Preface

Finnish and Hungarian political scientists, historians and students participated in a seminar in Budapest on 31 August - 2 September, 2006, with title On Politics: Rhetoric, Discourse and Concepts. The seminar was organised by Collegium Budapest, Finnagora (The centre of Finnish culture in Hungary) and the Centre of Political Discourse Studies (CEPODS) of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Papers were presented by Kari Palonen (University of Jyväskylä), Heino Nyyssönen (University of Jyväskylä) Emilia Palonen (University of Essex), Balázs Trencsényi (CEU, Budapest) and Márton Szabó (ELTE University and CEPODS of HAS, Budapest). The third day of the seminar was a so-called student-day. PhD students presented papers connected to their dissertations. All students are members of CEPODS working on various political discourse issues, and most of them are supervised by Márton Szabó. This e-book includes their papers presented at the seminar on 2 September, 2006.