Speaker Biography
Teun A. van Dijk is Honorary Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Founding Director of the Centre of Discourse Studies in Barcelona, and Founding Editor of Discourse & Society and Discourse Studies. After earlier work on generative poetics, text grammar, and the psychology of text processing, his work since 1980 has taken a more critical perspective, dealing with discursive (anti)racism, news in the press, ideology, knowledge, context, social movement discourse, the history of antiracist discourse, and the discourse and ideologies of the radical right.
Personal Homepage: https://www.discoursestudies.org/teun-a-van-dijk
Lecture Time & Venue
Lecture Time: May 11 (Monday), 16:00–17:00
Lecture Venue: Lecture Hall 136, Teaching Building No. 5, Songjiang Campus
Lecture Title
Ideology and Discourse
Lecture Abstract
One of the major topics of Critical Discourse Studies is the study of ideology and how ideologies are acquired through discourse and how they influence discourse. In this talk, I will summarize the latest version of my multidisciplinary theory of ideology, based on the assumption that ideologies are forms of social cognition, related to socially shared attitudes about sociopolitical issues, applied in the personal mental situation models of individual people, and expressed in polarized ingroup-outgroup discourse. Different from my earlier theory of ideology, the new version introduces the notion of ideological clusters as they are shared by political parties and other organizations, and that better account for such notions as Left, Right, Progressive, and Conservative.
