关键词: 政治研究, 话语分析范式, 批评话语分析, 政治语言学

Abstract: The traditional paradigm of political research, from Plato, Aristotle to Enlightenment thinkers and behaviorist political researchers, mostly focuses on political structure, value and power operation and distribution. Combining politics with linguistics and communication science, Ruth Wodak created a paradigm of political discourse analysis. This paradigm mainly uses the critical discourse analysis created in 1990s. Introduced into Chinese academic circle at that time, the critical discourse analysis was mainly applied in linguistic studies at the initial stage but rarely in the analysis of political phenomena and political practices. In her research of "politics as usual", Wodak constructs a theoretical frame for political discourse analysis via the field investigation of MEPs' daily discourses, reveals the truth that politicians and political actors are "doing politics", and the truth behind the political practices conducted by "behind-the-scene backers" and behind discourses by uncovering political fictionalization and the political practice of "fabricated agreement". Nowadays, politicians "do politics" in the environment of various new media and technology, which functions as a double-edged sword, has put "doing politics" at great discourse risks. Given this, the political research combining political discourse analysis, politics and linguistics has more theoretical and practical significance.

Key words: political research, the paradigm of discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, political linguistics