Pragmatics 6 Beyond New Series (PdlBNS) Pragmatics 6 Beyond New Seriesis a continuation of Pragmatics & Beyond and itsCornpanionSeries.TheNewSeriesoffersaselectionofhighqualifywork coveringthefullrichnessofPragmaticsaSaninterdisciplinaryfield,within language sciences' For an overview of all books published in this series' please see http : / /b enj amins' com/ catalo g/ pbns Editor Anita Fetzer UniversitY of Augsburg Founding Editors iacob L. MeY UniversitY of Southern Denmark Editorial Board Robvn Carston UniversitY College London Thorstein Fretheim UniversitY of Trondheim John C. Heritage UniversitY of California at Los Angeies Susan C. Herring Incliana UniversitY Masako K. Hiraga St. Paul's (RikkYo) UniversitY Associate Editor Andreas H. ]ucker UniversitY of Zurich Herman Parret Belgian National Science Fou"ndation, Universities of Louvain and AntwerP Sachiko Ide iapan Women's UniversitY Kuniyoshi Kataoka Aichi UniversitY Miriam A. Locher Universitdt Basel Sophia S'A. Marmaridou UniversitY of Athens Srikant Sarangi Cardiff UniversitY Marina Sbisit UniversitY of Trieste Jef Verschueren Belgian National Science Foundation, UniversitY of AntwerP Deborah Schiffrin Georgetown UniversitY Paul Osamu Takahara Kobe CitY UniversitY of Foreign Studies Sandra A. ThomPson UniversitY of California at Santa Barbara 1'eun A. van Dijk tlniversitat PomPeu Fabra' Barcelona Yunxia Zhu The UniversitY of Queensland Volume 228 --.:^- ^fD^li+iral )ohn Benjamins The Pragmatics of Political Discourse Explorations across cultures Edited by Anita Fetzer University of Augsburg Publishing Company T)iqcorrrse. Explorations across cultures