Introduction - Language and power - The discourse of institutions and organizations - Power and talk - Language and gender - Language and race - Power and the language of humour - Language and the law - Language and advertising - Language in the new capitalism - Language and politics - Web strand - Evaluation and re-evaluation: studying language and power development. Critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis - Registers of discourse - Studying spoken discourse - Gender and power: using the transitivity model - The representation of social actors - The discourse of humour and irony - Developments in forensic discourse analysis - Advertising discourse: methods for analysis - Language and new capitalism: developments - Studying political discourse: developments - Web strand - Language and power: extending the analysis - Exploration. Beginning analysis - Exploring register and ideology - Power and resistance in spoken discourse - Analysing gender - A workshop on the representation of social actors - Analysing humour and power - Analysing language in the legal context - Analysing advertisements - Analysing the language of new capitalism - Analysing political discourse - Web strand - Practicing corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis - Extension. Critical linguistics - Bureaucracy and social control - Power and resistance in police interviews - Masculinity and men's magazines - Discourse and the denial of racism - Humour and hatred - Forensic linguistics - Language style and life style - Language in the global service economy - Critical metaphor analysis - Web strand - Speaking sincerely