Introduction: Introducing the language-politics nexus (Ruth Wodak and Bernhard Forchtner)
Part I: Theoretical approaches to language and politics
Chapter 1: Rhetoric as a civic art from antiquity to the
beginning of modernity (Sara Rubinelli)
Chapter 2: From Karl Marx to Antonio Gramsci and Louis
Althusser (Bob Jessop)
Chapter 3: Jürgen Habermas: between democratic deliberation and
deliberative democracy (Simon Susen)Chapter 4: Michel
Foucault:discourse, power/knowledge and deliberative democracy
(Reiner Keller)
Chapter 5: Jacques Lacan: negotiating the pychosocial in and
beyond language (Yannis Stavrakakis)
Chapter 6: The discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau
(Christoffer Kølvraa)
Chapter 7: Pierre Bourdieu: ally or foe of discourse
analysis? (Andrew Sayer)
Chapter 8: Conceptual history: the history of basic concepts
(Jan Ifversen)
Chapter 9: Critical discourse Studies: a critical approach to
the study of language and communication (Bernhard Forchtner and
Ruth Wodak)
Part II: Methodical approaches to language and politics
Chapter 10: Content analysis (Roberto Franzosi)
Chapter 11: Corpus analysis (Amelie Kutter)
Chapter 12: Cognitive linguistic Critical Discourse Studies:
connecting language and image (Christopher Hart)
Chapter 13: Competition metaphors and ideology: life as a
race (Jonathan Charteris-Black)
Chapter 14: Legitimation and multimodality (Theo van
Leeuwen)
Chapter 15: Narrative analysis (Anna de Fina)
Chapter 16: Rhetorical analysis (Claudia Posch)
Chapter 17: Understanding political issues through argumentation
analysis (Ruth Amossy)
Chapter 18: Conversation analysis and the study of language and
politics (Steven E. Clayman and Laura Loeb)
Chapter 19: Politics beyond words: ethnography of political
institutions (Endre Dányi)
Part III: Genres of political action
Chapter 20: Parliamentary debates (Cornelia Ilie)
Chapter 21: Government communication (Sten Hansson)
Chapter 22: Press conferences (Mats Ekström and Göran
Eriksson)
Chapter 23: Policymaking: documents and laws (Kristof
Savski)
Chapter 24: The semiotics of political commemoration (Martin
Reisigl)
Chapter 25: Mediatisation and political language (Michael
Higgins)
Chapter 26: Performing politics: from the town hall to the
inauguration (Jennifer Sclafani)
Chapter 27: Genres of political communication in Web 2.0
(Helmut Gruber)
Chapter 28: Music and sound as discourse and ideology: the case
of the national anthem (David Machin)Chapter 29: The
language of party programs and billboards: an example of the 2014
parliamentary election campaign in Ukraine (Lina Klymenko)
Chapter 30: Caricature and comics (Randy Duncan)
Chapter 31: Meetings (Jo Angouri and Lorenza Mondada)
Part IV: Applications and cases I: language, politics, and
contemporary socio-cultural challenges
Chapter 32: Climate change and the socio-ecological crisis
(Anabela Carvalho)
Chapter 33: Old and dependent: the construction of a subject
position for politics and care (Bernhard Weicht)
Chapter 34: Language and gendered politics: the ‘double-bind’ in
action (Susan Ehrlich and Tanya Romaniuk)
Chapter 35: Queering multilingualism and politics: regimes of
mobility, citizenship and (in)visibility (Tommaso M. Milani and
Erez Levon)
Chapter 36: Language and globalisation (Melissa L.
Curtin)
Chapter 37: A cultural political economy of Corporate Social
Responsibility: the language of ‘stakeholders’ and the politics of
new ethicalism (Ngai-Ling Sum)
Chapter 38: The fictionalisation of politics (Ruth Wodak and
Bernhard Forchtner)
Chapter 39: Religion and the secular (Teemu Taira)
Part V: Applications and cases II: language, politics and
(de)mobilisation
Chapter 40: Discursive depoliticisation and political
disengagement (Matthew Flinders and Matthew Wood)Chapter 41:
Identity politics, populism, and the far right (Anton
Pelinka)
Chapter 42: Race, racism, discourse (Dávid Kaposi and John
E. Richardson)
Chapter 43: The materiality and semiosis of inequality, class
struggle and warfare: the case of home evictions in Spain
(David Block)
Chapter 44: Language under totalitarian regimes: the example of
political discourse in Nazi Germany (Andreas Musolff)
Chapter 45: Discursive underpinnings of war and terrorism
(Adam Hodges)
Ruth Wodak is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK; she remains affiliated to the University of Vienna, Austria.
Bernhard Forchtner is a Lecturer at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK.
Advisory Board
Adam Jaworski, Hong Kong University
Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Deborah Stone, Brandeis University, USA
Teun van Dijk, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
'The book is of immense value to young researchers as well as undergraduates. All the chapters are well referenced and the relevance of the approach is illustrated with case studies in Parts IV and V. (...) The book is a model of inter-disciplinary research and should be read closely by those interested in language and politics.' - Georgi Asatryan, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, John Benjamins Publishing Company
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