Speaking of Europe : approaches to complexity in European political discourse / edited by Kjersti Fløttum.

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Speaking of and within the EU: Introduction -- Speaking to Europe: A Rhetorical approach to Prime Minister Tony Blair's speech to the EU Parliament -- Doing politics or doing media? A linguistic approach to European parliamentary debate -- Quantitative approaches to political discourse: Corpus linguistics and text statistics -- On what is not said and who said it: Argumentative connectives in Nicolas Sarcozy's speeches to the European Parliament -- Voices and identities: The polyphony of Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarcozy at the European Parliament -- The heart of Europe: Synchronic variation and historical trajectories of a political metaphor -- Images and roles of the European Union in the climate change debate: A cognitive approach to metaphors in the European Parliament -- Risky readings: The virtue of overinterpretations and speculations in political discourse analysis.

In this chapter we take issue with the widespread view that overinterpretations and speculations are signs of weak research and tendentious treatment of data. This view is damaging to the study of political discourse as it encourages the reproduction of common sense and normalcy. In this chapter we therefore argue for the necessity of speculative readings and overinterpretations in studies of political discourse. Extreme and speculative readings of political language - readings that do too much to the data and that read too much into the texts - are crucial for the fine-grained a.

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