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Publication details [#22264]

Fairclough, Norman L. 1985. Critical and descriptive goals in discourse analysis. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (6) : 739–763.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language acquisition | social criticism

Journal WWW

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Annotation

The `denaturalization' of natural discourses, i.e. showing how social structures determine properties of discourse, is said to be one of the goals of a critical dicourse analysis.