| Description |
xxvi, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. The rhetoric of public personalities. New labour, new rhetoric? : an analysis of the rhetoric of Tony Blair / Peter Bull -- Domain-related variation in integrative complexity : a measure of political importance and responsiveness? : Clinton, Gingrich, Gorbachev, and various Canadian political leaders / Peter Suedfeld -- Political language and the search for an honorable peace : Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, their advisers, and Vietnam decision making / Moya Ann Ball -- Eyesore of the beholder : beauty as political discourse in the 1998 Venezuelan presidential elections / Maritza Montero. II. Speech structures in deliberative bodies. Linguistic strategy of involvement : an emergence of new political speech in Japan / Shoji Azuma -- Psycholinguistic analysis of the European Union's political discourse regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (1980-1995) / Christ'l De Landtsheer and Lise van Oortmerssen -- National versus global public discourse in the era of multi-channelism : the introduction of commercial and cable television in Israel as an empirical test of Habermas' theory / Mira Moshe and Sam Lehman-Wilzig -- Mythical thinking, Aristotelian logic, and metaphors in the Parliament of Ukraine / Sergiy Taran. |
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III. Speech aimed at encouraging citizen participation. Raising the social status of intellectuals and prescribing ideal behavior for Chinese citizens : press images of model intellectuals under economic reform / Mei Zhang -- Non-oratorical discourse and political humor in Japan : editorial cartoons, satire, and attitudes toward authority / Ofer Feldman -- Using the internet in political campaigns : campaign evidence from interactive interviews with novice users / Montague Kern ... [et al.] -- Visions of a tragedy : symbolic convergence in the print media coverage of the Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City / Tracey L. Mitchell -- Symbolism and social movements : how U.S. political debates are shaped and citizens' attitudes influenced by symbolic communiques / Frauke Schnell, Nadya Terkildsen and Karen Callagan. IV. Conclusion. Public speech, symbols, and democratic citizenship east and west / Christ'l De Landtsheer. |
| Subject |
Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
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Discourse analysis -- Political aspects.
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Mass media and language.
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| Added Author |
Landtsheer, Christ'l de.
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Feldman, Ofer, 1954-
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| ISBN |
0275967328 (alk. paper) |
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