Cognitive rhetoric : the cognitive poetics of political discourse / Sam Browse, Sheffield Hallam University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browse, Sam, author.

Series:

Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 31.

Linguistic approaches to literature (LAL), 1569-3112 ; volume 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Political aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective, the volume draws on concepts from classical rhetoric alongside contemporary research in cognitive stylistics and cognitive linguistics (including schema theory, Text World Theory, Cognitive Grammar, and mind-modelling, amongst others). It examines the role played by the speaker's identity, the arguments they make, and the emotions of the audience in the - often critical - reception of political text and talk, using a diversity of examples to illustrate this three-dimensional approach - from political speeches, interviews and newspaper articles, to more creative text-types such as politicised rap music, television satire and filmic drama. The result of this wide-ranging application is a holistic and systematic account of the rhetorical and ideological effects of political discourse in reception.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Browse, Sam, author. Cognitive rhetoric

ISBN:

9789027201546

9027201544

OCLC:

1039370684