The Linguistics of Political Argument: The Spin-Doctor and the Wolf-Pack at the White House

ISBN-13: 9780415753890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 280 str.

Alan Partington

Opis

This text examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides.

Spis treści

Foreword: The spin-doctor and the wolf-pack
Introduction: Corpora, discourse, politics and the press
1. Briefings as a type of discourse
2. Footing: Who says what to whom
3. Voices of the press
4. Voices of the podium
5. Footing shift for attribution: 'According to the New York Times this morning'
6. 'Rules of Engagement': The interpersonal relationship between the podium and the press
7. Politics, power and politeness
8. Conflict talk
9. The form of words
10. Metaphors of the world
11. Rhetoric, bluster and on-line gaffes
12. Evasion and pursuit
13. General Conclusions

O autorze

Alan Partington is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of Political Science, Camerino University (Italy). He has published in the fields of phonetics, CALL, lexicology and corpus linguistics, and is the author of Patterns and Meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching (1998, Benjamins). He is currently researching ways in which corpus techniques can be used to study features of discourse.