Beyond Public Speech and Symbols Explorations in the Rhetoric of Politicians and the Media

Subjects:

• Communications » Political Communications
• Political Science » Comparative Politics

Reviews:

• ...respresents a significant undertaking in its efforts to make connections among the scholarly interests of a range of disciplines--speech communication and mass communication, political science and psychology, as well as linguistics--and among the messages of political figures and media from both Western and Eastern countries.
  —Journal of Government Information 2002

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction by Ofer Feldman
• The Rhetoric of Public Personalities
• New Labour, New Rhetoric? An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Tony Blair by Peter Bull
• Domain-Related Variation in Integrative Complexity: Clinton, Gingrich, Gorbachev, and Various Canadian Political Leaders: A Measure of Political Importance and Responsiveness? by Peter Suedfeld
• Political Language and the Search for an Honorable Peace: Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Their Advisors, and Vietnam Decision Making by Moya Ann Ball
• The Eyesore of the Beholder: Beauty as Political Discourse in the 1998 Venezuelan Presidential Elections by Maritza Montero
• Speech Structures in Deliberative Bodies
• Linguistic Strategy of Involvement: An Emergence of New Political Speech in Japan by Shoji Azuma
• A Psycholinguistic Analysis of The European Union's Political Discourse Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1980-1995) by 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 by Mira Moshe and Sam Lehman-Wilzig
• Mythical Thinking, Aristotelian Logic, and Metaphors in the Parliament of Ukraine by Sergiy Taran
• 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 by Mei Zhang
• Non-Oratorical Discourse and Political Humor in Japan: Editorial Cartoons, Satire, and Attitudes Toward Authority by Ofer Feldman
• Using the Internet in Political Campaigns: Campaign Evidence from Interactive Interviews with Novice Users by Montague Kern, Marion Just, Ann Crigler, and Iris Hong Xie
• Visions of a Tragedy: Symbolic Covergence in the Print Media Coverage of the Murrah Building Bombing in Oklahoma City by Tracey L. Mitchell
• Symbolism and Social Movements: How U.S. Political Debates Are Shaped and Citizens' Attitudes Influenced by Symbolic Communiqués by Nadya Terkildsen, Frauke Schnell, and Karen Callaghan
• Conclusion
• Public Speech, Symbols, and Democratic Citizenship East West by Christ'l De Landtsheer
• Index