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Language and Power

Table of Contents

 

A - INTRODUCTION

B- DEVELOPMENT

C - EXPLORATION

D- EXTENSION

1

Language and power

Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis

Beginning analysis

Critical Linguistics (Roger Fowler and Gunther Kress)

2

The discourse of institutions and organizations

Registers of discourse

Exploring Register and Ideology

Bureaucracy and social control
(Srikant Sarangi and Steff Slembrouck)

3

Power and talk

Studying spoken discourse

Power and resistance in spoken discourse

Power and resistance in police interviews (Kate Haworth)

4

Language and gender

Gender and power: using the Transitivity model

Analysing gender

Masculinity and men’s magazines
(Bethan Benwell)

5

Language and race

The representation of social actors

A workshop on the representation of social actors

Discourse and the denial of racism
(van Dijk)

6

Power and the language of humour

The discourse of humour and irony

Analysing humour and power

Humour and hatred (Michael Billig)

7

Language and the law

Developments in forensic discourse analysis

Analysing language in the legal context

Forensic Linguistics (Malcolm Coulthard)

8

Language and advertising

Advertising discourse: methods for analysis

Analysing advertisements

Language style and life style 
(David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen)

9

Language in the new capitalism

Language and new capitalism: developments

Analysing the language of New Capitalism

Language in the global service economy (Deborah Cameron)

10

Language and politics

Studying Political Discourse: Developments

Analysing political discourse

Critical Metaphor Analysis
(Jonathan Charteris-Black)

 

 

 

 

Suggestions for Further Reading

 

 

 

 

References

 

WEB STRAND

Companion Web Site

11

Evaluation and re-evaluation: Studying language and power

Language and power: extending the analysis

Practicing corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis

Speaking sincerely (Martin Montgomery)