Handbook of Political Discourse
Published on 28. February 2023
Book
Hardback
396 pages
978-1-80037-356-3 (ISBN)
Description
Synthesising diverse research avenues for politics, discourse, and political discourse, this cutting-edge Handbook examines the formative traditions, current theoretical and methodological landscape, and genres and domains over which political discourse extends.
Drawing on rich and dynamic models in critical cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, metaphor analysis, context, and multimodality studies, leading scholars provide tools to analyse a broad range of traditional and modern genres of political communication. Taking a historical dive into formative traditions in political discourse, including rhetoric and social and poststructuralist theories, this Handbook revises these classical models of political communication against new empirical contexts to offer the most fruitful, objective, and universal methodologies to date. Examining propaganda, advertising, political speeches and election campaigns, this Handbook pays particular attention to newly arising genres and discourses which reflect the momentous changes in the public domain, fuelled by recent and developing events including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Drawing diverse insights from a wide array of disciplines, this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of political theory, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication studies who are looking for innovative methodologies with which to analyse political discourse.
Drawing on rich and dynamic models in critical cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, metaphor analysis, context, and multimodality studies, leading scholars provide tools to analyse a broad range of traditional and modern genres of political communication. Taking a historical dive into formative traditions in political discourse, including rhetoric and social and poststructuralist theories, this Handbook revises these classical models of political communication against new empirical contexts to offer the most fruitful, objective, and universal methodologies to date. Examining propaganda, advertising, political speeches and election campaigns, this Handbook pays particular attention to newly arising genres and discourses which reflect the momentous changes in the public domain, fuelled by recent and developing events including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Drawing diverse insights from a wide array of disciplines, this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of political theory, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication studies who are looking for innovative methodologies with which to analyse political discourse.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80037-356-3 (9781800373563)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Edited by Piotr Cap, Professor of Linguistics, Department of Pragmatics, University of Lodz, Poland
Content
Contents:
Introduction to the Handbook of Political Discourse 1
Piotr Cap
PART I FORMATIVE TRADITIONS
1 Language and politics, politics and language: democracy and demagoguery 6
Paul Chilton
2 Rhetoric as the art of persuasion in the Greek and Roman worlds 23
Sara Rubinelli
3 Niccolo Machiavelli: language, power and leadership 36
Anthony R. Brunello
4 From Marx to the Frankfurt School: discourse, ideology, and critical theory 50
Chad Kautzer
5 Poststructuralist theories: making space for a linguistic analysis of
political discourse 66
Dirk Nabers
6 The French school of discourse analysis 79
Dominique Maingueneau
7 Laclau and Mouffe, Bourdieu, neo-liberalism, and the mass media 93
Jeremy F. Lane
PART II METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS
8 Political discourse analysis and critical discourse studies: scope,
relations, commitments 109
Patricia Dunmire
9 Language, space and politics 128
Bertie Kaal
10 Metaphorical framing in political discourse 145
Andreas Musolff
11 Context: theoretical analysis and its implications for political discourse
analysis 164
Anita Fetzer
12 The analysis of discursive subjects 180
Johannes Angermuller
13 Narratives and storytelling processes in the analysis of political discourse 204
Anna De Fina
14 Propaganda theory and analysis 219
John Oddo
15 Multimodality toolkit for political discourse analysis: a focus on visual
rhetoric 235
Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Agnieszka Kampka
PART III DOMAINS AND GENRES
16 Political speeches: interactive and heteroglossic elements 251
Helmut Gruber
17 Parliamentary sessions: interlocking genres of law-making 266
Razvan Saftoiu
18 Political advertising and election campaigns 288
Glenn W. Richardson Jr.
19 Media discourses of public participation 301
Jan Chovanec
20 Political discourse as institutional communication 317
Geert Jacobs, Thomas Jacobs and Sofie Verkest
21 Environment, climate and health at the crossroads: a critical analysis of
public policy and political communication discourse in the EU 328
Cinzia Bevitori and Katherine E. Russo
22 Public policy discourse: anti-terrorism and migration 345
Maureen Duffy
23 Protocols of political forgiveness: forgetting and forgiving antisemitism
in Greek right-wing politics 360
Salomi Boukala
Index 374
Introduction to the Handbook of Political Discourse 1
Piotr Cap
PART I FORMATIVE TRADITIONS
1 Language and politics, politics and language: democracy and demagoguery 6
Paul Chilton
2 Rhetoric as the art of persuasion in the Greek and Roman worlds 23
Sara Rubinelli
3 Niccolo Machiavelli: language, power and leadership 36
Anthony R. Brunello
4 From Marx to the Frankfurt School: discourse, ideology, and critical theory 50
Chad Kautzer
5 Poststructuralist theories: making space for a linguistic analysis of
political discourse 66
Dirk Nabers
6 The French school of discourse analysis 79
Dominique Maingueneau
7 Laclau and Mouffe, Bourdieu, neo-liberalism, and the mass media 93
Jeremy F. Lane
PART II METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS
8 Political discourse analysis and critical discourse studies: scope,
relations, commitments 109
Patricia Dunmire
9 Language, space and politics 128
Bertie Kaal
10 Metaphorical framing in political discourse 145
Andreas Musolff
11 Context: theoretical analysis and its implications for political discourse
analysis 164
Anita Fetzer
12 The analysis of discursive subjects 180
Johannes Angermuller
13 Narratives and storytelling processes in the analysis of political discourse 204
Anna De Fina
14 Propaganda theory and analysis 219
John Oddo
15 Multimodality toolkit for political discourse analysis: a focus on visual
rhetoric 235
Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Agnieszka Kampka
PART III DOMAINS AND GENRES
16 Political speeches: interactive and heteroglossic elements 251
Helmut Gruber
17 Parliamentary sessions: interlocking genres of law-making 266
Razvan Saftoiu
18 Political advertising and election campaigns 288
Glenn W. Richardson Jr.
19 Media discourses of public participation 301
Jan Chovanec
20 Political discourse as institutional communication 317
Geert Jacobs, Thomas Jacobs and Sofie Verkest
21 Environment, climate and health at the crossroads: a critical analysis of
public policy and political communication discourse in the EU 328
Cinzia Bevitori and Katherine E. Russo
22 Public policy discourse: anti-terrorism and migration 345
Maureen Duffy
23 Protocols of political forgiveness: forgetting and forgiving antisemitism
in Greek right-wing politics 360
Salomi Boukala
Index 374