Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- (Critical) Discourse analysis and pragmatics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A few observations on the history of pragmatics and discourse analysis -- 3. Diagrammatic representations of the relationship of pragmatics and discourse analysis: Some examples of subordination and inclusion -- 4. General scientific characterisations of discourse analysis and pragmatics -- 5. Pragmatics and discourse analysis: general commonalities and differences -- 6. Conclusions: A plea for an integrative concept of discourse analysis -- References -- Discourse, knowledge, power and politics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A brief summary of what we know about knowledge and discourse -- 2.1 Language and discourse processing -- 2.2 The psychology of discourse processing -- 2.3 The Sociology and politics of knowledge -- 2.4 On knowledge and culture -- 3. Critical epistemic discourse analysis -- 3.1 Epistemic discourse analysis -- 3.2 Methods of critical epistemic analysis -- 4. Analysis - again: Tony Blair on Iraq -- 4.1 Topics -- 4.2 Local coherence -- 4.3 Actor description: Knowledge or opinion? -- 4.4 Level, detail and precision of description -- 4.5 Implications, implicatures and presuppositions -- 4.6 Evidentiality -- 4.7 Metaphor -- 4.8 Modalities -- 4.9 Argumentation -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Constraining context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cognitive biases and errors: Psychological grounds for manipulation -- 3. The fallibility of information processing: Pragmatic insights -- 4. Manipulation as contextual constraint -- 4.1 Constraining the context: Salience of contextual assumptions -- 5. A Cognitive insight into fallacies -- 6. Adding some spin to the model -- 7. Conclusion -- References.

Axiological proximization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The STA proximization model -- 3. Axiological proximization in Phase Two of the Iraq War -- 3.1 The axiological (A) proximization framework -- 3.2 Counts from the A framework -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Critical discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics as tools for ideological research -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ideology and cognition: On the compatibility of CDA and CL for ideological research -- 3. The cognitive dimension of feminist ideology -- 3.1 Inequality in the society container -- 3.1.1 Women's exclusion from the public container -- 3.1.2 The conflict between the private and the public -- 4. Cognition, discourse and social change -- 4.1 The lexis of 'womanhood': Femininity versus masculinity -- 4.2 From victimization to self-affirmation: Objectification versus agency -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Source texts -- Analysing lesbian identity in discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Collective identities as socio-cognitive representations -- 3. A cognitive critical framework for analysing collective identity in discourse -- 4. Example: 1970s lesbian feminist discourse -- 4.1 Societal context -- 4.2 Discourse practice context -- 4.3 Textual analysis -- 5. Implications -- References -- Appendix -- The ideological construction of European identities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations -- 2.1 Theoretical framework -- 2.2 Methodological framework -- 3. Analysing the construction of European identities -- 3.1 The old vs. new Europe debate -- 3.2 The construction of European Identities in the Guardian -- 3.2.1 The discursive construction of old Europe -- 3.2.2 The discursive construction of new Europe -- 4. Results and discussion -- References -- Moving beyond metaphor in the cognitive linguistic approach to CDA -- 1. Introduction.

2. CDA and Cognitive Linguistics -- 3. Construal Operations -- 3.1 Profiling/backgrounding -- 3.2 Metonymy -- 3.3 Categorization -- 3.4 Scalar Adjustment -- 3.5 Metaphor -- 3.6 Deixis -- 3.7 Epistemic Modality -- 4. Toward a Typology of Construal Operations -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Effective vs. epistemic stance and subjectivity in political discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stance, subjectivity and political discourse -- 2.1 Effective vs. epistemic stance -- 2.2 Subjectivity and intersubjectivity -- 2.3 Texts, genres and discourses -- 3. The corpus study -- 3.1 The texts -- 3.2 Research objectives and procedure -- 4. Effective and epistemic stance in discourses -- 4.1 Effective stance -- 4.2 Epistemic stance -- 4.3 Effective vs. epistemic stance: Results and discussion -- 5. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Discourses -- 5.1 Salience of Conceptualizer Role -- 5.2 Subjective and intersubjective evidentiality -- 5.3 Subjectivity/intersubjectivity -- 5.4 Subjectivity and intersubjectivity: Results and discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Notes on contributors -- Index.