none 10.1075/dapsac.4 John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 66132107 1419814 1419778 202507022041000044 10.1075 2025-07-02T14:40:33Z 2013-12-16T17:17:04Z 157 1569-9463 10.1075/dapsac https://benjamins.com/ catalog/dapsac Paul Chilton University of East Anglia https://ror.org/026k5mg93 Christina Schäffner Aston University https://ror.org/05j0ve876 Analytic approaches to political discourse Human beings are political animals. They are also articulate mammals. How are these two aspects linked? This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which, informally and intuitively, we call ‘political’. Such an approach is revealing not only for politics itself but also for the human language capacity. Each chapter outlines a particular method or analytic approach and illustrates its application to a contemporary political issue, institution or mode of political behaviour. As a whole, the collection aims to give a sample of current research in the field. It will interest those who are beginning to carry the research paradigm forward, as well as provide an introduction for newcomers, whether they come from neighbouring or remote disciplines or from none. 4 10 31 2002 10 21 2008 9789027226945 9781588112484 9789027296979 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/dapsac.4 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027296979 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027296979.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/dapsac.4/html