Author : Anita Fetzer,Elda Weizman,Lawrence N. Berlin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268242
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.