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Language and power

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 pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fairclough, Norman
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Routledge 2015
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm