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Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice book cover

2nd Edition

Analysing Political Discourse Theory and Practice

By Paul Chilton Copyright 2025
266 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In today’s world, analysing political language is more important than ever. This revised edition, while retaining the historically significant case studies, adds new analyses that reflect the 2010s and 2020s. It retains the original analytical tools, including the discourse space model, and in a fresh chapter advocates development of tools from neuroscience. The book begins by exploring some... Read more

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

Biography

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).

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