@article{c7ee8a00b4304885862b3b9d5bb4e2df,
title = "Twenty years of research on political discourse: A systematic review and directions for future research",
abstract = "There is a long tradition of linguistic research on political discourse, but little attention has been paid to what the concept of political discourse itself encompasses. With this in mind, this article aims to understand what types of discourse are categorized as {\textquoteleft}political{\textquoteright} in linguistic research and what their characteristics are (form, type of actors, policy domains, geographical coverage). To this end, we conducted a systematic literature review of 164 scientific articles from the Scopus database. Overall, the findings show that political discourse is generally limited to the discourses of (institutionalized) political elites and most specifically to oral monological speeches. The review also highlights discrepancies regarding the geographical scope and the policy domains covered by the empirical analyses, more specifically a bias toward the Western world and issues related to external defense policies, justice and home affairs.",
keywords = "Bibliometric analysis, citizen discourse, media discourse, political debates, political discourse, political discourse analysis, political speeches, public discourse, systematic review",
author = "Fran{\c c}ois Randour and Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps",
note = "Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS: [Grant Number PDR-T.1036.15]. Funding Information: We would like to thank the participants of this conference and also the editor of Discourse & Society for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this research. We would like also to express our gratitude to our colleague, Laura Pascolo, and research assistants, Sophie Fafchamps and Christina Piot, who helped with data collection and coding, as well as our colleague, Mathilde Mergeai, for the linguistic revision of this paper. Remaining inaccuracies are of course our sole responsibility. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique ? FNRS: [Grant Number PDR-T.1036.15]. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2020.",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0957926520903526",
language = "English",
volume = "31",
pages = "428--443",
journal = "Discourse and Society",
issn = "0957-9265",
publisher = "Sage Publications",
number = "4",
}