Critical Discourse Analysis and Language CognitionAn interdisciplinary study of issues of language manipulation, this book explores the interpretation stage of critical discourse analysis (CDA) for students in areas such as English language, media studies and applied linguistics, as well as practitioners in the field. It also offers a new way forward for highlighting manipulative language, accomplishing this through the innovation of a model of reading for gist. The model is an original synthesis of elements from four contemporary cognitive frameworks: connectionism, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistic evidence on inference generation, and relevance theory. Significantly, Kieran O'Halloran also shows how each of these frameworks challenges current notions of cognition in CDA and he carefully works through the implications of this for how CDA highlights manipulative language.Features: *Shows clearly how more systematic and reliable prediction can be made as to whether a news text is likely to manipulate someone reading for gist*Provides accessible outlines of connectionism, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistic research on inference generation, relevance theory, which assume no previous knowledge*Brings together contemporary linguistic and cognitive approaches which usually do not communicate*Provides a useful overview of how language cognition is understood in CDA, revealing tensions in this understanding.In offering novel criticism of some key aspects of CDA and in suggesting ways in which critical analyses of news texts can be improved, this book is likely to be both topical and controversial. |
Contents
CDA and Manipulative News Text | 9 |
Symbolicism 335 | 56 |
The Symbolicism of | 69 |
Copyright | |
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absences action agent analysis in CDA automatic background knowledge basic basic-level categories causal antecedent inferences causal consequent inferences causal relation Chapter Chomsky cognitive linguistics cognitive science coherence inferences connectionism connectionist network context critical discourse analysts Critical Linguistics cyclists Daily Telegraph discourse analysis elaborative inferences event example Fairclough focus Fodor gestalt Graesser hard news text highlight Hodge and Kress idealised reader framework implicature input instantiation interpretation stage Lakoff logical empiricism London Underground manipulation McKoon and Ratcliff meaning mental representation microfeatures minimalist hypothesis minimum effort mystification analysis mystifying text nominalisation non-critical reader notion noun paradigms perspective Peter Ford problematises protest protestors psycholinguistic evidence reading for gist Reclaim the Streets refer regard relevance theory seal hunt semantic sentence shallow processing socio-cognitive analysis Sperber and Wilson St John Standard Text structure superordinate goals symbolic assumptions symbolicism syntactic syntax Taraban tence text presence bias tion Tube strike Turing machine verb