Political discourse and ideology

This paper analyses the influence of ideologies on political discourse, in terms not only of content but also of form and interaction, defining ideology in the broadest sense of basic beliefs shared by members of a group and understanding political discourse to be a class of genres defined by a soc...

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Main Author: Teun A. Van Dijk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad CEU San Pablo 2003-12-01
Series:Doxa Comunicación
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Online Access:https://ojs33.excelentic.es/doxacomunicacion/article/view/1447
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description This paper analyses the influence of ideologies on political discourse, in terms not only of content but also of form and interaction, defining ideology in the broadest sense of basic beliefs shared by members of a group and understanding political discourse to be a class of genres defined by a social domain, namely that of politics. The ways in which ideologically based beliefs are exhibited in discourse and discursive evidence in the interplay of several ideologies are analysed in the form of a debate on asylum seekers in the British House of Commons. Parliamentary debates are particularly revealing for these purposes because their text and content exhibit the social cognitions of political parties and their members. An analysis of this particular debate shows how political discourse in general, and parliamentary debates in particular, are replete with ideological expressions and rhetorical tropes at all levels.
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spelling doaj.art-11b262fd5df94d30b69dc9c6223879a32023-10-26T12:06:30ZengUniversidad CEU San PabloDoxa Comunicación1696-019X2386-39782003-12-01110.31921/doxacom.n1a12Political discourse and ideologyTeun A. Van Dijk0Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona This paper analyses the influence of ideologies on political discourse, in terms not only of content but also of form and interaction, defining ideology in the broadest sense of basic beliefs shared by members of a group and understanding political discourse to be a class of genres defined by a social domain, namely that of politics. The ways in which ideologically based beliefs are exhibited in discourse and discursive evidence in the interplay of several ideologies are analysed in the form of a debate on asylum seekers in the British House of Commons. Parliamentary debates are particularly revealing for these purposes because their text and content exhibit the social cognitions of political parties and their members. An analysis of this particular debate shows how political discourse in general, and parliamentary debates in particular, are replete with ideological expressions and rhetorical tropes at all levels. https://ojs33.excelentic.es/doxacomunicacion/article/view/1447Análisis del discursoIdeologíaDebate político
spellingShingle Teun A. Van Dijk
Political discourse and ideology
Doxa Comunicación
Análisis del discurso
Ideología
Debate político
title Political discourse and ideology
title_full Political discourse and ideology
title_fullStr Political discourse and ideology
title_full_unstemmed Political discourse and ideology
title_short Political discourse and ideology
title_sort political discourse and ideology
topic Análisis del discurso
Ideología
Debate político
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