Critical Discourse Analysis, 2nd edition

Critical Discourse Analysis, 2nd edition
The Critical Study of Language

By Norman Fairclough
August 2010
Pearson Education
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9781405858229
591 pages
$49.50 Paper original

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.