Language is the most important instrument of political action. With the help of language, political actions are prepared, legitimized, and negotiated argumentatively.

Political linguistics has established itself as a linguistic sub-discipline that provides a methodological toolkit to analyze the field of language and politics in all its facets.

This volume in the series 'Literature References for Linguistics' offers, alongside an introduction to the topic of language and politics, a structured selective bibliography that takes into account the latest state of political linguistic research. In addition to classical topics such as word semantics, political text types, and discourse analysis, the didactic presentation of political linguistic content and its methodological implementation in the context of media education are also considered.