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Book SynopsisSynthesising diverse research avenues for politics, discourse, and political discourse, this cutting-edge Handbook examines the formative traditions, current theoretical and methodological landscape, and genres and domains over which political discourse extends.
Drawing on rich and dynamic models in critical cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, metaphor analysis, context, and multimodality studies, leading scholars provide tools to analyse a broad range of traditional and modern genres of political communication. Taking a historical dive into formative traditions in political discourse, including rhetoric and social and poststructuralist theories, this Handbook revises these classical models of political communication against new empirical contexts to offer the most fruitful, objective, and universal methodologies to date. Examining propaganda, advertising, political speeches and election campaigns, this Handbook pays particular attention to newly arising genres and discourses which reflect the momentous changes in the public domain, fuelled by recent and developing events including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine war.
Drawing diverse insights from a wide array of disciplines, this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of political theory, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication studies who are looking for innovative methodologies with which to analyse political discourse.
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Political Discourse 1 Piotr Cap PART I FORMATIVE TRADITIONS 1 Language and politics, politics and language: democracy and demagoguery 6 Paul Chilton 2 Rhetoric as the art of persuasion in the Greek and Roman worlds 23 Sara Rubinelli 3 Niccolò Machiavelli: language, power and leadership 36 Anthony R. Brunello 4 From Marx to the Frankfurt School: discourse, ideology, and critical theory 50 Chad Kautzer 5 Poststructuralist theories: making space for a linguistic analysis of political discourse 66 Dirk Nabers 6 The French school of discourse analysis 79 Dominique Maingueneau 7 Laclau and Mouffe, Bourdieu, neo-liberalism, and the mass media 93 Jeremy F. Lane PART II METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS 8 Political discourse analysis and critical discourse studies: scope, relations, commitments 109 Patricia Dunmire 9 Language, space and politics 128 Bertie Kaal 10 Metaphorical framing in political discourse 145 Andreas Musolff 11 Context: theoretical analysis and its implications for political discourse analysis 164 Anita Fetzer 12 The analysis of discursive subjects 180 Johannes Angermuller 13 Narratives and storytelling processes in the analysis of political discourse 204 Anna De Fina 14 Propaganda theory and analysis 219 John Oddo 15 Multimodality toolkit for political discourse analysis: a focus on visual rhetoric 235 Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Agnieszka Kampka PART III DOMAINS AND GENRES 16 Political speeches: interactive and heteroglossic elements 251 Helmut Gruber 17 Parliamentary sessions: interlocking genres of law-making 266 Răzvan Săftoiu 18 Political advertising and election campaigns 288 Glenn W. Richardson Jr. 19 Media discourses of public participation 301 Jan Chovanec 20 Political discourse as institutional communication 317 Geert Jacobs, Thomas Jacobs and Sofie Verkest 21 Environment, climate and health at the crossroads: a critical analysis of public policy and political communication discourse in the EU 328 Cinzia Bevitori and Katherine E. Russo 22 Public policy discourse: anti-terrorism and migration 345 Maureen Duffy 23 Protocols of political forgiveness: forgetting and forgiving antisemitism in Greek right-wing politics 360 Salomi Boukala Index 374
