29.4448, Books: Power and Truth in Political Discourse: Anastassov

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Subject: 29.4448, Books: Power and Truth in Political Discourse: Anastassov

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Subject: Power and Truth in Political Discourse: Anastassov

 


Title: Power and Truth in Political Discourse 
Subtitle: Language and Ideological Narratives 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Book URL: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/power-and-truth-in-political-discourse 


Author: Vassil Hristov Anastassov

Hardback: ISBN:  9781527507968 Pages: 129 Price: U.K. £ 58.99


Abstract:

The book deals with the linguistic base of political discourse. It offers a
theoretical model of the imbalance of power in human interaction from language
communication to socio-political relations. It uses the basic principles of
social semiotics to create a match between sociolinguistics and political
science. The structural “semiology” of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland
Barthes’ and Lévi-Strauss’ “myth” theories are referred to in support of the
idea that human collective psychology is regularly manipulated by
politically-based ideological narratives that “go without saying”. In the
movement “out” of the structuralist binary oppositions between “right” and
“wrong”, Derrida’s post-structural “deconstruction” contributes to the
critique of western liberal democracy as regards “equality” and communal
knowledge about the political truth. The book will appeal to researchers and
university students of both linguistics and political science, as well as
specialists in philosophy of language, philosophy of politics, communication
theory and social psychology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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