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Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse (2018)
Book
M. Kranert, & G. Horan (Eds.), (2018). Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.80

This edited volume explores the discursive, performative and mediated dimensions of contemporary political discourse. The strengths of the volume are manifold: it contains cutting edge interdisciplinary research on political discourses by internation... Read More about Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse.

Political myth as a legitimation strategy: The case of the golden age myth in the discourses of the Third Way (2018)
Journal Article
Kranert, M. (2018). Political myth as a legitimation strategy: The case of the golden age myth in the discourses of the Third Way. Journal of Language and Politics, 17(6), 882-906. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17059.kra

Golden age myths as an answer to political crises are a recurrent phenomenon. This article demonstrates how the idea of a past golden age as the answer to a crisis of society was employed in the discourses of the Third Way: At the turn of the 20th ce... Read More about Political myth as a legitimation strategy: The case of the golden age myth in the discourses of the Third Way.

Populistische Elemente in den Wahlprogrammen von AfD und UKIP (2018)
Journal Article
Kranert, M. (2018). Populistische Elemente in den Wahlprogrammen von AfD und UKIP. Aptum: Journal of Language Criticism and Language Culture, 14(1), 61-77

Seit dem Erstarken neuer rechter Parteien in Europa und der Wahl Donald Trumps zum 45. Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten dominiert Populismus als politischer Kampfbegriff den politischen Diskurs und rückt ebenfalls als analytische Kategorie der pol... Read More about Populistische Elemente in den Wahlprogrammen von AfD und UKIP.

Mapping political cultures, or genre as central category of comparative political discourse analysis. The case of Third Way discourses in Germany and the UK at the turn of the 21st century. (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Kranert, M. (2017, March). Mapping political cultures, or genre as central category of comparative political discourse analysis. The case of Third Way discourses in Germany and the UK at the turn of the 21st century. Presented at Research Group Meeting - Language, Ideology and Power (Lancaster University), Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

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‘Today I offer you, and we offer the country a new vision’: The strategic use of first person pronouns in party conference speeches of the Third Way (2017)
Journal Article
Kranert, M. (2017). ‘Today I offer you, and we offer the country a new vision’: The strategic use of first person pronouns in party conference speeches of the Third Way. Discourse and Society, 28(2), 182-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926516685463

This article aims to fill a gap in the existing research by analysing the construction of leadership and group identity in a corpus of 13 party conference speeches by the party leaders of the German SPD and the British Labour party between 1997 and 2... Read More about ‘Today I offer you, and we offer the country a new vision’: The strategic use of first person pronouns in party conference speeches of the Third Way.

Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’ (2016)
Thesis
Kranert, M. Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’. (Thesis). University College London. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/402527

This thesis undertakes a comparison of the discursive strategies of New Labour and the German SPD at the turn of the twenty-first century, when both parties engaged in a discourse of the Third Way in order to win over ‘the middle ground of the electo... Read More about Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’.

Antoon De Rycker & Zuraidah Mohd Don (eds.), Discourse and crisis: Critical perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013. Pp. vii, 489. Hb. $149. (2015)
Journal Article
Kranert, M. (2015). Antoon De Rycker & Zuraidah Mohd Don (eds.), Discourse and crisis: Critical perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013. Pp. vii, 489. Hb. $149. Language in Society, 44(02), 285-286. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404515000123

Antoon De Rycker & Zuraidah Mohd Don (eds.), Discourse and crisis: Critical perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013. Pp. vii, 489. Hb. $149.

Korrigieren, Prüfen und Testen im Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache Ein kurzer Leitfaden. (2013)
Other
Kranert, M. (2013). Korrigieren, Prüfen und Testen im Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache Ein kurzer Leitfaden. [Berlin, Frhttp://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we04/germanistik/studium/studiengaenge/master/master_daf/download/Michael-Kranert---Korrigieren_-Pruefen-und-Testen-im-Fach-Deutsch-als-Fremdsprache-1.pdf?1383813949eie Universität Berlin, 2013]. http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we04/germanistik/studium/studiengaenge/master/master_daf/download/Michael-Kranert---Korrigieren_-Pruefen-und-Testen-im-Fach-Deutsch-als-Fremdsprache-1.pdf?1383813949

An Introduction into Examining and Testing for MA students of Teaching German as a Foreign Language.