New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 — 275 p. — ISBN10: 0230203450; ISBN13: 978-0230203457. The past two decades have seen an increase in the number of women serving in high-level political positions in countries throughout the world. The papers in this volume will look at corpus-based data from a wide variety of countries and use contrastive linguistic analyses to determine to...
John Benjamins, 2014. — ix, 338 p. — (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture). — ISBN: 978-90-272-7078-8. American echoes – On intertextuality in American presidential discourse The speeches of American presidents as a cultural intertext POTUS speaks Hypotheses Thyories of intertextuality A typology of presidential intertextuality Methodology “The voice of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 1137531339, ISBN13: 978-1137531339. This book brings together the fields of language policy and discourse studies from a multidisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective. The chapters in this volume are written by international scholars active in the field of language policy and planning and discourse studies....
London, New York: Routledge, 2000. — 136 p. The Language of Politics: examines how both politicians and commentators describe political stances. explores some of the most common linguistic features to be found in political speeches. analyses electioneering through various written texts including manifestos, posters and pamphlets. looks at how politicians answer questions both...
Brill, 2015. — xi, 300 p. — (Historical Materialism Book Series). — ISBN: 978-90-04-27679-6. Though generally associated with Antonio Gramsci, the idea of hegemony played an essential role in revolutionary Russia where it was used to conceptualize the dynamics of political and cultural leadership. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study considers the cultural...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 150 p. — ISBN10: 1137587512, ISBN13: 978-1137587510. Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and differences between the women...
John Benjamins, 2013. — xi, 426 p. — (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture). — ISBN: 978-90-272-7148-8. Th goal of the present collection is to provide a comprehensive, indepth, and, despite limitations, lasting update which will serve both theoretical and applied purposes. By giving a methodologically structured panorama of the major work directions in a...
Routledge, 2008. — xvi, 296 p. — (Routledge innovations in political theory). — ISBN: 0-203-93123-8; ISBN10: 0-203-93123-8. Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of the arguments or findings. Students and scholars in political studies know...
Routledge, 2008. — xvi, 296 p. — (Routledge innovations in political theory). — ISBN: 0-203-93123-8; ISBN10: 0-203-93123-8. Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of the arguments or findings. Students and scholars in political studies know...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 337 p. How were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign? What phrases and metaphors were key during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum? How far did the Remain and Leave campaigns rely on metaphor to engage with supporters in communicating their political...
John Benjamins, 2002. — x, 246 p. — (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture). Human beings are political animals. They are also articulate mammals. How are these two aspects linked? This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which,...
Routledge, 1996. — viii, 215 p. — (The Politics of Language). — ISBN: 0-203-41644-9. In Language in History,Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions as: What are the relations between language and class? How has language been used to construct nationality? Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bakhtin, he demonstrates, in four case studies,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 262 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Languages at War). — ISBN10: 1349715476, ISBN13: 978-1349715473. With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. The first of the two volumes...
Department of Political Science and Institute for Research on Poverty, 1977. — 184 p. Political Language: Words That Succeed and Policies That Fail examines the role of everyday language, governmental rhetoric, and professional language in creating dubious beliefs about the causes, nature, consequences, and remedies for poverty and related social problems.The book analyzes the...
John Benjamins, 2013. — vii, 191 p. — (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture). — ISBN: 978-90-272-7203-4. Recent years have witnessed the European Union struggling to keep Europe together in increasingly difficult economic and political circumstances. Communication within and about European institutions has become more challenging in this perplexing political...
European Court of Auditors, 2016. — 56 p. Over the years, the European institutions have developed a vocabulary that differs from that of any recognised form of English. It includes words that do not exist or are relatively unknown to native English speakers outside the EU institutions and often even to standard spellcheckers/grammar checkers (‘planification’, ‘to precise’ or...
