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Discourse and Politics
Editor: Gloria Álvarez-Benito, Gabriela Fernández-Díaz and Isabel Mª Íñigo-Mora
Date Of Publication: Mar 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0334-2
Isbn: 1-4438-0334-0
Drawing on political discourse from a wide rage of settings and perspectives, this book is set to provide a descriptive and analytical tool for examining political discourse and will be welcomed by anyone interested in discourse analysis in general, and in political discourse in particular.

Topics covered in this book include the study of political discourse styles, the use of rhetorical strategies (vocabulary, metaphors, quotations, parentheticals, etc.), the relation between political discourse and society (legitimization, the private-public interface, identities), role of gestures in relation to speech, methods for analysing political discourse, and how to build and exploit a political language corpus.

GLORIA ALVAREZ-BENITO is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Linguistics (University of Seville) where she teaches different courses on Nonverbal Communication, Discourse Analysis, Lexical-Semantics and Syntax. She is also Director of the MA Program in Business and International Communication at the University of Seville. She holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Seville. Her research interests include nonverbal communication and the relation between verbal and nonverbal structures. She has published many articles on linguistics and, together with Iñigo-Mora, López-Folgado and Rivas-Carmona, co-authored Comunicación y Discurso (2003).

GABRIELA FERNANDEZ-DIAZ is a Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Linguistics (University of Seville). She holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Seville and an MSc in Advanced Information Systems from the University of Glasgow (UK). Her research interests include Natural Language Processing, Computer-Assisted Translation, Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics. Her main contribution to the field of Discourse Analysis is: “A Model for the Linguistic Specification and the Computational Management of Man-Machine Dialogues Following Commands Issued in Spoken Natural Language” (Universal Publishers, 2005).

ISABEL M. IÑIGO-MORA is a Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Linguistics (University of Seville). She holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Seville. Her research interest centers on discourse in general and political discourse in particular. She has written some works on political discourse and rhetoric. Some of her publications include: Comunicación y Discurso (2003), “On the Use of the Personal Pronoun we in Communities” (Journal of Language and Politics, 2004), “Extreme Case Formulations in Spanish Pre-Electoral Debates and English Panel Interviews” (Discourse Studies, 2007); “Evasion in political interviews: An analysis of televised interviews with Tony Blair” (Political Linguistics, 2007).

"This book departs from the premise that the analysis of political discourse is an interdisciplinary field covering linguistics, communication studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology and other disciplines. Such a view provides a multilateral presentation of relationship between politics and discourse in different countries both in verbal and non-verbal modes of interaction. The interdisciplinary scope or research is widened by the synthesis of theoretical frameworks and practical application.

Being the insightful volume of papers evolving our understanding of political discourse, the book "Discourse and Politics” is recommended both for specialists and for a wide range of audiences."

- Edward Budaev, PhD, Editor of the journal Political Linguistics

“The book “Discourse and Politics” is an edited volume of chapters, based on papers presented at the conference in Seville. The chapters focus on political discourse strategies, on verbal and nonverbal elements in political interaction, and on methods of analysis. This timely volume on political discourse brings together many different approaches and perspectives from many different countries; as such, it is highly to be recommended.”

- Peter Bull, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.

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