T A Van Dijk
Biographic Data
| ID | 8793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T A Van Dijk |
| GIVEN NAMES | T A |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Dijk |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DIJK T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5394-2630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 115 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2576 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 115 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Discursos da extrema direita e sociocognição: Uma entrevista com Teun van Dijk nos 30 anos da Associação Latino-America de Estudos do Discurso
Nesta entrevista, Teun van Dijk comenta as motivações para a criação da Associação Latino-Americana de Estudos do Discurso (Aled), que completa 30 anos em 2025; descreve os principais traços dos discursos produzidos pelos grupos políticos de extrema direita, em especial aqueles marcados pelo populismo e forte polarização ideológica; e apresenta atualizações em suas teorias sobre ideologia e sociocognição. A entrevista foi concedida a Gisele Azeve…
Coloniality in discourse: Indigenous peoples in official texts of Brazilian history (1611–1988)
Context models and the pragmatics of discourse
The contributions of Walter Kintsch that are especially relevant for the field of discourse studies are his studies on mental models, knowledge, and strategic discourse processing. Based on his earlier work regarding mental models and how they account for the cognitive semantics of discourse, this paper advocates for the extension of this theory to the pragmatics of discourse in the form of context models, featuring the parameters of the communic…
Special issue of Discourse & Communication on news today: Introduction
Estudos Críticos Do Discurso E Cognição Social Em Tempos De Ultrapolarização Política: As Contribuições De Teun A. Van Dijk
Teun A. van Dijk é professor da Universidade Pompeu Fabra e diretor do Centre of Discourse Studies, em Barcelona. Foi professor de estudos do discurso na Universidade de Amsterdã entre 1980 e 2004. No início de sua trajetória acadêmica, produziu trabalhos nas áreas de poética generativa, gramática de texto e psicologia do processamento textual. Desde 1980, dedica-se aos estudos do discurso em perspectiva crítica, a partir de parâmetro sociocognit…
Manifestos as Social Movement Discourse
Studies of social movements since the 1990s have taken a more ‘cultural’ turn, paying more attention to beliefs, ideologies, values, emotions, and discourse, though largely ignoring the relevant advances in cognitive science and discourse studies in the last decades. Besides many other forms of protest, such as manifestations, occupations, or strikes, text and talk are pervasive as a repertoire of contentious action, as in recruitment, manifestos…
Analyzing frame analysis: A critical review of framing studies in social movement research
This critical review of more than three decades of studies of frames and framing in Social Movement (SM) research first offers a brief history of the notion of ‘frame’ in various disciplines, and then discusses empirical studies of frame alignment, frame disputes, frame resonance and master frames, among other notions. It is found that the very notion of discursive of cognitive frames remains very vague in these studies, and what are actually stu…
Ordinary people like myself’: Character work and modesty in the Refugees Welcome movement
This article uses discourse analysis to investigate how British volunteers involved in the Refugees Welcome movement give an account of their engagement and of the changes that they aim to achieve through their actions. Focusing on the different ways participants ‘do modesty’ when they present their actions and their own role within the movement, we show that ‘character work’ – their effort to shape their own reputation – is an essential feature …
Frame analysis
Algunos princípios de una teoria del contexto
En este trabajo se formulan algunos princípios generales de una teoria del contexto. A pesar de los intentos, especialmente de la lingüística funcional, de la antropologia y de la psicologia social, la teoria del contexto todavia está por definirse. El argumento central de mi teoria del contexto es que no es la situación social la que determina el uso del lenguaje, sino más bien el modelo mental de estas propiedades relevantes, es decir, un model…
Antiracist Discourse: Theory and History of a Macromovement
Antiracism is a global and historical social movement of resistance and solidarity, yet there have been relatively few books focusing on it as a subject in its own right. After his earlier books on racist discourse, Teun A. van Dijk provides a theory of antiracism along with a history of discourse against slavery, racism and antisemitism. He first develops a multidisciplinary theory of antiracism, highlighting especially the role of discourse and…
Political Discourses and the Global South
Discourse and Migration
How Globo media manipulated the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
The impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was the result of a coup of the economically dominant conservative oligarchy against the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, the Worker’s Party), in power since 2003. The right wing Brazilian media played a crucial role in this coup by manipulating public opinion as well as the politicians who voted against Dilma. In particular, the media of the powerful Globo Corporation, such as O…
