Language and Politics

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Illustrated by data drawn from many linguacultures, this book provides a strictly language-based and comprehensive cross-cultural pragmatic model for analysing political data. It allows the reader to examine politically relevant data without pre-held convictions, avoiding many pitfalls lurking in the study of political language use.

Contenu

1. Introduction; Part I. Methodological Issues: 2. Framework; 3. Pitfall 1: following an ethnocentric view when studying politically-relevant data; 4. Pitfall 2: associating values with political actors and entitites at the very outset; 5. Pitfall 3: using one's research to demonstrate a pre-held conviction; Part II. Key Topics: 6. Research involving sensitive topics; 7. Communicative strategies in news reports; 8. Ideological convictions and language use; 9. Aggression in political institutions; 10. Politics and translation; 11. Conclusion.