"The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrate that public communication is a fascinating, evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis. The contributions to this volume - in the spheres of political rhetoric, gender and sexuality, and corporate and academic communication - provide good evidence of contemporary social structure, social phenomena, and social issues. In this way, following the parameters of different analytical frameworks (critical discourse analysis, cognitive metaphor theory, appraisal theory, multimodality, etc.), the contributors address not only the linguistic aspects of texts but also, and more importantly, the cultural and cognitive dimensions of public communication in a range of real life communicative contexts and kinds of discourse. Although the volume is addressed, first and foremost, to readers with diverse interests in English linguistics, it may also prove valuable to scholars in other non-linguistic research fields like communication studies, social theory, political science, or psychology"--.

• Discourse Studies in Public Communication
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Preface
  • References
• Introduction: Discourse analysis and public communication
  • The contributions to this volume
  • References
• Part I. Political discourse studies
• Chapter 1. Imagining the nation in British politics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Corpus and method
  • 3. Analysis: Representing the nation
    • 3.1 Naming places: A specifically British problem?
    • 3.2 Nations and countries
    • 3.3 People or citizens?
    • 3.4 Society or communities?
  • 4. Discussion
  • Funding
  • References
• Chapter 2. Political and journalistic discourse regarding the Catalan declaration of independence: A critical analysis
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Journalistic language, political language, and ideology
  • 3. The treatment of the unilateral declaration of independence in the Spanish and Catalan press
  • 4. The concept of Spain in the political discourse of the 2019 general election
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix 1. Electoral programmes
• Chapter 3. National vs international cartoons depicting Catalonia’s independence process in the press: A critical multimodal metaphor approach
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Metaphor in politics and the media discourse
  • 3. Critical metaphor studies: Towards a multimodal metaphor core
  • 4. Political and social background: Catalonia’s independence process
  • 5. Data and methodology
  • 6. Results and discussion
    • 6.1 Metaphor identification, annotation, and interpretation
    • 6.2 Metaphor explanation and implications
  • 7. Conclusions and further steps
  • References
  • Appendix 1. List of links to the Spanish cartoons
  • Appendix 2. Links to the international cartoons
• Chapter 4. A corpus-assisted qualitative approach to political discourse in Spanish print and digital press
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical background: Discourse analysis, pragmatics, and lexical semantics
  • 3. Methodological aspects
  • 3. Findings and results: News discourse as a means for spreading ideology
    • 3.1 Previous selection of key words in political discourse
    • 3.2 Quantitative analysis of key words in news discourse
    • 3.3 Qualitative approach: The interpretation of lexical selections within news discourse
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 5. Persuasive discourse in Daniel Defoe’s political essays: Boosting and hedging
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Palatine emigration of 1709: Sociopolitical context
  • 3. Daniel Defoe and immigration
  • 4. Theoretical framework, data, and methods
  • 5. Analysis
    • 5.1 Boosters
    • 5.2 Hedging
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Chapter 6. Politics beyond death?: An analysis of the obituaries of Belgian politicians
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical considerations
  • 3. Research material and method
  • 4. Analysis and results
    • 4.1 Content analysis
    • 4.2 Linguistic analysis
  • 5. Discussion and concluding remarks
  • References
• Part II. Gender and sexuality discourse studies
• Chapter 7. It all comes down to sex: Metaphorical animalisation in reggaeton discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Metaphorical animalisation
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Analysis
    • 4.1 Women as animals
    • 4.2 Men as animals
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix. Corpus, 118 songs
• Chapter 8. Cyberbullying and gender: Exploring socially deviant behavioural practices among teenagers on Twitter
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Disclosure of personal information, impression management, and cyberbullying
  • 3. Engendering cyberbullying on Twitter
  • 3. Engendering cyberbullying on Twitter
  • 4. Method
    • 4.1 Cyberbullying sample
    • 4.2 Measures and coding process
    • 4.3 Analysis of sequences
  • 5. Analysis
    • 5.1 Public communication: Topics discussed and disclosure of personal information
    • 5.2 Interpersonal behavioural practices: Exploring male self-presentation strategies
    • 5.3 Interpersonal behavioural practices: Exploring female self-presentation strategies
  • 6. Discussion
  • References
• Chapter 9. A visual critical discourse analysis of women representation in Dolce & Gabbana advertising
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical frameworks
  • 3. Literature review
  • 4. Data and methodology
  • 5. Analysis
    • 5.1 Quantitative analysis
    • 5.2 Qualitative analysis
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 10. Let’s talk about sex in high school: The TV series Sex Education
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical framework
  • 3. Corpus and methodology
  • 4. Analysis
    • 4.1 Abortion
    • 4.2 Arousal
    • 4.3 Parts of the body and effluvia
    • 4.4 People
    • 4.5 Sexual acts
    • 4.6 Sexual disorders
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Part III. Business and academic discourse studies
• Chapter 11. Paralinguistic resources in persuasive business communication in English and Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical framework: Persuasive communication
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Results for paralinguistic resources
    • 4.1 Phonetic qualities
    • 4.2 Audible physiological or emotional reactions
    • 4.3 Quasi-lexical elements
    • 4.4 Pauses
    • 4.5 The effect of language and gender in the use of paralinguistic devices
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Funding
  • References
• Chapter 12. Business discourse from a psycholinguistic approach
  • 1. Business discourse as a communication modality
  • 2. A psycholinguistic approach
  • 3. Versatility and creativity in business communication
  • 4. Selection and combination mechanisms in business discourse
  • 5. The contrast principle in business communication
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 13. Compensatory discourse strategies in the bilingual university classroom
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical framework
  • 3. Method and sample
  • 4. Analysis and findings
    • 4.1 Stage one
    • 4.2 Stage two
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Index