Fairclough - Language and Globalization

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Fairclough, Norman, 1941
Language and globalization/by Norman Fairclough.
p. cm.
1. Language and languages. 2. Globalization. 3. Mass media. 4. Terrorism. I. Title.
P107.F35 2006
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I am grateful to members of the Discourse Analysis Research Group in Bucharest for discussions on aspects of re-scaling in Romania, to Ruth Wodak for our collaboration on the impact of the Bologna Declaration on higher education in Austria and Romania, to Bob Jessop and Andrew Sayer for our collaboration on the place of semiosis in critical realism and for many discussions and ideas, and above all to my wife Isabela Ie