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Proximization

Piotr Cap
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Author : Piotr Cap
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271556

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This book proposes a new theory (“proximization theory”) in the area of political/public legitimization discourse. Located at the intersection of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics and critical approaches, the theory holds that legitimization of broadly consequential political/public policies, such as pre-emptive interventionist campaigns, is best accomplished by forced construals of virtual external threats encroaching upon the speaker and her audience’s home territory. The construals, which proceed along spatial, temporal and axiological lines, are forced by strategic deployment of lexico-grammatical choices drawn from the three domains. This proposal is illustrated primarily in the in-depth analysis of the 2001-2010 US discourse of the War-on-Terror, and secondarily in a number of pilot studies pointing to a wide range of further applications (environmental discourse, health communication, cyber-threat discourse, political party-representation). The theory and the empirical focus of the book will appeal to researchers working on interdisciplinary projects in Pragmatics, Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies, as well as Journalism and Media Studies.

Perspectives in Politics and Discourse

Urszula Okulska,Piotr Cap
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Author : Urszula Okulska,Piotr Cap
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206275

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Perspectives in Politics and Discourse by Urszula Okulska,Piotr Cap Pdf

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 communication, ideology, politics of language choice, etc. - it offers uniquely systematic, theoretically grounded insights in how language is used to perform power-enforcing/imbuing practices in social interaction, and how it is deployed for communicating decisions concerning language itself. The twenty chapters in the volume, written by specialists in political linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and social psychology, address the diversity of political discourse to propose novel perspectives from which common analytic procedures can be drawn and followed. The volume is thus an essential resource for anyone looking for a coherent research agenda in explorations of political discourse as a point of reference for their own academic activities, both scholarly and didactic. "Politics in today's world consists of almost continuous interconnected talking and writing in a constantly expanding media universe. This comprehensive collection of papers edited by Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap helps readers to get a hold on the flow of discourse that constitutes politics today. Indispensible for anyone seeking perspectives for understanding the language of politics and research methods for probing beyond the surface."

Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies

Christopher Hart,Piotr Cap
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Author : Christopher Hart,Piotr Cap
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441160775

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CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoretical and empirical developments. It presents an up-to-date survey of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), covering both the theoretical landscape and the analytical territories that it extends over. It is intended for critical scholars and students who wish to keep abreast of the current state of the art. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the chapters are organised around different methodological perspectives for CDS (history, cognition, multimodality and corpora, among others). In the second part, the chapters are organised around particular discourse types and topics investigated in CDS, both traditionally (e.g. issues of racism and gender inequality) and only more recently (e.g. issues of health, public policy, and the environment). This is, altogether, an essential new reference work for all CDS practitioners.

Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse

Laura Filardo-Llamas,Christopher Hart,Bertie Kaal
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Author : Laura Filardo-Llamas,Christopher Hart,Bertie Kaal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317293583

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Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse by Laura Filardo-Llamas,Christopher Hart,Bertie Kaal Pdf

Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this book is the first to address the role of perspective in socio-political discourse. Specifically, the contributions to this volume seek to explore, from a cognitive standpoint, the way in which perspective functions in three dimensions – space, time, and evaluation – to enact ideology and persuasion. A range of discourse genres are analysed, including political discourse, media discourse, and songs used as political tools. Starting from the contention that discourse processing relies on the same mechanisms that support our understanding and experience of space, the book finds a recurrent theme in the way in which perspectival concepts like distance and focus, prompted by linguistic signs, feature in our discursively constructed knowledge of social and political realities. By highlighting the complex nature of perspective-taking in ideological discourse, the volume sets the agenda for further research in this area. The book will appeal to linguists, discourse analysts, media scholars, and political scientists, and all who are interested in the relationship between language and cognition in the socio-political domain. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Discourse Studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies

John Flowerdew,John E. Richardson
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Author : John Flowerdew,John E. Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317576501

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The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies by John Flowerdew,John E. Richardson Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies provides a state-of-the-art overview of the important and rapidly developing field of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). Forty-one chapters from leading international scholars cover the central theories, concepts, contexts and applications of CDS and how they have developed, encompassing: approaches analytical methods interdisciplinarity social divisions and power domains and media. Including methodologies to assist those undertaking their own critical research of discourse, this Handbook is key reading for all those engaged in the study and research of Critical Discourse Analysis within English Language and Linguistics, Communication, Media Studies and related areas.

