"This edited volume offers new insights into contemporary political discourses in Slavic speaking countries by focusing on discursive and linguistic means deployed in relevant genres, such as parliamentary discourse, commemorative and presidential speeches, mediated communication, and literal and philosophical essays. The depth of the linguistic analysis reflects different levels of linkage between language and social practice constituting the discourse. The theoretical and methodological approaches discussed range from interactional pragmatics over corpus linguistics to CDA. The chapters contain original language material in Russian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Bosnian and Macedonian, and the authors address issues such as the affiliation to different political and social groups within parliamentary settings, national identity, gender and minorities, as well as cultural memory and reconciliation"--.

• 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