This book provides a comprehensive overview of this core and dynamic area of study, allowing readers to access important dimensions of the language/politics interface from socio-theoretical frameworks to methodological approaches and from important genres of political action to salient and challenging contemporary debates.

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

'The book is of immense value to young researchers as well as undergraduates. All the chapters are well referenced and the relevance of the approach is illustrated with case studies in Parts IV and V. (...) The book is a model of inter-disciplinary research and should be read closely by those interested in language and politics.' - Georgi Asatryan, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, John Benjamins Publishing Company