Language and Power (Language in Social Life Series)

Language and power is certainly an excellent introductory manual on how to take texts to pieces and to expose their ideological workings. Times Higher Education Supp. 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. The book includes a practical procedure for the critical analysis of discourse and a theoretical account of connections between language, power and ideology.