Analysing Discourse : Textual Analysis for Social Research

ISBN-13: 9780415258920 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 280 str.

Norman Fairclough; N. Fairclough;Fairclough Norm

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'This is a through and detailed introduction to textual analysis which will benefit those to whom it is mainly directed: students and researchers in social science and humanities. - escalate

Spis treści

Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis  1. Introduction  2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices  3. Intertextuality and Assumptions  Part 2: Genres and Action  4. Genres  5. Meaning Relations between Sentences and Clauses  6. Types of Exchange, Speech Functions, and Grammatical Mood  Part 3: Discourses and Representations  7. Discourses  8. Representations of Social Events  Part 4: Styles and Identities  9. Styles  10. Modality and Evaluation  11. Conclusion

O autorze

Norman Fairclough