Teun van Dijk is one of the founders of Critical Discourse Studies and this collection brings together some of his most important writing, framed by new introductory material. He examines the role of discourse in the reproduction of power and domination in society and the ways in which media and political elites control access to public discourse.
Teun Adrianus van Dijk, is a scholar in the fields of text linguistics, discourse analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. With Walter Kintsch he contributed to the development of the psychology of text processing.
Clear and accessible. Throughout, I was thinking of the interplay between academic discourse (as power) and its treatment of discourse and power.
I think that for people unfamiliar with critical discourse analysis this book provides as good introduction which will achieve a 'leap' in the way texts are received.
Libro bastante escabroso, demasiado académico por momentos (y por lo mismo algo árido), pero interesante para hacer una lectura sobre le discurso político y empresarial de estos tiempos.
Dated contrasted with 2015, but foundation discusses of critical discourse analysis CDA (or CD Studies) to understand van Dijk's later more specific researches. Introduction for CDA for serious reader. Would like to see more attention to education as much as the attention to press and parliamentarian discourse is written. But it is what it is.
Discuss about race in several chapters very useful in discourse analysis, prescient of contemporary calls for denials against racist discourse in press.