Routledge, 2003. — 280 p. This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through an analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was compiled of around 50 press briefings from the late Clinton years. A wide range of topics are discussed from the Kosovo crisis to the Clinton–Lewinsky affair. This...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2007. — x, 308 p., index. The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World connects the fascinating field of contemporary written Arabic with the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia. Focusing on Egypt and Morocco, the authors combine large-scale survey data on language attitudes with in-depth analyses of actual language...
Routledge, 2011. — xi, 200 p. — (Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series). — ISBN: 978-0-203-84177-8. This book is an attempt at making sense of Islamism in Egypt from a linguistic point of view. It started with the idea of analysing critically the discourses of liberal Muslim thinkers and their Islamist counterparts to study the way language is put to use by different ideologies....
Routledge. London and New York. 1999. — 427 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. In this ground-breaking work, Christopher Hutton demonstrates that an important component of European fascist thought was derived from linguistics, not least the notion of an Aryan people with an original language and homeland. In Nazi Germany, linguistic fascism took the form of a...
Polity, 2005. — 285 p. — ISBN10: 0745631762, ISBN13: 978-0745631769. Race and the Third Reich aims to set out the key concepts, debates and controversies that marked the academic study of race in Nazi Germany. It looks in particular at the discipline of racial anthropology and its relationship to linguistics and human biology. Christopher Hutton identifies the central figures...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006. — x, 170 p. — (Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics). — ISBN: 074862452X, 0748624538. Language, this book argues, is political from top to bottom, whether considered at the level of an individual speaker's choice of language or style of discourse with others (where interpersonal politics are performed), or at the level of...
Edinburgh University Press. 2006. — x, 170 p. — (Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-10 7486 2452 X; ISBN: 0-10 7486 2453 8. In the last two decades, applied linguistics has abandoned the structuralist view of language as a self-contained, neutral system, in favour of a conception of language as political from top to bottom, in its structure as well as its...
Europa, 2001. — 233 s. Analiza języka polityki nowej polskiej rzeczywistości zukazaniem mechanizmów słownych manipulacji. Autorka przygląda się dyskursom i wypowiedziom polityków, dziennikarzy, przedstawia różnice w redakcji komunikatów prasowych "Gazety Wyborczej" i "Trybuny Ludu", "Gazety Polskiej" i tygodnika "Nie". Publikacją zainteresują się nie tylko językoznawcy,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 277 p. — ISBN10: 3319651684, ISBN13: 978-3319651682. This book represents a significant intervention into the debates surrounding Brexit and language policy. It analyses the language capabilities and resources of the United Kingdom in a new, post-referendum climate, in which public hostility towards foreign languages is matched by the necessity of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 222 p. — ISBN10: 3319651684, ISBN13: 978-3319651682. This book represents a significant intervention into the debates surrounding Brexit and language policy. It analyses the language capabilities and resources of the United Kingdom in a new, post-referendum climate, in which public hostility towards foreign languages is matched by the necessity of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 320 p. — (Bloomsbury Revelations) A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history – from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the German Democratic Republic – Victor Klemperer is regarded as one of the most vivid witnesses to a tumultuous century of...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — ISBN (10): 1-4438-4851-4; ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4851-0. This volume seeks to examine the political dimension of environmental concerns in the context of the British Isles, notably how these issues have been assimilated by political parties, which issues have been given priority, the scope and nature of the influence of the main actors, and...
Routledge, 2003. — xii, 228 p. — ISBN: 0-203-98661-X. This groundbreaking collection reorders the elitist and colonial elements of language studies by drawing together the multiple perspectives of Black language researchers. In so doing, the book recognizes and formalizes the existence of “Black Linguistics” and highlights the contributions of Black language researchers in...
Routledge, 1997. — xii, 264 p. — ISBN: 0-7007-0673-9. This study of Arabic political discourse attempts to explore the relationship of language forms to language functions, through the speeches of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Al Gaddafi. Each chapter concerned with the study is dedicated to a linguistic analysis of language variation and to observations of how...
