Publisher's Synopsis
This first title in the series analyzes the social effects of language and discusses the contribution this field of "critical linguistics" might make to our understanding of language and society, by increasing consciousness of language, including "language awareness" in schools, and to social emancipation.;The author examines how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society and discusses ways of analyzing language which can reveal these processes and suggests how they can be resisted and changed. In addition, Fairclough seeks to bridge the gap between the linguistic analysis of text and social theories about the language-power relationship. Included is a theoretical account of connections between language, power and ideology and a practical procedure for the critical analysis of discourse.
