Language and Politics

The research and teaching of language and politics has mainly been carried out in the fields of critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. This groundbreaking book provides a concise introduction to the field from the perspective of cross-cultural pragmatics. It introduces a strictly language-based, bottom-up and comprehensive model for analysing political data, which allows the reader to examine political and socio-political data without pre-held convictions and prejudices, avoiding many pitfalls that have lurked for a long time in the study of political language use. It is illustrated with a wealth of data and case studies drawn from many linguacultures, including Anglophone ones, China, Japan, Germany and the former Yugoslavia, and from different contexts of political language use, such as diplomacy, activism, public communication and news articles. It includes handy further reading lists, discussion points and a comprehensive glossary, making it ideal for anyone keen to know how language interacts with politics.

Juliane House is Professor Emerita at Hamburg University and Professor at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. She is also Distinguished University Professor at Hellenic American University and an Ordinary Member of Academia Europaea (M.A.E.). Dániel Kádár is Chair Professor at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Research Professor at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, and Professor at the University of Maribor. He is Ordinary Member of Academia Europaea (M.A.E.).