Fairclough
Fairclough is an English surname. The most prominent bearer is Norman Fairclough, a British linguist and professor emeritus at Lancaster University, known for developing critical discourse analysis (CDA). CDA is an interdisciplinary field that examines how language is used to exercise and resist power in social life, with attention to how discourse reflects and shapes social structures and ideologies.
Fairclough's approach to CDA emphasizes a three-dimensional framework for analyzing discourse: text (the actual spoken or
Notable works by Fairclough include Language and Power (1989) and Discourse and Social Change (1992), which have
The surname Fairclough is of English origin and is found primarily in the United Kingdom and among