Jonathan Charteris-Black

Analysing Political Speeches (eBook, PDF)

Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Considers how traditional approaches such as cohesion and classical rhetoric may be integrated with 'critical' approaches to discourse analysis such as critical metaphor analysis. Presents a range of critical and discourse theories and considers the relationships between linguistic features of speeches and their social and cultural contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781352003970
• Artikelnr.: 62719074

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Charteris-Black is Professor of Linguistics at the University of the West of England, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- PART I: TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO RHETORIC, ORATORY AND DISCOURSE.- 1. Classical Rhetoric: Artistic Proofs and Arrangement.- 2. Classical Rhetoric - Style and Figures.- 3. Cohesion and Coherence in Discourse.- 4. Ad Hominem Arguments.- PART II: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE.- 5. Critical Analysis: Context and Persuasion.- 6. Social Agency and Modality.- 7. The Discourse-Historical Approach.- PART III: CRITICAL METAPHOR ANALYSIS.- 8. Researching Metaphor in Public Communication.- 9. Critical Metaphor Methodology.- 10. Purposeful Metaphor and Social Cognition.- 11. Rounding up: David Cameron's European Union Speech.- Comments on Exercises/Further Reading and References.- Glossary.