Table of contents
List of figures
IX
List of tables
XI
Acknowledgements
XIII
Foreword
XV
Chapter 1.Introduction
1
1.1Swept by the Kamlamania
1
1.2Caribbean political discourse: A blind spot
5
1.3CDS in the postcolonial Caribbean: The master’s tools?
8
1.4CDS as postcolonial critique: A way forward
12
1.5Structure of the book
19
1.6A short note on terminology
21
Chapter 2.Ethnicity, nationalism and the political process in Trinidad and
Tobago
23
2.1A short socio-political history
23
2.2Ethnicity, identity and nationalism
39
Chapter 3.Theory and methods for a multimodal critique of political discourse
51
3.1Contemporary political discourse: A case for visuality and critique
51
3.2The discourse-historical approach
54
3.3Social semiotics as critique
59
3.4Multimodal CDS in action
62
Chapter 4.The leader
79
4.1Strategies of positive self-presentation
80
4.2Strategies of negative other-presentation
99
Chapter 5.The party
111
5.1Main strategies of nomination and predication
112
5.2Building the multi-ethnic coalition
126
Chapter 6.The nation
137
6.1Building the national “in-group”: Evolving narratives
138
6.2Building a common political past: Teaching history as action
142
6.3Proud achievements and historic moments: Narrating history as myth
147
6.4Patterns of interdiscursivity and intertextuality
151
Chapter 7.Concluding remarks
165
7.1Summary of findings
165
7.2Towards a postcolonial CDS
170
7.3Some final thoughts
175
7.4Epilogue: Kamla 2010–2015
177
References
183
Index
207
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