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Acknowledgements

A Introduction: Key topics in the study of language and power

1 Language and power

2 The discourse of institutions and organisations

3 Power and talk

4 Language and gender

5 Language and race

6 Humour, language and power

7 Language and the law

8 Language and advertising

9 Language in the new capitalism

10 Language and politics

11 The discourse of social media

12 The discourse of ‘post-truth’

B Development: Approaches to the study of language and power

1 Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis

2 Registers of discourse

3 Studying spoken discourse

4 Gender and power: using the transitivity model

5 The representation of social actors

6 The discourse of humour and irony

7 Developments in forensic discourse analysis

8 Advertising discourse: methods for analysis

9 Language and new capitalism: developments

10 Studying political discourse: developments

11 The language of a social media campaign

12 Post-truth and Critical Linguistics

C Exploration: Analysing language and power

1 Beginning analysis

2 Exploring register and ideology

3 Power and resistance in spoken discourse

4 Analysing gender

5 A workshop on the representation of social actors

6 Analysing humour and power

7 Exploring forensic texts

8 Analysing advertisements

9 Analysing the language of new capitalism

10 Analysing political discourse

11 Tweeting politics

12 ‘Truth’ and Mediated Reactions

D Extension: Readings in language and power

1 Critical Linguistics (Roger Fowler and Gunther Kress)

2 Bureaucracy and social control (Srikant Sarangi and Stefaan Slembrouck)

3 Power and resistance in police interviews (Kate Haworth)

4 Masculinity and men’s magazines (Bethan Benwell)

5 Discourse and the denial of racism (Teun van Dijk)

6 Humour and hatred (Michael Billig)

7 Forensic Linguistics (Malcom Coulthard)

8 Language, style and lifestyle (David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen)

9 Language in the global service economy (Deborah Cameron)

10 Critical metaphor analysis (Jonathan Charteris-Black)

11 Social media online campaigns (Innocent Chiluwa and Presley Ifukor)

12 Populism and post-truth politics (Robin Lakoff)

Further reading

References

Author index

Glossarial index