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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.

Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language

General Introduction:



Section A Language, ideology and power



Introduction



1. Critical and descriptive goals in discourse analysis



2. Language and ideology



3. Semiosis, mediation and ideology: a dialectical view







Section B Discourse and social change



Introduction



4. Critical discourse analysis and the marketization of public discourse: the universities



5. Discourse, change and hegemony



6. Ideology and identity change in political television







Section C Dialectics of discourse: theoretical developments



Introduction



7. Discourse, social theory and social research: the discourse of welfare reform



8. (with R Jessop, A Sayer) Critical realism and semiosis







Section D Methodology



9. A dialectical-relational approach to critical discourse analysis in social research



10. (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 analysis



12. (with Phil Graham) Marx as a Critical Discourse Analyst: The genesis of a critical method and its relevance to the critique of global capital



13. Critical discourse analysis, organizational discourse, and organizational change







Section E Political discourse



Introduction



14. New Labour: a language perspective



15. Democracy and the public sphere in critical research on discourse



16. (with Simon Pardoe & Bronislaw Szerszynski) Critical discourse analysis and citizenship



17. Political correctness







Section F Globalization and 'transition'



Introduction



18. Language and Globalization



19. Global capitalism, terrorism and war: a discourse-analytical perspective



20. Discourse and 'transition' in Central and Eastern Europe







Section G Language and education



Introduction



21. Critical language awareness and self-identity in education



22. Global capitalism and critical awareness of language































References



Index