Political Discourse in the Media
Cross-cultural perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 27. June 2007
VIII, 379 pages
978-90-272-9227-8 (ISBN)
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This book departs from the premise that political discourse is intrinsically connected with media discourse, as shaped by its cultural and transcultural characteristics. It presents a collection of papers which examine political discourse in the media from a cross-culturally comparative perspective in Arab, Dutch, British, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Israeli, Swedish, US-American and international contexts. By using different theoretical frameworks, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis, pragmatics and systemic functional linguistics, the papers reflect current moves in political discourse analysis to cross-disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating semiotics, particularly multimodality, cognition, context, genre and recipient design.
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- Political Discourse in the Media
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- I. Introduction
- Political discourse in the media: Cross-cultural perspectives
- II. From linguistic device to discourse practice
- Presupposition and 'taking-for-granted' in mass communicated political argument: An illustration from British, Flemish and Swedish political colloquy
- Metaphors in election night television coverage in Britain, the United States and Germany
- III. Discursive practice in political interviews
- "Are you saying ...? "A cross-cultural analysis of interviewing practices in TV election night coverages
- Represented discourse in answers: A cross-cultural perspective on French and British political interviews
- Challenges in political interviews: An intercultural analysis
- Variation in interviewing styles: Challenge and support in Al-Jazeera and on Israeli television
- IV. Media events: From public address to election nights
- Christmas Messages by heads of state: Multimodality and media adaptations
- Information meets entertainment: A visual analysis of election night TV programs across cultures
- Presenting television election nights in Britain, the United States and Germany: Cross-cultural analyses
- Index
- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
