After his earlier book Discourse and Context, also published by
Cambridge University Press, Teun A. van Dijk in this 2009 study
presents the second part of his new multidisciplinary theory of
context. The main thesis of this theory is that the influence of
society on discourse is not direct, as is postulated for instance
in sociolinguistics, but cognitively mediated by subjective mental
models of the communicative situation: context models. These
dynamic models control discourse production and comprehension and
define the pragmatic appropriateness of text and talk. Whereas in
Discourse and Context the psychological and linguistic aspects of
context were analyzed, this book focuses on the social
psychological, sociological, anthropological and political aspects
of context. Tony Blair's 2003 speech defending his motion to go to
war against Saddam Hussein and the following debate in parliament
is used as an example illustrating the new theory.
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