Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse

This book addresses the role of perspective in socio-political discourse, and explores, from a cognitive standpoint, the way in which perspective functions in three dimensions – space, time, and evaluation – to enact ideology and persuasion. Contributions find a recurrent theme in the way in which perspectival concepts like distance and focus, prompted by linguistic signs, feature in our discursively constructed knowledge of social and political realities. By highlighting the complex nature of perspective-taking in ideological discourse, the volume sets the agenda for further research in this area. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Discourse Studies.