International Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies and Environmental Communication (IJCCSEC)

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The International Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies and Environmental Communication  is a biannual academic publication, edited by the Intercultural Developement Association, whose aim is to promote new scholarship and research on cross-cultural topics and interdisciplinary studies in humanities and communication.

 

 

 

The main spheres of interest are:

–          history of ideas
–          humanities and science
–          cultural otherness and cultural identity
–          arts and culture
–          media anthropology
–          transnational anthropology
–          gender studies
–          linguistics (socio / psycho-linguistics, ethno-linguistics, cognitive linguistics)
–          communication sciences
–          discourse theory and political analysis
–          environmental communication
–          media studies. More

 

The International Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies and Environmental Communication  is indexed in:
J-Gate

Current Issue

The Discourse of Politics in Action

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Title: The Discourse of Politics in Action. Politics as Usual
Author: Ruth Wodak
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2011 (paperback)

In The Discourse of Politics in Action. Politics as Usual, Wodak conducts an elaborate and enlightening investigation whose starting point echoes Michel Foucault’s statement: “People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what [sic] they do does” (in Wodak 2009). In this light, the main directions pursued in the book are, on the one hand, exploring and explaining “what they [the politicians] do”, and, on the other, articulating “what [their action] does” for/to everyone else, or what consequences politicians’ decisions may have upon various developments and communications in our society. More

Reviewer: Izabela Lazar