Follow-ups in Political Discourse
Explorations across contexts and discourse domains
1st Edition
Published on 20. August 2015
XIX, 265 pages
978-90-272-6834-1 (ISBN)
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This book explores the various forms and functions of follow-ups in a range of political speech events. Follow-ups are conceptualized as communicative acts, in and through which a prior communicative act is accepted, challenged, or otherwise negotiated by ratified participants in the exchange or by third parties. The broad view suggested here accommodates a large variation in the functions of follow-ups, e.g. positioning, third-party involvement, evaluation and argumentation, ratification, support, challenge and attendance to face wants. These variations are explored in a range of cultural environments, such as the UK, The Netherlands, Israel and France. Inter-cultural exchanges are studied through the analysis of diplomatic discourse, interpreting and cross-cultural comparison.
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- Follow-ups in Political Discourse
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- In memoriam
- Table of contents
- Following up across contexts and discourse domains
- 1. Introductory comments
- 2. Follow-ups
- 3. The contributions
- References
- Part I. Follow-ups in the traditional media
- Intertextual references in Austrian parliamentary debates: Between evaluation and argumentation
- 1. Uptake and follow-up: Towards a functional definition of reactive contributions in parliamentary
- 2. Two kinds of and two perspectives on political discourse
- 3. Political and institutional context of the investigated parliamentary debates
- 4. Categories of analysis
- 4.1 Sources of follow-ups
- 4.2 Forms of follow-ups - quoting and mentioning prior utterance
- 4.3 Rhetorical and argumentative functions of follow-ups
- 5. Results
- 5.1 Quantitative results
- 5.2 Qualitative results
- 6. Conclusions and discussion
- References
- Appendix 1
- "I have nothing to do but agree": Affiliative meta-discursive follow-ups as a resource for the reciprocal positioning of journalists, experts and politicians-as-experts in television news
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Journalists and experts on the news
- 2.1 The ambiguities of journalists' positioning
- 2.2 The ambiguities of experts' positioning
- 3. The present study
- 4. Follow-ups as a reciprocal positioning device
- 4.1 The construction of mutual alignment through the use of follow-ups
- 4.2 The expert interview's affordances for politicians
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Part II. Follow-ups in the new media
- Bravo for this editorial! Users' comments in discussion forums
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Opinion genres: Editorial and comment section
- 2.1 Editorial
- 2.2 Comment sections as participatory journalism
- 2.3 Discussion forums as written interaction
- 3. Follow-ups
- 3.1 Definition of follow-ups
- 3.2 Commenting, stancetaking and positioning in follow-ups
- 4. Data and method
- 5. Taking a stance and positioning
- 5.1 Evaluations and positioning in agreeing and disagreeing
- 5.2 Disagreement through affective, ironic, and epistemic stances
- 6. Posts as follow-ups
- 6.1 Disagreeing with the content of the editorial
- 6.2 Against the positioning of the editors and the newspaper
- 6.3 Agreeing with the editorial
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix 1
- Metacommunicative follow-ups in British, German and Russian political webchats
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data
- 3. Definition of follow-ups in political webchats
- 4. Types of follow-ups in webchats
- 5. Discursive functions of follow-ups in online webchats with politicians
- 6. Conclusion: Genre and cross-cultural peculiarities of follow-ups in online political discussions
- References
- Part III. Follow-ups across speech events
- Framing the Queen's head scarf: A case study on follow-ups in Dutch politics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Follow-ups in political communication
- 2.1 Follow-ups in a narrow and in a broad sense
- 2.2 The network of political actors
- 3. Framing
- 3.1 Frames as a structure, framing as a process
- 3.2 Media frames
- 4. A case study: The Queen's hat-and-scarf
- 4.1 Description
- 4.2 Analysis
- 5. Concluding remarks
- References
- Follow-ups in political talk shows and their visual framing
- 1. Introduction and research question
- 2. The characteristics of the talk show "Pauw & Witteman"
- 3. Interviews in a talk show and their multimodal audience-related design
- 3.1 Visual-verbal discourse
- 3.2 Audience design
- 3.3 Complex functionality
- 4. Conceptualisations of our approach
- 4.1 Follow-ups and visual framing: Macro and micro
- 4.2 Framing and news framing
- 4.3 Visual framing and visual-verbal interrelations
- 5. Findings
- 5.1 Macro follow-ups in the talk show and in the introduction
- 5.2 Micro follow-ups (visual framing): The case of Queen Beatrix's scarf
- 5.3 Visual-verbal interrelations
- 5.4 The visualisation of talk
- 6. Conclusion and discussion
- References
- Follow-ups in interpreter-mediated interviews and press conferences
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Conceptualising follow-ups in interpreter-mediated exchanges
- 3. Political Discourse Analysis and Translation and Interpreting Studies
- 4. Interpreter-mediated political interview: Who has the power?
- 5. Follow-ups at press conferences: Constraints and opportunities
- 6. (De)Constructing a politician
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Follow-ups in pre-structured communication: The case of treaty monitoring
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The definition of follow-ups in pre-structured communication
- 2.1 Structure of treaty monitoring
- 2.2 Simple consecutive follow-ups
- 2.3 Complex consecutive follow-ups
- 2.4 Multi-directional follow-ups
- 2.5 Follow-ups in pre-structured communication
- 3. Behaviorist framework: Strategies for enhancing social images
- 3.1 Face theory and its application to treaty monitoring
- 3.2 Treaty monitoring analyzed in terms of face wants
- 4. Reflexive theory of monitoring: acquiring authority and building the relationship
- 4.1 Critique of conventional face theory and shift to a relational view of communication
- 4.2 Work on the social image within the reflexive framework
- 4.3 The case of the Framework Convention's scope of application
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Index
