Alan Partington

The Linguistics of Political Argument

The Spin-Doctor and the Wolf-Pack at the White House

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-134-44621-6
EAN: 9781134446216
Produktnummer: 18410180
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 336 KB

Über den Autor

Alan Partington is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of Political Science, Camerino University (Italy). He has published in the fields of phonetics, CALL, lexicology and corpus linguistics, and is the author of Patterns and Meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching (1998, Benjamins). He is currently researching ways in which corpus techniques can be used to study features of discourse.