Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe
This edited volume offers new insights into contemporary political discourses in Slavic speaking countries by focusing on discursive and linguistic means deployed in relevant genres, such as parliamentary discourse, commemorative and presidential speeches, mediated communication, and literal and philosophical essays. The depth of the linguistic analysis reflects different levels of linkage between language and social practice constituting the discourse. The theoretical and methodological approaches discussed range from interactional pragmatics over corpus linguistics to CDA. The chapters contain original language material in Russian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian, and the authors address issues such as the affiliation to different political and social groups within parliamentary settings, national identity, gender and minorities, as well as cultural memory and reconciliation.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 84] 2019. vii, 268 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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Chapter 1. IntroductionMartina Berrocal and Aleksandra Salamurović | pp. 1–22
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Chapter 2. Diffuse messages as aggression and violence in political discourseHolger Kuße | pp. 23–38
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Chapter 3. The conflict about the 1940 Katyn’ massacre and the 2010 declaration of the Russian State DumaDaniel Weiss | pp. 39–68
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Chapter 4. Gay rights as a symbol of ideological struggles between Russia and the West: A socio-cognitive discourse analysisVeronika Koller | pp. 69–92
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Chapter 5. More than keywords: Discourse prominence analysis of the Russian Web Portal Sputnik Czech RepublicVáclav Cvrček and Masako Fidler | pp. 93–118
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Chapter 6. Delegitimization strategies in Czech parliamentary discourseMartina Berrocal | pp. 119–146
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Chapter 7. Impoliteness in parliamentary questionsBartholomäus Nowak | pp. 147–178
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Chapter 8. Discursive construction of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Analysis of commemorative speeches (2004–2016) on the Croatian Homeland WarSonja Riehn | pp. 179–210
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Chapter 9. Epistemes of contemporary nationhood: Narrations of the past, legitimations of the futureDanijela Majstorović | pp. 211–238
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Chapter 10. Under One Sun? Semiotic transformation of the cognitive model nation in the Republic of Macedonia on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Independence in 2011Aleksandra Salamurović | pp. 239–264
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Chapter 11. Epilogue | pp. 265–266
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Index | pp. 267–268
“The book as a whole is a valuable contribution to studies of political discourse, especially because of the wealth of theoretical approaches applied in the analysis of different genres of political discourse. In this respect, the editors have achieved their main goals. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in political discourse, critical discourse analysis, and pragmatics, and it opens new venues for future research.”
Lelija Socanac, University of Zagreb, on Linguist List 31.1132 (25 March 2020)
“Overall, the chapters point to the fragility of the linguistic sign and its relativity to the observer and a wider socio-historical background, as well as to a retrievable continuity between the present-day political language production and historical discourses that are a sine qua non for a “proper” decoding of current ideologies. [...] Importantly, all the contributions, implicitly or explicitly, point to an unprecedented relevance of responsible discursive practices by authoritative voices who, due to their symbolic role, have the power to pave the way to progressive changes and transformation in
their respective societies.”
their respective societies.”
Višnja Čičin-Šain, University of Oslo, in Journal of Language and Politics 19:5 (2020)
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics