Cross-cultural asymmetries feature in interrogation transcripts examined by Gibbons (2003), who looks at the ways in which traditional Australian Aboriginal communities are treated by the legal process and at the numerous injustices ...
Thenouns andnounphrases usedto representthe socialactors in thetextexcerpts arein italics: Mr Phillips,chairman of theCommission ... There are twobedroom houses forsale for £150,000 in Highfields – that doesn't sound like a ghettotome.
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings – all in the same volume.
In this new edition, Norman Fairclough brings the discussion fully up-to-date and covers the issue of 'globalisation' of power relations and the development of the internet in relation to Language and Power.
In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G. Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history: that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian nation is ancient ...
Language and Power is about how language works to maintain and change power relations in contemporary society, and how understanding these processes can enable people to resist and change them....
Language and Power: Books VIII and IX
In this second edition, Norman Fairclough brings the discussion completely up-to-date with the inclusion of a new chapter covering the 'globalisation' of power relations and the development of the internet in relation to language and power.
But the sense in which these conventions are an effect of power behind discourse does not end there. ... These general tendencies in the order of discourse of modern society accord with the nature of its power relations and modern ...
Fairclough (2000: 12), for example, used a corpus comprised mainly of speeches by Tony Blair to show that New Labour ... 'in contexts of change, modernization, or more specifically applying traditional values to the modern world' (ibid.
Essential study guides for the future linguist. Language and Power is an introduction to how English is used to influence, persuade and position us within hierarchies. It is suitable for students at advanced level and beyond.
The contributors to Language and Power approach the subject from different academic and cultural perspectives. Some focus on the link between whole languages and power structures; others consider styles and...
An overview of the field of institutional discourse, introducing the key theorists.
... Discourse and power in a multilingual world. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Bourdieu, P. (1977). The economics of linguistic exchanges. Social Science Information, 16(6), 645-668. Bourdieu, P. (1991). Language and symbolic power. Cambridge ...
The purpose of the book is to inform, but also to encourage readers to formulate their own ideas about language and power in various contexts.