This accessible introductory textbook looks at the modern relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they employ, with extensive coverage of key topics including:
- ‘spin’, ‘spin control’ and ‘image’ politics
- models of persuasion: authority, contrast, association
- pseudo-logical and ‘post-truth’ arguments
- political interviewing: difficult questions, difficult answers
- metaphors and metonymy
- rhetorical figures
- humour, irony and satire
