
Cognitive Rhetoric
The cognitive poetics of political discourse
Sam Browse(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 24. October 2018
Book
Hardback
235 pages
978-90-272-0154-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Overall the book is a novel contribution to political and critical discourse analysis. -- Terry McDonough, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, in Journal of Language and Politics Vol. 19:2 (2020)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0154-6 (9789027201546)
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