Analysing Political Discourse - Theory and Practice

This revised edition of Analysing Political Discourse features the historically significant case studies from the first edition, and adds new analyses that reflect the 2010s and 2020s. It retains the original analytical tools, including the discourse space model, and a new chapter advocates development of tools from neuroscience.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Political animals as articulate mammals
1. Politics and language
2. Language and politics
3. Interaction
4. Representation
5. Emotion
Part II: The domestic arena
6. Political interviews
7. Parliamentary language
8. Foreigners: ethnocentrism and racism
Part III: The global arena
9. Distant places
10. Worlds apart
11. The role of religion
Part IV: Concluding thoughts
12. Language and politics in the contemporary world
Appendix
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index

About the author

Paul Chilton is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, Associate Member of the Linguistics Faculty, University of Oxford and Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick. His publications include Language, Space and Mind (2014), Religion, Language and the Human Mind (co-ed. 2018) and Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy (2024).

Product details

• Authors: Paul Chilton, Chilton Paul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032525204
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3252520-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Sociolinguistics, Political science & theory, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Communication Studies, Language: history & general works, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Political campaigning & advertising, Political science and theory, Political campaigning and advertising, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Language: history and general works