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Discourse and Context
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 37.00Discusses and develops a theory of 'context' - how do social situations influence language use and conversation? more...
Society and Discourse
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 37.00Presents a new theory of context that explains how text and talk are adapted to their social environment. more...
Discourse as Structure and Process
SAGE Publications 1997; US$ 63.95What are the structures of discourse and what are the functions of these structures in the communicative context? This volume explains how and why discourse is organized at various levels. The multidisciplinary contributions illustrate that discourse analysis goes far beyond the linguistic answer of designing grammars and goes hand in hand with... more...
Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 158.00This new book extends Teun A. van Dijk?s earlier research on discursive racism to the Latin world. He presents a first inventory of elite discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America by examining discursive reactions in Spain to recent immigration, as well as age-old racism and ethnicism in text and talk in Latin America (especially Mexico, Brazil,... more...
Discourse Studies
SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 58.00A second edition of two classic texts, now in an all-in-one volume. A general introduction to the increasingly influential cross-disciplinary area of discourse studies, this is edited by the key name in the field and has a stellar list of contributors. more...
Discourse and Literature
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1985; US$ 143.00Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve well-known specialists selected and introduced by Teun A.... more...
Prejudice in Discourse
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1984; US$ 105.00In 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... more...
Ideology
SAGE Publications 1998; US$ 63.00In this ground-breaking book, Teun A van Dijk sketches a challenging new multidisciplinary framework for theorizing ideology. In relations between cognition, society and disocurse he defines ideologies as a form of social cognition, and as the basis of social representation of a group. more...
Approaches to Discourse, Poetics and Psychiatry
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1988; US$ 143.00A collection of innovative essays representing the most recent developments in poetry as discourse, the discourse of power, and discourse of psychiatry and psychosis. The essays in this volume deal with questions of interpretation of poetry, psychoanalysis, and political theory. All are presented here as appropriate objects of discourse studies which... more...
Econometric Methods with Applications in Business and Economics
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 94.99This rigorous textbook provides students with a working understanding and hands-on experience of current econometrics. It covers basic econometric methods and addresses the creative process of model building. Using real-world examples and exercises, it focuses on regression and covers choice data and time series data. Perfect for advanced undergraduate... more...









