LEADER 05436nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910779419503321 005 20230803020353.0 010 $a1-299-39642-9 010 $a90-272-7203-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001017763 035 $a(EBL)1158340 035 $a(OCoLC)833766436 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000856770 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12411001 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856770 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10818335 035 $a(PQKB)11732359 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1158340 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1158340 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10676926 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL470892 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001017763 100 $a20130222d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSpeaking of Europe$b[electronic resource] $eapproaches to complexity in European political discourse /$fedited by Kjersti Flottum, University of Bergen 210 $aAmsterdam $cJohn Benjamins Publishing Company$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (199 p.) 225 0 $aDiscourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture ;$v49 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-0640-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSpeaking of Europe; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Speaking of and within the EU - Introduction; 1. Acknowledging the complexities of EU discourse; 2. Aims; 3. Empirical support; 4. The Eurling Group; 5. The three levels of complexity; 5.1 Historical-political contextual complexities; 5.2 Situational and rhetorical complexity; 5.3 Linguistic-textual complexities (language use); 6. Sources of inspiration; 7. The structure of the book; References; Speaking to Europe; 1. Introduction 327 $a2. Speech making in our time: From delimited rhetorical situation to complex situationality3. Textual-contextual analysis of Prime Minister Blair's speech; 3.1 The dramatism of Kenneth Burke; 3.2 The Prime Minister's dramatisation of Europe; 4. The press coverage of Prime Minister Blair's speech; 4.1 The British, German and French Press Coverage; 4.2 The Danish and Norwegian Reception; 4.3 Headlines and comments, descriptions and adjectives characterising the speaker and speech; 4.4 Characterisation of the rhetorical situation and direct quotes 327 $a5. Political rhetoric in a complex, fragmented, and mediated worldReferences; Doing politics or doing media? A linguistic approach to European parliamentary debate; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 2.1 Parliamentary discourse; 2.2 European political discourse and the media; 2.3 The European Parliament's website: Europarl; 3. Definitions-mediated, mediatised, or simply online?; 4. Main data; 5. In the eye of the beholder - method; 6. Results; 6.1 Internet audience as addressee; 6.2 Topicalisation of the media event; 6.3 Abbreviations; 7. French specific or general phenomenon; 8. Discussion 327 $a9. Concluding remarksReferences; Quantitative approaches to political discourse; 1. Political corpora: Multidisciplinary perspectives; 1.1 Digital corpora: A revolution in Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Studies, Corpus Linguistics, Political Discourse; 1.2 Corpora as artefacts; 2. Tools and paths to explore Europe; 2.1 Text statistics; 2.2 Corpus linguistics; 3. Conclusion; References; On what is not said and who said it; 1. Introduction; 2. Argumentative connectives; 2.1 Models of argumentative connectives; 2.2 Linguistic polyphony / ScaPoLine 327 $a2.3 The ScaPoLine model of argumentative connectives3. Argumentative connectives in political discourse; 3.1 The contrastive connective mais; 3.2 The conclusive connective donc; 3.3 The causal connective parce que; 4. Final remarks; References; Voices and identities; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical and methodological approach: A modular analysis of polyphony; 2.1 The praxematical theory of dialogism; 2.2 The notion of discursive polyphony; 2.3 The Geneva model of discourse analysis; 3. Analysis: Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarkozy at the European Parliament 327 $a3.1 Analysing linguistic markers of polyphony 330 $aIn this chapter we take issue with the widespread view that overinterpretations and speculations are signs of weak research and tendentious treatment of data. This view is damaging to the study of political discourse as it encourages the reproduction of common sense and normalcy. In this chapter we therefore argue for the necessity of speculative readings and overinterpretations in studies of political discourse. Extreme and speculative readings of political language - readings that do too much to the data and that read too much into the texts - are crucial for the fine-grained a 410 0$aDiscourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 606 $aDiscourse analysis$xPolitical aspects 606 $aEthnicity$zEurope 606 $aNationalism$zEurope 607 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 615 0$aDiscourse analysis$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aEthnicity 615 0$aNationalism 676 $a320.94/014 701 $aFlottum$b Kjersti$01552668 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779419503321 996 $aSpeaking of Europe$93858281 997 $aUNINA