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Fetzer, Anita and Gerda Lauerbach, eds. 2007. Political Discourse in the Media: Cross-cultural perspectives. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 160). John Benjamins. viii+379 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English

Annotation

This book departs from the premise that political discourse is intrinsically connected with media discourse, as shaped by its cultural and transcultural characteristics. It presents a collection of papers which examine political discourse in the media from a cross-culturally comparative perspective in Arab, Dutch, British, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Israeli, Swedish, US-American and international contexts. By using different theoretical frameworks, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis, pragmatics and systemic functional linguistics, the papers reflect current moves in political discourse analysis to cross-disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating semiotics, particularly multimodality, cognition, context, genre and recipient design.