Language and Power (Language In Social Life) - Softcover

Fairclough, Prof Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582031338 ISBN 13: 9780582031333

Publisher: Longman, 1989

Synopsis

Language and power is certainly an excellent introductory manual on how to take texts to pieces and to expose their ideological workings. Times Higher Education Supp. Examines how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society. It discusses ways of analysing language which can reveal these processes, how people can become more conscious of them, and more able to resist and change them. The book includes a practical procedure for the critical analysis of discourse and a theoretical account of connections between language, power and ideology.

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"Language and power is certainly an excellent introductory manual on how to take texts to pieces and to expose their ideological workings." Times Higher Education Supp.

From the Back Cover:

Language in Social Life is a major series which highlights the importance of language to an understanding of issues of social and professional concern. It will be of practical relevance to all those wanting to understand how the ways we communicate both influence and are influenced by the structures and forces of contemporary social institutions. Praise for the first edition of Language and Power: "...an excellent introductory manual" THES "...thought provoking and suggestive" SECOL (Southeastern Conference on Linguistics) Review Language and Power was first published in 1989 and quickly established itself as a ground-breaking book. Its popularity continues as an accessible introductory text to the field of Discourse Analysis, focusing on:

• how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society
• the ways of analysing language which can reveal these processes
• how people can become more conscious of them, and more able to resist and change them.

The question of language and power is still important and urgent in the twenty-first century, but there have been substantial changes in social life during the past decade which have somewhat changed the nature of unequal power relations, and therefore the agenda for the critical study of language. In this new edition, Norman Fairclough brings the discussion fully up-to-date and covers the issue of 'globalisation' of power relations and the development of the internet in relation to Language and Power. The bibliography has also been fully updated to include important new reference material.Norman Fairclough is Professor of Language in Social Life in the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0582031338
• ISBN 13: 9780582031333
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272