Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index.

Introduction -- Language and power -- The discourse of institutions and organizations -- Power and talk -- Language and gender -- Language and race -- Power and the language of humour -- Language and the law -- Language and advertising -- Language in the new capitalism -- Language and politics -- Web strand -- Evaluation and re-evaluation: studying language and power development. Critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis -- Registers of discourse -- Studying spoken discourse -- Gender and power: using the transitivity model -- The representation of social actors -- The discourse of humour and irony -- Developments in forensic discourse analysis -- Advertising discourse: methods for analysis -- Language and new capitalism: developments -- Studying political discourse: developments -- Web strand -- Language and power: extending the analysis -- Exploration. Beginning analysis -- Exploring register and ideology -- Power and resistance in spoken discourse -- Analysing gender -- A workshop on the representation of social actors -- Analysing humour and power -- Analysing language in the legal context -- Analysing advertisements -- Analysing the language of new capitalism -- Analysing political discourse -- Web strand -- Practicing corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis -- Extension. Critical linguistics -- Bureaucracy and social control -- Power and resistance in police interviews -- Masculinity and men's magazines -- Discourse and the denial of racism -- Humour and hatred -- Forensic linguistics -- Language style and life style -- Language in the global service economy -- Critical metaphor analysis -- Web strand -- Speaking sincerely.