| This dissertation is concerned with making statements of meaning about the relationship between ideology and naturally-occurring language events. For any event to have 'meaning' in the flux of human experience it must stand in relation to some set or sets of structurating principles in the light of which it can even be recognized as an event. In the case of language events this means that discourse has necessary relations to a set of resources for making discourse. These resources are understood as gnostological resources--resources for 'knowing'. Initially, we may recognize two types of knowing resources--the contextual and the codal.;The events under observation here, language events called discourse, have relations to these general resources. At a high degree of abstraction, we can view these relations as model-instance relations, and adopt the basic principle that an instance of X is interpretable in terms of a model or models for X's. In this view, it is recognized that models are 'made up' of instances--events (instances) provide 'information' about the properties that must be included in models. In general, we want to recognize discourse, as a unique linguistic event, as simultaneously instantiating properties associated with contextual and codal gnostological models.;Because language events (discourses) only occur in contexts of living, they are never isolated from the material conditions of their participants. In fact, it is a key feature of the perspective taken in this dissertation that discourse is a major means by which we construct these conditions, a major means by which we make sense and non-sense of them. I shall be concerned with the processes that demonstrate that the instantiation of contextual and codal knowledge in discourse is the object of a study concerned with understanding the relations between language and ideology. (Abstract shortened by UMI.). |
