TY - JOUR

T1 - Force-interactive patterns in immigration discourse

T2 - a cognitive linguistic approach to CDA

AU - Hart, Christopher

N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Discourse and Society, 22 (3), 2011, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Discourse and Society page: http://das.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/

PY - 2011/5

Y1 - 2011/5

N2 - In the last few years a highly productive space has been created for Cognitive Linguistics inside Critical Discourse Analysis. So far, however, this space has been reserved almost exclusively for critical metaphor studies where Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory has provided the lens through which otherwise naturalised or opaque ideological patterns in text and conceptualisation can be detected. Yet Cognitive Linguistics consists of much more than Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Its efficacy for Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) may therefore extend beyond critical metaphor studies. In this paper, I propose that Talmy's (1988, 2000) theory of force-dynamics in particular represents a further, useful framework for the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to CDA. Using this analytical framework, then, I identify some of the indicators of, and demonstrate the ideological qualities of, force-dynamic conceptualisations in immigration discourse.

AB - In the last few years a highly productive space has been created for Cognitive Linguistics inside Critical Discourse Analysis. So far, however, this space has been reserved almost exclusively for critical metaphor studies where Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory has provided the lens through which otherwise naturalised or opaque ideological patterns in text and conceptualisation can be detected. Yet Cognitive Linguistics consists of much more than Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Its efficacy for Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) may therefore extend beyond critical metaphor studies. In this paper, I propose that Talmy's (1988, 2000) theory of force-dynamics in particular represents a further, useful framework for the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to CDA. Using this analytical framework, then, I identify some of the indicators of, and demonstrate the ideological qualities of, force-dynamic conceptualisations in immigration discourse.

KW - Cognitive Linguistics

KW - critical discourse analysis

KW - force-dynamics

KW - immigration discourse

U2 - 10.1177/0957926510395440

DO - 10.1177/0957926510395440

M3 - Journal article

VL - 22

SP - 269

EP - 286

JO - Discourse and Society

JF - Discourse and Society

SN - 0957-9265

IS - 3

ER -