Language and Politics, (4 Volume Set)

The intrinsic link between language and politics has long been recognized (for example, Aristotle wrote ‘… that man is more of a political animal than bees or any other gregarious animals is evident. Nature, as we often say, makes nothing in vain, and man is the only animal whom she has endowed with the gift of speech’ (Politics, 1, 2)). It remains a broad, flourishing, and highly contested area of academic study. On the one hand, it analyses how politicians use language, applying approaches which range from traditional rhetoric to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). On the other hand, it is also concerned with the political dimension that is arguably inherent in the use of all language.

Language and Politics, a new title the Routledge series, Major Themes in English Studies, addresses the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of scholarly literature. Edited by John E. Joseph, a prominent scholar in the field, and author of the subject’s leading textbook, this new Major Work from Routledge brings together in four volumes the foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship to provide a synoptic view of many of the key issues and current debates.

Volumes I and II collect the best and most influential work on the language of politics. These two volumes include the key work analysing political texts or arguing that political language is inherently propagandistic. Especially in recent years, the fundamentally political nature of language has been reasserted and Volumes III and IV gather the essential scholarship examining how language itself is politically constructed or used.

Language and Politics is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

Volume I

Part 1 : Persuasion and Propaganda
Chapter 1 : The Theory of Political Propaganda’, American Political Science Review
Chapter 2 : Propaganda Analysis’, The English Journal
Chapter 3 : Propaganda and Demotic Speech, The Complete Works of George Orwell, Vol : 16
Chapter 4 : Progressive Propaganda Critics and The Magic Bullet Myth’, Critical Studies in Mass Communication
Chapter 5 : Language in The Service of Propaganda’, Chronicles of Dissent

Part 2 : Language and Political Theory
Chapter 6 : An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [1690], The Works of John Locke, 11th edn.
Chapter 7 : The Limits of Jurisprudence Defined’, A Bentham Reader
Chapter 8 : Review of The Language of Politics by James J : Boulton, History and Theory
Chapter 9 : Political Theory and The Language of Politics’, Polity
Chapter 10 : Locke on Language in (Civil) Society’, History of Political Thought

Part 3 : Political Uses of Language in The Past
Chapter 11 : Introduction’, Remarks On The Use and Abuse of Political Terms
Chapter 12 : Right and Wrong’, Remarks On The Use and Abuse of Political Terms
Chapter 13 : Nature’, Remarks On The Use and Abuse of Political Terms
Chapter 14 : Review of Cornewall Lewis’s On The Use and Abuse of Political Terms, Examiner
Chapter 15 : American Political Cant’, American Speech
Chapter 16 : The Language of The Third Reich, trans : Martin Brady
Chapter 17 : Distinguishing Feature : Poverty’ [1957], The Language of The Third Reich, trans : Martin Brady
Chapter 18 : The First Three Words of The Nazi Language’ and ‘On a Single Working Day’ [1957], The Language of The Third Reich, trans : Martin Brady
Chapter 19 : If Two People do The Same Thing …’ [1957], The Language of The Third Reich, trans : Martin Brady
Chapter 20 : A Look Round The Modern World’ and ‘Stroll with The Statesmen’, The Tyranny of Words

Volume II

Part 4 : Political Uses of Language in Recent Decades
Chapter 21 : Antitotalitarian Language in Poland : Some Mechanisms of Linguistic Self-Defense’, Language in Society
Chapter 22 : Images of Involvement and Integrity : Rhetorical Style of a Japanese Politician’, Discourse & Society
Chapter 23 : The Making of The Language of New Labour’, New Labour, New Language?
Chapter 24 : Metaphors of Dictatorship and Democracy : Change in The Russian Political Lexicon and The Transformation of Russian Politics’, Slavic Review
Chapter 25 : New Liberal Speak : Notes on The New Planetary Vulgate’, Radical Philosophy
Chapter 26 : Grammar : The First Covert Operation of War’, Discourse & Society
Chapter 27 : Bush’s and Gore’s Language and Gestures in The 2000 US Presidential Debates : A Test Case for Two Models of Metaphors’, Journal of Language and Politics

