Discourse and Social Change

Name: Discourse and Social Change
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ISBN: 9780745612188

ISBN-10: 0745612180

ISBN-13: 9780745612188

Edition: 1992

Authors: Norman Fairclough, John Thompson

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Now available in paperback, this book is a critical introduction to discourse analysis as it is practised in a variety of different disciplines today, from linguistics and sociolinguistics to sociology and cultural studies. The author shows how concern with the analysis of discourse can be combined, in a systematic and fruitful way, with an interest in broader problems of social analysis and social change. Fairclough provides a concise and critical review of the methods and results of discourse analysis, discussing the descriptive work of linguists and conversation analysts as well as the more historically and theoretically oriented work of Michel Foucault. He develops an original framework…

Book details

List price: $41.50
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 6/7/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Approaches to Discourse Analysis



Michel Foucault and the Analysis of Discourse



A Social Theory of Discourse



Intertextuality



Text Analysis: Constructing Social Relations and 'the Self'



Text Analysis: Constructing Social Reality



Discourse and Social Change in Contemporary Society



Doing Discourse Analysis


References