Analyzing genres in political communication : theory and practice /

"Featuring contributions by leading specialists in the field, the volume is a survey of cutting edge research in genres in political discourse. Since, as is demonstrated, "political genres" reveal many of the problems pertaining to the analysis of communicative genres in general, it i...

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Other Authors: Cap, Piotr (Editor), Okulska, Urszula (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013
Series:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 50.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Notes on contributors, pvii-xi; 2. Analyzing genres in political communication: An introduction (by Cap, Piotr), p1-26; 3. Part I. Theory-driven approaches; 4. Chapter 1. Genres in political discourse: The case of the 'inaugural speech' of Austrian chancellors (by Gruber, Helmut), p29-71; 5. Chapter 2. Political interviews in context (by Fetzer, Anita), p73-99; 6. Chapter 3. Policy, policy communication and discursive shifts: Analyzing EU policy discourses on climate change (by Krzyzanowski, Michal), p101-133; 7. Chapter 4. The television election night broadcast: A macro genre of political discourse (by Lauerbach, Gerda Eva), p135-185; 8. Chapter 5. Analyzing meetings in political and business contexts: Different genres
  • similar strategies? (by Wodak, Ruth), p187-221; 9. Chapter 6. Presenting politics: Persuasion and performance across genres of political communication (by Moir, James), p223-235; 10. Part II. Data-driven approaches; 11. Chapter 7. Legitimizing the Iraq War through the genre of political speeches: Rhetorics of judge-penitence in the narrative reconstruction of Denmark's cooperation with Nazism (by Forchtner, Bernhard), p239-265; 12. Chapter 8. Macro and micro, quantitative and qualitative: An integrative approach for analyzing (election night) speeches (by Malkmus, Thorsten), p267-295; 13. Chapter 9. Reframing the American Dream: Conceptual metaphor and personal pronouns in the 2008 US presidential debates (by Boyd, Michael), p297-319; 14. Chapter 10. The late-night TV talk show as a strategic genre in American political campaigning (by Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna), p321-343; 15. Chapter 11. Multimodal legitimation: Looking at and listening to Obama's ads (by Mackay, Rowan), p345-377; 16. Chapter 12. Blogging as the mediatization of politics and a new form of social interaction: A case study of 'proximization dynamics' in Polish and British political blogs (by Kopytowska, Monika), p379-421; 17. Index.