It is now some decades since the study of “linguistic ideology” was first proposed (Silverstein 1979), and time ripe for taking stock. This article considers developments in this field as it has emerged and, respects, become normalized. Yet, normalized can mean backgrounded, taken granted—perhaps obscuring important theoretical issues methodological challenges. I revisit what entailed by “ideol...

critical discourse analysis uncovers the relationship between discourse, ideology, and power. this study investigated and analyzed contents, social relations, and subject positions in conversations of four popular advanced elt textbooks. the findings indicated that for contents, giving/asking for information and interaction were outstandingly significant. regarding social relations, friend was ...

We use systematic functional method to analyze and try to find out the estimated correlation behind several different texts. Ideology makes great influences on translation expression and strategy, which thus, is the product of the ideology. Language understanding means to obtain a semantic network and conditional information from a text in a deep sense.