JINDŘIŠKA SVOBODOVÁ, ONDŘEJ BLÁHA, IVANA DOBROTOVÁ, ADAM WARZECHA (2020): THE POWER OF SPEECH: A CRITICAL READING OF MEDIA AND POLITICAL TEXTS

Abstract

Analysis of media texts is not only the subject of research in linguistics, but also in media studies, sociology, political science and interdisciplinary disciplines - sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, etc. The reviewed book contributes to the development of methods of media and political discourse of a public person.

The authors discuss the specifics of the presentation of information in the mass media using special communication technologies and describe the peculiarities in the perception of the world by wider societies.

Keywords

• Analysis of media texts
• political discourse
• policy
• sociolinguistics
• influence
• speech image
• manipulation
• perception of the world.