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LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL LIFE SERIES Series Editor: Professor Christopher N. Candlin Language and power Norman Fairclough Discourse and the translator Basil Hatim and Ian Mason Planning language, planning inequality James W. Tollefson Language and ideology in children's fiction John Stephens. Linguistics and aphasia Ruth Lesser and Lesley Milroy Languiage and the law John Gibbons Literacy practices Mike Baynham The cultural politics of English as an international language Alastair Pennycook Fictions at work: language and social practice in fiction Mary Talbot si ii al Language and power Norman Fairclough qo °F3D \989 ¢ “Bhasson Wesley Longman Limited Ke Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Contents Essex CM20 2JE, England and Associated Companies throughout the world. Published in the United States of America by Longean Inc, New York 6 Longman Group UK Listed 1588 , General Editor's Preface vi reserve vast of this publicatior ‘be reprodt Ane eee np el any my ‘Acknowledgements c ‘means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, : _ ho ethor the por witten permission f the Publishers ora 1. Introduction: critical language study 1 Tloence permiting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued by 2. Discourse as social practice 7 the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, : London, WIP SHE. 3. Discourse and power a oe 4. Discourse, common sense and ideology 7 To mean 1896 5. Critical discourse analysis in practice: description 109 “a a 6. Critical discourse analysis in practice: interpretation,, ‘Beh Library Cataloguing in Pubton Dat explanation, and the position of the analyst 140 tmp and poe 7. Creativity and struggle in discourse: the discourse of Langage ited to power Thatcherism 169 tue ane 8. Discourse in social change 197 9. Critical language study and social emancipation: thanretical contribution tn ant mnderstandine of GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE vii language and society, exploring especially how they interconnect, but this contribution will arise from the description and interpret- ation of practice, accounting for what takes place. The intimacy of theory and practice is not by chance; it is crucial if we are to relate actions that are specific and local to the social institutions that give rise to them and if we are to explain what transpires in terms of theories of modern society. To achieve this lays a responsibility upon the writer; he or she seeks after all a triple respectability, in relation to language and linguistics, to society and sociology and, most importantly, to those professional groups whose actions provide the data and the motivation for the descriptions, interpretations and explanations of the books which the Series will publish. We have, then, by necessity a multiple audience, which, while we hope it is a supportive and not adversarial one, is unlikely to be equally conversant in these three worlds. The books will have to make the connections, show the interdependence and display. the relevance of the design. To achieve this we are constructing books which reflect a general pattern, aimed at the engagement of the reader. One which emphasises problem-sensing (what are the linguistic, social and professional dimensions of the topic in question}, problem- identifying (how the topic can be illuminated through the procedures of critical discourse analysis), problem-solving (what action may be undertaken in respect of the issues explored through the analysis in question). We are in no doubt that of these the third is the most problematic, Necessarily so, since it lies outside any book and is not in our hands. To ignore it, however, would rob the Series of its engagement with social action and its raison d’etre. We hope that the various measures undertaken in the composition of the books in the Series, and their style, will make this commitment to action plain. I referred earlier to how this book provided the comerstone to the Language in Social Life Series. Let me expand on the reasons for saying so. Norman Fairclough begins by defining the charac- teristics of Critical Language Study, distinguishing it from those other orientations within Linguistics which have sought to connect language with society Central here are two assertions; that language is social practice and not a phenomenon external to society to be adventitiously correlated with it, and that language seen as discourse rather than as acramnliched tovt ee ee ae ENTE eRe ete eee eehnthl le

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