Böcker av Norman Fairclough

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.

Explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. This book covers areas such as globalization and language: review of academic; literature; discourses of globalization; the media, mediation and globalization; and, globalization, war and terrorism. It is useful for students and researchers in applied linguistics.

The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Drawing on examples from TV, radio and the press, the author focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change.