Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance.

Streitmatter, Rodger

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“…For example, while President Bush Jr. overtly thanks both his adversary Al Gore and former President Clinton, he also makes a call for unification of the country (see example ( 14)) in an attempt to leave behind the long-disputed events of the recount of the Florida votes which won him the presidency. This rhetorical device of appealing to soften the effect of highly contested campaigns in the fight for the presidency has become an obligatory initial stage in the register of inaugural addresses (Campbell and Jamieson, 1990). After the seminal inaugural speech by President Kennedy (example ( 15)), all US Presidents appeal to a unified country 13 that leaves aside party differences.…”

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“…Additionally, register analysis has contributed to characterising the sources of the texts that make up a corpus. Registerial analysis of US inaugural addresses reveals their shift from the veneration of the past to the enunciation of political principles (Campbell and Jamieson, 1990). While their focus on policies has given way to a focus on values (Chester, 1980), their purpose has shifted from personal beliefs to popular values (Windt, 1984).…”

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Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects. Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Interaction

Roitman¹

2023

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This volume deals with the pragmatic dimension of negations and is oriented towards empirical studies of negatives’ meanings and functions in media and public discourses. Negation is one of our most central phenomena in human language and we use it daily for a vast range of different purposes: for rejection, denial and for expressing non-existence. Negation is certainly one of the most multidimensional and complex units in language, semantically, cognitively and syntactically, as well as from a functional, pragmatic, perspective. Depending of the theoretical framework, sentence negation in particular has been identified as a modal operator, a truth-value operator, a rhetoric device, a figure of thought, a polarity item and a marker of linguistic polyphony and as a linguistic unit with a variety of discursive and contextual meanings. There remain, nevertheless, a large number of unsolved questions regarding negative forms of expressions and negative functions within specific languages, within different social settings and throughout the languages of the world. Thus, by bringing together scholars from different countries, with studies on different languages this volume aims to shed light and contribute to new knowledge about the forms and functionality of this universal phenomenon. Linguists and pragmaticiens generally agree that the use of negatives escapes logic and pure semantic description and is therefore best analysed with tools from cognitive and pragmatic theories. Similar themes connected to negatives approached from different perspectives and examined in different languages offer a contrastive reading that actually enlarges the spectra of new knowledge presented in the books’s chapters. Based on hypotheses within pragmatics and discourse analysis, the main assumption is here that forms of expressing negatives emerge and adjust constantly and in accordance with the cultural domain and the social setting of their appearance. This is why this volume focuses on the functions of negative expressions in specific domains and types of discourses.

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Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects. Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Interaction

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2023

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“…Holocaust commemoration receives special attention, especially on Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Since commemorative speeches are primarily addresses of praise and tribute, celebrating grand and glorified past events (Hobsbawm and Ranger, 2012;Shils, 1981) or mourning the loss of iconic public figures (or even ordinary individuals in the aftermath of wars or disasters; Simko, 2021), these rites of passage (also known as epideictic rhetoric; Campbell and Jamieson, 1990) are prominently designed to achieve a sense of commonality, solidarity, and hope (Olick, 2016;Simko, 2015). At first glance, the practice of referencing the past in political speech seems to be on the rise (see Figure 1).…”

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Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization

Adams

2022

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Politically grappling with history is a constructive act, one that relies on context, structure, and agency, and is also directed at the forging of cultural coherence. In light of the growing transnationalization of commemoration practices, political actors not only rely on national past but also appeal to historical foreign events in political domestic speech. This research focuses on Israel as a case study for theoretical expansion of the political encounter with history and the experience of alterity. Qualitative analysis of Israeli political rhetoric since the 2000s demonstrates how Israeli prime ministers primarily rely on domestic collective memories; when used, events of others are intended to create a sense of shared experience through comparison. ‘Importation for comparison’ is thus the apparatus reflecting how Israeli prime ministers comply with current needs put forth by internal and external challenges in a globalized world. Contributing to the ongoing discussion regarding the nature of identity, this research underlines how referencing to events from abroad is one of the prominent ways in which national self is evaluated, discussed, and negotiated, thus providing a better understanding of how Israeli society imagines itself in relation to others.

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“…It, therefore, became the underlying principle during the Fifth Pan-African Congress, which was held in Manchester in 1945, and Nkrumah had personally been inspired by Gandhi. Thus, Nkrumah buttresses his point of the nonviolent passage of power in (10) above, which he expects the British rulers to comply with. (11) In the process of obtaining economic unity, there is bound to be much hard bargaining between the various States.…”

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“…Thus, the bargaining of rights and economic freedom is something that does not have to be compromised by both parties. Due to this, Nkrumah in (10) expects the British to find in them good qualities since they have lived in the same territory for a very long time, and they must also acknowledge those traits.…”

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A Critical Cognitive Analysis of Metaphors in Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Speeches

Wiredu

2023

IJLLT

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This thesis analyzes the use of various types of metaphors in a self-built corpus of political speeches delivered by the first president of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, on his fight for Independence for Ghana and the whole of Africa. It aims to uncover how Dr. Nkrumah used rhetoric as a weapon to achieve his political aims and ideologies. In order to identify the metaphorical expressions, I used the Metaphor Identification Procedure developed by scholars at the VU University Amsterdam (abbreviated as MIPVU), which is a systematic and transparent procedure for identifying linguistic metaphors. By adopting MIPVU, lexical units of the sentences were examined, and then the contextual meaning of the unit was established to determine the more basic meaning. If the contextual meaning is contrasted with the basic meaning but can be understood in comparison with it, then the unit will be marked as a metaphor. A total sum of forty-three metaphorical expressions was identified in my self-built corpus. After the metaphors were identified, I followed the procedures of Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) to analyze the use of metaphors to reveal the underlying ideologies and rhetorical functions. It is found that Nkrumah frequently used the journey, war and religious metaphors to convey the intended message and achieve his political objectives. These metaphors can serve a series of functions, such as attracting attention to establish trust, providing an explanation through framing, expressing empathy, emotion or motivation, fulfilling aesthetic purpose as well as creating a political myth. More generally, metaphors as a powerful tool help make Nkrumah’s political speeches more convincing.

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Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance.

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Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects. Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Interaction

Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects. Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Interaction

Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization

A Critical Cognitive Analysis of Metaphors in Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Speeches

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