The Pragmatics of Governmental Discourse : Resilience, Sustainability and Wellbeing (Hardcover)

Introduction: Sociological Discourse Analysis, Natural Language Processing and Early 21st?Century Digitalisation

Part 1

1. Two Approaches to the Question of Necessity

2. Semiosis, Scorekeeping and Text Systems

3. Discursive Scorekeeping and Foucault

Part 2

4. Understanding Text Systems via Linguistic Variation

5. The Diffusion of the Vocabulary of Crisis Neoliberalism and the Division of Labour of the British State

6. The Sociolinguistic Structure of Governmentality ? Division of Labour, Division of Vocabulary, Division of Linguistic Labour

Conclusion: Motivations, Limitations and Future Directions