The Dynamics of Political Discourse

Forms and functions of follow-ups
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-272-5664-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 259, 278 Seiten, Gewicht: 615 g

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Rethinking Sinclair and Coulthard’s sequentiality-based notion of the follow-up, this volume explores its forms and communicative functions in traditional and contemporary modes of communication (parliamentary sessions, interviews, debates, speeches, op-eds, discussion forums and Twitter) wherein political actors address challenges to their political agenda and to their political face. In so doing, the volume achieves two major advances. First, its contributions expand the understanding of follow-ups beyond the traditional focus on structural sequentiality, considering communicative function as a defining feature of a follow-up. Second, it broadens the understanding of what constitutes political discourse, as not being limited to a single discourse, but also being able to span multiple discourses of different forms and speech events over time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fetzer, Anita

Weizman, Elda

Berlin, Lawrence N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik