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9780275961220

Politically Speaking

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  • ISBN13:

    9780275961220

  • ISBN10:

    0275961222

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-09-30
  • Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
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Summary

This work details and examines the characteristics, nature, and content of the language used in the public sphere of various Western and non-Western societies; the functions language plays in the polity; and the link between culture, political culture, and the language that politicians and other elites, as well as the public, use in their symbolic interaction. The essays describe and analyze the topic of political language from different perspectives--political science, psychology, philosophy, sociology, gender studies, economics, religious, public administration, mass communication, and linguistics. Essays examine the discourse of political press reports and TV interviews, political orations and election propaganda, legalistic, political-philosophic, and religious treatises. Throughout it provides an overview of the state of the art of political language, utilizing various research methods and disciplines.

Author Biography

OFER FELDMAN is Associate Professor at Naruto University of Education in Japan.CHRIST'L DE LANDTSHEER is an Associate Professor of the University of Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
vii(2)
Preface ix
1. Introduction to the Study of Political Discourse
1(18)
Christ'l De Landtsheer
I. The Nature and Scope of Political Discourse 19(60)
2. The Pervasiveness of Islam in Contemporary Arab Political Discourse: The Cases of Sadat and Arafat
19(12)
Raphael Israeli
3. The Changing Political Language of Germany
31(12)
Christa Lang-Pfaff
4. The Political Language of Japan: Decoding What Politicians Mean from What They Say
43(13)
Ofer Feldman
5. The Rhetoric of Jewish Cohesion and Territorial Attachment in Rabbinic Midrashim
56(8)
Carol B. Conaway
6. Pragmatic Ambiguity and Partisanship in Russia's Emerging Democracy
64(15)
Richard D. Anderson, Jr.
II. The Discourse of the Political Elite 79(70)
7. The Crisis Tool in American Political Discourse
79(12)
Amos Kiewe
8. Discourse as a Stage for Political Actors: An Analysis of Presidential Addresses in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela
91(15)
Maritza Montero
Isabel Rodriguez-Mora
9. The Method of Argumentation of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Leader of the French Extreme Right Wing, in an Important Political Television Program
106(11)
Simone Bonnafous
10. The Media, the Markets, and the Crash: A Consideration of Financial Press Narratives
117(12)
Matthew G. Sorley
11. The Political Rhetoric of a Unified Europe
129(20)
Christ'l De Landtsheer
III. Methods in the Study of Political Discourse 149(46)
12. Political Interviews: Television Interviews in Great Britain
149(12)
Peter Bull
13. Functions of Recent U.S. Presidential Slogans
161(9)
Herbert Barry III
14. Political Language in an Environmental Controversy: Integrative Complexity and Motive Imagery in Advocacy Propaganda and the Press
170(14)
Peter Suedfeld
Loraine Lavallee
Jennifer Brough
15. Post-Realism, Just War, and the Gulf War Debate
184(11)
Francis A. Beer
Robert Hariman
Epilogue: Where Do We Stand? 195(10)
Ofer Feldman
Index 205(4)
About the Editors and Contributors 209

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