Project
Discourse and Ideology
Discourse
and
Ideology
This long-term, multidisciplinary project systematically investigates the relations between discourse and ideology, one of the fundamental dimensions of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), given the assumption that ideologies are largely acquired and changed through discourse. The arguments in favor of this project were multiple. First of all, it was intended as one of my contibutions to the foundations of CDS. Secondly, it provided a more general basis for the study of racist ideologies.
Thirdly, the study of ideology throughout the ages (from Destutt de Tracy, Marx-Engels, Lukacs, Gramsci, Althusser, etc.) had been especially the work of socially interested philosophers, until today, for instance in terms of ‘false consciousness’ and related vague terms that hardly were up to date within contemporary scholarship.
Indeed, the social-cognitive nature of ideologies as forms of social cognitions shared by social groups was rather generally ignored, even in social psychology. And although many scholars in critical and social discourse studies had often been engaged in the study of ideology, they did not develop a new theory of ideology that could account for the role of discourse in the reproduction of racism.
After several articles (see below) I finally decided to start the publication of a series of monographs that would systematically deal with ideology, first in quite general, multidisciplinary terms, then, in later volumes, specifically on ideology and social cognition, ideology and society, and finally on ideology and discourse.
Because of the close relations between ideology and knowlede as forms of social cognition, the second monograph on ideology and social cognition was delayed because of the necessity to first account for the fundamental role of knowledge and discourse – which however became a major other project. After completing that project on discourse and knowledge, I hope to continue the series of monographs on discourse and ideology.
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Books on Discourse and Ideology
Discourse,
Racism and ideology.
Special issue of TEXT, 8(1), 1988.
(with Ruth Wodak, Eds.)
Discourse,
Racism and ideology.
La Laguna (Spain):
RCEI Ediciones, 1996.
Ideology
London: Sage, 1998.
Spanish translation
Ideología
Barcelona/Buenos Aires:
Gedisa, 1999.
Estonian translation
Ideoloogia
Multidisciplinaarne käsitlus.
Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus.
Ideology and discourse.
A Multidisciplinary Introduction.
Spanish translation
Ideología y discurso
Una introducción multidisciplinaria. Barcelona: Ariel, 2003.
Italian translation
Ideologie.
Discorso e costruzione sociale del pregiudizio.
A cura di Paola Villano.
Roma: Carocci, 2004.
Discurso, Notícia e Ideologia.
Estudos na Análise Crítica do Discurso.
Porto: Campo das Letras, 2005.
Communicating Ideologies
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Discourse and Social Practice.
Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2004 (with Martin Pütz and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer, Eds.)
Articles on Discourse and Ideology
Algunas notas sobre la ideología y la teoría del discurso.
Semiosis (Jalapa, Mexico) 5,
1980, 37-54.
Discourse analysis as ideology analysis
In C. Schäffner & A. Wenden (Eds.), Language and Peace . (pp. 17-33). Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing. 1995.
Ideological discourse analysis
New Courant (English Dept, University of Helsinki), 4 (1995), 135-161. Special issue Interdisciplinary approaches to Discourse Analysis , ed. by Eija Ventola and Anna Solin.
Discourse semantics and ideology
Discourse & Society 5(2), 243-289, 1995.
Discourse, opinions and ideologies
Discourse and ideologies. Special issue of Current Issues in Language and Society 2(2), 115-145, 1995. Special issue also published as book: Christina Schaeffner & Helen Kelly Holmes (Eds.), Discourse as Ideologies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1996.
Against Reductionism: A rejoinder
Discourse and Ideologoies special issue of Current Issues in Language and Society 2(2), 168-172, 1995. Special issue also published as book: Christina Schaeffner & Helen Kelly Holmes (Eds.), Discourse as Ideologies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1996.
Opinions and ideologies in the press
Paper Round Table on Media Discourse, Cardiff, July 8-10, 1995. Published in Allan Bell and Peter Garrett (Eds.), Approaches to Media Discourse. (pp. 21-63). Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
Opinions and ideologies in editorials
Paper Symposium of Critical Discourse Analysis Language, social life and critical thought , Athens, 14-17 december 1995. (On homepage).
Ideologies, racism, discourse:
Debates on immigration and ethnic issues. In Jessika ter Wal & Maykel Verkuyten (Eds.), Comparative perspectives on racism. (pp. 91-116). Aldershot etc.: Ashgate, 2000.
A Linguistic Study of Ideology?
- Spanish version in G. Parodi Sweis (Ed.), Discurso, cognición y educación. Ensayos en Honor de Luis A. Gómez Macker. Valparaiso: Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 1999, pp. 27-42.
- Catalan version in Toni Mollà (Ed.), Ideologia i conflicte lingüístic. (pp. 33-56). Barcelona, Bromera.
Political discourse and ideology
In Clara Ubaldina Lorda & Montserrat Ribas (Eds.), Anàlisi del discurs polític. (pp. 15-34). Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IULA.
