Perspectives in politics and discourse / edited by Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Okulska, Urszula.

Cap, Piotr.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; 36.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in politics.

Communication--Political aspects.

Communication.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 416 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 2010.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. Analysis of Political Discourse: Landmarks, challenges and prospects / Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap

PART II. CLASSIFICATION AND NAMING IN POLITICAL RHETORIC

Chapter 2. Political metaphor and bodies politic / Andreas Musolff

Chapter 3. New bodies: Beyond illness, dirt, vermin and other metaphors of terror / Dan Skinner and Rosa Squillacote

Chapter 4. Legitimation through differentiation: Discursive construction of Jacques Le Worm Chirac as an opponent to military action / Jan Chovanec

Chapter 5. Labeling and mislabeling in American political discourse: A survey based on insights of independent media monitors / Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska

PART III. CRITICAL INSIGHTS INTO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

Chapter 6. President Bush’s address to the nation on U.S. policy in Iraq: A critical discourse analysis approach / Ibrahim A. El-Hussari

Chapter 7. Proximizing objects, proximizing values: Towards an axiological contribution to the discourse of legitimization / Piotr Cap

Chapter 8. Friends and allies : The rhetoric of binomial phrases in a corpus of U.S. defense speeches / Tony Bastow

Chapter 9. The marketization of institutional discourse: The case of the European Union / Elena Magistro

Chapter 10. Performing the world of politics through the discourse of institutional correspondence in Late Middle and Early Modern England / Urszula Okulska

PART IV. VOICES OF MEDIATIZED POLITICS

Chapter 11. Hedging in political discourse: The Bush 2007 press conferences / Bruce Fraser

Chapter 12. Direct e-communication: Linguistic weapons in a political weblog / Anja Janoschka

Chapter 13. The language of political opinion: Discourse, rhetoric and voting behavior / James Moir

Chapter 14. Political communication: Mediated by translation / Christina Schäffner

Chapter 15. Media practices in reporting political crises / Natalia Kovalyova

PART V. POLITICIZING ‘LINGUISTIC HUMAN RIGHTS’

Chapter 16. The practice and politics of multilingualism / Adrian Blackledge

Chapter 17. Multilingual development in Germany in the crossfire of ideology and politics / Carol W. Pfaff

Chapter 18. Against the assimilationist tide: Nurturing Puerto Rican children’s bilingual, bicultural, and academic development in preschool / Bruce Johnson-Beykont and Zeynep F. Beykont

Chapter 19. How language affects two components of racial prejudice? A socio-psychological approach to linguistic relativism / Michal Bilewicz and Agnieszka Bochenska

PART VI. CONCLUSION

Chapter 20. Exploring ‘political communication(s)’: Contexts, procedures and outlook / Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap

Contributors

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027288219 (ebook)

9789027206275 (hbk.)

OCLC:

649479072