1st Edition

Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this book is the first to address the role of perspective in socio-political discourse. Specifically, the contributions to this volume seek to explore, from a cognitive standpoint, the way in which perspective functions in three dimensions – space, time, and evaluation – to enact ideology and... Read more

Introduction: Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse Laura Filardo-Llamas, Christopher Hart and Bertie Kaal

1. Viewpoint in Linguistic Discourse: Space and evaluation in news reports of political protests Christopher Hart

2. Epistemic Legitimisation and Inter/subjectivity in the Discourse of Parliamentary and Public Inquiries: A contrastive case study Juana I. Marín-Arrese

3. Re-contextualizing Political Discourse: An analysis of shifting spaces in songs used as a political tool Laura Filardo-Llamas

4. Beyond Space and Time: Temporal and geographical configurations in US national security discourse Patricia L. Dunmire

5. Crossing Symbolic Distances in Political Discourse Space: Evaluative rhetoric within the framework of proximization Piotr Cap

6. How ‘Real’ are time and Space in Politically Motivated Worldviews? Bertie Kaal

7. Ideology of ‘Here and Now': Mediating distance in television news Monika Kopytowska

Biography

Laura Filardo-Llamas lectures in English at the University of Valladolid, Spain. Her main research area is discourse analysis and conflict resolution, applied particularly to ethno-nationalist conflicts and domestic violence. Some of her publications can be found in Ethnopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies, CADAAD Journal, and Critical Discourse Studies.

Christopher Hart is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. He is author of Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Science: New Perspectives on Immigration Discourse (2010) and Discourse, Grammar and Ideology: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives (2014).

Bertie Kaal is a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her main interest is in discourse-space analysis and rhetorical structures in language use for social action, together with methods for text analysis and party positioning. She is co-editor of the book From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines (2014).