Dialogue in Politics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction -- Dialogue in politics -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Analyzing political dialogue -- 1.2 Political dialogue within media discourse -- 2. The dynamics of political dialogue -- 3. Politics as interaction -- 4. Politics as imposition -- References -- Part II. Politics as interaction -- Internet newspaper discussion lists -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Characteristics of the phenomenon -- 3. A comparison to related discursive forms -- 4. A comparative analysis of three cases -- 4.1 Case 1. The Times 2008 -- 4.2 Case 2. NRC Handelsblad 2010 -- 4.3 Case 3. NRC-next 2011 -- 5. Conclusion and discussion -- References -- Materials -- Political videos in digital news discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Digital discourse and videos -- 2.1 Studies in mediated discourses -- 2.2 Videos in digital discourse -- 2.3 Data -- 3. Dialogue, discourse and political -- 3.1 Dialogue, agents and genre -- 3.2 Political dialogue and political media discourse -- 4. Hybridization of news genres and journalistic stances -- 4.1 Stances and news genres -- 4.2 Digital news and hybridization of genres -- 5. Political videos in digital news discourse -- 5.1 Videos as media products -- 5.2 Genres and stances in news videos and in articles -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Data sources -- Watch dogs or guard dogs? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What the media have done to our politics -- 3. Adversarialism -- 4. Specific contexts -- 4.1 Interviews -- 4.2 Press conferences -- 4.3 News broadcasts -- 5. Discussion: The role of the journalist -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Types of positioning in television election debates -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Choice of data and methodology -- 3. Political discourse -- 4. Dialogue in politics: Television election debates.

4.1 Positioning theory -- 5. Positioning in selected television election debates -- 5.1 2008 US presidential election: Obama vs. McCain -- 5.2 2010 Australian general election: Abbott vs. Gillard -- 5.3 2010 British general election: Cameron vs. Clegg vs. Brown -- 5.4 2008 Pennsylvania primary election: Clinton vs. Obama -- 6. Summary: Strategic positioning of self and other in television election debates -- References -- Personal marketing and political rhetoric -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Personal marketing and linguistics -- 3. Sociolinguistic markers and local elections in Bulgaria -- 4. Metaphors in the Bulgarian political discourse -- 5. Myths in the Bulgarian political discourse -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Private dialogue in public space -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Political discourse from below and sociocultural background -- 3. Motions of support as dialogic response: Structure and objectives -- 3.1 Identification: Sender and receiver -- 3.2 Liaison: Establishing common ground -- 3.3 Focalization: Naming and thanking for political action -- 3.4 Commitment: Pledging and promising future support -- 3.5 Request: Requesting or asking for a favor -- 3.6 Intercession: Prayer for long life -- 3.7 Deterrence (optional): Attacking the president's enemies -- 3.8 Signature: Signing the MoS -- 4. Private dialogue in public space -- 5. Political discourse from above or below: Does it really matter? -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Part III. Politics as imposition -- Perspectivation in the Romanian parliamentary discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 General remarks -- 1.2 Object and structure of the paper -- 2. Basic concepts -- 2.1 M. Bakhtin's dialogism -- 2.2 E. Goffman's staging -- 2.3 Perspectivation - stancetaking -- 3. The data analysis -- 3.1 General information about the debate -- 3.2 The communicative situation -- 3.3 Quotation.

3.4 Rhetorical questions -- 3.5 Irony -- 4. Final remarks -- References -- The making of a new American revolution or 'a wolf in sheep's clothing' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Positioning Theory -- 2.1 Explanation of orders of positioning -- 2.2 Questions -- 3. Methodology: Critical discourse analysis and the Multilayered Model of Context -- 4. Application of the theory and method -- 4.1 Analysis of the conjuncture -- 4.2 Analysis of the practice -- 4.3 Analysis of the discourse -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Remaking U.S. foreign policy for a new beginning with the Arab and Muslim worlds -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rationale for studying President Obama's Cairo speech -- 3. An overview of the Cairo speech as text -- 4. Critical discourse analysis as an approach to the text -- 5. Linguistic and discursive structures of the speech -- 5.1 Metaphor of change -- 5.2 Palestinian-Israeli conflict as a case in point -- 5.3 Other Muslim-related issues -- 6. Specific issues excluded from the text -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- War-normalizing dialogue (WND) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is a war-normalizing dialogue? -- 2.1 The functions of WND -- 2.2 The 'Matrix' of WND -- 3. Local and global WND -- 3.1 The local channels -- 3.2 The global market of WND -- 4. Why Israel? -- 5. Analysis -- 5.1 War-normalizing naming: Military operations and weaponry -- 5.2 War-normalizing metaphors and the Second Lebanon War (2006) -- 5.3 War-normalizing framing: Wounded soldiers -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Multimodality and performance -- 1. Introduction and research question -- 2. Ceremonial politics, media events and the perspective of TV viewers -- 2.1 The planning of the commemoration -- 2.2 The perspective of TV viewers -- 2.3 Ceremonial politics and media events -- 3. Multimodal audience design: Overhearer and overseer design.

3.1 Short description of the Holocaust Memorial Day broadcast -- 3.2 The TV transmission of the commemoration as "documentary film" -- 3.3 TV commentator as voice-over and its "imagined addressees" -- 3.4 Audience design and multimodality -- 3.5 Two dialogues -- 3.6 Two performances -- 4. Inside and outside - TV viewers and multimodal congruence -- 4.1 Congruence and multimodal semiotic means -- 4.2 The broadcast's listing structure and its consequences for the audience design -- 4.3 Information and learning -- 4.4 What is represented - and what is not -- 4.5 Lighting and color -- 4.6 Soundscape, music and perspective -- 5. Conclusions: Audience design, congruence, dialogue -- 5.1 Audience design -- 5.2 Congruence and incongruence -- 5.3 Dialogue -- References -- Official documents -- Research references -- Appendix -- Subject index.