Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Theoretical approaches to language and politics
1.Rhetoric as a civic art from antiquity to the beginning of modernity /​ Sara Rubinelli
2.From Karl Marx to Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser /​ Bob Jessop
3.Jurgen Habermas: between democratic deliberation and deliberative democracy /​ Simon Susen
4.Michel Foucault: discourse, power/​knowledge and the modern subject /​ Reiner Keller
5.Jacques Lacan: negotiating the psychosocial in and beyond language /​ Yannis Stavrakakis
6.The discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau /​ Christoffer Kølvraa
7.Pierre Bourdieu: ally or foe of discourse analysis? /​ Andrew Sayer
8.Conceptual history: the history of basic concepts /​ Jan Ifversen
9.Critical Discourse Studies: a critical approach to the study of language and communication /​ Ruth Wodak
pt. II Methodological approaches to language and politics
10.Content analysis /​ Roberto Franzosi
11.Corpus analysis /​ Amelie Kutter
Contents note continued: 12.Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies: connecting language and image /​ Christopher Hart
13.Competition metaphors and ideology: life as a race /​ Jonathan Charteris-Black
14.Legitimation and multimodality /​ Theo van Leeuwen
15.Narrative analysis /​ Anna De Fina
16.Rhetorical analysis /​ Claudia Posch
17.Understanding political issues through argumentation analysis /​ Ruth Amossy
18.Conversation analysis and the study of language and politics /​ Laura Loeb
19.Politics beyond words: ethnography of political institutions /​ Endre Danyi
pt. III Genres of political action
20.Parliamentary debates /​ Cornelia Ilie
21.Government communication /​ Sten Hansson
22.Press conferences /​ Goran Eriksson
23.Policy-making: documents and laws /​ Kristof Savski
24.The semiotics of political commemoration /​ Martin Reisigl
25.Mediatisation and political language /​ Michael Higgins
Contents note continued: 26.Performing politics: from the town hall to the inauguration /​ Jennifer Sclafani
27.Genres of political communication in Web 2.0 /​ Helmut Gruber
28.Music and sound as discourse and ideology: the case of the national anthem /​ David Machin
29.The language of party programmes and billboards: the example of the 2014 parliamentary election campaign in Ukraine /​ Lina Klymenko
30.Caricature and comics /​ Randy Duncan
31.Meetings /​ Lorenza Mondada
pt. IV Applications and cases I: language, politics and contemporary socio-cultural challenges
32.Climate change and the socio-ecological crisis /​ Anabela Carvalho
33.Old and dependent: the construction of a subject position for politics and care /​ Bernhard Weicht
34.Language and gendered politics: the `double bind' in action /​ Susan Ehrlich
35.Queering multilingualism and politics: regimes of mobility, citizenship and (in)visibility /​ Erez Levon
Contents note continued: 36.Language and globalisation /​ Melissa L. Curtin
37.A cultural political economy of Corporate Social Responsibility: the language of `stakeholders' and the politics of new ethicalism /​ Ngai-Ling Sum
38.The fictionalisation of politics /​ Bernhard Forchtner
39.Religion and the secular /​ Teemu Taira
pt. V Applications and cases II: language, politics and (de)mobilisation
40.Discursive depoliticisation and political disengagement /​ Matt Wood
41.Identity politics, populism and the far right /​ Anton Pelinka
42.Race, racism, discourse /​ John E. Richardson
43.The materiality and semiosis of inequality and class struggle and warfare: the case of home-evictions in Spain /​ David Block
44.Language under totalitarian regimes: the example of political discourse in Nazi Germany /​ Andreas Musolff
45.Discursive underpinnings of war and terrorism /​ Adam Hodges.