ABSTRACT
Any critical cultural analysis must incorporate some sort of attention to linguistic analysis, some account of discourse and how it works. The general advantages of doing this have been explained in Chapter 1-such a move is one way to bring Marxism to bear upon modern cultural activities and processes that have been transformed by linguistic activity (in its broadest sense). To be blunt about this project, using linguistics enables us to pin down the transformations away from the basic context provided by classic Marxist analyses of the mode of production.
