In:Discourse and Political Culture: The language of the Third Way in Germany and the UK
Michael Kranert
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 86] 2019
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Published online: 24 October 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.86.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
List of tables
List of figures
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1.Introduction
1.1Comparative discourse research: Global and local discourse
structures
1.2The case study: Discourses of the Third Way
1.3Aims and research questions
Chapter 2.Elements of comparative politico-linguistic discourse analysis
2.1From politico-linguistics to comparative politico-linguistic discourse
analysis: theoretical origins
2.2Discourse as texts in context, or discourse linguistics as cultural
studies
2.3The contexts of political discourses
2.4Conclusions: Methodological approaches to comparative political discourse
analysis
Chapter 3.Contexts of the Third Way in Germany and the UK
3.1The long end of the social democratic century: A brief comparative history of Labour and the SPD
3.2Discourses of the Third Way – a global phenomenon?
3.3The political systems and political cultures of Germany and the United
Kingdom as discourse contexts
3.4Texts of the Third Way in Germany and the UK: Corpus justification and description
3.5Conclusions: Research questions for a comparative politico-linguistic discourse
analysis of Third-Way discourses
Chapter 4.Texts in context: Register and genre in the discourses of the Third Way
4.1Genre and the text-context relations in political discourse
4.2Uniting the party, uniting the nation: Party conference speeches as a Genre in the discourses of the Third
Way
4.3Integrating and promoting the party: The genre election manifesto in the discourses of the Third
Way
4.4Conclusions: Register and Genre as reflections of political culture
Chapter 5.Lexical strategies in the discourses of the Third Way
5.1Political lexis: Politics as semantic struggle
5.2The conceptualisation of the Third Way as a lexico-semantic frame
5.3The realisation of the Third Way frame in Germany and the UK
5.4The Third Way semantic frame in political competition: Election manifestos
5.5Ideological decontestation – redefinitions and
recontextualisation of lexical elements
5.6Evidence of context-sensitivity of political lexis in the
Schröder-Blair paper
5.7Metalinguistic comments as indicators of an ongoing ideological battle
between Schröder and Lafontaine
5.8The lexis of election manifestos – A Corpus linguistic
view
5.9Political lexis and political myth: re-, rück- and
wieder-derivations as signifiers for a golden-age Myth
5.10Conclusions: Political lexis and political culture
Chapter 6.The argumentative structure of party-political discourse in the discourses of
‘new labour’ and ‘die neue mitte’
6.1Political deliberation and ideology: The argumentative structure of
politics
6.2Legitimisation of ideological change in ideological publication
6.3The construction of ideology in the pre-election speeches of Tony Blair
and Gerhard Schröder
6.4Personal Stories: Mythopoetic legitimation of a leader
6.5Counter-discourses in the SPD 1998: Lafontaine’s speeches as party
leader
6.6Rhetoric in times of change: Blair’s Clause Four and
Schröder’s Agenda 2010
6.7Conclusions: Legitimation of ideological change in political context
Chapter 7.New politics, new metaphor?
7.1Metaphor in political discourse
7.2The conceptual metaphor politics is a journey
7.3The conceptual metaphor politics is building
7.4The conceptual metaphor politics is battle
7.5Religious metaphors in the introduction to Labour’s manifesto in
1997
7.6The Target domains state, society and welfare
7.7Constructions of necessity in the metaphorical ideation in ideological
publications
7.8The metaphorical construction of political myths in the party conference
speeches
7.9The art of aestheticisation and promotionalisation through metaphorical
programme terms in Blair’s conference speeches
7.10Conclusions: Metaphors of the Third Way
Chapter 8.Conclusions: Political cultures and the political discourses
8.1Genres differences in political discourse
8.2Legitimation of party-ideological change
8.3Linguistic construction of Third Way ideology in Germany and the
UK
8.4The text-context relation in political discourse
8.5Theoretical and methodological conclusions for a comparative
politico-linguistic discourse analysis
8.6Social democracy after the Third Way: Questions for future comparative politico-linguistic
research
Appendix: Short biographies of political actors
References
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