Alan Finlayson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan Finlayson plays a role.
Articles
2025 Supplementing the tropes: Poststructuralist discourse theory and rhetorical political analysis Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
This article explores the articulation of poststructuralist Discourse Theory (DT) with Rhetorical Political Analysis (RPA). Critical of the ways in which Ernesto Laclau’s ‘rhetorical turn’ reduces rhetoric to the tropes, and to catachresis in particular, I argue that tropes involve more than… read more
2018 Chapter 3. “Dancing with doxa”: A “Rhetorical Political Analysis” of David Cameron’s sense of Britishness Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse, Kranert, Michael and Geraldine Horan (eds.), pp. 59–77 | Chapter
This chapter explains some of the background to political theorists’ and political scientists’ interest in language. It then introduces and explains Rhetorical Political Analysis (RPA), contrasting it with approaches to the study of political language, such as Critical Discourse Studies, found… read more