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Norman Fairclough

Norman Fairclough is emeritus professor in the department of linguistics and English language, Lancaster University. Among his books are New Labour, New Language? (Routledge, 2000) and Language and Globalization (Routledge, 2006).

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Tony Blair and the language of politics

The British prime minister's self-consciously new vocabulary has a complex relationship to political reality, says Norman Fairclough.