Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language

by Norman Fairclough

Overview

Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical Discourse Analysis represents 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 power
• discourse in processes of social and cultural change
• dialectics of discourse, dialectical relations between discourse and other moments of social life
• methodology of critical discourse analysis research
• analysis of political discourse
• discourse 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405858229
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Norman Fairclough is Emeritus Professor at Lancaster University.

Table of Contents

General Introduction:

Section A Language, ideology and power

Introduction

1. Critical and descriptive goals in discourse analysis

2. Language and ideology

3. Semiosis, mediation and ideology: a dialectical view

Section B Discourse and social change

Introduction

4. Critical discourse analysis and the marketization of public discourse: the universities

5. Discourse, change and hegemony

6. Ideology and identity change in political television

Section C Dialectics of discourse: theoretical developments

Introduction

7. Discourse, social theory and social research: the discourse of welfare reform

8. (with R Jessop, A Sayer) Critical realism and semiosis

Section D Methodology

9. A dialectical-relational approach to critical discourse analysis in social research

10. (with Eve Chiapello) Understanding the new management ideology. A transdisciplinary contribution from Critical Discourse Analysis and New Sociology of Capitalism

11. Critical Discourse Analysis in researching language in the New Capitalism: overdetermination, transdisciplinarity and textual analysis

12. (with Phil Graham) Marx as a Critical Discourse Analyst: The genesis of a critical method and its relevance to the critique of global capital

13. Critical discourse analysis, organizational discourse, and organizational change

Section E Political discourse

Introduction

14. New Labour: a language perspective

15. Democracy and the public sphere in critical research on discourse

16. (with Simon Pardoe & Bronislaw Szerszynski) Critical discourse analysis and citizenship

17. Political correctness

Section F Globalization and ‘transition’

Introduction

18. Language and Globalization

19. Global capitalism, terrorism and war: a discourse-analytical perspective

20. Discourse and ‘transition’ in Central and Eastern Europe

Section G Language and education

Introduction

21. Critical language awareness and self-identity in education

22. Global capitalism and critical awareness of language

References

Index

Editorial Reviews

Intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate linguistics students, this text brings together ten papers, seven of which have been previously published. The book's four sections cover language, ideology, and power; discourse and sociocultural change; textual analysis in social research; and critical language awareness. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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