Language and Power

Pearson Professional Education

2001

226 p.

Language in social life

9780582414839

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 power 2000. Bibliography. Index.

This introduction to critical discourse analysis has been updated to take account of changing power relations in contemporary society. This edition includes a new chapter covering the "globalization" of power relations and the development of the internet in relation to language and power

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