Part 5 : Analysing Political Language
Chapter 28 : Conservative Words and Radical Sentences in The Semantics of International Politics’, Studies in The Linguistic Sciences
Chapter 29 : Official Discourse and State Apparatuses’, Official Discourse : On Discourse Analysis, Government Publications, Ideology, and The State
Chapter 30 : Rules and Regulations’, Language and Control
Chapter 31 : Language and Politics : Indirectness in Political Discourse’, Discourse & Society
Chapter 32 : Being Politically Impolite : Extending Politeness Theory to Adversarial Political Discourse’, Discourse & Society
Chapter 33 : Discourse and Metadiscourse in Parliamentary Debates’, Journal of Language and Politics
Chapter 34 : The Institutional Provision for Silence : On The Evasive Nature of Politicians’ Answers to Reporters’ Questions’, Journal of Language and Politics
Chapter 35 : "I’ll Tell You What The Truth Is" : The Interactional Organization of Confiding in Political Interviews’, Journal of Language and Politics

Part 6 : Ideology in Political Discourse
Chapter 36 : Undemocratic Discourse : A Review of Theory and Research on Political Discourse’, Discourse & Society
Chapter 37 : Mythology, Ideology and Politics’ (paper presented at The annual meeting of The Society for The Advancement of Socio-Economics
Chapter 38 : Political Discourse and Ideology, Anàlisi del discurs polític
Chapter 39 : Preempting The Future : Rhetoric and Ideology of The Future in Political Discourse’, Discourse & Society

Volume III

Part 7 : Marxist Views of Language
Chapter 40 : The Study of Ideologies and Philosophy of Language’ [1929], Marxism and The Philosophy of Language
Chapter 41 : Concerning The Relationship of The Basis and The Superstructure’ [1929], Marxism and The Philosophy of Language
Chapter 42 : Exposition and The Problem of Reported Speech’ [1929], Marxism and The Philosophy of Language
Chapter 43 : Notes on Language
Chapter 44 : Marxism and Problems of Linguistics
Chapter 45 : Marr, Stalin and The Theory of Language’, Soviet Studies
Chapter 46 : The Recent Conflict in Soviet Linguistics’, Language
Chapter 47 : Language, Agency and Hegemony : A Gramscian Response to Post-Marxism’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
Chapter 48 : Ideology and Post-Marxism’, Journal of Political Ideologies

Part 8 : Performativity and Identity
Chapter 49 : Social Action, Purposive Activity, and Communication’ [1981], The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol : 1
Chapter 50 : The Politics of Recognition’, Multiculturalism
Chapter 51 : Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts’, Philosophy and Public Affairs
Chapter 52 : Sovereign Performatives in The Contemporary Scene of Utterance’, Critical Inquiry

Part 9 : Language and The Structure of Society
Chapter 53 : The Order of Discourse, Untying The Text : A Post-Structuralist Reader
Chapter 54 : The Forms of Capital, Handbook of Theory and Research for The Sociology of Education
Chapter 55 : Elite Discourse and The Reproduction of Racism, Hate Speech
Chapter 56 : Minority Nationalism and Immigrant Integration’, Politics in The Vernacular

Volume IV

Part 10 : Language Choice and Language Policy
Chapter 57 : Language Choice and Cultural Imperialism : A Nigerian Perspective
Chapter 58 : Of EFL Teachers, Conscience, and Cowardice
Chapter 59 : Reply to Canagarajah
Chapter 60 : On EFL Teachers, Awareness, and Agency
Chapter 61 : Uncommon Languages : The Challenges and Possibilities of Minority Language Rights’, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Chapter 62 : African MoTher-Tongue Programmes and The Politics of Language : Linguistic Citizenship Versus Linguistic Human Rights’, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Chapter 63 : Liberal Neutrality and Language Policy’, Philosophy and Public Affairs
Chapter 64 : "Global English" : Linguistic Imperialism or Practical Lingua Franca?’, Studies in Language and Capitalism

Part 11 : Politics in Language
Chapter 65 : Politics and The English Language
Chapter 66 : The Pronouns of Power and Solidarity, Style in Language
Chapter 67 : Language, Politics, and Composition : A Conversation with Noam Chomsky’, JAC : A Journal of Composition Theory
Chapter 68 : Troubling Clarity : The Politics of Accessible Language’, Harvard Educational Review
Chapter 69 : The Neutrality of The Status Quo’, The Language War

Part 12 : ‘Critical’ (Applied) Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis
Chapter 70 : Notes on Critical Linguistics, Language Topics : Essays in Honour of Michael Halliday
Chapter 71 : Against Arbitrariness : The Social Production of The Sign as a Foundational Issue in Critical Discourse Analysis’, Discourse & Society
Chapter 72 : Teaching The Politics of Standard English’, Journal of English Linguistics
Chapter 73 : "Political Correctness" : The Politics of Culture and Language’, Discourse & Society
Chapter 74 : Emotion and Language Politics : The Brazilian Case’, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Chapter 75 : Disinventing and (Re)constituting Languages’, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies