Introduction: A Discourse Analytical Approach to Researching Mediated Political Communication

Transcultural political communication from the perspective of proximization theory: A comparative analysis on the corpuses of the Sino–US trade war

“…The transculturally political utilization is examined in a project facilitating cultural communication between schools in the Italian context (Dervin et al, 2011). The contextual approach was also adopted to analyze the relationship between political communication and the tense and chaotic politics in Europe at some particular stage (Ekström and Firmstone, 2017). Qualitative researches based on texts have been implemented due to the importance of multiculturalism in politics and the key function of linguistic means in organizing political discourses.…”

Hyperpartisan news: Rethinking the media for populist politics

“…Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump continues to challenge the norms of politics while the United Kingdom has been negotiating its difficult exit from the European Union in what has seemed an inexplicable shift away from the political centre. Journalists and political pundits failed to predict these dramatic outcomes, ushering in a new acceptance that we need to fundamentally reappraise the relationship between politics, the public and the media (Ekstrom and Firmstone, 2017). Such phenomena as Brexit, the election of US President Donald Trump and the ascendance of left-wing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as a key force in the United Kingdom has evoked the term populism as an ideological framework to describe this baffling new political landscape.…”