Language and power

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Language and Power is about how language works to maintain and change power relations in contemporary society, and how understanding these processes can enable people to resist and change them. Substantial changes in social life have taken place in the decade since the original publication, which have changed the nature of unequal power relations, and therefore the agenda for the critical study of language. In this second edition, Norman Fairclough brings the discussion completely up-to-date wi…

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Title Statements

Full title :Language and power / Norman Fairclough.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1989.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Longman
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:1989.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 259 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0582009766, 9780582009769, 0582031338, 9780582031333
oclc:ocm17321588
LC Classification:P40
Dewey Decimal:401/.9

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.

Subjects

Analyse du discours Discourse analysis Discourse analysis -- Social aspects languages Macht Power (Social sciences) Pragmatics sociolinguistics Sociolinguistique Szociolingvisztika Szövegtan Taalgebruik