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Political Discourse in the Media
Cross-cultural perspectives
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2007
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This book departs from the premise that political discourse is intrinsically connected with media discourse, as shaped by its cultural and transcultural characteristics. It presents a collection of papers which examine political discourse in the media from a cross-culturally comparative perspective in Arab, Dutch, British, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Israeli, Swedish, US-American and international contexts. By using different theoretical frameworks, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis, pragmatics and systemic functional linguistics, the papers reflect current moves in political discourse analysis to cross-disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating semiotics, particularly multimodality, cognition, context, genre and recipient design.
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Jacob L. Mey, University of Southern Denmark:
One of the most attractive aspects of this collection of nine articles is the way they deal with the 'global in the local'. In our multi-cultural world, we have to understand that cultures no longer can be identified with any homogeneous speech community, nor can culture be limited to any particular, well-defined territory. It is precisely where Fetzer & Lauerbach's volume has its force: by analyzing political discourse in the media, the authors and editors open up new vistas on the vexing problem of the intra- vs. the inter-cultural. Doing this, they contribute to the current debates on these issues.
One of the most attractive aspects of this collection of nine articles is the way they deal with the 'global in the local'. In our multi-cultural world, we have to understand that cultures no longer can be identified with any homogeneous speech community, nor can culture be limited to any particular, well-defined territory. It is precisely where Fetzer & Lauerbach's volume has its force: by analyzing political discourse in the media, the authors and editors open up new vistas on the vexing problem of the intra- vs. the inter-cultural. Doing this, they contribute to the current debates on these issues.
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Table of contents
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Acknowledgements
vii - Part I. Introduction
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Political discourse in the media
3 - Part II. From linguistic device to discourse practice
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Presupposition and ‘taking-for-granted’ in mass communicated political argument. An illustration from British, Flemish and Swedish political colloquy
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Metaphors in election night television coverage in Britain, the United States and Germany
75 - Part III. Discursive practice in political interviews
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"Are you saying ...?" A cross-cultural analysis of interviewing practices in TV election night coverages
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Represented discourse in answers: A cross-cultural perspective on French and British political interviews
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Challenges in political interviews
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Variation in interviewing styles
197 - Part IV. Media events
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Christmas Messages by heads of state
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Information meets entertainment
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Presenting television election nights in Britain, the United States and Germany
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Index
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