The Linguistics of Political Argument : The Spin-Doctor and the Wolf-Pack at the White House.

By: Partington, AlanMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics SerPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203218259Subject(s): Discourse analysis -- Political aspects | Persuasion (Rhetoric) | Press and politics -- United States | Rhetoric -- Political aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Linguistics of Political Argument : The Spin-Doctor and the Wolf-Pack at the White HouseDDC classification: 808.5/1/088351 LOC classification: P301.5.P67 -- P37 2003ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Summary: This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was compiled of around fifty press briefings from the late Clinton years. A wide range of topics are discussed from the Kosovo crisis to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair. This work is highly original in demonstrating how concordance technology and the detailed linguistic evidence available in corpora can be used to study discourse features of text and the communicative strategies of speakers. It will be of vital interest to all linguists interested in corpus-based linguistics and pragmatics, as well as sociolinguists and students and scholars of communications, politics and the media.
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This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was compiled of around fifty press briefings from the late Clinton years. A wide range of topics are discussed from the Kosovo crisis to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair. This work is highly original in demonstrating how concordance technology and the detailed linguistic evidence available in corpora can be used to study discourse features of text and the communicative strategies of speakers. It will be of vital interest to all linguists interested in corpus-based linguistics and pragmatics, as well as sociolinguists and students and scholars of communications, politics and the media.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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