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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797419403321

Titolo

The dynamics of political discourse : forms and functions of follow-ups / / edited by Anita Fetzer, University of Augsburg, Elda Weizman, Bar-Ilan University, [and] Lawrence N. Berlin, Northeastern Illinois University

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

90-272-6824-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond new series, , 0922-842X ; ; 259

Disciplina

320.01/41

Soggetti

Discourse analysis - Political aspects

Communication in politics

Communication - Political aspects

Speech acts (Linguistics)

Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sequentiality and follow-ups / Jacob Mey -- Follow-ups as speech acts in mediated political discourse / Etsuko Oishi -- Monologic follow-ups in political macro-discourse : The US anti-terrorist discourse as a case in point / Piotr Cap -- Pragmatic strategies for follow-ups in US political debates / Lawrence N. Berlin -- Follow-ups and dialogue in online discussions on French politics : From internet forums to social TV / Hassan Atifi, Michel Marcoccia -- Online follow-ups as evaluative reactions to two visits of the Argentinian president to the United States / Luisa Granato and Alejandro Parini -- Irony in and through follow-ups : Talk and meta-talk in online commenting in the Israeli context / Elda Weizman -- Follow-ups as multifunctional questioning and answering strategies in Prime Minister's Questions / Cornelia Ilie -- If I am elected President : Other-quotations in French presidential debates / Marjut Johansson -- "When you came into office you said that your government would be different" : Forms and functions of quotations in mediated political discourse / Anita Fetzer.



Sommario/riassunto

The goal of this chapter is to analyse the forms and communicative functions of quotations as follow-ups in mediated political discourse where they are used strategically to achieve the following goals: (1) intensify the force of an argument, (2) demonstrate ideological coherence or non-coherence, (3) construct, reconstruct and deconstruct the credibility of self and others, and (4) express alignment and disalignment. On a more global level, quotation contribute to the construal of interdiscursitivity by beckoning the addressees out of the on-going discourse into a more or less specified prior