In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative
approach to analysing political discourse. Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of …

The Discourse-Historical Approach is one of two versions of Critical Discourse Analysis
(CDA) with a strong and organized focus on argumentation. The second version is that …

This article focuses on practical reasoning in political discourse and argues for a better
integration of argumentation theory with critical discourse analysis (CDA). Political discourse …

This book provides an in-depth look into the cognitive and argumentative nature of political
discourse with a focus on the role and place of conceptual metaphors in practical …

This paper analyzes differences in the legitimation strategies used by, and on behalf of the
two presidential candidates in the elections of December 2004 in Romania, using a …

This article analyzes a representative newspaper article on transition to a market economy
in Romania, in particular on the role of the trade union movement, by H.-R. Patapievici, a …

In this paper I analyse differences in the legitimation strategies used by and on behalf of the
two presidential candidates in the elections of December 2004 in Romania, using a …

Eastern European cities have been going through complex transformations in the wake of
the revolutionary year 1989. Their restructuring has been marked by an abrupt transition …

A pragma-dialectical inside view of a Romanian intellectual debate is meant to unveil
strategic maneuvering and fallacies, in a public sphere said to be dominated by “status …

Based on the neo-institutional theory which deals with the ways in which institutions, seen
as sets of cognitive, normative and regulatory elements, manage–or not–human action, this …