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Norman Fairclough,Analyzing discourse: Textual analysis for social research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2006

Seyyed Abdolhamid Mirhosseini
Seyyed Abdolhamid Mirhosseini
Affiliation:
Iranian Ministry of Educationsamirhosseini@yahoo.com
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Norman Fairclough,Analyzing discourse: Textual analysis for social research. London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. vii + 270. Hb $135.00, Pb $31.95.

This latest book by Norman Fairclough is an extension of his earlier work on critical discourse analysis (CDA) (e.g., Fairclough 1989, 1995, 2001). Relying on systemic functional linguistics (SFL) as his linguistic theoretical standpoint on one hand, and on social theoretical themes presented by critical theorists like Bourdieu and Habermas on the other, the author attempts to present a detailed framework of linguistic analysis that links the “micro” analysis of texts to the “macro” analysis of social relations (p. 16). In his introductory chapter, Fairclough specifies two types of audience for the book who may find this framework relevant to their own research: students and researchers in social sciences and humanities with little or no knowledge of language analysis, and those specializing in language studies.

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Language in Society , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 620 - 624
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. London: Longman.
Fairclough, N. (1995). Critical discourse analysis: The critical study of language. London: Longman.
Fairclough, N. (2001). Critical discourse analysis as a method in social scientific research. In R. Wodak & M. Meyer (eds.), Methods of critical discourse analysis, 121–138. London: Sage.
Halliday, M. A. K. (1994). An introduction to functional grammar. 2nd ed. London: Edward Arnold.