Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introducing the language-politics nexus -- Part I Theoretical approaches to language and politics -- 1 Rhetoric as a civic art from antiquity to the beginning of modernity -- 2 From Karl Marx to Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser -- 3 Jürgen Habermas: between democratic deliberation and deliberative democracy -- 4 Michel Foucault: discourse, power/knowledge and the modern subject -- 5 Jacques Lacan: negotiating the psychosocial in and beyond language -- 6 The discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau -- 7 Pierre Bourdieu: ally or foe of discourse analysis? -- 8 Conceptual history: the history of basic concepts -- 9 Critical Discourse Studies: a critical approach to the study of language and communication -- Part II Methodological approaches to language and politics -- 10 Content analysis -- 11 Corpus analysis -- 12 Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies: connecting language and image -- 13 Competition metaphors and ideology: life as a race -- 14 Legitimation and multimodality -- 15 Narrative analysis -- 16 Rhetorical analysis -- 17 Understanding political issues through argumentation analysis -- 18 Conversation analysis and the study of language and politics -- 19 Politics beyond words: ethnography of political institutions -- Part III Genres of political action -- 20 Parliamentary debates -- 21 Government communication -- 22 Press conferences -- 23 Policy-making: documents and laws -- 24 The semiotics of political commemoration -- 25 Mediatisation and political language -- 26 Performing politics: from the town hall to the inauguration -- 27 Genres of political communication in Web 2.0 -- 28 Music and sound as discourse and ideology: the case of the national anthem