This multidisciplinary project systematically investigates the
relations between discourse and knowledge. Firstly, the
epistemological foundation of the project will consist of a new
definition of knowledge in terms of belief consensus in epistemic
communities and knowledge attribution in discursive contexts. Secondly,
the cognitive theory focuses on a typology of knowledge and on the
strategies of the acquisition, activation, application and change of
knowledge in text processing. It will be investigated whether and how
knowledge management in text processing is controlled by a special
knowledge device in the mental context models of the speech
participants. Thirdly, the linguistic and discourse analytical part of
the project will investigate the structures and strategies at all
levels of text and talk, especially those of local and global meaning,
that manifest these forms knowledge management: (in) definiteness,
give-new and topic-comment relations, presuppositions,
implications, evidendiality, etc. Fourthly, if knowledge is defined as
a form of
social cognition, also the social dimension of knowledge management
needs to be investigated, especially for public discourse in education,
science and the media, involving both interactional and institutional
aspects of knowledge distribution as well as strategies of power and
legitimization. Finally, the cultural aspects of the relations between
discourse and knowledge will be investigated, such as the notion of
(cultural) Common Ground as the basis of all (discourse) comprehension
and interaction in given cultures -- defined as epistemic communities.
My publications on discourse and knowledge
Knowledge frames,
macrostructures and discourse comprehension. Paper 12th Carnegie-Mellon
Symposium on Cognition, Pittsburgh, 1976. In: M. Just & P.
Carpenter, (Eds.) Cognitive Processes in Comprehension . Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum, 1977, 3-32.
Context and cognition. Knowledge frames and speech act comprehension. Journal of Pragmatics 1, 1977, 211-232.
Types of knowledge in discourse processing. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2001.
*Spanish
version in Giovanni Parodi (Ed.), Lingüística e
Interdisciplinariedad: Desafíos del nuevo milenio. Ensayos en
honor a Marianne Peronard. (pp. 43-66). Valparaíso: Editorial
Universitaria de Valparaíso, 2002.
Knowledge and News. Revista Canaria e Estudios Ingleses 49, noviembre 2004, pp. 71-86.
*Spanish
version: El conocimiento y las noticias. En: J. V. Gavaldà, C.
Gregori Signes, & R. X. Rosselló Ivars (Eds.), La cultura
mediàtica. Modes de representació i
estratègies discursives. (pp. 249-269). Universitat de
València, Facultat de Filologia, 2002.
The Discourse-Knowledge
Interface. In Gilbert Weiss & Ruth Wodak (Eds.), Critical Discourse
Analysis. Theory and Interdisciplinarity. (pp. 85-109). Houndsmills,
UK: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2003.
Knowledge, discourse
processing and education. Paper International Congress on Writing and
Reading, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, December 9-13, 2001.
*Spanish
version: Conocimiento, elaboración del discurso y
educación. Escribanía 8 (enero-junio, 2002), pp. 5-22.
Universidad de Manizales, Colombia.
Discourse, knowledge and
ideology. In Martin Pütz, JoAnne Neff & Teun A. van Dijk
(Eds.), Communicating Ideologies. Multidisciplinary Perspectives
on Language, Discourse and Social Practice. (pp. 5-38). Frankfurt/Main:
Peter Lang, 2004.
Knowledge in parlamentary
debates. Journal of Language and Politics , 2(2003),
93-129. Special issue on identity politics. Ed. by Paul Chilton.
Contextual knowledge
management in discourse production. A CDA perspective. In Ruth Wodak
and Paul Chilton (Eds.), A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse
Analysis. (pp. 71-100) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2005.
Specialized discourse and
knowledge. A case study of the discourse of modern genetics. En E. M.
Morato, A. C. Bentes & M. L. Cunha Lima (Eds.), Homenagem a
Ingedore Koch. Cadernos de Estudos Lingüisticos 44, Unicamp,
Campinas, Brasil, 2003, pp. 21-56.
Popularization discourse and
knowledge about the genome. Discourse & Society, 15(4), 369-389
(with Helena Calsamiglia as first author).
Some Observations on the
Role of Knowledge in Discourse Processing. In Trends and Directions.
Proceedings of the 12th English in Southeast Asia Conference, December
12-14, 2007. (pp. 89-102). Bangkok: School of Liberal Arts, King
Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, 2008.
Discourse and knowledge. To
appear in the Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis, James Paul Gee
& Michael Handford (Eds.).
Discourse, knowledge, power
and politics. Towards Critical Epistemic Discourse Analysis. Lecture
CADAAD 2008, Hertfordshire, 10-12 July 2008. To appear in a book edited
by Christopher Hart.
Text, context and knowledge. july 2008, Unpublished.