Speaking and clapping: A comparison of foot and thatcher's oratory

Grady, Kevin; Potter, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/0271-5309(85)90008-4

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“…Speakers can use contrasts or lists in a confused way, downgrading their effectiveness, or they can enhance their effectiveness by combining formats or co-ordinating spoken oratory with suitable gestures (Atkinson, 1984a;Clayman, 1993;Grady and Potter, 1985).…”

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Discursive Social Psychology: From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

Potter

1998

European Review of Social Psychology

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This chapter reviews the major theoretical and methodological features of discursive social psychology, and illustrates the scope and nature of this approach through showing the way it can respecify the social psychology of attitudes. It reviews discourse research on attitude variability; it describes conversation analytic studies on the way evaluations are managed in interaction and shows how our understanding of political oratory can be improved; it discusses the way evaluations are bound up with broader, culturally defined, systems of discourse; it discusses the relation between assessments and factual accounts; and finally it shows how a discursive approach can rework notions of function, consistency, vested interest, and emotion.The aim of this chapter is to introduce a discursive approach to social psychology to people who are more familiar with the mainstream experimental social cognition tradition.After making some preliminary remarks about the history, aims and theory of discursive social psychology I will focus on what would traditionally be called the social psychology of attitudes. This topic has the virtue of being at the heart of social psychology for much of the century, and thus provides a familiar startpoint for anyone wishing to understand what is distinctive about the discursive approach, and how radical its respecification of traditional notions will be.

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Discursive Social Psychology: From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

Potter

1998

European Review of Social Psychology

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“…While existing research on the journalistic and political consequentiality of applause is highly suggestive (Atkinson, 1984a(Atkinson, : 1985Grady and Potter, 1985;Heritage and Greatbatch, 1986), much remains unknown. This is as it should be; it is appropriate that the description and analysis of speaker-audience interaction have developed in advance of research on effects.…”

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“…Recently, however, researchers have begun to examine how audiences interact with speakers by producing collective responses such as applause (Atkinson, 1984a(Atkinson, , 1984b(Atkinson, , 1985(Atkinson, , 1986Brodine, 1986;Grady and Potter, 1985;Heritage and Greatbatch, 1986;Keith and Whittenberger-Keith, 1988/9). While these interactive moments may seem rather distant from the traditional concerns of rhetoric and public communication, their analysis can yield novel insights into the production and reception of public speech.…”

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“…Indeed, those segments of a speech that are applauded are more likely to receive media coverage than those that receive no response (Atkinson, 1984a: 124-163;1986: 45-47). Accordingly, the ability to generate applause has been implicated in the genesis of charismatic reputations (Atkinson, 1984a: 86-123; and electoral outcomes (Grady and Potter, 1985). Audience members thus have the capacity, through their conduct, to advance or hinder a speaker's policy agenda and political career.…”

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Caveat orator: Audience disaffiliation in the 1988 presidential debates

Clayman

1992

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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“…In most cases, the speakers then confirm the relevance of applause by ceding the floor until audiences' responses end or begin to subside (Atkinson, 1984a). Atkinson (1984a, b) and Heritage and Greatbatch (1986) identify seven rhetorical devices (contrasts, lists, puzzle-solution, headline-punchline, combinations, position taking and pursuits) through which speakers elicit applause from their audiences (see also Brodine, 1986;Clayman, 1993;Grady & Potter, 1985;McIlvenny, 1996). These devices can be used by public speakers to facilitate applause by emphasizing messages and by providing clearly projectable message completion points around which individual audience members can coordinate their actions.…”

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confidence: 97%