Text semantics and the ideological patterning of texts
Ideological patterning of texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12877460 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Melrose (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-94 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-5904 • E-ISSN: 1740-5912 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17405900500052077 |
| OpenAlex | W1519400227 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
There has been much discussion about semantics and ideology in systemic-functional linguistics, which has significant implications for critical discourse analysis. This paper attempts to explore the early Hallidayan concept of semantics, contemporary notions of text semantics as proposed by Jay Lemke, and Michel Foucault's discussion of discursive formations, sexuality, the confession, and normalising judgement, to analyse a small corpus of letters to agony aunts in contemporary Britain. Through an analysis of transitivity, hypotaxis, aspect, and modality (presentational, orientational, and organisational meanings), the paper constructs a system network which attempts to show how ideology (discourses of sexuality, the confession, and normalising judgement) is realised in the text semantics which is then realised in the lexicogrammar
Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Programming language · Semantics (computer science · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2013 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |