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Language and Power / Norman Fairclough.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Language in social life seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Longman, c1989.Description: xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0582009766 (pbk.)
  • 9780582009769 (pbk.)
  • 0582031338 (hard)
  • 9780582031333 (hard)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Language and power.DDC classification:
  • 22 401.9 FAI
LOC classification:
  • P40 .F35 1989
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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 with the inclusion of a new chapter covering the 'globalisation' of power relations and the development of the internet in relation to language and power.
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Books Hamu Mukasa Library Closed Access l Short Loan; Level 1 401.9 FAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 157772

Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-252) and index.

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.

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 with the inclusion of a new chapter covering the 'globalisation' of power relations and the development of the internet in relation to language and power.

Also issued online.

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