The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and Functions of Follow-ups

Fetzer, Anita (Editor)/ Weizman, Elda (Editor)/ Berlin, Lawrence N. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027256640 / ISBN 13: 9789027256645

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2015

About this Item

278 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # __9027256640

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and Functions of Follow-ups
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027256640
• ISBN 13: 9789027256645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.61 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

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.