Faircloughian

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adjective

Of or relating to Norman Fairclough (born 1941), sociolinguist.

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Meanings

adjectiveFaircloughian (comparative more Faircloughian, superlative most Faircloughian)

comparative more Faircloughian · superlative most Faircloughian

  1. Of or relating to Norman Fairclough (born 1941), sociolinguist.

    Discourse analysis, and especially Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in the Faircloughian tradition […] is usually qualitative in nature, although a recent development towards using methods derived from corpus linguistics to support CDA has given it quantitative aspects, too […]

    2013, Sebastian M. Rasinger, Quantitative Research in Linguistics: An Introduction, page 14

Origin

From Fairclough + -ian.

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