Discourse and Politics

GLORIA ALVAREZ-BENITO is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Linguistics (University of Seville) where she teaches different courses on Nonverbal Communication, Discourse Analysis, Lexical-Semantics and Syntax. She is also Director of the MA Program in Business and International Communication at the University of Seville. She holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Seville. Her research interests include nonverbal communication and the relation between verbal and nonverbal structures. She has published many articles on linguistics and, together with Iñigo-Mora, López-Folgado and Rivas-Carmona, co-authored Comunicación y Discurso (2003).

GABRIELA FERNANDEZ-DIAZ is a Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Linguistics (University of Seville). She holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Seville and an MSc in Advanced Information Systems from the University of Glasgow (UK). Her research interests include Natural Language Processing, Computer-Assisted Translation, Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics. Her main contribution to the field of Discourse Analysis is: “A Model for the Linguistic Specification and the Computational Management of Man-Machine Dialogues Following Commands Issued in Spoken Natural Language” (Universal Publishers, 2005).

ISABEL M. IÑIGO-MORA is a Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Linguistics (University of Seville). She holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Seville. Her research interest centers on discourse in general and political discourse in particular. She has written some works on political discourse and rhetoric. Some of her publications include: Comunicación y Discurso (2003), “On the Use of the Personal Pronoun we in Communities” (Journal of Language and Politics, 2004), “Extreme Case Formulations in Spanish Pre-Electoral Debates and English Panel Interviews” (Discourse Studies, 2007); “Evasion in political interviews: An analysis of televised interviews with Tony Blair” (Political Linguistics, 2007).