Discourse, Grammar and Ideology: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives

by Christopher Hart and Christopher Hart

Book Overview

Researchers in critical discourse analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and image) can play in revealing ideological properties of texts and discourse in social and political contexts.

The book takes the reader through three distinct grammatical frameworks - functional grammar, multimodal grammar and cognitive grammar. Using examples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441117415
• ISBN13: 9781441117410
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"