Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/Kyqoad The Linguistics of Political Argument The Spin-Doctor and the Wolf-Pack at the White House By: Alan Partington Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415753890, 0415753899 eText ISBN: 9781134446216, 1134446217 Edition: 1st Pages: 288 Copyright year: 2002 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134446216R90 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-based linguistics and pragmatics, as well as sociolinguists and students and scholars of communications, politics and the media. Additional ISBNs 9780203218259, 9786610070138, 9781280070136, 9781134446223, 9781134446179, 9781134446216, 0203218256, 661007013X, 1280070137, 1134446225, 1134446179, 1134446217, 9780415287135, 9780415753890, 0415287138, 0415753899
