FAIRCLOUGH NORMAN

(P/B) CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
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 p...
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(P/B) DISCOURSE IN LATE MODERNITY
Discourse in Late Modernity sets out to show that critical discourse analysis is strongly positioned to address empirical research and theory-building across the social sciences, particularly research and theory on the semiotic/linguistic aspects of the social world. It situates critical discourse analysis as a form of critical social research in relation to diverse theories from the philosophy of science to social theory and from political science to sociology and linguistics. First, the authors clarify the ontological and epistemological...
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(P/B) ANALYSING DISCOURSE
Analysing Discourse is an accessible introductory textbook for all students and researchers working with real language data. Drawing on a range of social theorists from Bourdieu to Habermas, as well as his own research, Norman Fairclough's book presents a form of language analysis with a consistently social perspective. His approach is illustrated by and investigated through a range of real texts, from written texts, to a TV debate about the monarchy and a radio broadcast about the Lockerbie bombing. The student-friendly book also offers a...
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(P/B) POLITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative approach to analysing political discourse. Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of arguments into critical discourse analysis and political discourse analysis. The book is grounded in a view of politics in which deliberation, decision and action are crucial concepts: politics is about arriving cooperatively at decisions about what to do in the context of disagreement, conflict of interests and values, power inequalities, uncertainty and risk...
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(P/B) LANGUAGE AND POWER
Language and Power is widely recognized both as a classic and an essential introductory textbook to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis. It focuses on how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society, the ways of analyzing 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...
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(P/B) MEDIA DISCOURSE
Norman Fairclough argues that critical discourse analysis can offer an innovative approach to studying the media. In a series of close and lively analyses of contemporary media texts, he demonstrates how changing practices of media discourse relate to wider processes of social and cultural change. These are vividly illustrated by the tensions between public and private and between information and entertainment which exist in many contemporary media texts. Fairclough explains the concept of intertextuality and shows how texts function by em...
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(P/B) LANGUAGE AND GLOBALIZATION