As a whole, the chapters present promising directions in the analysis of political discourse since they coherently connect the role of history, ideology and struggle in shaping not only language practices but also discursive practices embedded in society. Likewise, the varying contexts in which these studies have been conducted provide rich possibilities for replication studies, as the insights presented in this volume are bound to be confirmed or challenged. Finally, the greatest strength of this volume is its effective presentation of employing frameworks inherited from different fields (historiography, cognitive science and translation studies), giving readers a range of options in examining the intersections of language, politics and power.

- Helen Basturkmen, University of Auckland, New Zealand, in Discourse Studies 13(5) 2011,

Politics in today's world consists of almost continuous interconnected talking and writing in a constantly expanding media universe. This comprehensive collection of papers edited by Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap helps readers to get a hold on the flow of discourse that constitutes politics today. Indispensible for anyone seeking perspectives for understanding the language of politics and research methods for probing beyond the surface.

- Paul Chilton, Lancaster University,

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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Explores the field of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD). This volume is suitable for those looking for a coherent research agenda in explorations of political discourse as a point of reference for their own academic activities.
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1. Acknowledgements; 2. Part I. Introduction; 3. Chapter 1. Analysis of Political Discourse: Landmarks, challenges and prospects (by Okulska, Urszula); 4. Part II. Classification and naming in political rhetoric; 5. Chapter 2. Political metaphor and bodies politic (by Musolff, Andreas); 6. Chapter 3. New bodies: Beyond illness, dirt, vermin and other metaphors of terror (by Skinner, Dan); 7. Chapter 4. Legitimation through differentiation: Discursive construction of Jacques Le Worm Chirac as an opponent to military action (by Chovanec, Jan); 8. Chapter 5. Labeling and mislabeling in American political discourse: A survey based on insights of independent media monitors (by Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna); 9. Part III. Critical insights into political communication; 10. Chapter 6. President Bush's address to the nation on U.S. policy in Iraq: A critical discourse analysis approach (by El-Hussari, Ibrahim A.); 11. Chapter 7. Proximizing objects, proximizing values: Towards an axiological contribution to the discourse of legitimization (by Cap, Piotr); 12. Chapter 8.Friends and allies: The rhetoric of binomial phrases in a corpus of U.S. defense speeches (by Bastow, Tony); 13. Chapter 9. The marketization of institutional discourse: The case of the European Union (by Magistro, Elena); 14. Chapter 10. Performing the world of politics through the discourse of institutional correspondence in Late Middle and Early Modern England (by Okulska, Urszula); 15. Part IV. Voices of mediatized politics; 16. Chapter 11. Hedging in political discourse: The Bush 2007 press conferences (by Fraser, Bruce); 17. Chapter 12. Direct e-communication: Linguistic weapons in a political weblog (by Janoschka, Anja); 18. Chapter 13. The language of political opinion: Discourse, rhetoric and voting behavior (by Moir, James); 19. Chapter 14. Political communication: Mediated by translation (by Schaffner, Christina); 20. Chapter 15. Media practices in reporting political crises (by Kovalyova, Natalia); 21. Part V. Politicizing 'linguistic human rights'; 22. Chapter 16. The practice and politics of multilingualism (by Blackledge, Adrian); 23. Chapter 17. Multilingual development in Germany in the crossfire of ideology and politics (by Pfaff, Carol W.); 24. Chapter 18. Against the assimilationist tide: Nurturing Puerto Rican children's bilingual, bicultural, and academic development in preschool (by Johnson-Beykont, Bruce); 25. Chapter 19. How language affects two components of racial prejudice?: A socio-psychological approach to linguistic relativism (by Bilewicz, Michal); 26. Part VI. Conclusion; 27. Chapter 20. Exploring 'political communication(s)': Contexts, procedures and outlook (by Okulska, Urszula); 28. Contributors; 29. Subject index
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9789027206275
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2010-06-16
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John Benjamins Publishing Co
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930 gr
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245 mm
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164 mm
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P, 06
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