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Special issue 'Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice' (Journal of Language and Politics) published

We have just published a special issue of the Journal of Language and Politics on Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice.

The aim of this special issue is to bring together work that advances the post-structuralist discourse-theoretical tradition as a framework for the study of political practice within and beyond the field of politics. It focuses on work inspired by the Essex school of discourse theory (DT) but takes an explicitly open approach to this and sees the interdisciplinary dialogue between DT and different strands of discourse studies and other approaches to power and ideology across disciplines as a precondition for the strengthening of DT as a sharp and useful discursive framework for the study of contemporary political practices in the broad sense.

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*Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice*

Special issue of the Journal of Language and Politics

Edited by Benjamin De Cleen, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos,  Jana Goyvaerts, Max Grönegräs, and Yannis Stavrakakis

https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24.1 <https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24.1

Discourse theory and the turn to practice: Lessons from the populist moment
Benjamin De Cleen, Jason Glynos, Jana Goyvaerts & Yannis Stavrakakis | pp. 1–24
https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24200.dec <https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24200.dec

Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication: A long-expected party
Thomas Jacobs | pp. 25–49
https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24199.jac <https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24199.jac

Supplementing the tropes: Poststructuralist discourse theory and rhetorical political analysis
Alan Finlayson | pp. 50–68
https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24198.fin <https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24198.fin

Community organising and radical democracy: From praxis to theory and back again
Julius Schneider, Rebecca Warren & Jason Glynos | pp. 69–90
https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24201.sch <https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24201.sch

Studying affect through discourse theory: Towards a methodology of practice
Emmy Eklundh & Sebastián Ronderos | pp. 91–114
https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24197.ekl <https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24197.ekl

When performance studies meet discourse theory: The political performance analysis protocol as an interdisciplinary methodological tool
Théo Aiolfi | pp. 115–141
https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24196.aio <https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24196.aio

“A massive field of action”: Feminist anti-essentialism and political discourse theory
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne | pp. 142–162
https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24195.gun <https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp.24195.gun