Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research

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Psychology Press, 2003 - 270 pagina's
"Analysing 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."--Publisher's description.

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Introduction
1
Social analysis discourse analysis text analysis
19
Texts social events and social practices
21
Intertextuality and assumptions
39
Genres and action
63
Genres and generic structure
65
Meaning relations between sentences and clauses
87
Clauses types of exchange speech functions and grammatical mood
105
Representations of social events
134
Styles and identities
157
Styles
159
Modality and evaluation
164
Conclusion
191
Glossaries
212
Appendix of texts
229
References
256

Discourses and representations
121
Discourses
123

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Over de auteur (2003)

Norman Fairclough is Professor of Language in Social Life at Lancaster University.

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