Language and Power

By Norman Fairclough

Book Overview

Language and Power is widely recognised both as a classic and an essential introductory textbook to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis. It focusses on how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society, the ways of analysing language which can reveal these processes and how people can become more conscious of them, as well as, more able to resist and change them.

In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Norman Fairclough includes a substantial new introduction and brings the discussion up-to-date. He shows both the importance of the book in the development of critical discourse analysis over the past three decades and how language and power relations have changed due to major socio-economic changes.

It remains vital reading for all students of discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and other related courses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138790974
• ISBN13: 9781138790971
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Language and Power (Language in Social Life)

this book help you t understand the languag around you... i really like it! Thank again and also for sent it so fast!

A key to decipher power and ideology

This book is amazing in that it provides critical tools to unveil the ideologies and the prejudices underlying all kinds of texts, from the mainstream media to personal spoken exchanges. Whether you are a PhD student with a background in linguistics, or you are simply curious and willing to grasp which interests and concerns are REALLY behind language, not only will this book put you in a position to understand such social practices, but it will provide you with a language to describe and discuss them. I guess this volume is among the top ten books every student in linguistics and languages should read.