Word info

Fairclough

Proper noun

Meaning

Fairclough (plural Faircloughs)

A surname from Middle English.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Gordon Fairclough (Reporter of Wall Street Journal): So under the new government, do you plan to relook at the country's ties with China? Ranil Wickremesinghe

In 1983, antihero Len Fairclough ( Peter Adamson ), one of the show's central male characters since 1961, was killed off, and in 1984, Stan Ogden (Bernard Youens) died. Source: Internet

Matlock soaked up long periods of pressure in the second half and on 60 minutes capitalised on a rare visit into the Loughborough 22 they upped the anti, playing through several phases before Fairclough scythed through the defence to touch down. Source: Internet

Mr Fairclough said he contacted the former Chester City Council to make them aware of the miscalculation and the council subsequently corrected their records so Mr Fairclough was receiving the correct council tax rate. Source: Internet

James Young was missing due to a broken ankle so James Fairclough moved to flyhalf and Harry Boyd came back in to the centre. Source: Internet

Norman Fairclough has a similar concept of genre that emphasizes the social context of the text: Genres are "different ways of (inter)acting discoursally" (Fairclough, 2003: 26). Source: Internet

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