Perspectives in politics and discourse

John Benjamins Publishing Company

2010

vii, 416 p.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; vol. 36

9789027206275

Contents: I. Introduction : Analysis of political discourse: landmarks, challenges and prospects / Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap -- II. Classification and naming in political rhetoric : Political metaphor and bodies politic / Andreas Musolff ; New bodies: beyond illness, dirt, vermin and other metaphors of terror / Daniel Skinner and Rosa Squillacote ; Legitimation through differentiation: discursive construction of Jacques Le Worm Chirac as an opponent to military action / Jan Chovanec ; Labeling and mislabeling in American political discourse: a survey based on insights of independent media monitors / Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowka -- III. Critical insights into political communication : President Bush's address to the nation on U.S. policy in Iraq: a critical discourse analysis approach / Ibrahim A. El-Hussari ; Proximizing objects, proximizing values: towards an axiological contribution to the discourse of legitimization / Piotr Cap ; Friends and allies: the rhetoric of binomial phrases in a corpus of U.S. defense speeches / Tony Barstow ; The marketization of institutional discourse: the case of the European Union / Elena Magistro ; Performing the world of politics through the discourse of institutional correspondence in late middle and early modern England / Urszula Okulska; V. Voices of mediatized politics : Hedging in political discourse: the Bush 2007 press conferences / Bruce Fraser ; Direct e-communication: linguistic weapons in a political weblog / Anja Janoschka ; The language of political opinion: discourse, rhetoric and voting behavior / James Moir ; Political communication: mediated by translation / Christina Schaffner ; Media practices in reporting political crises / Natalia Kovalyova -- V. Politicizing 'linguistic human rights' : The practice and politics of multilingualism / Adrian Blackledge ; Multilingual development in Germany in the crossfire of ideology and politics / Carol W. Pfaff ; Against the assimilationist tide: nurturing Puerto Rican children's bilingual, bicultural, and academic development in preschool / Bruce Johnson-Beykont and Zeynep F. Beykont ; How language affects two components of racial prejudice? A socio-psychological approach to linguistic relativism / Michal Bilewicz and Agnieszka Bochenska -- VI. Conclusion : Exploring 'political communication(s)': contexts, procedures and outlook / Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap.

The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD). Dealing with an extensive and representative variety of topics and domains – political rhetoric, mediatized communication, ideology, politics of language choice, etc. – it offers uniquely systematic, theoretically grounded insights in how language is used to perform power-enforcing/imbuing practices in social interaction, and how it is deployed for communicating decisions concerning language itself. The twenty chapters in the volume, written by specialists in political linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and social psychology, address the diversity of political discourse to propose novel perspectives from which common analytic procedures can be drawn and followed. The volume is thus an essential resource for anyone looking for a coherent research agenda in explorations of political discourse as a point of reference for their own academic activities, both scholarly and didactic.

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