ABSTRACT
A significant part of today’s CDA reveals a cognitive element, drawing on work on spatial-temporal cognition and conceptualization (Talmy 2000; Fauconnier and Turner 2002; Levinson 2003; Evans and Chilton 2010; among many others) in various interdisciplinary studies of ideologically motivated construals of meaning within different discourse domains (e.g., Cienki, Kaal and Maks 2010; Hart 2010; Dunmire 2011; Kaal 2012; Filardo-Llamas 2010, 2013). As shown in Hart’s chapter (this volume), the cognitive-linguistic (CL) approach to CDA offers a disciplined theoretical perspective on the conceptual import of linguistic choices identified as potentially ideological. It thus affords a new and promising lens on persuasive, manipulative and coercive properties of discourse, worldview and conceptualization which have hitherto been beyond the radar of CDA (see also overviews in Hart 2014; Hart and Cap 2014; Filardo-Llamas, Hart and Kaal 2015).
