Language and power : a resource book for students / Paul Simpson and Andrea Mayr.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: key topics in the study of language and power -- Language and power -- The discourse of institutions and organizations -- Power and talk -- Language and gender -- Language and race -- Humour, language and power -- Language and the law -- Language and advertising -- Language in the new capitalism -- Language and politics -- Development: approaches to the study of language and power -- Critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis -- Registers of discourse -- Studying spoken discourse -- Gender and power: using the transitivity model -- The representation of social actors -- The discourse of humour and irony -- Developments in forensic discourse analysis -- Advertising discourse: methods for analysis -- Language and new capitalism: developments -- Studying political discourse: developments -- Exploration: analysing language and power -- Beginning analysis -- Exploring register and ideology -- Power and resistance in spoken discourse -- Analysing gender -- A workshop on the representation of social actors -- Analysing humour and power -- Exploring forensic texts -- Analysing advertisements -- Analysing the language of new capitalism -- Analysing political discourse -- Extension: readings in language and power -- Critical linguistics / Roger Fowler and Gunther Kress -- Bureaucracy and social control / Srikant Sarangi and Stefaan Slembrouck -- Power and resistance in police interviews / Kate Haworth -- Masculinity and men's magazines / Bethan Benwell -- Discourse and the denial of racism / Teun van Dijk -- Humour and hatred / Michael Billig -- Forensic linguistics / Malcolm Coulthard -- Language style and lifestyle (David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen) -- Language in the global service economy / Deborah Cameron -- Critical metaphor analysis / Jonathan Charteris-Black -- Web strand -- Evaluation and re-evaluation: stuyding language and power -- Language and power: extending the analysis -- Practising corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis -- Speaking sincerely / Martin Montgomery.