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Faircloughian

Faircloughian adjective: of or relating to Norman Fairclough (born 1941), sociolinguist.

Adjective

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

Forms of Faircloughian

comparativemore Faircloughian
superlativemost Faircloughian

Origin of Faircloughian

From Fairclough + -ian.

Questions about Faircloughian

What does Faircloughian mean?
Faircloughian means of or relating to Norman Fairclough (born 1941), sociolinguist.
What part of speech is Faircloughian?
Faircloughian is an adjective.

Words near Faircloughian in the dictionary

  1. fairchildite
  2. Fairchildren
  3. Faircloth
  4. Faircloths
  5. Fairclough
  6. Faircloughian
  7. Faircloughs
  8. faird
  9. fairdom
  10. fairds
  11. faire

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