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9780826487438

Language and Power An Introduction to Institutional Discourse

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    9780826487438

  • ISBN10:

    0826487432

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-10-21
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

How language is used in institutions and the language of power are key concerns of both sociolinguistics and social theory. The ways in which individuals talk in institutional settings, is very different to their ordinary conversation, with different inte

Author Biography

Dr Andrea Mayr is Lecturer in Modern English Language in the School of English at Queen's University, Belfast

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributorsp. vi
Introduction: Power, discourse and institutionsp. 1
Discourses of higher education: Enterprise and institutional change in the universityp. 26
Prison discourse: Enterprising managerialism in a total institutionp. 46
News discourse I: Understanding the social goings-on behind news textsp. 62
News discourse II: Anti-racism and neo-liberalism in the British Regional Pressp. 90
Defence discourse I: The visual institutionalization of discourses in war monumentsp. 115
Defence discourse II: A corpus perspective on routine and rhetoric in defence discoursep. 138
Conclusion: Researching institutional discoursep. 163
Appendixp. 178
Referencesp. 186
Indexp. 199
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