This paper will explore some responses to the seemingly naive question "What is Political Discourse Analysis?". Instead of being normative, in the serse of wanting to prescribe what political discourse analysis should be, it rather aims to be programmatic in another, more analytical way

Probably more than any other kind of discourse, political discourse is eminently ideological. In this paper we examine some general properties of ideologies as forms of social cognition and their relations to political text and talk. The very formulation of this goal implies that my approach needs to be

2 The purposes of political discourse include (a) clarifying citizens ’ understanding of the issue, (b) helping citizens reach their best reasoned judgment as to which course of action will solve a problem, (c) increasing citizen participation in the political process, and (d) socializing the next

In political speeches, the audience tends to react or resonate to signals of persuasive communication, including an expected theme, a name or an expression. Automatically predicting the impact of such discourses is a challenging task. In fact nowadays, with the huge amount of textual material

be helped with more scientific knowledge about the communication processes which generate political polarization and those which can facilitate depolarization. This necessitates research on the social dynamics of polarizing and depolarizing discourse and communication. This includes the study of new

This article investigates the role of translation and interpreting in political discourse. It illustrates discursive events in the domain of politics and the resulting discourse types, such as jointly produced texts, press conferences and speeches. It shows that methods of Critical Discourse

Abstract. The paper investigates the use of gaze in political communication. A study is presented on the electoral debates of two politicians in Italy and France. Fragments of their verbal discourse were analysed in terms of their hierarchy of goals, and their gaze communication was described

ABSTRACT. This article examines the concept of a central, symbolic place of power in political theory. I trace the genealogy of “place ” from sovereign conceptions of power in classical political theory to the problem of state power in radical politics. I then examine the theoretical and political

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