‘As Shakespeare so Memorably Said…’: Quotation, Rhetoric, and the Performance of Politics

Atkins, J. W. H.; Finlayson, Alan

doi:10.1111/1467-9248.12156

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“…The present article begins to address this oversight, and so will make a contribution to scholarship on both Britishness and British political speech (e.g. Atkins, 2011;Atkins and Finlayson, 2014;Finlayson, 2014;Martin, 2015).…”

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(Re)imagining Magna Carta: Myth, Metaphor and the Rhetoric of Britishness

Atkins

2015

Parliam Aff

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This document is the author's post-print version, incorporating any revisions agreed during the peer-review process. Some differences between the published version and this version may remain and you are advised to consult the published version if you wish to cite from it. (RE)IMAGINING MAGNA CARTA: MYTH, METAPHOR AND THE RHETORIC OF BRITISHNESS The 800 th anniversary of Magna Carta came at a time of growing uncertainty about what it means to be British. Contemporary politicians have responded by articulating visions of Britishness, through which they seek to unite citizens behind a common identity. Taking as its focus the myth of Magna Carta, this article examines the rhetoric of Britishness of Gordon Brown and David Cameron. It shows that although both link Magna Carta to the myth of British exceptionalism, Cameron alone defines Britishness against an external 'Other'. The article also demonstrates that Magna Carta acts as a 'founding myth', and that its emergence as such is indicative of a change in Britain's 'rhetorical culture'.

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Section: National Identitymentioning

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(Re)imagining Magna Carta: Myth, Metaphor and the Rhetoric of Britishness

Atkins

2015

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“…The wide use of the label by journalists and writers themselves, and by other quoted societal actors (other journalists, activists, experts), suggests that the 'fifth column' has become if not frequent, then a more normalized term across societal layers. As a 'rhetorical performance' (Atkins and Finlayson, 2016), it is used by all members of the community and not only in political speech.…”

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Who is the modern ‘traitor’? ‘Fifth column’ accusations in US and UK politics and media

Chernobrov

2018

Politics

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Accusations of treason and disloyalty have been increasingly visible in both western and international politics in recent years, from Russia and Turkey, to Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election. This article explores 'traitor' accusations in modern politics, with evidence from British and American newspapers for 2011-2016. Besides British and American politics, results reveal reported 'fifth column' accusations in over 40 countries. I identify three dominant patterns: authoritarian states describing opposition movements as a 'fifth column'; suspicion of western Muslim populations as potential terrorists; and the use of traitor language to denote party dissent in western politics. Employed across the political spectrum, and not only by right-wing or populist movements, accusations of treason and betrayal point at a deeper breakdown of social trust and communicate collective securitizing responses to perceived threats.

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“…Accordingly, Atkins & Finlayson (2014) state that "quotations are not only a source of authority, but a way of claiming authorization"; and by referring to Martin Luther's dream and Nelson Mandela enduring (text 2) or using the U.S Declaration at the beginning of his speech (text 1), he principally tends to gain credibility and authorization to his arguments or to equate his speech and endeavors with them. The quotes can also be regarded as flashbacks to provide nostalgic and emotional feelings for the audience and to validate his statements by tailoring those quotations to his current discussions.…”

Section: International Journal Of English Linguisticsmentioning

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A Radical Shift to a Profound and Rigorous Investigation in Political Discourse: An Integrated Approach

Kazemian¹,

Hashemi²

2017

IJEL

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Drawing on overarching methodological frameworks of Hallidayan grammatical metaphor, Fairclough's perspective on critical discourse analysis and rhetoric, this study attempts to posit a novel, integrated and practical approach to political, the media, advertisement and other discourses. To this end and based on the proposed approach, it aims to critically and eclectically exemplify and dissect three speeches delivered by Mr. Barack Obama, former president of the US, to first manifest the integrated approach practicality and adeptness through analysis; then by virtue of analysis to unveil how language is manipulated and distorted by orators in order to convey seamlessly intended messages and political creeds to the audience. Surveying recent annals of literature, to date no one has conducted an integrated study applying these disciplines in an individual paper and this study as a trial one can be useful for upcoming research. The analysis depicts practicality and efficiency of the integrated approach and displays that the speeches abound with nominalizations, modal verbs, parallelisms and antitheses. Furthermore, there are some three-part listing, the use of passivization, quotations and modality metaphors. Therefore, a tendency to utilize more nominalizations, parallelism and other devices by the speaker can be a fundamental reason for making his political language more powerful, impressive, persuasive and ambiguous as well.

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‘As Shakespeare so Memorably Said…’: Quotation, Rhetoric, and the Performance of Politics

Cited by 28 publications

References 39 publications

(Re)imagining Magna Carta: Myth, Metaphor and the Rhetoric of Britishness

(Re)imagining Magna Carta: Myth, Metaphor and the Rhetoric of Britishness

Who is the modern ‘traitor’? ‘Fifth column’ accusations in US and UK politics and media

A Radical Shift to a Profound and Rigorous Investigation in Political Discourse: An Integrated Approach

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