Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimisation Strategies in Crisis and Conflict

by Robert Butler

Political Discourse Analysis addresses the challenges facing political actors at all levels of society and across a range of regimes. It shows how discursive legitimisation strategies can vary on a continuum ranging from the stabilising effects of institutional discourse and the management of destabilising factors inherent in new types of media to the destabilising potential of rhetorical devices and deliberate de-legitimisation strategies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 139952318X
• ISBN13: 9781399523189
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"