Perspectives in Politics and Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Analysis of Political Discourse -- 1. From Political Linguistics to Analysis of Political Discourse -- 2. The aims of this book -- 3. Overview of the chapters -- References -- Part II. Classification and naming in political rhetoric -- 2. Political metaphor and bodies politic -- 1. Introduction: Metaphor, history, and political discourse -- 2. The body politic tradition -- 2.1 The body politic in the Middle Ages -- 2.2 The pathology of the body politic: Machiavelli and Hobbes -- 2.3 Leviathan's body politic in the twentieth century -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- 3. New bodies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The politics of metaphor -- 3. Clean bodies/healthy bodies -- 4. Reworking the body -- 5. Beyond the body -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- 4. Legitimation through differentiation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Legitimation, categorization and discursive construction of groups -- 3. Constructing opponents: Axis of evil and axis of weasels -- 3.1 Foreignisms and social categorization -- 3.2 Le Worm Chirac -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- 5. Labeling and mislabeling in American political discourse -- 1. Introduction: Monitoring the media -- 2. Politics in the media age -- 3. (Mis)labeling -- 4. Recent examples of (mis)labeling in American political discourse -- 4.1 'Officialese' - labels and euphemisms -- 4.2 Corporate media and a narrowing range of debate -- 4.3 Labels, lies and insults -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Part III. Critical insights into political communication -- 6. President Bush's address to the nation on U.S. policy in Iraq -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rationale for studying the text -- 3. An overview of the speech as text -- 4. What Critical Discourse Analysis says about the text.

5. Grammatical and lexical features of cohesion -- 6. What is excluded from the text? -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- 7. Proximizing objects, proximizing values -- 1. Introduction: The concept of proximization -- 2. The STA proximization model: Preliminaries -- 3. The spatial-temporal (S/T) proximization framework -- 4. Limitations of the S/T framework and implications for an axiological study -- 4.1 The emergence of an axiological perspective on proximization -- 5. The axiological (A) proximization framework -- 5.1 The axiological counts and the functional compensation hypothesis -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- 8. Friends and allies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpora used in this study -- 3. Binomial phrases -- 3.1 Men and women -- 3.2 Friends and allies -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- 9. The marketization of institutional discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical assumptions and analytical model -- 3. Analysis: Textual practice, discourse practice and social practice -- 3.1 Textual practice -- 3.2 Discourse practice -- 3.3 Social practice -- 4. Final remarks -- References -- 10.Performing the world of politics through the discourse of institutional correspondence in Late Middle and Early Modern England -- 1. Introduction: Constituting early social institutions through the discourse of letter writing -- 2. Early English political correspondence in the light of critical linguistics -- 3. Constructing the early English political reality through directive epistolary discourse -- 3.1 Building relations of similarity and difference -- 3.2 Reconfiguring the political world through epistolary directives: The discourse of command as social action -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Part IV. Voices of mediatized politics -- 11. Hedging in political discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is hedging?.

3. The framework of the Presidential press conference -- 4. The findings -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 12. Direct e-communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Direct e-advertising communication -- 2.1 Definition and scope -- 2.2 Process of communication in direct e-advertising -- 2.3 Linguistic triggers in direct e-advertising -- 3. Weblogs -- 3.1 Definition and functions -- 3.2 Process of communication -- 4. Data -- 5. Linguistic weapons of the Fritchey blog -- 5.1 Author-centric personal and possessive pronouns -- 5.2 Opinion providing questions -- 5.3 Directives -- 5.4 Other linguistic weapons in the political blog -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- References -- 13. The language of political opinion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From sociological factors to valence politics -- 3. From cognitive heuristics to opinionation as ideology -- 4. Beyond cognitivist assumptions: Academic and everyday practices -- 5. Anti-cognitivism, anti-foundationalism and models of personhood and the political process -- 6. Making political matters the subject of opinion -- 7. Making opinions visible -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- 14. Political communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Political interview -- 3. Press conference -- 4. Political speech -- 5. Political discourse and translation studies -- References -- Analyzed texts -- 15. Media practices in reporting political crises -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The 'Orange Revolution': A case in point -- 3. Revolutionary framing -- 4. Who were the players? -- 5. What was at stake? -- 6. What were the frames? -- 7. What were the practices? -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Part V. Politicizing 'linguistic human rights' -- 16. The practice and politics of multilingualism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Minority language rights -- 3. Multilingualism -- 4. Multilingualism and education -- 5. Complementary schools.

6. Multilingualism in policy and practice -- 7. Attitudes to, and beliefs about, languages -- 8. Multilingual practices -- 9. Multilingual school practices -- 10. Discussion: The politics and practice of multilingualism -- References -- 17. Multilingual development in Germany in the crossfire of ideology and politics -- 1. Introduction -- 2 Overt policies toward linguistic minorities -- 2.1 International policies -- 2.2 European policies -- 2.3 National policies -- 3. Demography and distribution of linguistic minorities in Germany -- 3.1 Linguistic and educational consequences of concentration of non-Germans -- 4. Focus on German language proficiency -- 4.1 German proficiency requirements for adults -- 4.2 German proficiency requirements for migrant children and youth -- 5. Focus on multilingualism/plurilingualism -- 5.1 Europaschulen -- 5.2 Turkish as language of instruction -- 5.3 European views on multilingualism and plurilingualism -- 6. Final remarks: Multiple messages on the path to a multilingual and plurilingual Germany -- References -- 18. Against the assimilationist tide -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The sociopolitical context of the program -- 3. Classroom language use -- 4. Curriculum -- 5. Discussion -- References -- 19. How language affects two components of racial prejudice? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The linguistic relativity hypothesis -- 3. Bilingualism, code-switching and its context -- 4. Accommodation to the second language -- 5. Prejudice: Cognition and emotion -- 6. Accommodating prejudice? -- 7. Method -- 7.1 Participants -- 7.2 Procedure -- 7.3 Measures -- 7.4 Results -- 8. Discussion -- References -- Part VI. Conclusion -- 20. Exploring 'political communication(s)' -- 1. 'Language of politics' and (or) 'politics of language': A reflection -- 2. The media outlook -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.