Michael Kranert

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Kranert is involved.

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Discourse and Political Culture: The language of the Third Way in Germany and the UK

Michael Kranert

This book presents a new approach to comparative politico-linguistic discourse analysis. It takes a transdisciplinary stance and combines analytical tools from linguistic discourse analysis (keywords, metaphors, argumentation, genre) and political science (political culture, comparative politics,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 86] 2019. xviii, 298 pp.

Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse

Edited by Michael Kranert and Geraldine Horan

This edited volume explores the discursive, performative and mediated dimensions of contemporary political discourse. The strengths of the volume are manifold: it contains cutting edge interdisciplinary research on political discourses by international authors (UK, USA, Italy, Germany, Austria,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 80] 2018. vii, 418 pp.

Kranert, Michael 2021 Review of Perrez, Reuchamps & Thibodeau (2019): Variation in political metaphor Journal of Language and Politics 20:3, pp. 482–486 | Review

Kranert, Michael 2018 Political myth as a legitimation strategy: The case of the golden age myth in the discourses of the Third Way Journal of Language and Politics 17:6, pp. 882–906 | Article

Golden age myths as an answer to political crises are a recurrent phenomenon. This article demonstrates how the idea of a past golden age as the answer to a crisis of society was employed in the discourses of the Third Way: At the turn of the 20th century, the Social Democrats (SPD) in Germany… read more

Kranert, Michael and Geraldine Horan 2018 Chapter 1. Introduction: “Doing politics” – recent developments in political discourse analysis Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse, Kranert, Michael and Geraldine Horan (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter

Kranert, Michael 2016 Cap, Piotr & Urszula Okulska, eds. 2013. Analyzing genres in political communication: Theory and practice Journal of Language and Politics 15:4, pp. 500–503 | Review