Piotr Cap is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Lódz, Poland.

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction1. ‘Do What I Say, Unless…’: Political Leadership, Coercion, and Threat Construction2. Polish Contexts: Threat-Based Communication and Crisis Management in Communist and Post-Communist Poland3. Enemy at Home: ‘Total Opposition’, ‘Post-Communist Elites’ and ‘Keepers of the Round Table Order’4. The ‘Worst Sort of Poles’ Narrative5. European Union and the Discourse of National Sovereignty6. Oppressed by Neighbors: Germany, Russia, and Nord Stream 2Concluding RemarksNotesBibliographyIndex

A well-documented study ... The main contribution of Cap's book lies in expanding the intersections between cognitive linguistics and discourse studies by showing how language uses can be weaponized by powerful political actors and explaining the pragma-linguistic operations that result in certain power-legitimizing construals of reality.

Piotr Cap is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Lódz, Poland.

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction1. ‘Do What I Say, Unless…’: Political Leadership, Coercion, and Threat Construction2. Polish Contexts: Threat-Based Communication and Crisis Management in Communist and Post-Communist Poland3. Enemy at Home: ‘Total Opposition’, ‘Post-Communist Elites’ and ‘Keepers of the Round Table Order’4. The ‘Worst Sort of Poles’ Narrative5. European Union and the Discourse of National Sovereignty6. Oppressed by Neighbors: Germany, Russia, and Nord Stream 2Concluding RemarksNotesBibliographyIndex

A well-documented study ... The main contribution of Cap's book lies in expanding the intersections between cognitive linguistics and discourse studies by showing how language uses can be weaponized by powerful political actors and explaining the pragma-linguistic operations that result in certain power-legitimizing construals of reality.

Piotr Cap is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Lódz, Poland.

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction1. ‘Do What I Say, Unless…’: Political Leadership, Coercion, and Threat Construction2. Polish Contexts: Threat-Based Communication and Crisis Management in Communist and Post-Communist Poland3. Enemy at Home: ‘Total Opposition’, ‘Post-Communist Elites’ and ‘Keepers of the Round Table Order’4. The ‘Worst Sort of Poles’ Narrative5. European Union and the Discourse of National Sovereignty6. Oppressed by Neighbors: Germany, Russia, and Nord Stream 2Concluding RemarksNotesBibliographyIndex

A well-documented study ... The main contribution of Cap's book lies in expanding the intersections between cognitive linguistics and discourse studies by showing how language uses can be weaponized by powerful political actors and explaining the pragma-linguistic operations that result in certain power-legitimizing construals of reality.