Political Discourse Analysis: A Method for Advanced Students

In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative approach to analysing political discourse. Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of arguments into critical discourse analysis and political discourse analysis. The book is grounded in a view of politics in which deliberation, decision and action are crucial concepts: politics is about arriving cooperatively at decisions about what to do in the context of disagreement, conflict of interests and values, power inequalities, uncertainty and risk. The first half of the book introduces the authors' ne.  Read more...
Political Discourse Analysis A method for advanced students; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Political discourse analysis and the nature of politics; 2 Practical reasoning: a framework for analysis and evaluation; 3 Critical discourse analysis and analysis of argumentation; 4 The economic crisis in the UK: strategies and arguments; 5 Values as premises in the public debate over bankers' bonuses; 6 Deliberation as genre in the parliamentary debate on university tuition fees; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.