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Norman Fairclough (1941 -) is emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is one of the founders of critical discourse analysis, a branch of sociolinguistics or discourse analysis that looks at the influence of power relations on the content and structure of texts.

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Fairclough's line of study, also called textually oriented discourse analysis or TODA, to distinguish it from philosophical enquires not involving the use of linguistic methodology, is specially concerned with the mutual effects of formally linguistic textual properties, sociolinguistic speech genres, and formally sociological practices. The main thrust of his analysis is that, if —according to Foucaultian

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Norman Fairclough is Emeritus Professor at Lancaster University.

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By adding the "critical," Fairclough basically does for classic discourse analysis and pragmatics a more sophisticated and linguistically informed version of what Bourdieu did for speech act theory in Language andshow more Symbolic Power: socializes it, politicizes it, takes us away from "interlocutors" doing tricks with words for purposes arbitrary except for their explanatory power and toward something that shows how we are blinded by our own verbal pyrotechnics to the power stories that speak through us. And then at the same time, for classi

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I began work on CDA in the early 1980s (for my first use of the term, see 'Critical and descriptive goals in discourse analysis', Journal of Pragmatics 9 1985) with the aim of linking my academic work to my political activities. CDA for me has always focused on language/discourse as an element in the production, maintenance and transformation of the existing socio-economic order and in political struggles for a better order. The lecture Critical Discourse Analysis in a Time of Crisis, available on this webpage, distinguishes, in a rough-and-ready way, with a focus on Britain, three main phases in the social history of the past 40 years or so associated with different programmes for CDA research which are evident in my work. First, the last part of the 'post-war consensus' which came apart in the 1970s, and research focused mainly on (the ideological character of) discourse in the maintenance of social relations and structures of power (e.g. my Language and Power, 1989). Second, the neo-liberal transformation of capitalism o