Silence and concealment in political discourse / Melani Schröter.
This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies. It promotes the empirical study of silenc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins,
©2013.
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| Series: | Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;
v. 48. |
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| Summary: | This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies. It promotes the empirical study of silence by analysing metadiscourse about politicians' silence and by systematically conceptualising the communicativeness of silence in the interplay between intention (to be silent), expectation (of speech) and relevance (of the unsaid). Three cases of sustained metadiscourse about silent politicians fro. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 202 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9027272107 9789027272102 129958537X 9781299585379 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9463 ; |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | PDF. |