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Discourse semantics and ideologyTeun A. van DijkUNIVERSITY OF article presents fragments of a new, multidisciplinarytheory of ideology and its relations with Discourse , formulated in thebroader framework of a critical discourseanalysis. Ideologies are definedasbasic systems of fundamental social cognitions and organizing the attitudesand other social representations shared by members of groups. Theythusindirectly control the mental representations (models) that formtheinterpretation basis and contextual embeddedness of Discourse and itsstructures. In this framework, it is examined how semantic structures ofdiscourse (such as topic, focus, propositional structure, local coherence,level of description, implications andmacrostructures) are monitored byunderlying ideologies, as expressed in opinion articles in theNew YorkTimesand theWashington WORDS: attitudes, Discourse , editorials, ideology , meaning, models,NewYork Times,opinion articles, semantics , social representations, text,Washington PostINTRODUCTIONW ithin the framework of a new, long-term, multidisciplinary project ondiscourse and ideology .

Discourse semantics and ideology Teun A. van Dijk UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM ABSTRACT. This article presents fragments of a new, multidisciplinary theory of ideology and its relations with discourse, formulated in the

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