The Power of Language
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The second edition of this highly regarded textbook is designed to introduce students at the tertiary level to both Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis. It develops critical analytical skills by rooting analysis in SFL methodology so that students can learn to analyze a range of discourse types. Each chapter builds a methodological foundation for the development of critical discourse analytical skills. SFL provides novice analysts with a rich set of resources for CDA and equips them to better reflect on what language is doing and why.
The Power of Language offers explanations along with a range of sample analyses to illustrate theory and provide applications of the methodologies introduced in each chapter. Students not only learn by studying a number of analyses but carry out their own analytical work on other samples, thus gaining experience. Each chapter also includes examples of analyses by well known researchers so that novice analysts become familiar with various approaches to analysis.
This new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and features an expanded first chapter on language and war; a new second chapter focusing on political fear; an expanded chapter on multimodal communication; and an entirely new chapter on language and social media. Other chapters have been updated with new sample analyses and activities.
Published: Jan 1, 2018
Series
| Section | Chapter | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Prelims | ||
| Acknowledgements | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Preface | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Introduction | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Chapter 1 | ||
| Language and International Conflict | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Chapter 2 | ||
| Language and Political Fear | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Chapter 3 | ||
| Language and Racism | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Chapter 4 | ||
| Language and Advertising | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Chapter 5 | ||
| Language and Organizations | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Chapter 6 | ||
| Language in Modern Trends | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Chapter 7 | ||
| Power in Spoken Language | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Chapter 8 | ||
| Multimodal Communication | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Chapter 9 | ||
| Language and Social Media | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| End Matter | ||
| References | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Name Index | Lynne Young, Michael Fitzgerald, Saira Fitzgerald | |
| Subject Index | Lynne Young | |
Reviews
The power of language: How discourse influences society is a well-scaffolded introduction to the study of ‘the role of language in producing and maintaining powerful relations’ (p.1), combining a CDA perspective with SFL based analysis. Targeting a novice audience in a tertiary educational setting, the volume gradually builds on SFL concepts extending beyond the frequently used nominalisation and agent deletion to include mood and modality, lexical cohesion, Theme, and parataxis, among many others. The grammatical analysis is used to inform the answers to CDA analytical questions such as power relations between participants, their feelings and intentions.
Language, Context and Text
In our current times, in which old ideological battles are being replayed across traditional print media, finding new forms and new modes of confrontation on social media platforms and passing from discourse to action in our streets, The Power of Language: How Discourse Influences Society is a pertinent and relevant textbook of interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers within the fields of language and linguistics.
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