The Power of Language - How Discourse Influences Society - Lynne Young
Language and racism
The Power of Language - How Discourse Influences Society - Lynne Young
Lynne Young [+]
Carleton University, (retired)
Lynne Young recently retired as Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Study at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She plans to continue her research in Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis as well as in new areas of Discourse Analysis.She is currently working on a second edition of this book with Michael Fitzgerald and Saira Fitzgerald, to be published at the end of 2015.
Brigid Fitzgerald † [+]
Brigid Fitzgerald was a curriculum designer, materials writer and language training consultant. She published a number of textbooks in the areas of English for academic purposes, general English, and workplace communication.
Description
Chapter 3 examines how, in subtle and more overt ways, discourses can play an important role in producing and reproducing racism. Analysis in this chapter focuses on another aspect of SFL methodology - the Interpersonal Metafunction - which concerns the attitudes, and stances of interactants on this issue. Topics include 3.1 Introduction: definitions of ‘racism’; 3.2 Mood: an overview; 3.3 The Race Relations Survey; 3.4 Modality: an overview; 3.5 The Pearl Harbor editorial