274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
Language and Power is widely recognised both as a classic and an essential introductory textbook to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis. It focusses on how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society, the ways of analysing language which can reveal these processes and how people can become more conscious of them, as well as, more able to resist and... Read more
Preface. 1. Introduction: Critical Language Study 2. Discourse as social practice. 3. Discourse and power. 4. Discourse, common sense and ideology. 5. Critical discourse analysis in practice: description. 6. Critical discourse analysis in practice: interpretation, explanation, and the position of the analyst. 7. Creativity and struggle in discourse: the discourse of Thatcherism. 8. Discourse in social change. 9. Critical language study and social emancipation: language education in the schools. 10. Language and globalization.
Biography
Norman Fairclough
"This 3rd edition of Fairclough's classic text is an affirmation of its continued relevance as an accessible and inspiring introduction to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis." - David Robinson, Journal of Language and Politics 15:1
