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Basic Theoretical Insights on Ideology and Discourse Analysis

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The purpose of this concise introductory chapter is to demarcate the overarching theoretical boundaries of the adopted conceptual framework and to expound, in some detail, the underlying rationale of the research design and methodology. It is intended to critically survey the major theoretical trends that scrutinized the organic nexus between language and ideology, notably those falling under the broad realm of (Critical) Discourse Studies. Primarily, this is made through recurrent references to a mosaic of Marxist interpretations and a few other language-oriented perspectives from the (post)structuralist theory.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Context is one of the fundamental concepts in discourse analysis which does not solely refer to space and time, but to a cluster of factors that influence the production and understanding of text and talk such as the social and cognitive structures and processes. Context as conceived in the socio-cognitive model of discourse analysis is discussed in some detail in the third chapter. A reference is made to the recent contributions by some new disciplines in the social sciences and humanities that yielded new perceptions on context and its role in discourse production and comprehension.

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    For further information about this point and thus the intellectual contributions of de Tracy on ideology, see Ulrich (1994).

  3. 3.

    The American linguist Zellig Harris is one of the pioneers to introduce the label “discourse analysis”. The latter, in technical sense, is believed to be used first in his seminal article “Discourse Analysis” (1952).

  4. 4.

    Amongst his landmark publications that are widely cited in the field of discourse analysis, I can mention: The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1970).

  5. 5.

    On the etymology of the word “politics”, see: Nicolai Rubinstein, “The history of the word politicus in early-modern Europe,” in Anthony Pagden (Ed.) (1987).

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Douifi, M. (2018). Basic Theoretical Insights on Ideology and Discourse Analysis. In: Language and the Complex of Ideology. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76547-1_2

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