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Discourse Studies in Public Communication
Edited by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 92] 2021
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

PrefaceVII
Introduction: Discourse analysis and public communication1

Part I.Political discourse studies

Chapter 1.Imagining the nation in British politics15
Chapter 2.Political and journalistic discourse regarding the Catalan declaration of independence: A critical analysis39
Chapter 3.National vs international cartoons depicting Catalonia’s independence process in the press: A critical multimodal metaphor approach59
Chapter 4.A corpus-assisted qualitative approach to political discourse in Spanish print and digital press83
Chapter 5.Persuasive discourse in Daniel Defoe’s political essays: Boosting and hedging103
Chapter 6.Politics beyond death? An analysis of the obituaries of Belgian politicians129

Part II.Gender and sexuality discourse studies

Chapter 7.It all comes down to sex: Metaphorical animalisation in reggaeton discourse151
Chapter 8.Cyberbullying and gender: Exploring socially deviant behavioural practices among teenagers on Twitter177
Chapter 9.A visual critical discourse analysis of women representation in Dolce & Gabbana advertising199
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 Spanish245
Chapter 12.Business discourse from a psycholinguistic approach273
Chapter 13.Compensatory discourse strategies in the bilingual university classroom297


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