Doing Politics
Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse
This edited volume explores the discursive, performative and mediated dimensions of contemporary political discourse. The strengths of the volume are manifold: it contains cutting edge interdisciplinary research on political discourses by international authors (UK, USA, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark) in political science, discourse linguistic and social interaction research. The contributions represent a wide range of methodological approaches to political discourse, analyzing a broad variety of genres, some of which have been less analyzed to-date, for example Wikipedia articles in combination with their discussion pages or the interaction between politicians and voters in the constituency office of a British Member of Parliament. The contributions also focus on political discourses of high and relevant topicality, such as EU membership of Britain, populism, migration and xenophobia, terrorism and narratives in international relations.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 80] 2018. vii, 418 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction: “Doing politics” – recent developments in political discourse analysisMichael Kranert and Geraldine Horan | pp. 1–24
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Part I. Multidisciplinary approaches to political discourse: Linguistic and political analysis
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Chapter 2. “We have the character of an island nation”: A discourse-historical analysis of David Cameron’s “Bloomberg speech” on the European UnionRuth Wodak | pp. 27–58
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Chapter 3. “Dancing with doxa”: A “Rhetorical Political Analysis” of David Cameron’s sense of BritishnessAlan Finlayson | pp. 59–77
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Part II. Representing the people, representing the government: Political discourse of British MPs
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Chapter 4. Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years: A study of parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic taggingJane Demmen, Lesley Jeffries and Brian Walker | pp. 81–104
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Chapter 5. Off the record: The transcription of parliamentary debates for political discourse analysisSylvia Shaw | pp. 105–126
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Chapter 6. Making “politics” relevant: How constituents and a member of parliament raise political topics at constituency surgeriesEmily Hofstetter and Elizabeth Stokoe | pp. 127–150
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Part III. Doing populism
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Chapter 7. A cross-linguistic study of new populist languageMaria Ivana Lorenzetti | pp. 153–177
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Chapter 8. Disciplining the unwilling: Normalisation of (demands for) punitive measures against immigrants in Austrian populist discourseMarkus Rheindorf | pp. 179–208
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Part IV. Mediated politics
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Chapter 9. Es-tu Charlie? Doing politics on WikipediaSusanne Kopf and Elena Nichele | pp. 211–234
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Chapter 10. United we diverge: Politician Facebook responses to terror attacksAnders Horsbøl | pp. 235–258
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Chapter 11. Hybridity and antagonism in broadcast election campaign interviewsArgyro Kantara | pp. 259–280
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Chapter 12. Mediated campaign debate subgenre and their importance for analytic considerationsKaren L. Adams | pp. 281–300
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Chapter 13. Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!Amoshaun Toft | pp. 301–329
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Part V. Self-referential political discourse
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Chapter 14. Reading political minds: “Backstage” politics in audience receptionSam Browse | pp. 333–360
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Chapter 15. “All this is a boon to Britain’s crumbling democracy”: Meta-reporting about the TV debates in the British General Election 2015Melani Schroeter | pp. 361–382
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Part VI. Doing foreign policy
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Chapter 16. Red lines and rash decisions: Syria, metaphor and narrativeFederica Ferrari and Ben O’Loughlin | pp. 385–406
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Notes on Contributors | pp. 407–411
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Index
“At the present time there is a pressing need for us all to stand back from the verbal maelstrom that is politics today and ask what is going on. We need more, and more penetrating, analysis of political discourse. This collection, edited by Michael Kranert and Geraldine Horan, is indeed timely. The contributors probe a wide range of political discourse types, investigate different media and contexts, and introduce a whole panoply of revealing methods and techniques.”
Paul Chilton, University of Lancaster
“This is a key reference work which systematically covers the multifaceted aspects and dimensions of political discourse. Bringing together senior and junior scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, it represents the major achievements in the study of political discourse over the last few decades.”
Johannes Angermuller, University of Warwick
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics