Midlands State University Library

Analysing power in language : a practical guide /

Bartlett, Tom.

Analysing power in language : a practical guide / created by Tom Bartlett. - viii, 212 pages ; Illustrations, 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Texts as gateways to discourse analysis; Chapter 2. Ploughing a field (or two); Chapter 3. Construing participation: The speaker as puppeteer; Chapter 4. Interpersonal Meaning: Text as Interaction and Alignment; Chapter 5: Textual meaning: the speaker as weaver; Chapter 6. Space, time and chunks of text; Chapter 7. Voice and hybridity

Analysing Power in Language introduces students to a range of analytical techniques for the critical study of texts

9780415666312 (hardback) 9780415666305 (pbk.)


Discourse analysis--Social aspects.
Power (social sciences)
Discourse analysis.
Sociolinguistics.

P302.84 BAR