Overview

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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Author:   Anita Fetzer (Universität Lüneburg) ,  Gerda Eva Lauerbach (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   160
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9789027254030

ISBN 10:   9027254036
Pages:   379
Publication Date:   27 June 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Part I. Introduction; 3. Political discourse in the media: Cross-cultural perspectives (by Lauerbach, Gerda Eva); 4. Part II. From linguistic device to discourse practice; 5. Presupposition and 'taking-for-granted' in mass communicated political argument. An illustration from British, Flemish and Swedish political colloquy (by Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie); 6. Metaphors in election night television coverage in Britain, the United States and Germany (by Scheithauer, Rut); 7. Part III. Discursive practice in political interviews; 8. Are you saying ...? A cross-cultural analysis of interviewing practices in TV election night coverages (by Becker, Annette); 9. Represented discourse in answers: A cross-cultural perspective on French and British political interviews (by Johansson, Marjut); 10. Challenges in political interviews: An intercultural analysis (by Fetzer, Anita); 11. Variation in interviewing styles: Challenge and support in Al-Jazeera and on Israeli television (by Weizman, Elda); 12. Part IV. Media events: From public address to election nights; 13. Christmas Messages by heads of state: Multimodality and media adaptations (by Sauer, Christoph); 14. Information meets entertainment: a visual analysis of election night TV programs across cultures (by Schiess, Raimund); 15. Presenting television election nights in Britain, the United States and Germany: Cross-cultural analyses (by Lauerbach, Gerda Eva); 16. Index

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