Competing Discourses - Perspective and Ideology in Language

Part of a sociolinguistics series about language use in the real world, and about the relationships between language, society and social change. The author argues for an approach that takes linguistic practice to be the primary medium through which social processes operate.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Classification and selection
2. Grammar, categories and world-view
3. Language and world-view: Golding and Faulkner
4. Metaphor
5. Language, perspective, ideology
6. Language and gender
7. Discursive interactions
8. Variety, discourse, ideology
9. Conclusion and overview
References
Index

About the author

David Lee is a faculty member at the University of Michigan, USA. His research interests include applied linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.

Summary

Part of a sociolinguistics series about language use in the real world, and about the relationships between language, society and social change. The author argues for an approach that takes linguistic practice to be the primary medium through which social processes operate.

Product details

• Authors: David Lee, David (Florida International University) Lee, David (Glaxosmithkline Lee
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138466791
• ISBN: 978-1-138-46679-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Real Language Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics