Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415121426 ISBN 13: 9780415121422

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

Text and Practices provides an essential introduction to the theory and practice of Critical Discourse Analysis. Using insights from this challenging new method of linguiistic analysis, the contributors to this text reveal the ways in whcih language can be used as a means of social control.
The essays in Text and Practices:
* demonstrate how critical discourse analysis can be applied to a variety of written and spoken texts
* deconstruct data from a range of contexts, countries and spheres
* expose hidden patterns of discrimination and inequalities of power
Texts and Practices, which includes specially commissioned papers from a range of distinguished authors, provides a state-of-the-art introduction to critical discourse analysis. As such it represents an important contribution to this developing field and an essential text for all advanced students of language, media and cultural studies.

About this title

About the Author

Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard is Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Santa Catarina, Mexico.
Malcolm Coulthard is Professor of English at the University of Birmingham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0415121426
• ISBN 13: 9780415121422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Caldas-Coulthard Carmen Rosa, Coulthard Malcolm