The workshop "Political Discourse in Contrast" aims to merge contrastive pragmatics and the study of language and politics. While language and politics has studied data drawn from various languages and cultures in parallel (see e.g. Wodak et al. 2013), no large-scale attempt has been made to contrastively examine the pragmatics of politics in various linguacultures, in spite of the fact that, in the field of contrastive pragmatics, contrastive discourse analysis has been one of the most important areas. The workshop fills this knowledge gap, by bringing together various studies written by some of the best-known experts of the pragmatics of politics. The studies presented examine political data drawn from a range of cultures, and from various contexts and time periods.

        The major participants are Professor Paul Chilton from Warwick University, Professor Peter Bull from the universities of York & Salford, Professor Zohar Kampf from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, `Professor Themis Kaniklidou from Hellenic American University, Professor Daniel Kadar and Professor Juliane House, Ms. Dan Han, a visiting researcher at the Centre from Dalian University of Foreign Languages also presented at the workshop. Professor Claire Kramsch from University of California Berkeley participated via skype. 

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