Table of contents
Chapter 1.Introduction: “Doing politics” – recent developments in political discourse analysis
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Part I.Multidisciplinary approaches to political discourse: Linguistic and political analysis
Chapter 2.“We have the character of an island nation”: A discourse-historical analysis of David Cameron’s “Bloomberg speech” on the European Union
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Chapter 3.“Dancing with doxa”: A “Rhetorical Political Analysis” of David Cameron’s sense of Britishness
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Part II.Representing the people, representing the government: Political discourse of British MPs
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 tagging
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Chapter 5.Off the record: The transcription of parliamentary debates for political discourse analysis
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Chapter 6.Making “Politics” relevant: How constituents and a member of parliament raise political topics at constituency surgeries
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Part III.Doing populism
Chapter 7.A cross-linguistic study of new populist language
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Chapter 8.Disciplining the unwilling: Normalisation of (demands for) punitive measures against immigrants in Austrian populist discourse
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Part IV.Mediated politics
Chapter 9.Es-tu Charlie? Doing politics on Wikipedia
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Chapter 10.United we diverge: Politician Facebook responses to terror attacks
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Chapter 11.Hybridity and antagonism in broadcast election campaign interviews
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Chapter 12.Mediated campaign debate subgenre and their importance for analytic considerations
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Chapter 13.Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!
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Part V.Self-referential political discourse
Chapter 14.Reading political minds: “Backstage” politics in audience reception
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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 2015
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Part VI.Doing foreign policy
Chapter 16.Red lines and rash decisions: Syria, metaphor and narrative
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Notes on contributors
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Index
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