37.3678, Books: Analysing Political Speeches: Charteris-Black (2026)

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Date: 02-Nov-2026
From: Arianne Hill [Arianne.Hill at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Analysing Political Speeches: Charteris-Black (2026)


Title: Analysing Political Speeches
Subtitle: Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/analysing-political-speeches-9781350529571/

Author(s): Jonathan Charteris-Black

Hardback: £100.00
Paperback: £32.99
9781350529564

Abstract:

Exploring speeches by public figures such as Taylor Swift, Greta
Thunberg, Emma Watson, Tony Blair, and Donald Trump, this engaging
textbook explains the ways in which political speeches can be
analysed. It examines the role of language in speeches and how it can
be used to challenge or reinforce prevailing social, cultural and
political attitudes. The author breaks down why and how speeches are
effective, impactful, and important through a variety of topics and
lenses in order to provide a framework to better understand them.
Each chapter introduces a particular discourse approach and then
applies this in a model analysis of a passage of text. The chosen
texts concern issues of social, cultural and political importance that
address topics of significant importance to the audience to which they
were delivered. Students are encouraged to engage with the text and
consider how approaches to text analysis, such as cohesion, context
analysis and metaphor analysis, may be adapted to provide a more
critical perspective.
Fully updated throughout, this third edition:
- updates the critical approaches by addressing contemporary issues
such as the rise of populism, climate change and Artificial
Intelligence
- integrates Moral Foundations Theory
- includes two new chapters on Populism, and AI and Climate Change
offering key insights into these important and critical types of
discourse
- incorporates new core texts making it more relevant to current
readerships.
Analysing Political Speeches provides a critical framework for
evaluating rhetoric, uncovering metaphorical language, and analysing
the discourse of political speeches in a rapidly evolving democratic
landscape.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics


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