Language and power
Subtitle: a resource book for students
By: Paul Simpson and Andrea Mayr.
Contributors: Mayr, Andrea, 1977-
Series: Routledge English language introductions
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415468992; 9780415469005
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Power (Social sciences); Language and languages -- Political aspects; Discourse analysis
Description: "Language and Power offers a comprehensive survey of the ways in which language intersects and connects with the social, cultural and political aspects of power; provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of the field, and covers all the major approaches, theoretical concepts and methods of analysis in this important and developing area of academic study; covers all the 'traditional' topics, such as race, gender and institutional power, but also incorporates newer material from forensic discourse analysis, the discourse of new capitalism and the study of humour as power; includes readings from works by seminal figures in the field, such as Roger Fowler, Deborah Cameron and Teun van Dijk; uses real texts and examples throughout, including advertisements from cosmetics companies; newspaper articles and headlines; websites and internet media; and spoken dialogues such as a transcription from the Obama and McCain presidential debate; and is accompanied by a supporting website that aims to challenge students at a more advanced level and features a complete four-unit chapter which includes activities, a reading and suggestions for further work." "Language and Power will be essential reading for students studying English language or linguistics."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Language and power; title: The discourse of institutions and organizations; title: Power and talk; title: Language and gender; title: Language and race; title: Power and the language of humour; title: Language and the law; title: Language and advertising; title: Language in the new capitalism; title: Language and politics; title: Web strand; title: Evaluation and re-evaluation: studying language and power development. Critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis; title: Registers of discourse; title: Studying spoken discourse; title: Gender and power: using the transitivity model; title: The representation of social actors; title: The discourse of humour and irony; title: Developments in forensic discourse analysis; title: Advertising discourse: methods for analysis; title: Language and new capitalism: developments; title: Studying political discourse: developments; title: Web strand; title: Language and power: extending the analysis; title: Exploration. Beginning analysis; title: Exploring register and ideology; title: Power and resistance in spoken discourse; title: Analysing gender; title: A workshop on the representation of social actors; title: Analysing humour and power; title: Analysing language in the legal context; title: Analysing advertisements; title: Analysing the language of new capitalism; title: Analysing political discourse; title: Web strand; title: Practicing corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis; title: Extension. Critical linguistics; title: Bureaucracy and social control; title: Power and resistance in police interviews; title: Masculinity and men's magazines; title: Discourse and the denial of racism; title: Humour and hatred; title: Forensic linguistics; title: Language style and life style; title: Language in the global service economy; title: Critical metaphor analysis; title: Web strand; title: Speaking sincerely.