Language and Power (Language in Social Life)

✍ Scribed by Norman Fairclough

Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Leaves: 135
Series: Language In Social Life Series
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Examines how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society. It discusses ways of analysing language which can reveal these processes, how people can become more conscious of them, and more able to resist and change them.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Дискурс и дискурс-анализ;

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