Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Constructing ordinariness in politicians’ discourse
5. Are Austrian presidential candidates ordinary people? 21
6. “You bring the steaks, I’ll bring the salad” 51
7. Quoting ordinary people in Prime Minister’s Questions1 73
8. “Well, Yair? When will you be prime minister?” 103
9. Part II. Constructing ordinariness in experts’ discourse
10. “I can do math, but I’m not that smart. I’m not brilliant” 133
11. Ordinary science 157
12. Constructing ‘ordinariness’ 179
13. Part III. Constructing ordinariness in ordinary media
14. Constructing ordinariness in online commenting in Hebrew1 and Finnish 209
15. Ordinary people’s political discourse in old and new French media 237
16. When being quotidian meets being ordinary 269
17. Index 295