Politics, ethnicity and the postcolonial nation : a critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean /
"This book explores the politics of ethnicity and nationalism in the Caribbean from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. Focusing on political communication in Trinidad and Tobago, it offers unique socio-political insights into one of the most complex and diverse countries of the Archip...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2021]
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| Series: | Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;
v. 93 Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 93 Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture v. 93 |
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Table of Contents:
- Ethnicity, nationalism and the political process in Trinidad and Tobago
- Theory and methods for a multimodal critique of political discourse
- The leader
- The party
- The nation
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Swept by the Kamlamania
- Caribbean political discourse : A blind spot
- CDS in the postcolonial Caribbean : The master's tools?
- CDS as postcolonial critique : A way forward
- Structure of the book
- A short note on terminology
- Ethnicity, nationalism and the political process in Trinidad and Tobago
- A short socio-political history
- Ethnicity, identity and nationalism
- Theory and methods for a multimodal critique of political discourse
- Contemporary political discourse : A case for visuality and critique
- The discourse-historical approach
- Social semiotics as critique
- Multimodal CDS in action
- The leader
- Strategies of positive self-presentation
- Strategies of negative other-presentation
- The party
- Main strategies of nomination and predication
- Building the multi-ethnic coalition
- The nation
- Building the national "in-group" : Evolving narratives
- Building a common political past : Teaching history as action
- Proud achievements and historic moments : Narrating history as myth
- Patterns of interdiscursivity and intertextuality
- Concluding remarks
- Summary of findings
- Towards a postcolonial CDS
- Some final thoughts
- Epilogue : Kamla 2010-2015
- References
- Index