Part I.Political discourse studies

Chapter 1.Imagining the nation in British politics15

Ruth Breeze

Chapter 2.Political and journalistic discourse regarding the Catalan declaration of independence: A critical analysis39

Luis Escoriza Morera

Chapter 3.National vs international cartoons depicting Catalonia’s independence process in the press: A critical multimodal metaphor approach59

María Muelas-Gil

Chapter 4.A corpus-assisted qualitative approach to political discourse in Spanish print and digital press83

Gérard Fernández Smith

Chapter 5.Persuasive discourse in Daniel Defoe’s political essays: Boosting and hedging103

Rosa María López-Campillo

Chapter 6.Politics beyond death? An analysis of the obituaries of Belgian politicians129

Priscilla Heynderickx

Sylvain Dieltjens

Part II.Gender and sexuality discourse studies

Chapter 7.It all comes down to sex: Metaphorical animalisation in reggaeton discourse151

María José Hellín García

Chapter 8.Cyberbullying and gender: Exploring socially deviant behavioural practices among teenagers on Twitter177

Antonio García-Gómez

Chapter 9.A visual critical discourse analysis of women representation in Dolce & Gabbana advertising199

María Martínez Lirola

Chapter 10.Let’s talk about sex in high school: The TV series Sex Education 219

Raquel Sánchez Ruiz

Chapter 11.Paralinguistic resources in persuasive business communication in English and Spanish245

Ana María Cestero Mancera

Mercedes Díez Prados

Chapter 12.Business discourse from a psycholinguistic approach273

Carmen Varo Varo

Chapter 13.Compensatory discourse strategies in the bilingual university classroom297

Mary Griffith

Index