THE DISCURSIVE CHARACTER OF IDEOLOGY

Abstract

The basic premise of this paper is that ideologies are expressed and reproduced in discourse and communication, especially given the paleosymbolic dimension, which is increasingly pro­moted by the information and communication technologies. Its own social character ideology owes to language and speech or discourse. Social representations, relations and structures are text and speech. One of the ways that ideology could be analyzed as a social phenomenon is by tracking its effects in discursive social practices. This paper emphasizes the view that ideology cannot be entirely reduced to discursive practices, but its genesis, social function, meaning and reproduction can be found in them. This means that discourse reveals semantic identity of ideol­ogy, but it does not uncover ideology completely.