Discourse, Grammar and Ideology

Christopher Hart
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Author : Christopher Hart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441101358

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Researchers in critical discourse analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and image) can play in revealing ideological properties of texts and discourse in social and political contexts. The book takes the reader through three distinct grammatical frameworks – functional grammar, multimodal grammar and cognitive grammar. Using examples taken from a range of discourses relating to globalisation, including discourses of immigration, war, corporate practice and political protests, the book demonstrates the individual utility and the interconnectedness of these models inside CDA. A key argument advanced is that the cognitive processes necessarily involved in making sense of language are based in visual experience. This position offers new ways of understanding the ideological effects of grammatical choices in texts and suggests a reassessment of the relationship between linguistic and multimodal grammars in CDA. The book will appeal to students and researchers interested in CDA and the relationship between discourse, cognition and social action.

Approaches to Conflict

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk,Paul A. Wilson,Stephen M. Croucher
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Author : Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk,Paul A. Wilson,Stephen M. Croucher
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498535465

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Approaches to Conflict by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk,Paul A. Wilson,Stephen M. Croucher Pdf

This volume investigates the role of communication and emotions in conflict contexts and draws from communication and media studies, public relations, philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, linguistics, business studies, political science, literature, and cultural studies.

Legitimisation in Political Discourse

Piotr Cap
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Author : Piotr Cap
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443845533

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How did the G. W. Bush administration manage to persuade Americans to go to war in Iraq in March 2003? How was this intervention, and the global campaign named as “war-on-terror,” legitimised linguistically? This book shows that the best legitimisation effects in political discourse are accomplished through the use of “proximization”—a cognitive-rhetorical strategy that draws on the speaker’s ability to present events as directly and increasingly affecting the addressee, usually in a negative or threatening way. There are three aspects of proximization: spatial, temporal and axiological. The spatial aspect involves the construal of events in the discourse as physically endangering the addressee. The temporal aspect involves presenting the events as increasingly momentous and historic and hence of central significance to both the addressee and the speaker. The axiological aspect consists in a growing clash between the system of values adhered to by the speaker and the addressee, and the values characterizing a third party whose actions, ideologically negative, are made “proximate” and thus threatening. Although the tripartite model of proximization proposed in the book is complex at the level of its linguistic realisation, the working assumption is intriguingly basic: addressees of political discourse are more likely to legitimise pre-emptive actions aimed at neutralizing the proximate “threat” if they construe the threat as personally consequential. The book shows how language of the war-on-terror, and especially the rhetoric of the Iraq war, respond to this precondition. This second revised edition features an extended preface and a new closing chapter.

Advances in Discourse Approaches

Marta Dynel
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Author : Marta Dynel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443808293

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Taboo words, Quentin Tarantino’s films, humorous dialogues from “Sex and the City”, witty advertising slogans, the Bible, Barack Obama’s speeches, or legal discourse are only a few of the topics addressed in the volume. The study of discourse is a diversified and fast-developing field of language research, embracing methodological proposals, discourse analyses, comparative research, translation studies and teaching perspectives. Within each of the approaches, theoretical frameworks and postulates abound. The list of research topics is inexhaustible, especially that each year brings new real-life material subject to analysis and issues to elaborate. Each chapter is devoted to a different topic and deploys a separate theoretical framework. The diversity of research data, methodologies and theoretical viewpoints guarantees the volume’s being a representative sample of multifarious developments in discourse approaches. The book should thus be an interesting resource for enterprising researchers and students of linguistics.

Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II

Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II Book PDF

Author : Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443845656

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Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II by Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka Pdf

Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains, the second volume of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, edited by Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, gathers papers which partly complement and develop the first volume, Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Most of the texts collected in this book, representative of advanced independent research and that of an informed exercise in the application of a pragmatic framework, result from the Fourth Symposium on “New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics,” organized at the University of Łódź, Poland, in May 2008. Accepting the inevitable failure of any attempt to pose a strict and clear-cut division between the research area of semantics and that of pragmatics, the volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of data which are best described as “semantically” limited. While Volume One concentrated on speech as a type of action, the present volume, without denying the inherently actional nature of language use, concentrates on limited contexts. Pragmatic phenomena in semantically-restricted domains are addressed from a variety of both theoretical and applied perspectives. The book is divided in three parts. Part One, “Pragmatics, Politics and Ideology,” gathers seven papers centered on issues pertaining to political linguistics. In Part Two, “The Pragmatics of Humour, Power and the Media,” there are eight papers which explore issues of politeness and modesty, pragmatic aspects of mediated and gendered discourse, or dynamicity of power relation in interaction. Part Three, “Focus on Textual Properties,” concentrates on text, excluding political discourse. It integrates discussions of equivalence and specialized translation, intertextual properties and pragmatically-motivated lexical choices in business communication, in law, and in science.

