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The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups

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Title: The Dynamics of Political Discourse
Subtitle: Forms and functions of follow-ups
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 259

Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.259

Editor: Anita Fetzer
Editor: Elda Weizman
Editor: Lawrence N. Berlin

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027268242 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027268242 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027268242 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027256645 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027256645 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027256645 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70

Abstract:

Rethinking Sinclair and Coulthard’s sequentiality-based notion of the follow-up, this volume explores its forms and communicative functions in traditional and contemporary modes of communication (parliamentary sessions, interviews, debates, speeches, op-eds, discussion forums and Twitter) wherein political actors address challenges to their political agenda and to their political face. In so doing, the volume achieves two major advances. First, its contributions expand the understanding of follow-ups beyond the traditional focus on structural sequentiality, considering communicative function as a defining feature of a follow-up. Second, it broadens the understanding of what constitutes political discourse, as not being limited to a single discourse, but also being able to span multiple discourses of different forms and speech events over time.