Language and power
Subtitle: an introduction to institutional discourse
By: Andrea Mayr.
Series: Advances in sociolinguistics
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780826487445; 9780826487438
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Power (Social sciences); Language policy
Description: A comprehensive introduction to language and power for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates, this title covers all the important issues within language and power, and the different approaches to analysing these issues.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : power, discourse and institutions / Andrea Mayr; title: Discourses of higher education : enterprise and institutional change in the university / Andrea Mayr; title: Prison discourse : enterprising managerialism in a total institution / Andrea Mayr; title: News discourse I : understanding the social goings-on behind news texts / David Machin; title: News discourse II : anti-racism and neo-liberalism in the British regional press / David Machin and Andrea Mayr; title: Defence discourse I : the visual institutionalization of discourses in war monuments / Gill Abousnnouga and David Machin; title: Defence discourse II : a corpus perspective on routine and rhetoric in defence discourse / Tony Bastow; title: Conclusion : researching institutional discourse / Andrea Mayr with Tony Bastow.