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1986. — 394 p. The author of an authoritative work on this topic in Swiss society now draws a comprehensive picture of Belgium's linguistic demarcations. Firmly rooting the discussion in an historical background, the author discusses group images and attitudes and the constitutional and institutional framework for multilingualism that...
Praeger. 2010. — 220 p. — ISBN: 031337676X Words of Conflict, Words of War: How the Language We Use in Political Processes Sparks Fighting is a fascinating exploration of the narratives leaders use to position both themselves and others in the course of political processes that lead to peace or conflict. Drawing on the relatively new field of "positioning theory," expert essays...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 396 p. — ISBN10: 331976134X, ISBN13: 978-3319761343. This book examines the linguistic and discursive elements of social and economic policies and national political leader statements to read new meanings into debates on border protection, national sovereignty, immigration, economic indigenisation, land reform and black economic empowerment. It adds...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 309 p. — ISBN10: 331976134X, ISBN13: 978-3319761343. This book examines the linguistic and discursive elements of social and economic policies and national political leader statements to read new meanings into debates on border protection, national sovereignty, immigration, economic indigenisation, land reform and black economic empowerment. It adds...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010. — 418 p. 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...
Routledge. 2002. — 290 p. — (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics). — ISBN: 0415287138 This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was compiled of around fifty press briefings from the late Clinton years. A wide range of...
Routledge, 2015. — xvi, 229 p. — (Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe). — ISBN: 978-1-315-76217-3. The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 260 p. — ISBN10: 3319914146, ISBN13: 978-3319914145. This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that exile, in the Palestinian case especially, is a political catastrophe; it is banishment by a colonial power. It suggests that,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 252 p. — ISBN10: 3319914146, ISBN13: 978-3319914145. This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that exile, in the Palestinian case especially, is a political catastrophe; it is banishment by a colonial power. It suggests that,...
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011. — 209 p. — ISBN: 1441177825, 0567003582. Politicians enact three main roles in political discourse - narrator, interlocutor and character - to achieve specific goals. This book explains these roles and how they constitute discursive strategies, correlating with political aims. In short: politicians evoke voices in discourse to...
Clevedon (UK); Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1997. — v. 88 p. — (Current Issues in Language and Society). — ISBN 13: 97805851 47000. This volume deals with political speeches, particularly commemorative addresses, from the perspective of critical discourse analysis. One problem in the complex of language and politics, however, is how to define what is political....
John Benjamins, 2013. — 212 p. — (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 48) This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies. It promotes the empirical...
Routledge, 2002. — xv, 172 p. — ISBN: 0-203-34142-2. This book is about language, about the ways language is deployed in times of national crisis. In the aftermath of the events of September 11, through public rhetoric, an act of terror became a war; the Bush presidency was ratified; New York became America’s city, with Rudy Giuliani as “mayor of the world.” Patriotism became...
Edinburgh University Press. 2003. — 280 p. — ISBN: 0878403957 Considering the communicative and symbolic roles of language in articulating national identity, Yasir Suleiman provides a fresh perspective on nationalism in the Middle East. The links between language and nationalism are delineated and he demonstrates how this has been articulated over the past two centuries....
John Benjamins, 2011. — 301 p. — (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 46) If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics can be represented in a humorous manner and humour can have a serious intent. Political humour conveys criticism against the political status...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — xi, 299 p. — (Oxford Political Theory). — ISBN 978–0–19–920887–6. In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history. This apparently irresistible growing dominance of English is frequently perceived and sometimes indignantly denounced as being grossly unjust....
German Ed. — Lingen Verlag, 2012. — 96 s. — ISBN10: 3941118935, 13 978-3941118935. Inwieweit trägt das Kauderwelsch unserer Politiker zur Politikverdrossenheit der Bürger bei und welche Rolle haben die Journalisten bei der Vermittlung von Inhalten und Meinungen? Wir haben in unserem Land das Glück, jederzeit über alles umfassend informiert zu werden, die Herausforderung besteht...
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