Language and Power

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Contents Author's Preface to the Second Edition Author's Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgements Introduction Critical Discourse Analysis: a summary view Discourse CDA as Discourse Interpretation and explanation Normative and explanatory critique Common sense Praxis: (transformative) human action Dialectics Argumentation CDA and other forms of critical analysis Power Capitalism Ideology Social change History Text Conclusion A checklist Discourse as social practice Language and discourse Discourse and orders of discourse Class and power in capitalist society Dialectic of structures and practices Summary and conclusions References Discourse and power Power in discourse Power behind discourse Social struggle in discourse Summary and conclusions References Discourse, common sense and ideology Implicit assumptions, coherence and inferencing Variation and struggle in ideology Ideology and meaning Interactional routines and their boundaries 'Making trouble': foregrounding common sense Summary References Critical discourse analysis in practice: description Question 1: what experiential values do words have? Question 2: what relational values do words have? Question 3: what expressive values do words have? Question 4: what metaphors are used? Question 5: what experiential value do grammatical features have? Question 6: what relational values do grammatical features have? Question 7: what expressive values do grammatical features have? Question 8: how are (simple) sentences linked together? Question 9: what interactional conventions are used? Question 10: what larger-scale structures does the text have? References Critical discourse analysis in practice: interpretation, explanation, and the position of the analyst Interpretation Conclusion Explanation Conclusion: position of analyst References Creativity and struggle in discourse: the discourse of Thatcherism Producing texts Case study Case study: the analysis Conclusion References Discourse in social change Tendencies in society and discourse: a summary Advertising and consumerism Discourse technologies and bureaucracy The discourse of therapy Other tendencies Conclusion References Critical language study and social emancipation: language education in the schools Language education in schools: critical language awareness Language and globalization Language in the new world order Globalization of discourse The discourse of globalization The closing of the universe of discourse? 'Facilitating': codification in the domain of work The political discourse of the 'Third Way': codification in politics Grounds for resistance Taking it further Further reading References Bibliography Index