Olguin2026
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Olguin2026 |
| Author(s) | Luis Manuel Olguín |
| Title | CA in political discourse |
| Editor(s) | Matthew Burdelski, Tim Greer |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, politics |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2026 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 455–470 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781032720852-32 |
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| Book title | The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis |
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Abstract
This chapter offers an overview of current conversation analysis (CA) approaches to political discourse. The first section surveys research that traditionally takes a political communication perspective in exploring political discourse that emerges from interactions between political figures, media professionals, and the public. Focusing on “the discourse of politicians”, the section discusses findings from a range of studies that look at institutional forms of talk-in-interaction, including broadcast news interviews, public speeches, and political debates, but also less formal exchanges, like politicians’ meetings with constituents or talking with each other behind closed doors. The second part section surveys recent CA approaches to what is conceptualized as “the politics of everyday discourse”. This strand of research characteristically focuses on the work of social categories, such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, in organizing social difference and acts of prejudice and resistance in everyday interaction, to shed light on the (re)production of systems of social inequality and injustice and thus contribute to developing a critical perspective within CA.
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