Critical Discourse Analysis The Critical Study of Language

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 powerdiscourse in processes of social and cultural change dialectics of discourse, dialectical relations between discourse and other moments of social lifemethodology 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.

General Introduction:Section A Language, ideology and powerIntroduction1. Critical and descriptive goals in discourse analysis2. Language and ideology 3. Semiosis, mediation and ideology: a dialectical viewSection B Discourse and social changeIntroduction4. Critical discourse analysis and the marketization of public discourse: the universities5. Discourse, change and hegemony6. Ideology and identity change in political televisionSection C Dialectics of discourse: theoretical developments Introduction7. Discourse, social theory and social research: the discourse of welfare reform8. (with R Jessop, A Sayer) Critical realism and semiosis Section D Methodology9. A dialectical-relational approach to critical discourse analysis in social research10. (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 analysis12. (with Phil Graham) Marx as a Critical Discourse Analyst: The genesis of a critical method and its relevance to the critique of global capital13. Critical discourse analysis, organizational discourse, and organizational changeSection E Political discourseIntroduction14. New Labour: a language perspective15. Democracy and the public sphere in critical research on discourse 16. (with Simon Pardoe & Bronislaw Szerszynski) Critical discourse analysis and citizenship17. Political correctnessSection F Globalization and ‘transition’Introduction18. Language and Globalization 19. Global capitalism, terrorism and war: a discourse-analytical perspective20. Discourse and ‘transition’ in Central and Eastern Europe Section G Language and educationIntroduction21. Critical language awareness and self-identity in education22. Global capitalism and critical awareness of languageReferencesIndex

Norman Fairclough is Emeritus Professor at Lancaster University.