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- Examines the extent to which proximization rhetoric is used to legitimize various public policies
- Argues for the value of the Proximization Theory model in Critical Discourse Studies
- Shows that the fear appeal is a legitimization strategy in a wide range of discourse
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Pragmatics, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
Piotr Cap
About the author
Piotr Cap is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Łódź, Poland. His interests are in pragmatics, critical discourse studies, political linguistics and genre theory. His publications include Perspectives in Politics and Discourse (2010), Proximization: The Pragmatics of Symbolic Distance Crossing (2013), Analyzing Genres in Political Communication (2013) and Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies (2014). He is Managing Editor of International Review of Pragmatics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Language of Fear
Book Subtitle: Communicating Threat in Public Discourse
Authors: Piotr Cap
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59731-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59729-8Published: 23 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95571-8Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59731-1Published: 15 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 91
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Psycholinguistics, Political Communication, Public Policy, Political Sociology