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The pragmatics of political discourse : explorations across cultures /
"The volume promotes a pragmatic perspective to the analysis of political discourse as multilayered mediated discourse. The chapters cross the disciplinary and methodological boundaries of speech act theory, social positioning theory, and argumentation theory and rhetorics. They address the str...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., v. 228. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; The multilayered and multifaceted nature of political discourse; 1. Introduction; 2. The dynamics of political discourse; The contributions; Acknowledgement; References; I. Political discourse from above: Parliamentary discourse; On the metapragmatics of British, German and Russian political questions and answers; 1. Introduction; 2. The types of critical meta-moves in political question-answer sessions; 3. The types of meta-responses in political question-answer sessions; 4. Patterns of metacommunicative counter-attacks in question-answer sessions5. Concluding remarks; References; The discursive practice of addressing in the Romanian Parliament; 1. Introduction; 2. Previous work on parliamentary debates; 3. Setting the scene; 4. Description of the corpus; 5. Initial discursive practices: Forms of address in the Romanian Parliament; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusion; References; II. Political discourse mediated: Interviews; Argumentation in broadcast election campaign discourse: Towards a rhetorical reconstruction; 1. Introduction; 2. Reconstruction procedures; 3. Election campaign discourse; 4. Towards a rhetorical reconstruction; References; Appendix; Strategic manoeuvring in a political interview: The case of responding to an accusation of inconsist; 1. Introduction; 2. Accusations of inconsistency as a form of criticism; 3. Exploiting commitments in political interviews; 4. Strategic manoeuvering in practice; 5. Conclusion; References; The communication of certainty and uncertainty in Italian political media discourses; 1. Introduction; 2. The study; 3. Conclusions; References; Transcription notes; Appendix; Political irony: Constructing reciprocal positioning in the news interview 1. Introduction; 2. Positioning; 3. Direct and indirect positioning; 4. Conclusion; References; III. Political discourse from below: Phone-ins and letters; The effect of irony in radio talk-back programmes in Israel; 1. Introduction; 2. The effect of irony; 3. Corpus; 4. Analysis: Zehavi's use of irony; 5. Conclusions; References; 'Motions of support' and the communicative act of thanking in political discourse; Prologue; 1. Introduction; 2. Motions of support and the public-private sphere; 3. Thanking as speech act or communicative act4. Political discourse and sociocultural norms; 5. Thanking in MoS: Towards a taxonomy; 6. Wording and intention in MoS; 7. Conclusion; References; Index of names; Index of terms.