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Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse
Edited by Michael Kranert and Geraldine Horan
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 80] 2018
► pp. 1–24

Chapter 1
Introduction

“Doing politics” – recent developments in political discourse analysis

Article outline
  • Contexts, aims and scope of this volume
  • The new field of discourse studies (DS)
  • Political discourse analysis (PDA)
  • Doing politics
  • The structure and content of this volume: Themes, genres, methods
  • Part I. Multidisciplinary approaches to political discourse – linguistic and political analysis
  • Part II. Representing the people, representing the government – political discourse of British MPs
  • Part III. Doing populism
  • Part IV. Mediated politics
  • Part V. Self-referential political discourse
  • Part VI. Doing foreign policy
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 December 2018
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