The book examines for the first time from a rhetorical perspective the use of the crisis-topos in public and political discourse. Based on German political party programs, the large-scale corpus study investigates how crisis is used as a strategic communication tool and offers insight in the parties' argumentation practices and their relationships with political rivals.

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Severina Laubinger, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.