Language of Fear

Piotr Cap is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Łódź, Poland. His interests are in pragmatics, critical discourse studies, political linguistics and genre theory. His publications include Perspectives in Politics and Discourse (2010), Proximization: The Pragmatics of Symbolic Distance Crossing (2013), Analyzing Genres in Political Communication (2013) and Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies (2014). He is Managing Editor of International Review of Pragmatics.

• - Chapter 1: Cognitive, social and psychological issues of public discourse and threat communication.- Chapter 2: Proximization: A threat-based model of policy legitimization.- Chapter 3: Health discourse: The war on cancer and beyond.- Chapter 4: Environmental discourse: Climate change.- Chapter 5: Technological discourse: Threats in the cyber-space.- Chapter 6: Immigration and anti-migration discourses: The early rhetoric of Brexit.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

“This book is timely because of the recent highly charged political rhetoric in the US. It is required reading for those interested in proximization theory, and scholars of critical discourse analysis, linguistics, political science, and media studies will also find it illuminating. Researchers will particularly appreciate the thorough index. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (K. L. Majocha, Choice, Vol. 55 (1), September, 2017)