The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combin

The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers a

The outstanding essays in this volume explore the interdependency of literature and history in seventeenth-century England. The relation of text to society is e

What is the purpose of public talk in a democratic society? Do the American people interact with their government in distinctive ways? Are the nation's mass med

"Margins of political discourse" are those border zones where paradigms intersect and where issues of order and disorder, meaning and non-meaning must be contin