Ideological Discourse Analysis

Journal of Political Ideologies (June 2006), 11(2), Routledge — pp. 115-140 Ideological analysis of language and discourse is a widely practised scholarly and critical endeavour in the humanities and the social sciences. The presupposition of such analyses is that ideologies of speakers or writers may be uncovered by close reading, understanding or systematic analysis, if language users explicitly or unwittingly express their ideologies through language and communication. Contents: Introduction Social-political discourse analysis The socio-cognitive interface Ideologies Discourse structures Structures of ideologies and structures of meaning Analyses of examples Conclusion