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Book: Analysing Genres in Political Communication

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Title: Analyzing Genres in Political Communication
Subtitle: Theory and practice
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 50

Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.50

Editor: Piotr Cap
Editor: Urszula Okulska

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271488 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271488 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271488 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206411 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206411 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206411 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00

Abstract:

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 state-of-the-art
addition to contemporary genre theory. The book offers new methodological,
theoretical and empirical insights in both the long-established genres
(speeches, interviews, policy documents, etc.), and the modern,
rapidly-evolving generic forms, such as online political ads or weblogs. The
chapters, which engage in timely issues of genre mediatization, hybridity,
multimodality, and the mixing of discursive styles, come from a broad range of
perspectives spanning Critical Discourse Studies, pragmatics, cognitive
psychology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and media studies. As such,
they constitute essential reading for anyone seeking an interdisciplinary yet
coherent research agenda within the vast and complex territory of today’s
forms of political communication.