The Discourse of Politics in Action [electronic resource] : Politics as Usual /
Wodak, Ruth.author.
An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on 'the backstage' in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Photographs; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; 1 'Doing Politics'; 1 Public politics: the 'frontstage'; 2 Staging politics: integrating performance, habitus,communities of practice, and the discursive construction of professional identities; 3 Looking behind the scenes: the 'backstage'; 4 Politics/politicians and the media; 5 Relevant dimensions for the study of everyday politics; 2 The (Ir)rationality of Politics; 1 The many - presupposed - meanings of 'doingpolitics'; 2 Discourse, politics and power
3 Power, knowledge and presuppositions4 Orders and disorders: analyzing organizational everydayroutines; 3 'Politics as Usual' on the 'European Stage': Constructing and Performing 'European Identities'; 1 Introduction: Quo vadis, Europe?; 2 Multiple identities in the European Parliament; 3 Onbeing an MEP; 4 On being European; 5 Some concluding thoughts; 4 One Day in the Life of an MEP; 1 Long days and much paper; 2 Ways of knowing: analyzing ethnographic data; 3 Starting the day; 4 Committee meeting; 5 The missed photo opportunity; 6 Lunch; 7 Evening lecture
8 'Doing politics': performing backstage5 Everyday Politics in Television: Fiction and/or Reality?; 1 The 'American Dream'?; 2 The fictionalization of politics; 3 Politics and media; 4 Constructing the modern hero; 5 Conclusions; 6 Order or Disorder - Fiction or Reality? The Implications of 'Power and Knowledge Management' on 'Politics as Usual'; 1 'Banal' politics?; 2 An integrated interdisciplinary theoretical framework; 3 Representation and legitimation; 4 Expectations and disappointments; 5 The fictionalization of politics and the politicizationof fiction
Appendix: Original German Data (Chapter 3)Notes; References; Index
An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on 'the backstage' in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization.
European Parliament
Linguistics.
Communication.
Political science.
Semantics.
Sociolinguistics.
Discourse analysis.
Linguistics.
Discourse Analysis.
Political Science.
Media Studies.
Sociolinguistics.
Communication Studies.
Semantics.