Language and Power: An Introduction to Institutional Discourse

Author:   Andrea Mayr
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9780826487438


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 August 2008
Format:   Hardback
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This title offers an overview of the field of institutional discourse, introducing the key theorists. How language is used in institutions and the language of power are key concerns of both sociolinguistics and social theory. The ways in which individuals talk in institutional settings, is very different to their ordinary conversation, with different interplays of social interaction and relations of power. Institutional discourse also varies from other types of professional interaction. ""Language and Power"" provides students with an overview of the field of institutional discourse, introducing the key theorists including Foucault, Habermas, Weber, Giddens, Althusser and Gramsci, among others.The book covers a wide range of institutional contexts including the workplace, the media, prison, courtroom and academia. This diversity allows for a close examination of similarities and differences in institutional discourse practices and for a critical discussion of a range of approaches to the analysis of institutional discourse.The approaches examined here include: interactional sociolinguistics; ethnomethodology; conversation analysis; critical discourse analysis; and corpus-based analysis. This readable and comprehensive introduction to language and power will be essential reading for students of sociolinguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate level.""The Advances in Sociolinguistics"" series seeks to provide a snapshot of the current diversity of the field of sociolinguistics and the blurring of the boundaries between sociolinguistics and other domains of study concerned with the role of language in society.

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Author:   Andrea Mayr
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780826487438


ISBN 10:   0826487432
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 August 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Institutional Discourse/Approaches to the analysis of institutional discourse; 3. University Discourse; 4. Prison Discourse; 5. News as Institutional Discourse: Commercialization in the Press; 6. Multiculturalism in the Regional Press through the Language of Capitalism; 7. War memorials; 8. Defense Speeches; 9. How to Analyse Institutional Discourse.

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Language and Power offers an innovative and intriguing blend of socio-historical criticism and textual analysis. Applying critical discourse analysis to a range of discourse types the authors display its potential to the full with a series of thought-provoking and illuminating readings. All serious students of institutional discourse will want to engage with this book. --Dr Martin Montgomery, Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde, UK


Mention --Book News, February 2009 Briefly reviewed in the Year's work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1 Mention -Book News, February 2009 Mention Book News, February 2009 Students of CDA with an interest in multimodal analysis will find this book specially useful. Its broad treatment of discourse to include all aspects of semiotic activity, from the use of photos in news stories to the visual design of war monuments, provides concrete case studies that help introduce key concepts in the study of language and power. --Sanford Lakoff Language and Power offers an innovative and intriguing blend of socio-historical criticism and textual analysis. Applying critical discourse analysis to a range of discourse types the authors display its potential to the full with a series of thought-provoking and illuminating readings. All serious students of institutional discourse will want to engage with this book. --Sanford Lakoff


Language and Power offers an innovative and intriguing blend of socio-historical criticism and textual analysis. Applying critical discourse analysis to a range of discourse types the authors display its potential to the full with a series of thought-provoking and illuminating readings. All serious students of institutional discourse will want to engage with this book. --Sanford Lakoff


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Dr Andrea Mayr is Lecturer in the School of English at Queen's University, Belfast.

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