Perspectives in Politics and Discourse
1st Edition
Published on 16. June 2010
IX, 416 pages
978-90-272-8821-9 (ISBN)
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The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD). Dealing with an extensive and representative variety of topics and domains - political rhetoric, mediatized communication, ideology, politics of language choice, etc. - it offers uniquely systematic, theoretically grounded insights in how language is used to perform power-enforcing/imbuing practices in social interaction, and how it is deployed for communicating decisions concerning language itself. The twenty chapters in the volume, written by specialists in political linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and social psychology, address the diversity of political discourse to propose novel perspectives from which common analytic procedures can be drawn and followed. The volume is thus an essential resource for anyone looking for a coherent research agenda in explorations of political discourse as a point of reference for their own academic activities, both scholarly and didactic.
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- Perspectives in Politics and Discourse
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Analysis of Political Discourse
- 1. From Political Linguistics to Analysis of Political Discourse
- 2. The aims of this book
- 3. Overview of the chapters
- References
- Part II. Classification and naming in political rhetoric
- 2. Political metaphor and bodies politic
- 1. Introduction: Metaphor, history, and political discourse
- 2. The body politic tradition
- 2.1 The body politic in the Middle Ages
- 2.2 The pathology of the body politic: Machiavelli and Hobbes
- 2.3 Leviathan's body politic in the twentieth century
- 3. Conclusion
- References
- 3. New bodies
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The politics of metaphor
- 3. Clean bodies/healthy bodies
- 4. Reworking the body
- 5. Beyond the body
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- 4. Legitimation through differentiation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Legitimation, categorization and discursive construction of groups
- 3. Constructing opponents: Axis of evil and axis of weasels
- 3.1 Foreignisms and social categorization
- 3.2 Le Worm Chirac
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- 5. Labeling and mislabeling in American political discourse
- 1. Introduction: Monitoring the media
- 2. Politics in the media age
- 3. (Mis)labeling
- 4. Recent examples of (mis)labeling in American political discourse
- 4.1 'Officialese' - labels and euphemisms
- 4.2 Corporate media and a narrowing range of debate
- 4.3 Labels, lies and insults
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Part III. Critical insights into political communication
- 6. President Bush's address to the nation on U.S. policy in Iraq
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Rationale for studying the text
- 3. An overview of the speech as text
- 4. What Critical Discourse Analysis says about the text
- 5. Grammatical and lexical features of cohesion
- 6. What is excluded from the text?
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix
- 7. Proximizing objects, proximizing values
- 1. Introduction: The concept of proximization
- 2. The STA proximization model: Preliminaries
- 3. The spatial-temporal (S/T) proximization framework
- 4. Limitations of the S/T framework and implications for an axiological study
- 4.1 The emergence of an axiological perspective on proximization
- 5. The axiological (A) proximization framework
- 5.1 The axiological counts and the functional compensation hypothesis
- 6. Concluding remarks
- References
- 8. Friends and allies
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Corpora used in this study
- 3. Binomial phrases
- 3.1 Men and women
- 3.2 Friends and allies
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- 9. The marketization of institutional discourse
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical assumptions and analytical model
- 3. Analysis: Textual practice, discourse practice and social practice
- 3.1 Textual practice
- 3.2 Discourse practice
- 3.3 Social practice
- 4. Final remarks
- References
- 10.Performing the world of politics through the discourse of institutional correspondence in Late Middle and Early Modern England
- 1. Introduction: Constituting early social institutions through the discourse of letter writing
- 2. Early English political correspondence in the light of critical linguistics
- 3. Constructing the early English political reality through directive epistolary discourse
- 3.1 Building relations of similarity and difference
- 3.2 Reconfiguring the political world through epistolary directives: The discourse of command as social action
- 4. Conclusions
- References
- Part IV. Voices of mediatized politics
- 11. Hedging in political discourse
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is hedging?
- 3. The framework of the Presidential press conference
- 4. The findings
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- 12. Direct e-communication
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Direct e-advertising communication
- 2.1 Definition and scope
- 2.2 Process of communication in direct e-advertising
- 2.3 Linguistic triggers in direct e-advertising
- 3. Weblogs
- 3.1 Definition and functions
- 3.2 Process of communication
- 4. Data
- 5. Linguistic weapons of the Fritchey blog
- 5.1 Author-centric personal and possessive pronouns
- 5.2 Opinion providing questions
- 5.3 Directives
- 5.4 Other linguistic weapons in the political blog
- 6. Summary and conclusion
- References
- 13. The language of political opinion
- 1. Introduction
- 2. From sociological factors to valence politics
- 3. From cognitive heuristics to opinionation as ideology
- 4. Beyond cognitivist assumptions: Academic and everyday practices
- 5. Anti-cognitivism, anti-foundationalism and models of personhood and the political process
- 6. Making political matters the subject of opinion
- 7. Making opinions visible
- 8. Conclusion
- References
- 14. Political communication
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Political interview
- 3. Press conference
- 4. Political speech
- 5. Political discourse and translation studies
- References
- Analyzed texts
- 15. Media practices in reporting political crises
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The 'Orange Revolution': A case in point
- 3. Revolutionary framing
- 4. Who were the players?
- 5. What was at stake?
- 6. What were the frames?
- 7. What were the practices?
- 8. Conclusion
- References
- Part V. Politicizing 'linguistic human rights'
- 16. The practice and politics of multilingualism
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Minority language rights
- 3. Multilingualism
- 4. Multilingualism and education
- 5. Complementary schools
- 6. Multilingualism in policy and practice
- 7. Attitudes to, and beliefs about, languages
- 8. Multilingual practices
- 9. Multilingual school practices
- 10. Discussion: The politics and practice of multilingualism
- References
- 17. Multilingual development in Germany in the crossfire of ideology and politics
- 1. Introduction
- 2 Overt policies toward linguistic minorities
- 2.1 International policies
- 2.2 European policies
- 2.3 National policies
- 3. Demography and distribution of linguistic minorities in Germany
- 3.1 Linguistic and educational consequences of concentration of non-Germans
- 4. Focus on German language proficiency
- 4.1 German proficiency requirements for adults
- 4.2 German proficiency requirements for migrant children and youth
- 5. Focus on multilingualism/plurilingualism
- 5.1 Europaschulen
- 5.2 Turkish as language of instruction
- 5.3 European views on multilingualism and plurilingualism
- 6. Final remarks: Multiple messages on the path to a multilingual and plurilingual Germany
- References
- 18. Against the assimilationist tide
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The sociopolitical context of the program
- 3. Classroom language use
- 4. Curriculum
- 5. Discussion
- References
- 19. How language affects two components of racial prejudice?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The linguistic relativity hypothesis
- 3. Bilingualism, code-switching and its context
- 4. Accommodation to the second language
- 5. Prejudice: Cognition and emotion
- 6. Accommodating prejudice?
- 7. Method
- 7.1 Participants
- 7.2 Procedure
- 7.3 Measures
- 7.4 Results
- 8. Discussion
- References
- Part VI. Conclusion
- 20. Exploring 'political communication(s)'
- 1. 'Language of politics' and (or) 'politics of language': A reflection
- 2. The media outlook
- References
- Contributors
- Index
- The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
