The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics

This book provides a comprehensive overview of this core and dynamic area of study, allowing readers to access important dimensions of the language/politics interface from socio-theoretical frameworks to methodological approaches and from important genres of political action to salient and challenging contemporary debates.

Introduction: Introducing the language-politics nexus (Ruth Wodak and Bernhard Forchtner) Part I: Theoretical approaches to language and politics Chapter 1: Rhetoric as a civic art from antiquity to the beginning of modernity (Sara Rubinelli) Chapter 2: From Karl Marx to Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser (Bob Jessop) Chapter 3: Jürgen Habermas: between democratic deliberation and deliberative democracy (Simon Susen) Chapter 4: Michel Foucault:discourse, power/knowledge and deliberative democracy (Reiner Keller) Chapter 5: Jacques Lacan: negotiating the pychosocial in and beyond language (Yannis Stavrakakis) Chapter 6: The discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau (Christoffer Kølvraa) Chapter 7: Pierre Bourdieu: ally or foe of discourse analysis? (Andrew Sayer) Chapter 8: Conceptual history: the history of basic concepts (Jan Ifversen) Chapter 9: Critical discourse Studies: a critical approach to the study of language and communication (Bernhard Forchtner and Ruth Wodak) Part II: Methodical approaches to language and politicsChapter 10: Content analysis (Roberto Franzosi) Chapter 11: Corpus analysis (Amelie Kutter) Chapter 12: Cognitive linguistic Critical Discourse Studies: connecting language and image (Christopher Hart) Chapter 13: Competition metaphors and ideology: life as a race (Jonathan Charteris-Black) Chapter 14: Legitimation and multimodality (Theo van Leeuwen) Chapter 15: Narrative analysis (Anna de Fina) Chapter 16: Rhetorical analysis (Claudia Posch) Chapter 17: Understanding political issues through argumentation analysis (Ruth Amossy) Chapter 18: Conversation analysis and the study of language and politics (Steven E. Clayman and Laura Loeb).../part contents