Methods in Pragmatics

Andreas H. Jucker,Klaus P. Schneider,Wolfram Bublitz
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Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Klaus P. Schneider,Wolfram Bublitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110427523

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Methods in Pragmatics by Andreas H. Jucker,Klaus P. Schneider,Wolfram Bublitz Pdf

Methods in Pragmatics provides a systematic overview of the different types of data, the different methods of data collection and data analysis used in pragmatic research. It offers authoritative and comprehensive surveys of the entire breadth of methods and methodologies. Part 1 covers introspectional, philosophical and cognitive pragmatics. Part 2 is devoted to experimental pragmatics, including discourse completion and dialogue construction tasks, role-plays and other production and comprehension tasks. Part 3 reviews observational pragmatics including ethnographic and discourse analytic methods, and part 4, finally, is devoted to corpus pragmatics including accounts of corpus compilation, annotation and data retrieval specific to pragmatic research. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art account of the precise workings of one particular method, its applications in the relevant research literature as well as a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and the type of pragmatic research questions for which it is most suitable.

The Dynamics of Political Discourse

Anita Fetzer,Elda Weizman,Lawrence N. Berlin
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Author : Anita Fetzer,Elda Weizman,Lawrence N. Berlin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268242

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The Dynamics of Political Discourse by Anita Fetzer,Elda Weizman,Lawrence N. Berlin Pdf

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.

The Language of Fear

Piotr Cap
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Author : Piotr Cap
Publisher : Springer
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137597311

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This book investigates linguistic strategies of threat construction and fear generation in contemporary public communication, including state political discourse as well as non-governmental, media and institutional discourses. It describes the ways in which the construction of closeness and remoteness can be manipulated in the public sphere and bound up with fear, security and conflict. Featuring a series of case studies in different domains, from presidential speeches to environmental discourse, it demonstrates how political and organizational leaders enforce the imminence of an outside threat to claim legitimization of preventive policies. It reveals that the best legitimization effects are obtained by discursively constructed fear appeals, which ensure quick social mobilization. The scope of the book is of immediate concern in the modern globalized era where borders and distance dissolve and are re-imagined. It will appeal to students and researchers in linguistics, discourse analysis, media communication as well as social and political sciences.

Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11

Anna Gonerko-Frej,Joanna Witkowska,Uwe Zagratzki
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Author : Anna Gonerko-Frej,Joanna Witkowska,Uwe Zagratzki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443862615

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Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11 by Anna Gonerko-Frej,Joanna Witkowska,Uwe Zagratzki Pdf

Volume 2 of Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11 continues and complements the discussion of the event undertaken in the first part of the two-volume publication (2014). This time, the focus is put on language and discourse. The contributions here volume explore the construction of “Us” and “Them” in a variety of pre- and post-9/11 texts, mainly from the perspectives of (political) discourse analysis and translation studies. The book shows how language in use reflects and retells the tragic event and how it (re-)constructs its actors, bringing us closer to understanding the roots and long-term consequences of 9/11. The volume is by no means exhaustive of the topic, but demonstrates its complexity and continuing relevance for today’s world.

Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition

Christopher Hart
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Author : Christopher Hart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206343

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Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition by Christopher Hart Pdf

Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is an exciting research enterprise in which scholars are concerned with the discursive reproduction of power and inequality. However, researchers in CDS are increasingly recognising the need to investigate the cognitive dimensions of discourse and context if they want to fully account for any connection between language, legitimisation and social action. This book presents a collection of papers in CDS concerned with various ideological discourses. Analyses are firmly rooted in linguistics and cognition constitutes a major focus of attention. The chapters, which are written by prominent researchers in CDS, come from a broad range of theoretical perspectives spanning pragmatics, cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics. The book is essential reading for anyone working at the cutting edge of CDS and especially for those wishing to explore the central place that cognition must surely hold in the relationship between discourse and society.