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POLITICS AS USUAL: Investigating political discourse in action

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Published
Publication date15/05/2023
Host publicationThe Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis
EditorsMichael Handford, James Paul Gee
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Pages595-610
Number of pages15
Edition2nd ed.
ISBN (electronic)9781003035244
ISBN (print)9780367473839
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameRoutledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
PublisherRoutledge

Abstract

In this chapter, I – necessarily – explore only one dimension of political discursive practices in detail: politics as usual on the backstage. This implies investigating the daily work of politicians in their respective workplace – national and transnational political institutions. In sum, I ask the question: what do politicians do? In the following, I first summarize some relevant approaches to the study of discourse and politics. Thereafter I present my own interdisciplinary theory to ‘performing politics’ and illustrate it with some examples of recent ethnography in European Union institutions.