The Dynamics of Political Discourse
Forms and functions of follow-ups
Published on 27. August 2015
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-90-272-5664-5 (ISBN)
Description
Rethinking Sinclair and Coulthard's sequentiality-based notion of the follow-up, this volume explores its forms and communicative functions in traditional and contemporary modes of communication (parliamentary sessions, interviews, debates, speeches, op-eds, discussion forums and Twitter) wherein political actors address challenges to their political agenda and to their political face. In so doing, the volume achieves two major advances. First, its contributions expand the understanding of follow-ups beyond the traditional focus on structural sequentiality, considering communicative function as a defining feature of a follow-up. Second, it broadens the understanding of what constitutes political discourse, as not being limited to a single discourse, but also being able to span multiple discourses of different forms and speech events over time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
615 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5664-5 (9789027256645)
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Anita Fetzer | Elda Weizman | Lawrence N. Berlin
The Dynamics of Political Discourse
Forms and functions of follow-ups
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08/2015
1st Edition
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Content
1. Introduction (by Berlin, Lawrence N.); 2. Part I. Approaching follow-ups; 3. Sequentiality and follow-ups (by Mey, Jacob L.); 4. Follow-ups as speech acts in mediated political discourse (by Oishi, Etsuko); 5. Monologic follow-ups in political macro-discourse: The US anti-terrorist discourse as a case in point (by Cap, Piotr); 6. Part II. Follow-ups across genres; 7. Pragmatic strategies for follow-ups in US political debates (by Berlin, Lawrence N.); 8. Follow-ups and dialogue in online discussions on French politics: From Internet forums to social TV (by Atifi, Hassan); 9. Online follow-ups as evaluative reactions to two visits of the Argentinian president to the United States (by Granato, Luisa); 10. Part III. The perlocutionary potential of follow-ups as objects of talk; 11. Irony in and through follow-ups: Talk and meta-talk in online commenting in the Israeli context (by Weizman, Elda); 12. Follow-ups as multifunctional questioning and answering strategies in Prime Minister's Questions (by Ilie, Cornelia); 13. If I am elected President ...: Other-quotations in French presidential debates (by Johansson, Marjut); 14. 'When you came into office you said that your government would be different': Forms and functions of quotations in mediated political discourse (by Fetzer, Anita); 15. Subject index