Format:
1 online resource (428 pages)
ISBN:
9789027288219
Content:
The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD). Dealing with an extensive and representative variety of topics and domains - political rhetoric, mediatized communication, ideology, politics of language choice, etc. - it offers uniquely systematic, theoretically grounded insights in how language is used to perform power-enforcing/imbuing practices in social interaction, and how it is deployed for communicating decisions concerning language itself. The twenty chapters in the volume, written by specialists in political linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and social psychology, address the diversity of political discourse to propose novel perspectives from which common analytic procedures can be drawn and followed. The volume is thus an essential resource for anyone looking for a coherent research agenda in explorations of political discourse as a point of reference for their own academic activities, both scholarly and didactic.
Content:
Perspectives in Politics and Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Analysis of Political Discourse -- 1. From Political Linguistics to Analysis of Political Discourse -- 2. The aims of this book -- 3. Overview of the chapters -- References -- Part II. Classification and naming in political rhetoric -- 2. Political metaphor and bodies politic -- 1. Introduction: Metaphor, history, and political discourse -- 2. The body politic tradition -- 2.1 The body politic in the Middle Ages -- 2.2 The pathology of the body politic: Machiavelli and Hobbes -- 2.3 Leviathan's body politic in the twentieth century -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- 3. New bodies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The politics of metaphor -- 3. Clean bodies/healthy bodies -- 4. Reworking the body -- 5. Beyond the body -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- 4. Legitimation through differentiation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Legitimation, categorization and discursive construction of groups -- 3. Constructing opponents: Axis of evil and axis of weasels -- 3.1 Foreignisms and social categorization -- 3.2 Le Worm Chirac -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- 5. Labeling and mislabeling in American political discourse -- 1. Introduction: Monitoring the media -- 2. Politics in the media age -- 3. (Mis)labeling -- 4. Recent examples of (mis)labeling in American political discourse -- 4.1 'Officialese' - labels and euphemisms -- 4.2 Corporate media and a narrowing range of debate -- 4.3 Labels, lies and insults -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Part III. Critical insights into political communication -- 6. President Bush's address to the nation on U.S. policy in Iraq -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rationale for studying the text -- 3. An overview of the speech as text -- 4. What Critical Discourse Analysis says about the text.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027206275
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789027206275
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=623390
Author information:
Okulska, Urszula
