Politically Speaking

OFER FELDMAN is Associate Professor at Naruto University of Education in Japan. He is the author of three earlier books and numerous articles and serves as executive editor of Politics, Groups and the Individual. CHRIST'L DE LANDTSHEER is an Associate Professor of the University of Amsterdam. Before her academic career, she was professionally involved in mass media and politics through the National Belgian Broadcasting Company, the Dutch-Belgian Linguistic Union, and as a Political Cabinet Member in the Belgian government. She has written extensively at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCOR) on political rhetoric and communication.

Tables Preface Introduction to the Study of Political Discourse by Christ'l De Landtsheer The Nature and Scope of Political Discourse The Pervasiveness of Islam in Contemporary Arab Political Discourse: The Case of Sadat and Arafat by Raphael Israeli The Changing Political Language of Germany by Christa Lang-Pfaff The Political Language of Japan: Decoding What Politicians Mean from What They Say by Ofer Feldman The Rhetoric of Jewish Cohesion and Territorial Attachment in Rabbinic Midrashim by Carol B. Conway Pragamatic Ambiguity and Partisanship in Russia's Emerging Democracy by Richard D. Anderson, Jr. The Discourse of the Political Elite The Crisis Tool in American Political Discourse by Amos Kiewe Discourse as a Stage for Political Actors: An Analysis of Presidential Addresses in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela by Maritza Montero and Isabel Rodriguez-Mora Method of Argumentation of Jean-Marie Le Pan, Leader of the French Extreme Right-Wing, in an Important Political Television Program by Simone Bonnafous The Media, the Markets, and the Crash: A Consideration of Financial Press Narratives by Matthew G. Sorley The Poltical Rhetoric of a Unified Europe by Christ'l De Landtsheer Methods in the Study of Political Discourse Political Interviews: Television Interviews in Great Britain by Peter Bull Functions of Recent U.S. Presidential Slogans by Herbert Barry III Political Language in an Environmental Controversy: Integrative Complexity and Motive Imagery in Advocacy Propaganda and the Press by Peter Suedfeld, Loraine Lavallee, and Jennifer Brough Post-Realism, Just War, and the Gulf War Debate by Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman Epilogue Where Do We Stand? by Ofer Feldman Index