Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice

This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and behave politically. Contemporary and high profile case studies of politicians and other speakers are used, including an examination of the dangerous influence of a politician's words on the defendants in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial.International in its perspective, Analysing Political Discourse also considers the changing landscape of political language post-September 11, including the increasing use of religious imagery in the political discourse of, amongst others, George Bush.Written in a lively and engaging style, this book provides an essential introduction to political discourse analysis.

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Chilton, Paul

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and behave politically. Contemporary and high profile case studies of politicians and other speakers are used, including an examination of the dangerous influence of a politician's words on the defendants in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial. International in its perspective, Analysing Political Discourse also considers the changing landscape of political language post-September 11, including the increasing use of religious imagery in the political discourse of, amongst others, George Bush. Written in a lively and engaging style, this book provides an essential introduction to political discourse analysis.

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Orwellian Language and the Media

Pluto Pr

There is a growing need for the development of standards and protocols so that computers can talk to each other. This book offers a detailed introduction to message handling systems based on the CCITT's X400 recommendations. The range of user applications is surveyed, and the benefits they offer are described. Attention is also given to the X400 implemetation activities for service providers and product vendors. There is also a discussion of standardization, OSI principles and conformance testing. Appendices deal with functional standards, the X400 technical guide, X400 products, and international standards recommendations.

X.400: The Messaging and Interconnection Medium for the Future : An Ncc Management Report

Computers & Technology

Software

Blackwell Pub.

Language and the Nuclear Arms Debate: Nukespeak Today

An introduction to the rhetorical devices used by politicians and others to control audience attitudes towards nuclear issues, this offers models of rhetoric, pragmatics, discourse analysis and semiotics in order to assess both the efficiency and the possible flaws of these devices.

Continuum International Publishing Group

The idea that spatial cognition provides the foundation of linguistic meanings, even highly abstract meanings, has been put forward by a number of linguists in recent years. This book takes this proposal into new dimensions and develops a theoretical framework based on simple geometric principles. All speakers are conceptualisers who have a point of view both in a literal and in an abstract sense, choosing their perspective in space, time and the real world. The book examines the conceptualising properties of verbs, including tense, aspect, modality and transitivity, as well as the conceptual workings of grammatical constructions associated with counterfactuality, other minds and the expression of moral force. It makes links to the cognitive sciences throughout and concludes with a discussion of the relationship between language, brain and mind.

Language, Space and Mind: The Conceptual Geometry of Linguistic Meaning

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Cambridge University Press

Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy

Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make sense of the phenomenon of Brexit without understanding how language was used - and misused - in the historical context that produced the 2016 referendum result. This interdisciplinary book shows how the particular idea of 'the British people' was maintained through text and talk at different levels of society over the years following World War II, and mobilised by Brexit propagandists in a socially, economically and culturally divided polity. The author argues that we need the well-defined tools of linguistics and language philosophy, tied in with a political science framework, to understand a serious, modern concept of demagoguery. Written in an accessible manner, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to probe the social, political and ideational contexts that generated Brexit.

Brexitspeak

Foreign & International Law

Product Description The idea that spatial cognition provides the foundation of linguistic meanings, even highly abstract meanings, has been put forward by a number of linguists in recent years. This book takes this proposal into new dimensions and develops a theoretical framework based on simple geometric principles. All speakers are conceptualisers who have a point of view both in a literal and in an abstract sense, choosing their perspective in space, time and the real world. The book examines the conceptualising properties of verbs, including tense, aspect, modality and transitivity, as well as the conceptual workings of grammatical constructions associated with counterfactuality, other minds and the expression of moral force. It makes links to the cognitive sciences throughout and concludes with a discussion of the relationship between language, brain and mind. Review 'For many years cognitive linguists have argued that language is grounded in space. This accessible and engaging book explores just how far simple geometric principles can be pushed to account for a wide range of language phenomena.' Kenny Coventry, University of East Anglia Book Description A new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles. About the Author Paul Chilton is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University.

Language, Space and Mind

Words, Language & Grammar

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Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice

Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice

Orwellian Language and the Media

X.400: The Messaging and Interconnection Medium for the Future : An Ncc Management Report

Language and the Nuclear Arms Debate: Nukespeak Today

Language, Space and Mind: The Conceptual Geometry of Linguistic Meaning

Brexitspeak

Language, Space and Mind

Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy

Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice