An edition of Language and power (2008)

Language and power

an introduction to institutional discourse

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An edition of Language and power (2008)

Language and power

an introduction to institutional discourse

A comprehensive introduction to language and power for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates, this title covers all the important issues within language and power, and the different approaches to analysing these issues.

Publish Date
Publisher
Continuum
Language
English
Pages
204

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Table of Contents

Introduction : power, discourse and institutions / Andrea Mayr
Discourses of higher education : enterprise and institutional change in the university / Andrea Mayr
Prison discourse : enterprising managerialism in a total institution / Andrea Mayr
News discourse I : understanding the social goings-on behind news texts / David Machin
News discourse II : anti-racism and neo-liberalism in the British regional press / David Machin and Andrea Mayr
Defence discourse I : the visual institutionalization of discourses in war monuments / Gill Abousnnouga and David Machin
Defence discourse II : a corpus perspective on routine and rhetoric in defence discourse / Tony Bastow
Conclusion : researching institutional discourse / Andrea Mayr with Tony Bastow.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-198) and index.

Published in
London, New York
Series
Advances in sociolinguistics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.44
Library of Congress
P40 .M397 2008, P40, P40 .M398 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 204 p. :
Number of pages
204

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23003120M
Internet Archive
languagepowerint00mayr
ISBN 13
9780826487445, 9780826487438
LCCN
2008300531
OCLC/WorldCat
229464203
LibraryThing
3116802
Goodreads
5164426

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL6035165W

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