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Political Discourse in the Media: Cross-cultural Perspectives

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
2007
ISBN
9027254036, 9789027254030, 9789027292278
LCC
P95.8 .P6435 2007
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5515930 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 160
Pages
379\393
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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