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Publication details [#26841]

Kress, Gunther. 1993. Against arbitrariness: the social production of the sign as a foundational issue in critical discourse analysis. Discourse & Society 4 (2) : 169–191.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | ideology | power | reader | sign

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

It is argued that critical discourse analysis builds on the theory of the motivated signifier-signified relationship as an essential basis and legitimation of critical reading.