Norman Fairclough

Norman Fairclough (* 1941 ) is a retired professor of general linguistics at Lancaster University . He is a co-founder of the sociolinguistic theory of critical discourse analysis , which examines the influence of power relations on the content and structure of texts .

Influences

Fairclough's theories were influenced in the linguistic field by Michail Bakhtin and Michael Halliday . Sociological influences come from Antonio Gramsci , Louis Althusser , Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu , among others .

Works

• Language and Power . (1989). London: Longman.
• Discourse and Social Change . (1992). Cambridge: Polity Press
• Critical Language Awareness . Editor (1992). London: Longman.
• Media Discourse . (1995). London: Edward Arnold.
• Critical Discourse Analysis . (1995). Boston: Addison-Wesley.
• with Chouliaraki, Lilie Discourse in Late Modernity - Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis . (1999). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
• New Labor, New Language? (2000). London: Routledge.
• Language and Power (2nd edition). (2001). London: Longman.
• Analyzing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research . (2003). London: Routledge.
• Language and Globalization . (2006). London: Routledge.
• Discourse and Contemporary Social Change . Editor (2007). Bern

Web links

• Staff page at Lancaster University (Engl.)
• Literature by and about Norman Fairclough in the WorldCat bibliographic database