Viewpoint in linguistic discourse : space and evaluation in news reports of political protests

Hart, Christopher (2015) Viewpoint in linguistic discourse : space and evaluation in news reports of political protests. Critical Discourse Studies, 12 (3). pp. 238-260. ISSN 1740-5904

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Abstract

This paper continues to develop a program of research which has recently emerged investigating the ideological functions of spatial construals in social and political discourse from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective (Cap 2013; Chilton 2004; Dunmire 2011; Filardo Llamas 2013; Hart 2013a/b, 2014a; Kaal 2012). Specifically, inspired by principles in Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 2008), the paper attempts to formulate a grammar of ‘point of view’ and show how this trans-modal cognitive system is manifested in the meanings of individual grammatical constructions which, when selected in discourse, yield mental representations whose spatial properties invite ideological evaluations. The link between spatial organisation and ideological evaluation in these mental models, it is argued, is a function of our embodied understanding of language. These theoretical arguments are illustrated with data taken from online news reports of two political protests.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Critical Discourse Studies
Additional Information:
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Discourse Studies on 24/03/2015, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17405904.2015.1013479
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? critical discourse analysiscognitive grammarmental modelsspaceevaluationembodimentsocial sciences(all) ??
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73339
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Deposited On:
09 Apr 2015 08:45
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