Analyzing Discourse is an accessible introduction to text and discourse analysis for all students and researchers seeking to use and investigate real language data. Students and researchers in the social sciences, as well as language specialists, often discover that they cannot get as much from texts, conversations or research interviews as they would like because they are unsure exactly how to analyze these language materials. This book helps all students and researchers who rely on real language data to get the most out of their resources. Drawing on a range of social theorists from Bourdieu to Habermas, as well as his own past research, Fairclough's book presents a form of language analysis with a consistently social perspective. His approach is illustrated by and investigated through a range of real texts, from political speeches and TV news reports to management consultancy reports and texts concerning globalization. The book is an essential resource seeking to analyze real texts and discourse.
Author(s): Norman Fairclough
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 197
Analysing Discourse NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH......Page 2
contents......Page 3
Acknowledgements......Page 4
2 Texts, social events and social practices......Page 16
3 Intertextuality and assumptions......Page 30
Note......Page 46
4 Genres and generic structure......Page 47
5 Meaning relations between sentences and clauses......Page 63
6 Clauses Types of exchange, speech functions and grammatical mood......Page 77
Part III Discourses and representations......Page 87
7 Discourses......Page 88
8 Representations of social events......Page 96
9 Styles......Page 112
10 Modality and evaluation......Page 116
Conclusion......Page 136
Glossaries......Page 151
Glossary of key theorists......Page 162
Appendix of texts......Page 164
References......Page 182
Index......Page 191
