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Speaking of Europe
Approaches to complexity in European political discourse
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Recent years have witnessed the European Union struggling to keep Europe together in increasingly difficult economic and political circumstances. Communication within and about European institutions has become more challenging in this perplexing political environment, demonstrating the complex nature of EU political discourse. In order to highlight these complexities, the contributors to this volume present different theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of diverse facets of EU discourse, realized through a variety of linguistic and discursive phenomena. The approaches represent rhetorical theory, metaphor and conceptual theory, cognitive and corpus linguistics, lexical statistics, polyphony, logical semantics, pragmatic and philosophical perspectives. Through this multitude of perspectives the book complements existing approaches and suggests new approaches in the study of political discourse.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 49] 2013. vii, 191 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 22 March 2013
Published online on 22 March 2013
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
- Speaking of and within the EU – IntroductionKjersti Fløttum | pp. 1–18
- Speaking to Europe: A Rhetorical approach to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s speech to the EU ParliamentJens E. Kjeldsen | pp. 19–42
- Doing politics or doing media? A linguistic approach to European parliamentary debateCoco Norén | pp. 43–64
- Quantitative approaches to political discourse: Corpus linguistics and text statisticsDamon M. Mayaffre and Céline Poudat | pp. 65–84
- On what is not said and who said it: Argumentative connectives in Nicolas Sarkozy’s speeches to the European ParliamentAnders Alvsåker Didriksen and Anje Müller Gjesdal | pp. 85–110
- Voices and identities: The polyphony of Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarkozy at the European ParliamentØyvind Gjerstad | pp. 111–134
- The heart of Europe: Synchronic variation and historical trajectories of a political metaphorAndreas Musolff | pp. 135–150
- Images and roles of the European Union in the climate change debate: A cognitive approach to metaphors in the European ParliamentAnnelise Ly | pp. 151–170
- Risky readings: The virtue of overinterpretations and speculations in political discourse analysisPeter Svensson and Dag Stenvoll | pp. 171–188
- Index | pp. 189–191
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