RSSBook: Clusivity
Jun 01
Title: Clusivity
Subtitle: A New Approach to Association and Dissociation in Political Discourse
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.c-s-p.org
Author: Anna Ewa Wieczorek
Hardback: ISBN: 1443844039 9781443844031 Pages: 250 Price: U.K. £ 44.99
Hardback: ISBN: 1443844039 9781443844031 Pages: 250 Price: U.S. $ 67.99
Abstract:
Dealing with the concepts of inclusion and exclusion encoded linguistically,
both implicitly and explicitly, this book develops an original framework for
the analysis of these phenomena in political discourse. The approach taken
situates political discourse in a broader context of social and psychological
relations between groups and their members which influence the manner in which
the speaker’s message is constructed and construed by individuals. The present
study proposes a pragmatic-cognitive model which underlies and explains the
discursive representation of belongingness and dissociation in terms of the
conceptual location of various discourse entities in the Discourse Space (cf.
Chilton 2005). The model in question is concerned with three mechanisms which,
combined, form a fully-fledged apparatus for the analysis of the legitimising
power of association and dissociation in political discourse through positive
self and negative other presentation tactics.
The study is a theoretical enterprise which, however, includes a comprehensive
empirical part whose aim is to evaluate and confirm the theoretical
assumptions made. The focus is essentially on the relationship between the
speaker and the addressees and the speaker’s attempt to maintain it
discursively. Thus, Clusivity: A New Approach to Association and Dissociation
in Political Discourse will appeal to discourse analysts, pragmaticians, and
cognitive analysts, as well as to political and social sciences analysts,
social psychologists, journalists and speechwriters.
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