The dynamics of political discourse : forms and functions of follow-ups / edited by Anita Fetzer, University of Augsburg, Elda Weizman, Bar-Ilan University and Lawrence N. Berlin, Northeastern Illinois University.

Sequentiality and follow-ups / Jacob Mey -- Follow-ups as speech acts in mediated political discourse / Etsuko Oishi -- Monologic follow-ups in political macro-discourse : The US anti-terrorist discourse as a case in point / Piotr Cap -- Pragmatic strategies for follow-ups in US political debates / Lawrence N. Berlin -- Follow-ups and dialogue in online discussions on French politics : From internet forums to social TV / Hassan Atifi, Michel Marcoccia -- Online follow-ups as evaluative reactions to two visits of the Argentinian president to the United States / Luisa Granato and Alejandro Parini -- Irony in and through follow-ups : Talk and meta-talk in online commenting in the Israeli context / Elda Weizman -- Follow-ups as multifunctional questioning and answering strategies in Prime Minister's Questions / Cornelia Ilie -- If I am elected President : Other-quotations in French presidential debates / Marjut Johansson -- "When you came into office you said that your government would be different" : Forms and functions of quotations in mediated political discourse / Anita Fetzer.

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The goal of this chapter is to analyse the forms and communicative functions of quotations as follow-ups in mediated political discourse where they are used strategically to achieve the following goals: (1) intensify the force of an argument, (2) demonstrate ideological coherence or non-coherence, (3) construct, reconstruct and deconstruct the credibility of self and others, and (4) express alignment and disalignment. On a more global level, quotation contribute to the construal of interdiscursitivity by beckoning the addressees out of the on-going discourse into a more or less specified prior discourse and back again, thus following-up on what has been mentioned before. In interviews, they are used to challenge the argumentative coherence and credibility of a politician (and her/his party). In British Prime Minister's Questions and in speeches, they are used to provide relevant background information against which the deconstruction of the opponent's ideological coherence and the reconstruction of ideological coherence of self are based.

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