Ideologia
A maioria dos estudos clássicos sobre ideologia ocorre no contexto da filosofiaou das ciências sociais, tratando a ideologia como algo negativo - como "falsa consciência". Neste trabalho, a ideologia é definida em termos mais gerais, como uma forma básica de cognição social compartilhada pelos membros de um grupo, representando identidade de grupo, ações grupais e seus objetivos, normas e valores grupais, relações com outros grupos, e a presença …
Análisis Crítico del Discurso
This article offers an updated revision of the research field commonly known as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). First, some sensitive aspects related to its multidisciplinary and dissident nature are clarified. Then a triangulated theoretical framework, which is based on the relationship among discourse, cognition, and society is presented. The ways in which hegemonic groups control text and context and, consequently, people's minds, and the m…
Discourse and knowledge
Critical Discourse Analysis
Discourse and Knowledge: A Sociocognitive Approach
Most of our knowledge is acquired by discourse, and our ability to produce and understand discourse is impossible without the activation of massive amounts of knowledge of the world. Both 'discourse' and 'knowledge' are fundamental concepts of the humanities and social sciences, but they are often treated separately. Based on a theory of natural knowledge, the book deals with the cognitive processes, social distribution, cultural differences and …
Análise crítica do discurso multidisciplinar: Um apelo em favor da diversidade
Este texto é a tradução do quinto capítulo do livro Methods of Critical Discourse Analisys. Trata da perspectiva do autor a respeito da Análise Crítica do Discurso e uma síntese de algumas possibilidades de associação entre Discurso e Sociedade. O horizonte teórico contempla ferramentas desde o pensamento estruturalista até o sócio-cognitivo. Por fim, o leitor pode conhecer uma das primeiras versões da Teoria do Contexto (2001) publicada sete ano…
The field of Epistemic Discourse Analysis
Multidisciplinary CDA: A plea for diversity
Discourse and Ideology
Discourse studies and hermeneutics
Against the background of an academic development starting in literary studies, also involving ‘encounters’ with hermeneutics, this article argues that the contemporary cross-discipline of Discourse Studies, and hence Critical Discourse Studies, have gone beyond the impressionistic or erudite ‘interpretation’ of (literary) texts, as traditionally practiced in hermeneutics. It is summarized how psychology today accounts for many of the properties …
Knowledge and discourse in secondary school social science textbooks
Within the framework of an interdisciplinary project on epistemic strategies in text and talk, this article examines such strategies in a (Spanish) secondary school textbook on social science. After a summary of current insights into the theory of knowledge in philosophy, psychology and linguistics, it is shown how discourse presupposes and expresses knowledge, with special emphasis on discourse processing and learning from text and its applicati…
Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
This paper discusses some principles of critical discourse analysis, such as the explicit sociopolitical stance of discourse analysts, and a focus on dominance relations by elite groups and institutions as they are being enacted, legitimated or otherwise reproduced by text and talk. One of the crucial elements of this analysis of the relations between power and discourse is the patterns of access to (public) discourse for different social groups.…
Discourse and the Denial of Racism
Within the broader framework of a research programme on the reproduction of racism in discourse and communication, the present article examines the prominent role of the denial of racism, especially among the elites, in much contemporary text and talk about ethnic relations. After a conceptual analysis of denial strategies in interpersonal impression formation on the one hand, and within the social-political context of minority and immigration ma…
Ideology and discourse analysis
Contrary to most traditional approaches, ideologies are defined here within a multidisciplinary framework that combines a social, cognitive and discursive component. As ‘systems of ideas’, ideologies are sociocognitively defined as shared representations of social groups, and more specifically as the ‘axiomatic’ principles of such representations. As the basis of a social group's self-image, ideologies organize its identity, actions, aims, norms …
Discourse and manipulation
‘Manipulation’ is one of the crucial notions of Critical Discourse Analysis that require further theoretical analysis. This article offers a triangulated approach to manipulation as a form of social power abuse, cognitive mind control and discursive interaction. Socially, manipulation is defined as illegitimate domination confirming social inequality. Cognitively, manipulation as mind control involves the interference with processes of understand…
There was a Problem, and it was Solved!”: Legitimating the Expulsion of `Illegal' Migrants in Spanish Parliamentary Discourse
