Language of Persuasion in Politics and the Media - An Introduction

List of contents

List of figures and tablesPrefaceAcknowledgements
Unit 1: Politics, the media and us: The language of persuasion
Unit 2: But then along came social media ...
Unit 3: Evaluation: What's good and what's bad
Unit 4: Evaluation by language choice: Selection and omission
Unit 5: Sounding good: Rhetorical effects in action: 'Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!' (But not for all ...)
Unit 6: Strategies of persuasion
Unit 7: High-risk tactics. Fooling and insulting your audience. The Garden Path technique
Unit 8: 'Joined-up' thinking: Propositional and evaluative cohesion
Unit 9: Dirty tricks: Really? Caveat emptor!
Unit 10: Dirty tricks? Perhaps: Dis/information wars, collusion with tyrants and conspiracy (theories)
Unit 11: The importance of importance marking in persuasion
Unit 12: Metaphors and company: The subtle persuaders
Unit 13: Questions and responses. Softball questions, hardball questions and how to handle them
Unit 14: Humour, irony and satire in politics
Unit 15: The language of referendum campaigns
Unit 16: The year of the six elections
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index

About the author

Alan Partington has been Professor of English Linguistics at the Universities of Camerino and Bologna, Italy, at the School of Political Science and the Department for Interpreters and Translators. He is the author of The Linguistics of Political Argument and The Linguistics of Laughter, both published by Routledge, and was the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Corpora and Discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Alan (University of Bologna Partington, Partington Alan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032662749
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266274-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; History, Media Studies, Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Communication Policy, Sociolinguistics, Humanities, History: specific events and topics, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics