Language and Politics
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 20 February 2025
- 27 February 2025
- ISBN:
- 9781009092180
- 9781316515136
- 9781009095129
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.51kg, 244 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.37kg, 244 Pages
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Book description
The research and teaching of language and politics has mainly been carried out in the fields of critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. This groundbreaking book provides a concise introduction to the field from the perspective of cross-cultural pragmatics. It introduces a strictly language-based, bottom-up and comprehensive model for analysing political data, which allows the reader to examine political and socio-political data without pre-held convictions and prejudices, avoiding many pitfalls that have lurked for a long time in the study of political language use. It is illustrated with a wealth of data and case studies drawn from many linguacultures, including Anglophone ones, China, Japan, Germany and the former Yugoslavia, and from different contexts of political language use, such as diplomacy, activism, public communication and news articles. It includes handy further reading lists, discussion points and a comprehensive glossary, making it ideal for anyone keen to know how language interacts with politics.
Reviews
‘This important volume charts a fresh beginning to the objective study of language use, driven by science and a sense of balance. Equipped with a wealth of data and a range of authority, the authors boast credibly grounded research and a deep, cross-cultural understanding of language use … Essential.’
K. Liu Source: CHOICE
‘A good source of reference for critical studies that explore a wider variety of politics-oriented data texts, be it spoken or written. The in-depth methodological and theoretical foundations of the texts in pragmatics and PDA establish the book as a veritable resource for scholars and students across humanities and social science disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, sociology as well as politics and governance. The exploration of diverse political discourses from different linguacultures extends the relevance of the book to a variety of cross-cultural contexts.’
Mariam Titilope Olugbodi Source: Aigne
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