Political Discourse Analysis
eBook - ePub

Political Discourse Analysis

A Method for Advanced Students

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Political Discourse Analysis

A Method for Advanced Students

About this book

In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative approach to analysing political discourse.

Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of arguments into critical discourse analysis and political discourse analysis. The book is grounded in a view of politics in which deliberation, decision and action are crucial concepts: politics is about arriving cooperatively at decisions about what to do in the context of disagreement, conflict of interests and values, power inequalities, uncertainty and risk.

The first half of the book introduces the authors' new approach to the analysis and evaluation of practical arguments, while the second half explores how it can be applied by looking at examples such as government reports, parliamentary debates, political speeches and online discussion forums on political issues. Through the analysis of current events, including a particular focus on the economic crisis and political responses to it, the authors provide a systematic and rigorous analytical framework that can be adopted and used for students' own research.

This exciting new text, co-written by bestselling author Norman Fairclough, is essential reading for researchers, upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of discourse analysis, within English language, linguistics, communication studies, politics and other social sciences.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Political discourse analysis and the nature of politics
  10. 2 Practical reasoning: a framework for analysis and evaluation
  11. 3 Critical discourse analysis and analysis of argumentation
  12. 4 The economic crisis in the UK: strategies and arguments
  13. 5 Values as premises in the public debate over bankers’ bonuses
  14. 6 Deliberation as genre in the parliamentary debate on university tuition fees
  15. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index