In this article we examine some discursive aspects of political legitimation by analyzing the speech of the Spanish Secretary of the Interior, Mayor Oreja; on the occasion of a military-style expulsion of a group of African `illegal' migrants from Melilla—the Spanish enclave in Morocco—in the summer of 1996. After a theoretical analysis of legitimation, we study three levels of legitimation: (a) pragmatic: various strategies of the justification …
Discourse Semantics and Ideology
This article presents fragments of a new, multidisciplinary theory of ideology and its relations with discourse, formulated in the broader framework of a critical discourse analysis. Ideologies are defined as basic systems of fundamental social cognitions and organizing the attitudes and other social representations shared by members of groups. They thus indirectly control the mental representations (models) that form the interpretation basis and…
Critical Discourse Analysis
Discourse, context and cognition
In this article the relevance of a sociocognitive approach to discourse is shown by presenting a new theory of context, defined as subjective participants' constructs of communicative situations, and made explicit in terms of mental models - context models - in Episodic Memory. Through a 'contextual analysis' of a fragment of one of the 'Iraq' speeches by Tony Blair in the British House of Commons, it is shown how such context models control and …
War rhetoric of a little ally: Political implicatures and Aznar’s legitimatization of the war in Iraq
In this paper we examine some of the properties of the speeches by former Prime Minister José María Aznar held in Spanish parliament in 2003 legitimating his support of the USA and the threatening war against Iraq. The theoretical framework for the analysis is a multidisciplinary CDA approach relating discursive, cognitive and sociopolitical aspects of parliamentary debates. It is argued that speeches in parliament should not only be defined in t…
Pragmatic connectives
Análisis Crítico del Discurso
This article offers an updated revision of the research field commonly known as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). First, some sensitive aspects related to its multidisciplinary and dissident nature are clarified. Then a triangulated theoretical framework, which is based on the relationship among discourse, cognition, and society is presented. The ways in which hegemonic groups control text and context and, consequently, people's minds, and the m…
Popularization Discourse and Knowledge about the Genome
In this article, we examine some properties of the interface between meaning and knowledge in popularization discourse in the Spanish press aboutthe sequencing of the human genome. After a multidisciplinary account of popularization in terms of text, context and knowledge, we analyze some semantic aspects of 42 texts in El País, focusing especially on denominations, explanations and the description of new objects. Besides the usual metaphors conc…
How Globo media manipulated the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
The impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was the result of a coup of the economically dominant conservative oligarchy against the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, the Worker’s Party), in power since 2003. The right wing Brazilian media played a crucial role in this coup by manipulating public opinion as well as the politicians who voted against Dilma. In particular, the media of the powerful Globo Corporation, such as O…
Context and cognition: Knowledge frames and speech act comprehension
Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis
Critical discourse analysis and nominalization: Problem or pseudo-problem
This reply to Billig's article emphasizes that, as for all discourse, one should not only analyse texts, but also their contexts. The issue is not the primary use or abuse of nominalization or any other feature of discourse in CDA, but the study of the systematic abuse of discursive power by hiding the negative role of elite actors and the consequences of such discourse properties on the mental models of the recipients. CDA scholars do not study …
Discourse and Racism
Relevance assignment in discourse comprehension
An informal analysis is given of the notion of “relevance” as used in the description of discourse and discourse comprehension. The analysis is restricted to various kinds of semantic relevance. A distinction is made between relevance at the level of sentences, as it is usually discussed in terms of the opposition of topic and comment, and relevance at the global level of whole texts. In the latter case, relevance is identical with the theme or g…
Philosophy of action and theory of narrative
Structures of Discourse and Structures of Power
This chapter examines some of the relationships between discourse and social power. After a brief theoretical analysis of these relationships, we review some of the recent work in this new area of research. Although we draw upon studies of power in several disciplines, our major perspective is found in the ways power is enacted, expressed, described, concealed, or legitimated by text and talk in the social context. We pay special attention to the…
Story comprehension: An introduction
Structures of News in the Press
Race, riots and the press: An analysis of editorials in the British press about the 1985 disorders
