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Language, Identity, Politics

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Political, Public and Media Discourses from Indyref to Brexit

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This chapter opens by defining political discourse and goes on to outline the key theoretical and methodological approaches that underpin the study: (critical) discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, the study of rhetoric and multimodal analysis. It argues for an interdisciplinary and mixed methods approach, and explains some of the linguistic terminology used in subsequent chapters such as modality, tense and aspect, deixis and corpus linguistics concepts such as collocations, keywords, KWIC and n-grams. It considers the importance of the deictic centre and the role played by metaphor in conceptualising the nation.

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Douglas, F.M. (2021). Language, Identity, Politics. In: Political, Public and Media Discourses from Indyref to Brexit. Rhetoric, Politics and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67384-0_4

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