Norman Fairclough

Norman Fairclough (* 1941) is em. Professor of General Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is co-founder of the socio- linguistic theory of critical discourse analysis, which examines the influence of power relations on the content and structure of texts.

Influences

Faircloughs theories have been influenced in linguistic field of Mikhail Bakhtin and Michael Halliday. Sociological influences are, among others, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu.

Works

  • Language and Power. (1989). London: Longman.
  • Discourse and Social Change. (1992). Cambridge: Polity Press
  • Critical Language Awareness. Publisher (1992). London: Longman.
  • Media Discourse. (1995). London: Edward Arnold.
  • Critical Discourse Analysis. (1995). Boston: Addison Wesley.
  • With Chouliaraki, lily Discourse in Late Modernity - Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis. (1999). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
  • New Labour, New Language? (2000). London: Routledge.
  • Language and Power ( 2nd edition ). (2001). London: Longman.
  • Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research. (2003). London: Routledge.
  • Language and Globalization. (2006). London: Routledge.
  • Discourse and Contemporary Social Change. Publisher (2007). Bern
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