Editor: Anita Fetzer
Editor: Gerda Eva Lauerbach
Hardback: ISBN: 9027254036 Pages: 392 Price: U.S. $ 132.00
Abstract:
This book departs from the premise that political discourse is intrinsically connected with media discourse, as shaped by its cultural and transcultural characteristics. It presents a collection of papers which examine political discourse in the media from a cross-culturally comparative perspective in Arab, Dutch, British, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Israeli, Swedish, US-American and international contexts. By using different theoretical frameworks, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis, pragmatics and systemic functional linguistics, the papers reflect current moves in political discourse analysis to cross-disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating semiotics, particularly multimodality, cognition, context, genre and recipient design.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics