ABSTRACT
The concept of ‘discourse’ has been used in a variety of ways in current work on linguistic processes operating above the level of the sentence.1 In this paper I wish to examine one particular use of the term associated most closely with the work of a number of scholars who are concerned with the relationship between linguistic processes and ‘ideology’ (Fowler et al., 1979, Kress and Hodge, 1979), especially with the way in which the concept has been used by Gunther Kress (Kress 1985a, 1985b, 1985c).
