Piotr Cap
List of John Benjamins publications in which Piotr Cap is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1569-9463
Journal
Pragmatics
Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Edited by Helmut Gruber
ISSN 1018-2101 | E‑ISSN 2406‑4238
Implicitness: From lexis to discourse
Edited by Piotr Cap and Marta Dynel
Although the term implicitness is ubiquitous in the pragmatic scholarship, it has rarely constituted the focus of attention per se. This book aims to help crystallize the concept of implicitness by defining its linguistic boundaries, as well as specifying and exploring its different communicative… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 276] 2017. vi, 306 pp.
Proximization: The pragmatics of symbolic distance crossing
Piotr Cap
This book proposes a new theory (“proximization theory”) in the area of political/public legitimization discourse. Located at the intersection of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics and critical approaches, the theory holds that legitimization of broadly consequential political/public policies, such… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 232] 2013. ix, 220 pp.
Analyzing Genres in Political Communication: Theory and practice
Edited by Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska
Featuring contributions by leading specialists in the field, the volume is a survey of cutting edge research in genres in political discourse. Since, as is demonstrated, “political genres” reveal many of the problems pertaining to the analysis of communicative genres in general, it is also a… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 50] 2013. xi, 426 pp.
Perspectives in Politics and Discourse
Edited by Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap
The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD). Dealing with an extensive and representative variety of topics and domains –… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 36] 2010. ix, 416 pp.
2022 Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse: Constructing privileged and oppositional future in political speeches Dialogicity in Political Discourse, Weizman, Elda and Zohar Livnat (eds.), pp. 747–768 | Article
This paper describes ways in which political speakers define and legitimize future policies by construing different policy options in terms of ‘privileged’ and ‘oppositional’ futures. Privileged and oppositional futures are conceptual projections of alternative policy visions occurring in… read more
2021 On the development of the social-linguistic nexus in discourse research: A critical review Pragmatics and Society 12:2, pp. 309–333 | Article
This paper gives a critical overview of analytical approaches dominating the field of discourse studies in the last three decades, from the perspective of their philosophical and formative bases: social constructionism and linguistics. It explores different conceptions of the theoretical nexus… read more
2019 Chapter 5. Aspects of threat construction in the Polish anti-immigration discourse Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, Viola, Lorella and Andreas Musolff (eds.), pp. 115–136 | Chapter
Proximization Theory (PT) (Cap 2008, 2010, 2013, 2017; among others) is a cognitive-critical model that accounts for the ways in which the discursive construction of closeness and remoteness can be manipulated in the political sphere and bound up with fear, security and conflict. This article… read more
2017 Chapter 1. Implicitness: Familiar terra incognita in pragmatics Implicitness: From lexis to discourse, Cap, Piotr and Marta Dynel (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
The aim of this chapter is to shed light on the concept behind the label “implicitness”, which is ubiquitous in the pragmatic scholarship but has rarely constituted the focus of attention per se. In the teeth of the intuitive use of the label, which seems synonymous with “indirectness” used in… read more
2015 Monologic follow-ups in political macro-discourse: The US anti-terrorist discourse as a case in point The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups, Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin (eds.), pp. 59–84 | Article
Follow-ups have been often considered a primarily dialogic/conversational phenomenon. In this chapter I demonstrate that the concept of the follow-up could be extended to cover monologic discourses as well, especially those in which the speaker realizes a macro-goal over a number of texts produced… read more
2014 Review of Dontcheva-Navratilova (2011): Coherence in Political Speeches Cognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse, Fischer, Pascal and Christoph Schubert (eds.), pp. 371–374 | Review
2013 Analyzing genres in political communication: An introduction Analyzing Genres in Political Communication: Theory and practice, Cap, Piotr and Urszula Okulska (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
2011 Axiological Proximization Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition, Hart, Christopher (ed.), pp. 81–96 | Article
2010 Chapter 7. Proximizing objects, proximizing values: Towards an axiological contribution to the discourse of legitimization Perspectives in Politics and Discourse, Okulska, Urszula and Piotr Cap (eds.), pp. 119–142 | Article
2010 Chapter 20. Exploring ‘political communication(s)’: Contexts, procedures and outlook Perspectives in Politics and Discourse, Okulska, Urszula and Piotr Cap (eds.), pp. 399–406 | Article
2010 Chapter 1. Analysis of Political Discourse: Landmarks, challenges and prospects Perspectives in Politics and Discourse, Okulska, Urszula and Piotr Cap (eds.), pp. 3–20 | Article