Current Issues In Language and Society
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Volume: 2 Number: 2 Page: 168–172
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Against Reductionism: A Rejoinder
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Teun A. Van Dijk
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Let me begin by emphasising that I am pleased with Mick Billig's constructive critique of my paper, and his kind remarks about my work. It is my pleasure to state from the outset how much I have always
admired his work, and how much I have learned from it, from his early work on fascism to his later work on nationalism. This is social psychology at its best, and discourse analysts should be inspired by
it. Indeed, his explicit rhetorical approach to discourse and the mind is one of the interdisciplinary bridges his work has built. Because of limitations of space I must be brief about the important issues
he raises. They would deserve a whole volume, and we are planning just that: an encounter between discursive psychology and socio-cognitive discourse studies. I'll therefore merely summarise some of the
remarks his critique calls for.
© Multilingual Matters 1998
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