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This paper aims at unfolding political conspiracies that help to manipulate political reality in Pakistan. It significantly builds on the empirical data to show how language and social semeiotics are used to coin catchy slogans to serve the politicians. Political narratives remained a field of utmost interest to the discourse analysts since they offer a rich data for a significant use of persuasively manipulative language, and they signify one of the most implicit ways in which socio-political dogmas are disseminated so they are to be carefully crafted to help model linguistic choices. Based on Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) the present study highlights that the identifiable linguistic patterns perform a greater role in shaping political reality, and those are influenced by the sociopolitical and historical perspectives of the society concerned. The data comprises slogans from different registered political parties in Pakistan such as Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) and Pakistan Tehreke' Insaf (PTI). The study has found that the political parties in Pakistan use to craft new slogans to manipulate reality to legitimise political environment in their favour and in doing so, they use different semiotic resources including entities, socio-cultural circumstances and verbal exchanges.

Since the emergence of COVID-19, the United States has quite openly decided to use the crisis, at a global scale, as a weapon against its perceived rival, China. In this context, India has taken a number of steps to restructure its relation to China, asserting economic stances and implementing policies that are becoming more and more closely entwined with its geopolitical positions and aspirations.

This paper discuss the rebirth of trust studies in recent years, especially in the field of political attitudes and opinions. The case study presented try to explore the relationship between electoral behaviour and political orientations, regarding the people's views about the role of state, market and 'third sector' and application of law or social self-regulation. We found prevailing statists and liberal orientations, but also a 'concealed' group of Portuguese voters.

"Kritische Bürger werden seit Jahren kontrovers diskutiert. Einerseits gelten sie als Indikator für die Gesundheit von Demokratien. Andererseits werden sie als Bedrohung für die Stabilisierung politischer Systeme erachtet. Basierend auf Umfragedaten wird untersucht, ob die Einstellungsprofile kritischer Bürger - z.B. politische Informiertheit oder Identifikation - über- oder unterdurchschnittliche Werte im Vergleich mit unkritischen Bürgern aufweisen. Dabei steht im Gegensatz zu den meisten Studien zur politischen Kritik nicht die Unzufriedenheit im Mittelpunkt, sondern die normative Grundlagen, sich mit politischen Sachverhalten kritisch auseinander zu setzen (Kritikbereitschaft). Kritikbereite Befragte erweisen sich als besser informiert, partizipationsfreudiger und in größerem Ausmaß mit Politik und Demokratie identifiziert als Nichtkritikbereite. Auch ihre Bereitschaft, Demokratie zu verteidigen, ist überdurchschnitt." (Autorenreferat)

This study analyzes illocutionary act in political debate that was conducted by general election commision on March, 30 2019. This debate was about ideology, government, security and defense, and international relationship. In this research, Searle's theory was used who classified five types of illocutionary act; representative, directive, commisive, expressive, and declarative. This research used descriptive qualitative. The main focus of this study is to get deep understanding and interpretation how the politicians argue each other using illocutionary act. The results of this study suggested that both of the candidates of president did not use all of the illocutionary act types proposed by Searle. The three illocutionary acts used by both of the candidates are, representative, directive, commissive. Meanwhile, another type of illocutionary acts used by one of the candidates is declarative, while another one used expressive.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse relationships and communication between Twitter actors in Swedish political conversations. More specifically, the paper aims to identify the most prominent actors, among these actors identify the sub-groups of actors with similar political affiliations, and describe and analyse the relationships and communication between these sub-groups. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected during four weeks in September 2012, using Twitter API. The material included 77,436 tweets from 10,294 Twitter actors containing the hashtag #svpol. In total, 916 prominent actors were identified and categorised according to the main political blocks, using information from their profiles. Social network analysis was utilised to map the relationships and the communication between these actors. Findings: There was a marked dominance of the three main political blocks among the 916 most prominent actors: left block, centre-right block, and right-wing block. The results from the social network analysis suggest that while polarisation exists in both followership and re-tweet networks, actors follow and re-tweet actors from other groups. The mention network did not show any signs of polarisation. The blocks differed from each other with the right-wingers being tighter and far more active, but also more distant from the others in the followership network. Originality/value: While a few papers have studied political polarisation on Twitter, this is the first to study the phenomenon using followership data, mention data, and re-tweet data.

In this commentary on Michael Barnett's article Humanitarianism Transformed (this volume), the author argues that the current politicization of humanitarianism offers opportunities as well as constraints. Asserting that the end of the Cold War opened the way for transformative logics, humanitarianism has been evolving to allow explicit consideration of the political. Although the author agrees with Barnett's assessment of increased professionalization & institutionalization of humanitarianism, the broader question of defining the causal sequence of continued dependence on external resources must be addressed. The phenomena of fused politics of solidarity & governance is identified as the determinate of future success by organizations in the next wave of humanitarianism. References. J. Harwell

Analyses European Muslim communities' developing involvement in their political environment and related Muslim and public debates. Muslims are increasingly making themselves noticed in the political process of Europe. But what is happening behind the often sensational headlines? This book looks at the processes and realities of Muslim participation in local and national politics: voting patterns in local and national assemblies and the tensions between ethnic, political and religious identities. These developments drive internal Muslim debates including attitudes to the democratic processes and whether Muslims should take part at all, as well as rivalries over who should represent and speak for Muslims. They also inspire sharp European discussion about Muslim political participation - does it signal integration or separation? - and how the European states should view this increasingly active role of Muslims in the public space