Discourse, Ideology and Power: From Archeology towards Genealogy

Towards an Existential Archeology of Capitalist Spirituality

Throughout his career, Michel Foucault sustained a trenchant critique of Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he accused of arguing that the subject “dispenses (all) significations”. In contrast to existentialism’s interests in subjective consciousness, Foucault pursues an archaeological method which he later develops into a genealogical approach to discourse that emphasizes the institutional practices and f...

Ideology, Hegemony, dIscourse: A crItIcAl revIew

A Separation, an Ideological Rift in the Iranian Society and Culture: Media, Discourse and Ideology

Media can be a good representation of dominant ideologies in society. The analysis of such discourse can shed light on the mental and social structures of people in society. Adopting van Dijk’s (1995) layout of discourse ideology and his (2000) practical and general outline of ideological analysis, this study analyzes the Iranian movie A Separation, the winner of the 84th An...

Ideology and Interpretation: a Figurative Semiotics of Musical Discourse

Résumé meaning. Offering a case study from the South African art music repertoire, the example chosen for this purpose is ‘Die Meisie’ (‘The Girl’), the first of five songs from Hubert du Plessis’s cycle Die Vrou (‘The Woman’). This text allows for an exceptionally productive exploration of the role of ideology in the figurative construction of musical meaning, uncovering contested points of di...

Argumentation, Ideology, and Issue Framing in Parliamentary Discourse

In argumentative political speech, the way an issue is framed may indicate the unstated assumptions of the argument and hence the ideological position of the speaker. Our goal is to use and extend our prior work on discourse parsing and the identification of argumentation schemes to identify specific instances of issue framing and, more generally, ideological positions as they are expressed in ...