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  • The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis

    Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective

    by Dr Piotr Cap ...
    This book explores the linguistic patterns of conflict, crisis and threat generation in Polish political rhetoric that have been at the heart of state-level policies since the Law and Justice (PiS) Party came to power in October 2015.Analysing a vast corpus of speeches, statements and remarks by prominent Law and Justice Party politicians, this book sheds light on internal parliamentary and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Approaches to Conflict

    Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics

    by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Paul A. Wilson, Stephen M. Croucher, Olga L. Antineskul, Alberto M. Albuquerque, François Bogacz, Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska, Piotr Cap0, Kara Chan1, Zhijuan Chen2, Maria Holubowicz3, Olga M. Klimecki4, John E. LaMuth5, Yu Leung Ng6, Tatiana M. Permyakova7, Diyako Rahmani8, Jingjie Zhang9, Michal Chmielecki0, Lukasz Sulkowski1 ...
    Approaches to Conflict: Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics aims to investigate the role of communication and emotions in conflict contexts. In addition to the fundamental importance of communication in various aspects of conflict, this volume offers a prominent position to the inherent part played by the effects of a wide range of emotions. This multi-disciplinary project draws ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies

    Edited by Prof Christopher Hart, Dr Piotr Cap ...
    Series series Contemporary Studies in Linguistics
    CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoretical and empirical developments. It presents an up-to-date survey of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), covering both the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • The Language of Fear

    Communicating Threat in Public Discourse

    by Piotr Cap ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates linguistic strategies of threat construction and fear generation in contemporary public communication, including state political discourse as well as non-governmental, media and institutional discourses. It describes the ways in which the construction of closeness and remoteness can be manipulated in the public sphere and bound up with fear, security and conflict. Featuring ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Explorations in Language and Linguistics

    For Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

    Edited by Łukasz Bogucki, Piotr Cap ...
    Series Book 57 - Lodz Studies in Language
    This volume is dedicated to Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Head of the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of Łódź, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It includes texts written by his students, colleagues and friends, dealing with a variety of urgent, widely discussed topics in the contemporary language studies. Spanning contributions from language history, philosophy ... Read more

    $61.69 USD

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  • Multitude

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  • Authoritarianism

    Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

    by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon, Max Pensky ...
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  • The Postnational Constellation

    Political Essays

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
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  • Capital Hates Everyone

    Fascism or Revolution

    by Maurizio Lazzarato ...
    Translated by Robert Hurley ...
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