Hart, C. (2011) (ed.). Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Critical Discourse Studies
(CDS) is an exciting research enterprise in which scholars are concerned with the discursive reproduction of power and inequality.
However, researchers in CDS are increasingly recognising the need to investigate the cognitive dimensions of discourse and
context if they want to fully account for any connection between language, legitimisation and social action. This book presents
a collection of papers in CDS concerned with various ideological discourses. Analyses are firmly rooted in linguistics and
cognition constitutes a major focus of attention. The chapters, which are written by prominent researchers in CDS, come
from a broad range of theoretical perspectives spanning pragmatics, cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics. The
book is essential reading for anyone working at the cutting edge of CDS and especially for those wishing to explore the
central place that cognition must surely hold in the relationship between discourse and society.
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Hart, C. (2010). Critical
Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Science: New Perspectives on Immigration Discourse. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an exciting research enterprise
which aims to disclose ideological and persuasive properties of social and political texts. Since its inception, CDA has
been theoretically eclectic, drawing its methods from linguistics and across the social sciences. However, CDA has paid
relatively little attention to the relationship between text and cognition and neglected relevant developments in cognitive
science. This study advances a model for CDA which draws on two areas of cognitive science, Evolutionary Psychology
and Cognitive Linguistics, to provide a novel approach to analysing immigration discourse. This
book will appeal to students and researchers interested in connections between language, mind, media and politics and especially
those looking to explore new frameworks for CDA.
Hart, C. and Lukes,
D. (2007) (eds.). Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: Application and Theory.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishing. In contemporary linguistics,
both cognitive and critical approaches to language have been elaborated in some detail. Unfortunately, the two perspectives
have seldom converged, despite the potential theoretical advances such collaboration offers. The contributions to this
volume explore the convergence of cognitive and critical trends in the guise of Cognitive Linguistics and critical discourse
analysis. The volume addresses a range of socio-political discourses in various international contexts, including discourses
on nation, education, immigration, and war. One single integrated model is not presented, but rather, a number of methodologies
are developed and assessed across the chapters. The application of established Cognitive Linguistic theories, including
conceptual metaphor theory, conceptual blending theory and frame semantics, are discussed, as well as developing theories,
such as metaphor power theory and discourse space theory. The book is of value to anyone interested in the interaction
between language, mind, and society, including both students and scholars of Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse
Analysis.
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