諾曼·費爾剋拉夫

英國蘭開斯特大學的語言學教授，當代西方著名的批判的話語分析學者。他在20世紀80年代初開始將研究重點放在批判的話語分析上，並陸續在蘭卡斯特大學開設瞭“批判的話語分析”、“語言意識形態和權力”、“語言分析中的新方嚮”等研究生課程。

Now available in paperback, this book is a critical introduction to discourse analysis as it is practised in a variety of different disciplines today, from linguistics and sociolinguistics to sociology and cultural studies. The author shows how concern with the analysis of discourse can be combined, in a systematic and fruitful way, with an interest in broader problems of social analysis and social change.Fairclough provides a concise and critical review of the methods and results of discourse analysis, discussing the descriptive work of linguists and conversation analysts as well as the more historically and theoretically oriented work of Michel Foucault. He develops an original framework for discourse analysis which firmly situates discourse in a broader context of social relations bringing together text analysis, the analysis of processes of text production and interpretation, and the social analysis of discourse events.