Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe.

Intro -- Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Slavic countries in focus -- State of the art in research on political discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe -- Goals and overview of the present volume -- References -- Chapter 2. Diffuse messages as aggression and violence in political discourse -- 1. A soft voice -- 2. A monument -- 3. Diffuseness and vagueness -- 4. Diffuseness in political rhetoric -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. The conflict about the 1940 Katyn' massacre and the 2010 declaration of the Russian State Duma -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The broader context: Political vs. legal interactions -- 3. The Duma Declaration from 2010 -- 4. How to do things with quotes -- 5. The role of historical parallels -- 6. Some echoes -- 7. Has there ever been an official Russian apology? -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4. Gay rights as a symbol of ideological struggles between Russia and the West -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Social cognition and critical discourse studies -- 3. Background to the analysed material -- 4. Sample analysis -- 5. Implications -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 5. More than keywords: Discourse prominence analysis of the Russian Web Portal Sputnik Czech Republic -- 1. Keywords as a starting point for discourse analysis -- 2. Multi-level discourse prominence analysis -- 3. Data and interpretation -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Corpus resources used -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Chapter 6. Delegitimization strategies in Czech parliamentary discourse -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Method -- Material -- Quantitative evaluation -- Qualitative evaluation -- Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 7. Impoliteness in parliamentary questions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Parliamentary questions -- 3. The counterpart of politeness: Impoliteness -- 4. Method and data the corpus -- 5. Impolite questions -- 6. Summary -- References -- Chapter 8. Discursive construction of 'Us' and 'Them': Analysis of commemorative speeches (2004-2016) on the Croatian Homeland War -- 1. Introduction -- 2. War and memory in Croatia -- 3. Theoretical and methodological foundations -- 4. Discursive construction of 'Us' -- 5. The discursive construction of 'Them' -- 6. Conclusions and discussion -- References -- Appendix. List of analyzed speeches -- Chapter 9. Epistemes of contemporary nationhood: Narrations of the past, legitimations of the future -- Introduction -- What "genocide does": Narrating a "repeatedly" violent history in the BiH context -- Discourse analysis as a method for cultural research: The "history repeating" trope and its epistemes -- Data -- In lieu of a conclusion -- References -- Websites -- Chapter 10. Under One Sun? Semiotic transformation of the cognitive model nation in the Republic of Macedonia on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Independence in 2011 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Corpus -- 4. Methodological framework -- 5. United nation under one sun? -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 11. Epilogue -- References -- Index.

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