Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 490 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 490 g
Reihe: Belgian Journal of Linguistics
ISBN: 978-90-272-2671-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
After a programmatic introduction by Jan Blommaert, three sections can be discerned in this volume. The first section, with papers by van Dijk, Cushing, Wilson, Fairclough & Mauranen, Jucker and Gruber, concerns itself with the definition of political discourse, with particular linguistic aspects such as non-modal meaning, persuasive tactics or metalinguistic negation, and with recent trends of political discourse such as conversationalisation. The paper by Gruber on media coverage of right-wing extremism leads the way to the second section in which the media and political discourse on foreigners such as migrants and refugees is analysed (Kuusisto & Östman; Horvat, Verschueren & Žagar). Finally, the third section could be broadly labelled as concerned with ‘self- and other-representation’, with papers on intercultural discouse, gender, institutional discourse, varieties of English and political correctness (resp. Shi-xu, Rojo, Slembrouck & Sarangi, Begum & Kandiah, Janicki).