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Dialogicity in Political Discourse
Edited by Elda Weizman and Zohar Livnat
[Pragmatics and Society 13:5] 2022
► pp. 731–746
Introduction

Dialogic meaning-making in political settings

An introduction

| Bar-Ilan University
| Bar-Ilan University

The goal of this special issue is to investigate the forms and functions of dialogicity in political discourse. Starting with the premise that the boundaries between monologue and dialogue are blurred in contemporary political discourse in general and in mediated political discourse in particular, it sets up to explore how dialogical features, manifest in situated discourse in various degrees of explicitness, are exploited by participants in the political arena, be they professional politicians, semi-professional activists or ordinary people, for various purposes.

Article outline
  • 1.Politics and language
  • 2.Dialogicity
    • 2.1Dynamic co-construction of meaning
    • 2.2Orientation towards the other
  • 3.Multivocality
  • 4.About the contributions
  • Bibliography
Published online: 6 December 2022
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