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Review of Analyzing Genres in Political Communication, edited by Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska

Review of Analyzing Genres in Political Communication, edited by Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska REVIEW Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska, eds., Analyzing Genres in Political Communication. Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. xi + 438 pp. ISBN 9789027271488 (e-book), price: 99.00 ($ 149.00) ISBN 9789027206411 (hardback), price: 99.00 ($ 149.00) Reviewed by Paulina Królikowska, University of Lód For decades, genres as a research topic have attracted the attention of scholars from both literary- and linguistics-related fields, and inspired approaches that were to a great extent interdisciplinary, but at the same time lead to a substantial theoretical and methodological fuzziness. There are multiple reasons for that, and the variety of purposes, for which genres were analysed, together with the exceptionally dynamic nature of generic forms in communication are definitely two of many arguments supporting this claim. The publication Analyzing Genres in Political Communication is an attempt to provide an overview of most contemporary theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to the research on genres in political discourse from a number of standpoints, such as applied linguistics, media studies, cognitive psychology, pragmatics, critical discourse studies and applied linguistics, to name just a few. The volume edited by Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska purposively focuses on the domain of political communication, because, as the editors state http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Lodz Papers in Pragmatics de Gruyter

Review of Analyzing Genres in Political Communication, edited by Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska

Królikowska , , Paulina
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics , Volume 9 (2) – Nov 1, 2013
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REVIEW Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska, eds., Analyzing Genres in Political Communication. Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. xi + 438 pp. ISBN 9789027271488 (e-book), price: 99.00 ($ 149.00) ISBN 9789027206411 (hardback), price: 99.00 ($ 149.00) Reviewed by Paulina Królikowska, University of Lód For decades, genres as a research topic have attracted the attention of scholars from both literary- and linguistics-related fields, and inspired approaches that were to a great extent interdisciplinary, but at the same time lead to a substantial theoretical and methodological fuzziness. There are multiple reasons for that, and the variety of purposes, for which genres were analysed, together with the exceptionally dynamic nature of generic forms in communication are definitely two of many arguments supporting this claim. The publication Analyzing Genres in Political Communication is an attempt to provide an overview of most contemporary theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to the research on genres in political discourse from a number of standpoints, such as applied linguistics, media studies, cognitive psychology, pragmatics, critical discourse studies and applied linguistics, to name just a few. The volume edited by Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska purposively focuses on the domain of political communication, because, as the editors state

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