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How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is a monograph which presents a multidisciplinary theory of context and the way context influences language use and discourse. Unlike in earlier approaches, contexts are not defined as objective social 'variables', such as gender or age. Rather, they are constructs of the participants themselves, that is, 'subjective definitions of the communicative situation' that are made explicit in the sociocognitive notion of context models. These models dynamically control all language use, make sure that discourses are appropriate in the communicative situation and hence are the basis of pragmatics. In this book, context models are studied especially from a (socio) linguistic and cognitive perspective. In another book published by Cambridge University Press, Society and Discourse, Teun A. van Dijk develops the social psychological, sociological and anthropological dimensions of the theory of context.

Pragmatics --- Sociolinguistics --- Psycholinguistics --- Cognition --- Communication --- Context (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- #KVHA:Discourse analysis --- #KVHA:Sociocognitieve linguïstiek --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Situation (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Communication and culture --- Psychology --- Social aspects --- Context --- Cognition. --- Social aspects. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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Antiracism is a global and historical social movement of resistance and solidarity, yet there have been relatively few books focusing on it as a subject in its own right. After his earlier books on racist discourse, Teun A. van Dijk provides a theory of antiracism along with a history of discourse against slavery, racism and antisemitism. He first develops a multidisciplinary theory of antiracism, highlighting especially the role of discourse and cognition as forms of resistance and solidarity. He then covers the history of antiracist discourse, including antislavery and abolition discourse between the 16th and 19th century, antiracist discourse by white and black authors until the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter, and Jewish critical analysis of antisemitic ideas and discourse since the early 19th century. It is essential reading for anyone interested in how racism and antisemitism have been critically analysed and resisted in antislavery and antiracist discourse.

Anti-racism --- Critical discourse analysis. --- Critical race theory. --- History. --- CRT (Critical race theory) --- Critical theory --- Racism --- CDA (Critical discourse analysis) --- Discourse analysis --- Antiracism --- Social justice --- Multiculturalism

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Discourse analysis --- Analyse du discours

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This volume takes a critical approach to the study of prejudice and discrimination by focusing on the role of elites in the reproduction of racism. Van Dijk's main thesis is that racism in North America and Europe is primarily `top down' and preformulated by the elites, and is not only - as the elites would have it - a `popular' phenomenon. The book opens with a wide-ranging study of the ways parliamentarians in the Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK and the USA debate immigration, refugees and civil rights, subtly contributing to the negative image of minorities.

Racism. --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Communication. --- Racism in language. --- Race relations. --- Ethnic relations.

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The first volume of this introduction to discourse studies explains why discourse is recognised at various levels, the structures of discourse, and the functions of these structures in the communicative context.

Discourse analysis.