Table of Contents
Introduction: Introducing the language-politics nexus (Ruth Wodak and Bernhard Forchtner)
Part I: Theoretical approaches to language and politics
Chapter 1: Rhetoric as a civic art from antiquity to the beginning of modernity (Sara Rubinelli)
Chapter 2: From Karl Marx to Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser (Bob Jessop)
Chapter 3: Jürgen Habermas: between democratic deliberation and deliberative democracy (Simon Susen)
Chapter 4: Michel Foucault:discourse, power/knowledge and deliberative democracy (Reiner Keller)
Chapter 5: Jacques Lacan: negotiating the pychosocial in and beyond language (Yannis Stavrakakis)
Chapter 6: The discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau (Christoffer Kølvraa)
Chapter 7: Pierre Bourdieu: ally or foe of discourse analysis? (Andrew Sayer)
Chapter 8: Conceptual history: the history of basic concepts (Jan Ifversen)
Chapter 9: Critical discourse Studies: a critical approach to the study of language and communication (Bernhard Forchtner and Ruth Wodak)
Part II: Methodical approaches to language and politics
Chapter 10: Content analysis (Roberto Franzosi)
Chapter 11: Corpus analysis (Amelie Kutter)
Chapter 12: Cognitive linguistic Critical Discourse Studies: connecting language and image (Christopher Hart)
Chapter 13: Competition metaphors and ideology: life as a race (Jonathan Charteris-Black)
Chapter 14: Legitimation and multimodality (Theo van Leeuwen)
Chapter 15: Narrative analysis (Anna de Fina)
Chapter 16: Rhetorical analysis (Claudia Posch)
Chapter 17: Understanding political issues through argumentation analysis (Ruth Amossy)
Chapter 18: Conversation analysis and the study of language and politics (Steven E. Clayman and Laura Loeb)
Chapter 19: Politics beyond words: ethnography of political institutions (Endre Dányi)
Part III: Genres of political action
Chapter 20: Parliamentary debates (Cornelia Ilie)
Chapter 21: Government communication (Sten Hansson)
Chapter 22: Press conferences (Mats Ekström and Göran Eriksson)
Chapter 23: Policymaking: documents and laws (Kristof Savski)
Chapter 24: The semiotics of political commemoration (Martin Reisigl)
Chapter 25: Mediatisation and political language (Michael Higgins)
Chapter 26: Performing politics: from the town hall to the inauguration (Jennifer Sclafani)
Chapter 27: Genres of political communication in Web 2.0 (Helmut Gruber)
Chapter 28: Music and sound as discourse and ideology: the case of the national anthem (David Machin)
Chapter 29: The language of party programs and billboards: an example of the 2014 parliamentary election campaign in Ukraine (Lina Klymenko)
Chapter 30: Caricature and comics (Randy Duncan)
Chapter 31: Meetings (Jo Angouri and Lorenza Mondada)
Part IV: Applications and cases I: language, politics, and contemporary socio-cultural challenges
Chapter 32: Climate change and the socio-ecological crisis (Anabela Carvalho)
Chapter 33: Old and dependent: the construction of a subject position for politics and care (Bernhard Weicht)
Chapter 34: Language and gendered politics: the ‘double-bind’ in action (Susan Ehrlich and Tanya Romaniuk)
Chapter 35: Queering multilingualism and politics: regimes of mobility, citizenship and (in)visibility (Tommaso M. Milani and Erez Levon)
Chapter 36: Language and globalisation (Melissa L. Curtin)
Chapter 37: A cultural political economy of Corporate Social Responsibility: the language of ‘stakeholders’ and the politics of new ethicalism (Ngai-Ling Sum)
Chapter 38: The fictionalisation of politics (Ruth Wodak and Bernhard Forchtner)
Chapter 39: Religion and the secular (Teemu Taira)
Part V: Applications and cases II: language, politics and (de)mobilisation
Chapter 40: Discursive depoliticisation and political disengagement (Matthew Flinders and Matthew Wood)
Chapter 41: Identity politics, populism, and the far right (Anton Pelinka)
Chapter 42: Race, racism, discourse (Dávid Kaposi and John E. Richardson)
Chapter 43: The materiality and semiosis of inequality, class struggle and warfare: the case of home evictions in Spain (David Block)
Chapter 44: Language under totalitarian regimes: the example of political discourse in Nazi Germany (Andreas Musolff)
Chapter 45: Discursive underpinnings of war and terrorism (Adam Hodges)