a socio-cognitive study of warfare discourse in Britain /
Mohamed Douifi.
Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
1 online resource
Postdisciplinary studies in discourse
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Basic Theoretical Insights on Ideology and Discourse Analysis -- Chapter 3: Contemporary Orientations in Discourse Studies -- Chapter 4: The Anglo-Iraqi Relationships: A historical overview -- Chapter 5: Blair's Foreign Policy Discourse on Iraq -- Chapter 6: The Discursive Construction of the Iraq War in the British 'Quality' Press -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
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This book undertakes a systematic analysis of the workings of ideology in discourse, using an interdisciplinary approach that links language, cognition and society. Through examination of two corpora - a collection of British newspaper articles and a set of political speeches - the author examines Britain's involvement in the Iraq War (2003), and critically assesses the language practices which constructed a pro-war ideology under Tony Blair's premiership. Drawing on a constellation of concepts from van Dijk's socio-cognitive model, this book carries out both qualitative and quantitative analyses and conceptualises discourse as a nonlinear, highly discursive and socio-cognitive phenomenon. This innovative work will appeal to students and scholars of Cognitive Linguistics, Quantitative Linguistics, Social Constructivism, Critical Discourse Analysis, Political Sciences and Communication Studies.--
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Critical discourse analysis-- Political aspects-- Great Britain.