Piotr Cap

Piotr Cap

orcid.org/0000-0002-7685-4112

List of John Benjamins publications for which Piotr Cap plays a role.

Book series

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC)

General Editor: Jo Angouri, Andreas Musolff and Johann Wolfgang Unger

ISSN 1569-9463

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (P&bns)

Edited by Anita Fetzer and Miriam A. Locher

ISSN 0922-842X

Journal

Titles

Implicitness: From lexis to discourse

Edited by Piotr Cap and Marta Dynel

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 276] 2017. vi, 306 pp.

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Proximization: The pragmatics of symbolic distance crossing

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 232] 2013. ix, 220 pp.

Subjects Pragmatics

Analyzing Genres in Political Communication: Theory and practice

Edited by Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 50] 2013. xi, 426 pp.

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Perspectives in Politics and Discourse

Edited by Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 36] 2010. ix, 416 pp.

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

Cap, Piotr. 2022. Review of Feldman (2021): When Politicians Talk: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking. Language and Dialogue 12:3, pp. 477–482

Review

Cap, Piotr. 2022. Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse: Constructing privileged and oppositional future in political speeches. Dialogicity in Political Discourse, Weizman, Elda and Zohar Livnat (eds.), pp. 747–768

This paper describes ways in which political speakers define and legitimize future policies by construing different policy options in terms of ‘privileged’ and ‘oppositional’ futures. Privileged and oppositional futures are conceptual projections of alternative policy visions occurring in… read more | Article

Cap, Piotr. 2021. On the development of the social-linguistic nexus in discourse research: A critical review. Pragmatics and Society 12:2, pp. 309–333

This paper gives a critical overview of analytical approaches dominating the field of discourse studies in the last three decades, from the perspective of their philosophical and formative bases: social constructionism and linguistics. It explores different conceptions of the theoretical nexus… read more | Article

Cap, Piotr. 2019. Chapter 5. Aspects of threat construction in the Polish anti-immigration discourse. Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, Viola, Lorella and Andreas Musolff (eds.), pp. 115–136

Proximization Theory (PT) (Cap 2008, 2010, 2013, 2017; among others) is a cognitive-critical model that accounts for the ways in which the discursive construction of closeness and remoteness can be manipulated in the political sphere and bound up with fear, security and conflict. This article… read more | Chapter

Dynel, Marta and Piotr Cap. 2017. Chapter 1. Implicitness: Familiar terra incognita in pragmatics. Implicitness: From lexis to discourse, Cap, Piotr and Marta Dynel (eds.), pp. 1–12

The aim of this chapter is to shed light on the concept behind the label “implicitness”, which is ubiquitous in the pragmatic scholarship but has rarely constituted the focus of attention per se. In the teeth of the intuitive use of the label, which seems synonymous with “indirectness” used in some… read more | Chapter

Cap, Piotr. 2015. Monologic follow-ups in political macro-discourse: The US anti-terrorist discourse as a case in point. The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups, Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin (eds.), pp. 59–84

Follow-ups have been often considered a primarily dialogic/conversational phenomenon. In this chapter I demonstrate that the concept of the follow-up could be extended to cover monologic discourses as well, especially those in which the speaker realizes a macro-goal over a number of texts produced… read more | Article