Political discourse as practical reasoning: A case study of a British Prime Minister candidate speech

Harmon, Lucyna

Political discourse as practical reasoning: A case study of a British Prime Minister candidate speech

dc.contributor.author	Harmon, Lucyna
dc.date.accessioned	2024-05-22T06:34:25Z
dc.date.available	2024-05-22T06:34:25Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	The paper outlines the method of political discourse analysis proposed by I. Fairclough & N. Fairclough (2012), who point to argumentative and deliberative nature of political discourse as practical reasoning that aims to decide a problem-solving action in a given situation. The novelty of this approach is explained through references to its established alternatives as focused on representation and power relations. The above mentioned method is applied to the British PM campaign candidacy speech by Andrea Leadsom to test how it works in the case of this type of political discourse which is different from the one originally examined. On this occasion, the meaning of the term ‘discourse’ is illustrated through the practical necessity of involving in the analyses the extra-linguistic and intertextual context.
dc.identifier.citation	"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2017, Vol. 3, pp. 74-86
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/lingbaw.5651
dc.identifier.issn	2450-5188
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7133
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	discourse
dc.subject	politics
dc.subject	deliberation
dc.subject	argumentation
dc.subject	Fairclough
dc.title	Political discourse as practical reasoning: A case study of a British Prime Minister candidate speech
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article