Texts and Practices Revisited (2nd ed.)

This is a second edition of the ground- breaking volume Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis , which was the first published collection of chapters presenting critical discourse analysis theory and practice. Critical discursive approaches have now become the main trend in most discursive and semiotic investigations. It was then, and is especially now, predominantly concerned with identifying, demystifying and resisting the ways language and semiotic systems are used to re