Re“Characterizing” the Anecdote: Synecdoche and Ethotic Argument in Presidential Debate Rhetoric

Oldenburg, Christopher J.

doi:10.1080/10510974.2013.860043

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“…The use of synecdoche in political rhetoric has traditionally been associated with stories and anecdotes. Both Atkins and Finlayson (2013) and Oldenburg (2015), for example, have shown how the stories politicians tell function synecdochally , providing individual examples of situations, problems and issues through which wider generalisations about their nature can be ascertained. So far, the possibility that politicians may use statistics in similar ways has not been considered.…”

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Towards a rhetorical understanding of statistics in politics: Quantifying the National Health Service ‘Winter Crisis’

Lawson

Lovatt

2020

European Journal of Communication

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Statistics are a central part of political communication, yet little is known about how they are used rhetorically by politicians. This article therefore develops a rhetorical understanding of statistics in political debate and explores how they function primarily as strategies of argumentation. Through an analysis of how British politicians use numbers in debates on the National Health Service ‘winter crisis’, it is argued that four tropes underpin the use of statistics as a rhetorical device. The trope of dehistoricisation is said to engender consensus over the facticity of statistical arguments, while the tropes of synecdoche, enthymeme and framing are said to enable contestation over their presentation and meaning. The article concludes that a rhetorical understanding of statistics is vital to elucidating the selective, contestable and strategic ways in which numbers function in political debate, thereby challenging the notion that quantification can be an objective or value-free means of establishing political claims.

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Towards a rhetorical understanding of statistics in politics: Quantifying the National Health Service ‘Winter Crisis’

Lawson

Lovatt

2020

European Journal of Communication

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“…The analysis Philippines's first presidential debate and relating it to neo-Aristotelian criticism unravels the language of persuasion used by the presidential candidates. Oldenburg (2015) asserts that the main aim of campaign rhetoric was to gain votes by presenting a favorable image of the candidate. This is supported by Leff and Mohrmann (1974), stating the ultimate goal of the campaign orator is to promote himself as a candidate.…”

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A Neo-aristotelian Criticism on the Language of Persuasion of the 2016 Presidential Debates

2024

IJFMR

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The purpose of this study was to explore how the five presidential aspirants employed rhetoric during the presidential debates held last February 21, 2016, in Cagayan de Oro for the first leg, and April 26, 2016, in Pangasinan for the third leg. The study employed the neo-Aristotelian Approach which is a dominant approach to criticism for examining rhetoric in public speech. In addition, three canons of rhetoric, including invention (ethos, pathos, logos), organization, and style were applied. The findings revealed that the analyses of the five presidential candidates using the three among the five canons of rhetoric, is useful to evaluate their speeches. Ethos is gravely used by most of the presidentiables to persuade their constituent voters. The functions of political speeches in the context of presidential debate were achieved.

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Nonverbal communication as argumentation: the case of political television debates

Kjeldsen,

Gelang

2023

Argumentation and Advocacy

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Re“Characterizing” the Anecdote: Synecdoche and Ethotic Argument in Presidential Debate Rhetoric

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Towards a rhetorical understanding of statistics in politics: Quantifying the National Health Service ‘Winter Crisis’

Towards a rhetorical understanding of statistics in politics: Quantifying the National Health Service ‘Winter Crisis’

A Neo-aristotelian Criticism on the Language of Persuasion of the 2016 Presidential Debates

Nonverbal communication as argumentation: the case of political television debates

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