Journal of Political Ideologies (June 2006), 11(2), Routledge — pp. 115-140Ideological analysis of language and discourse is a widely practised scholarly and critical endeavour in the humanities and the social sciences. The presupposition of such analyses is that ideologies of speakers or writers may be uncovered by close reading, understanding or systematic analysis, if language users explicitly or unwittingly express their ideologies through language and communication.Contents:
Introduction
Social-political discourse analysis
The socio-cognitive interface
Ideologies
Discourse structures
Structures of ideologies and structures of meaning
Analyses of examples
Conclusion
