Space, time and evaluation in ideological discourse.

What is it about?

This paper deals with how language constructs worldviews and how these can be analysed. It is the introduction to a special issue on space, time and evaluation in ideological discourse, and in it the main theoretical aspects underlying all the papers included in the issue are outlined. The paper deals with explaining cognitive accounts of perspective.

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Why is it important?

In the last decade, a cognitive school has begun to emerge in critical discourse analysis (CDA). In this paper, we argue that CDA can certainly benefit from studies based on cognitive approaches to language. Following a model based on three axes (space, time and evaluation), the notion of perspective is defined. The paper, and the whole collection it precedes, offer therefore a new and fresh view for CDA.