Language and power: a resource book for students/

Main Author: Simpson, Paul, 1959-
Other Authors: Mayr, Andrea,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York: Routledge, 2010
Series:Routledge English language introductions
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Language and power
  • The discourse of institutions and organizations
  • Power and talk
  • Language and gender
  • Language and race
  • Power and the language of humour
  • Language and the law
  • Language and advertising
  • Language in the new capitalism
  • Language and politics
  • Web strand
  • Evaluation and re-evaluation: studying language and power development. Critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis
  • Registers of discourse
  • Studying spoken discourse
  • Gender and power: using the transitivity model
  • The representation of social actors
  • The discourse of humour and irony
  • Developments in forensic discourse analysis
  • Advertising discourse: methods for analysis
  • Language and new capitalism: developments
  • Studying political discourse: developments
  • Web strand
  • Language and power: extending the analysis
  • Exploration. Beginning analysis
  • Exploring register and ideology
  • Power and resistance in spoken discourse
  • Analysing gender
  • A workshop on the representation of social actors
  • Analysing humour and power
  • Analysing language in the legal context
  • Analysing advertisements
  • Analysing the language of new capitalism
  • Analysing political discourse
  • Web strand
  • Practicing corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis
  • Extension. Critical linguistics
  • Bureaucracy and social control
  • Power and resistance in police interviews
  • Masculinity and menΉs magazines
  • Discourse and the denial of racism
  • Humour and hatred
  • Forensic linguistics
  • Language style and life style
  • Language in the global service economy
  • Critical metaphor analysis
  • Web strand
  • Speaking sincerely.