanced is that the cognitive processes necessarily involved in making sense of language are based in visual experience. This position offers new ways of understanding the ideological effects of grammatical choices in texts and suggests a reassessment of the relationship between linguistic and multimodal grammars in CDA.
The book will appeal to students and researchers interested in CDA and the relationship between discourse, cognition and social action.
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