Teun A. van Dijk is one of the founders of critical discourse studies in this field and remains one of the most influential scholars. The texts of this volume have some of the most important pieces that examines the crucial role of discourse in the reproduction of power and domination in society. For this book, van Dijk has developed a completely new introduction and revised texts to make them more accessible to the reader. Discourse and power a book while current and provocateur who is: • explores the complex in which symbolic elites of the media and political control access to public discourse and, consequently, beliefs and ideology of public ways. • It provides concrete case studies in which we show how racism is played by the elite discourse and how the public debate about the war in Iraq has been manipulated by political leaders. • Examine the properties of political discourse an...read more
