Discourse and Power

TEUN VAN DIJK is Professor of Critical Discourse Analysis at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He holds two honorary doctorates and has lectured widely in many countries, especially in Latin America. He is the editor of The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (4 vols, 1985) the introductory book Discourse Studies (2 vols., 1997) as well as the reader The Study of Discourse (5 vols., 2007). He has founded 6 international journals, Poetics, Text (now Text& Talk), Discourse& Society, Discourse Studies, Discourse& Communication and the internet journal in Spanish Discurso& Sociedad (www.dissoc.org), of which he still edits the latter four.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Discourse and DominationStructures of Discourse And Structures of PowerDiscourse, Power and AccessCritical Discourse AnalysisDiscourse and RacismDiscourse and the Denial Of RacismPolitical Discourse and Political CognitionWar Rhetoric of a Little Ally. Political implicatures of Aznar's Legitimization of the War in IraqDiscourse and ManipulationContextualization in Parliamentary Discourse. Aznar, Iraq and the pragmatics of lyingBibliographyIndexes.

'Discourse and Power is...a valuable and important collection' - Wu-Peng, Jiangsu University Discourse& Communication 'This book is very useful in bringing together van Dijk's earlier, well-known work in CDS, and in continuing to promote the interdisciplinary approach to analyzing data.' - Journal of Sociolinguistics