Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language
Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period,Critical Discourse Analysisrepresents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field. The book is divided into seven sections covering the following themes: language in relation to ideology and powerdiscourse in processes of social and cultural changedialectics of discourse, dialectical relations between discourse and other moments of social lifemethodology of critical discourse analysis researchanalysis of political discoursediscourse in globalisation and ‘transition’critical language awareness in education The new edition has been extensively revised and enlarged to include a total of twenty two papers. It will be of value to researchers in the subject and should prove essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Linguistics and other areas of social science. Norman Fairclough is Emeritus Professor at Lancaster University.