Polish translation, Dyskurs polityczny i ideologia, in: Etnolingwistyka, Problemy Jezyka i Kultury, 15 (2003), pp. 7-28. Lublin.
Discourse, ideology and context
Folia Linguistica, XXX/1-2, 2001, 11-40 (Special issue edited by Ruth Wodak).
Discourse and Ideology
Virtual course taught at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), August 2000. (English version on Homepage).
- Spanish version published as a book by Ariel, Barcelona, 2003.
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.
Portuguese version
Discurso, conhecimento e ideologia
Reformulando velhas questões
in Claudio Cezar Henriques (org), Linguagem, conhecimento e aplicação. (pp. 389-414.)
Rio de Janeiro: Europa, 2003.
Spanish version
Discurso, conocimiento e ideología
In Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, no 10 (2005), pp. 285-318.
Departamento de Periodismo III de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la UCM.
Editada por el Servicio de Publicacione de la Universidad Copmplutense de Madrid.
War Rhetoric of a Little Ally
Political implicatures of Aznar’s Legitimization of the War in Iraq. Journal of Language and Politics, 4(1), pp. 65-92, 2005. Special issue «The Soft Power of War. Legitimacy and community in Iraq war discourses.» edited by Lilie Chouliaraki.
- Spanish version of an earlier version, «La retórica bélica de un aliado menor. Implicaturas políticas y legitimación de la guerra en Iraq opor parte de José María Aznar», Oralia 7(2004), 195-225.
Politics, ideology and discourse
Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2005.
- Spanish translation in Quórum Académico.
Maracaibo (Venezuela).
- French version in Semen.
Revue de sémio-linguistique des textes et des discours. (Besançon), 21 (avril, 2006), pp. 73-102.
Ideology and discourse analysis
Paper symposium on ideology, Oxford University, September 2004.
- Spanish version in Utopía y Praxis Latinoamericana, nº 10, Junio, 2005, CESA, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 10, nº 29 (Abril-Junio, 2005), pp. 9-36.
Introduction: Language,
discourse and ideology
In Martin Pütz, JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer & Teun A. van Dijk (Eds.), Communicating Ideologies.
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Discourse and Social Practice. (pp. xiii-xxi) Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2004.
Portuguese version
Discurso, conhecimento e ideologia: reformulando velhas questões
In Claudio Cezar Henriques (org), Linguagem, conhecimento e aplicação.
(pp. 389-414.) Rio de Janeiro: Europa, 2003.
Spanish version
Discurso, conocimiento e ideología
In Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, no 10 (2005), pp. 285-318.
Departamento de Periodismo III de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la UCM.
Editada por el Servicio de Publicacione de la Universidad Copmplutense de Madrid.
Also in Marta Tordesillas y Pilar Suárez (Eds.)
Miradas científicas en torno… al lenguaje, Lenguaje, lengua y discurso.
Dialogos internacionales e interdisciplinares.
Pp. 81-111)Zaragoza: Libros Pórtico.
Political discourse, ideology and racism.
In: Festschrift for Geneva Smitherman, 2004.
Politics, ideology and discourse
Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2005.
Volume on Politics and Language (Ruth Wodak, Ed.), pp. 728-740.
Spanish translation in Quórum Académico
Maracaibo (Venezuela).
French version in Semen
Revue de sémio-linguistique des textes et des discours.
(Besançon), 21 (avril, 2006), pp. 73-102.
Portuguese version in Iran Ferreira de Melo (Ed.)
Introdução aos Estudos Críticos do Discurso.
(pp. 15-51).
Campinas (S): Pontes.
Ideology and discourse analysis
Paper symposium on ideology, Oxford University, September 2004.
Journal of Political Ideologies, 11 (2006), 115-140. Reprinted in Michael Freeden (Ed.), The meaning of ideology.
Cross-disciplinary perspectives. (pp. 110-136). London: Routledge, 2007.
News, discourse and ideology
In Thomasz Hanitzsch & Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Eds.)
Handbook of Journalism Studies. (pp. 191-204).
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 2008.
- Spanish version in book edited by Ana Iglesias Botran (…)
Discourse and ideology
In Teun A. van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse Studies.
Second edition. (pp. 379-407).
London: Sage, 2011.
Ideology and Discourse
In: Michael Freeden, Lyman Tower Sargent & Marc Stears (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies.
(pp. 175-196).
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Ideology in Cognition and Discourse
Paper Workshop on Ideology, Princeton University, April, 2012.
To be published in Simo Määtä & Marika Criss (Eds.), Ideology and Discourse—Mapping Ideology in Discourse Studies.
Berlin: Mouton, 2021.
Ideology
In The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication.
Gianpietro Mazzoleni, General Editor, and Kevin Barnhurst, Ken’ichi Ikeda, Rousiley Maia, Hartmut Wessler, Associate Editors.
London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015
Are Ideologies Negative?
Paper for Festschrift Norman Fairclough,
2021.