Against the background of earlier work on the structures of news in the press and within the framework of a broader study of the reproduc tion racism in various types of discourse, this paper examines some properties of the British newspaper editorials about the inner city distur bances in 1985. Editorials appear to be structured by three major categories: Definition and Evaluation of the events, and Recommendations or a Moral about actions to be…
Action, Action Descritpion, and Narrative
HE AIM OF THIS PAPER is to show that a general theory of action may provide partial insight into the structure of narrative discourse. The intuitive idea behind this investigation is that one of the characteristic properties of narrative discourse is that it contains action descriptions. Such action descriptions are also given in current action theories of several disciplines, for example, philosophy, logic, the social sciences, and linguistics (…
Discourse & Society: A New Journal for a New Research Focus
Sémantique structurale et analyse thématique
Sémantique Générative Et Théorie Des Textes
Poetics: An introduction
Some problems of generative poetics
Foundations for Typologies of Texts
ions from empirical reality.5 5 For discussion about classification in the social sciences, see Rudner (1966). This discussion of `types' in the social sciences has led to serious controversies. For a rather formal discussion see again Rudner (1966) and the well-known article by Hempel (1952) summing up and elaborating the book he wrote together with Oppenheim (Hempel and Oppenheim, 1936). Hempel refers to traditional discussions about types by s…
On the foundations of poetics
Models for Text Grammars
Comment on se rappelle et on résume des histoires
Kintsch Walter, Van Dijk Teun A. Comment on se rappelle et on résume des histoires. In: Langages, 9e année, n°40, 1975. Problèmes de sémantique psychologique, sous la direction de Jean-François Le Ny. pp. 98-116.
Formal semantics of metaphorical discourse
Action, Action Descritpion, and Narrative
HE AIM OF THIS PAPER is to show that a general theory of action may provide partial insight into the structure of narrative discourse. The intuitive idea behind this investigation is that one of the characteristic properties of narrative discourse is that it contains action descriptions. Such action descriptions are also given in current action theories of several disciplines, for example, philosophy, logic, the social sciences, and linguistics (…
Philosophy of action and theory of narrative
Growing Texts on a Tree
Context and cognition: Knowledge frames and speech act comprehension
Toward a model of text comprehension and production.
The semantic structure of texts can be described both at the local microlevel and at a more global macrolevel. A model for text comprehension based on this notion accounts for the formation of a coherent semantic text base in terms of a cyclical process constrained by limitations of working memory. Furthermore, the model includes macro-operators, whose purpose is to reduce the information in a text base to its gist, that is, the theoretical macro…
Relevance assignment in discourse comprehension
An informal analysis is given of the notion of “relevance” as used in the description of discourse and discourse comprehension. The analysis is restricted to various kinds of semantic relevance. A distinction is made between relevance at the level of sentences, as it is usually discussed in terms of the opposition of topic and comment, and relevance at the global level of whole texts. In the latter case, relevance is identical with the theme or g…
Cognitive Processing of Literary Discourse
In this paper we would like to apply some recent results from cognitive psychology to the study of literary discourse. These results pertain to processes of the reading and comprehension of discourse, and to the ways textual information is stored in, and retrieved from, memory
Advice on theoretical poetics
Pragmatic connectives
Textwissenschaft: Eine interdisziplinäre Einführung
Story comprehension: An introduction
Discourse Studies and Education
Journal Article Discourse Studies and Education Get access TEUN A. VAN DIJK TEUN A. VAN DIJK University of Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume II, Issue 1, Spring 1981, Pages 1–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/II.1.1 Published: 01 March 1981 Article history Received: 01 May 1980 Published: 01 March 1981
Discourse Studies and Education
Discourse Analysis: Its Development and Application to the Structure of News
Concepts and contributions of the study of language to the explication of the structure and meaning of texts are reviewed and applied to the study of news. Developments in the last decade within such areas as text linguistics and, more generally, within the growing interdisciplinary study of discourse, have potential applications for the systematic analysis of mass media messages. Discourse analysis can make more explicit the classical approaches…
Prejudice in Discourse: An analysis of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation
In this book, a study is made of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation, based on intensive interviewing of white majority group members. After an introductory survey of traditional and more recent approaches in social psychology to the study of prejudice, a new 'sociocognitive' theory is sketched. This theory explains how cognitive representations and strategies of ethnic prejudice depend on their social functions within intergroup relat…
Introduction: Discourse Analysis in (Mass) Communication Research
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