Critical Linguistics, inaugurated in 1979 with the publication of Language as Ideology, has been influential in documenting the connection of linguistic and social practices. The reissue of this classic text still provides a most detailed theoretical account of the operation of power and ideology in...

Critical Linguistics, inaugurated in 1979 with the publication of Language as Ideology, has been influential in documenting the connection of linguistic and social practices. The reissue of this classic text still provides a most detailed theoretical account of the operation of power and ideology in all aspects of text.