Politics as Text and Talk
Analytic approaches to political discourse
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2002
X, 246 pages
978-90-272-9697-9 (ISBN)
Description
Human beings are political animals.
They are also articulate mammals.
How are these two aspects linked?
This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which, informally and intuitively, we call 'political'. Such an approach is revealing not only for politics itself but also for the human language capacity.
Each chapter outlines a particular method or analytic approach and illustrates its application to a contemporary political issue, institution or mode of political behaviour. As a whole, the collection aims to give a sample of current research in the field. It will interest those who are beginning to carry the research paradigm forward, as well as provide an introduction for newcomers, whether they come from neighbouring or remote disciplines or from none.
They are also articulate mammals.
How are these two aspects linked?
This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which, informally and intuitively, we call 'political'. Such an approach is revealing not only for politics itself but also for the human language capacity.
Each chapter outlines a particular method or analytic approach and illustrates its application to a contemporary political issue, institution or mode of political behaviour. As a whole, the collection aims to give a sample of current research in the field. It will interest those who are beginning to carry the research paradigm forward, as well as provide an introduction for newcomers, whether they come from neighbouring or remote disciplines or from none.
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- Politics as Text and Talk
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction. Themes and principles in the analysis of political discourse
- Part I: Institutions and Identities
- Chapter 2: Politicization and depoliticization. Employment policy in the European Union
- Chapter 3: Phraseological units in parliamentary discourse
- Chapter 4: Ceremonial text and talk. A functional-pragmatic approach
- Chapter 5: Fragmented identities. Redefining and recontextualizing national identity
- Part II: Interaction and Cognition
- Chapter 6: 'Put bluntly, you have something of a credibility problem'. Sincerity and credibility in political interviews
- Chapter 7: Political discourse and political cognition
- Index
- In the series DISCOURSE APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE (DAPSAC)
