Table of contents
Introduction: Discourse analysis and public communication
1
Part I.Political discourse studies
Chapter 1.Imagining the nation in British politics
15
Chapter 2.Political and journalistic discourse regarding the Catalan declaration of
independence: A critical analysis
39
Chapter 3.National vs international cartoons depicting Catalonia’s independence
process in the press: A critical multimodal metaphor approach
59
Chapter 4.A corpus-assisted qualitative approach to political discourse in Spanish
print and digital press
83
Chapter 5.Persuasive discourse in Daniel Defoe’s political essays: Boosting and hedging
103
Chapter 6.Politics beyond death? An analysis of the obituaries of Belgian politicians
129
Part II.Gender and sexuality discourse studies
Chapter 7.It all comes down to sex: Metaphorical animalisation in reggaeton discourse
151
Chapter 8.Cyberbullying and gender: Exploring socially deviant behavioural practices among teenagers on
Twitter
177
Chapter 9.A visual critical discourse analysis of women representation in Dolce
& Gabbana advertising
199
Chapter 10.Let’s talk about sex in high school: The TV series Sex Education
219
Part III.Business and academic discourse studies
Chapter 11.Paralinguistic resources in persuasive business communication in English
and Spanish
245
Chapter 12.Business discourse from a psycholinguistic approach
273
Chapter 13.Compensatory discourse strategies in the bilingual university
classroom
297
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