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The Linguistics of Political Argument: The Spin-Doctor and the Wolf-Pack at the White House (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics)

By Alan Partington

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2002
ISBN
0415287138, 9780415287135, 0203218256, 9780203218259, 9780203294772
LCC
P301.5.P67 P37 2002
Open Library ID
OL22487567M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1193391 bytes)
Series
Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
Edition
1
Pages
289\289
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-10-01 23:25:00

Description

This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was compiled of around fifty press briefings from the late Clinton years. A wide range of topics are discussed from the Kosovo crisis to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair. This work is highly original in demonstrating how concordance technology and the detailed linguistic evidence available in corpora can be used to study discourse features of text and the communicative strategies of speakers. It will be of vital interest to all linguists interested in corpus-based linguistics and pragmatics, as well as sociolinguists and students and scholars of communications, politics and the media.

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