The Dynamics of Political Discourse (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027256640
• ISBN13: 9789027256645
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 6.5"