Triumph in Defeat: The Genre of Third Party Presidential Concessions

Neville-Shepard, Ryan

doi:10.1080/01463373.2014.890119

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“…The descriptors have been sourced directly from the work of Parrish, Weaver, Corcoran, Neville-Shepard, and Hall. The descriptors for the Concession code are Reiteration of campaign values (Weaver, 1982), Periphrasis of defeat (Corcoran, 1994;Neville-Shepard, 2014), Congratulation of winner (Corcoran, 1994;Weaver, 1982), Extolling of democratic process (Corcoran, 1994), Commitment to continue fighting (Corcoran 1994;Weaver, 1982), and Appeal to young people (Corcoran, 1994).…”

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“…Her work is foundational for the study of concession speeches, as she would be cited directly in Corcoran (1994) and further literature on the concession genre (Howell, 2011;Neville-Shepard, 2014;Ritter and Willyard, 2005;Welch, 1999). Weaver's work builds upon Parrish's (1954) conditions of urgency and style and formalizes the concession as a genre unto itself by positing "situational" and "substantive" conventions for concession speeches (1982, pp.…”

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“…Victory speeches share a point of contact with concession statements as they also consist of statements of thanks and calls for unification, but add a third component of statements of humility (1982, p. 485). This would become the foundation for concession frameworks from which Corcoran (1994), Howell (2011), Neville-Shepard (2014), and Ritter and Willyard (2005 would temper and design their own theoretical standards for the acknowledgment act in the American Presidential theatre.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…What the literature thus far reveals is the specificity and nuance of the concession genre. In light of the standards outlined by Weaver (1982), Corcoran (1994), andNeville-Shepard (2014), to deliver a concession speech requires more than a conciliatory nod to the electorate's decisions. Parrish (1954) refers to "the genus, speech" (p. 67), and this taxonomical metaphor for discourse illuminates the complexity of the, in a continuing metaphor, concession 'species'.…”

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Loss rewritten: Olivia and Jack, the language of letters, and the rhetoric of the loser

Fujarczuk¹

2021

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This paper considers the discursive strategies deployed in Olivia Chow’s 2014 Toronto mayoral concession speech in comparison to those of the Letter to Canadians penned by Jack Layton in 2011, and the resulting influence on her electoral trajectory as a pol. Layton’s letter was published shortly after the New Democratic Party’s (NDP) Federal electoral surge to Official Opposition status, a first for the far-Left party in Canadian history, and would serve as an New Democratic ideological keystone. Chow’s rhetoric invoked Layton’s words and the historical circumstances of their authorship. This project explores the relationship between public address and political epistolary traditions, and the narrative bond they create between author and speaker, and reader and audience. Most specifically it considers how an intertextuality between Chow and Layton’s documents contribute to political ethos and the greater progressive ideological narrative to which they both belong. Theorists discussed in substantial measure include Allen (2000), Corcoran (1994), Hall (2009), Neville-Shepard (2014), Parrish (1954), Rabinowitz (1987), and Weaver (1982).

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Loss rewritten: Olivia and Jack, the language of letters, and the rhetoric of the loser

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2021

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“…Additionally, political communication scholars attribute the shortcomings of third-party campaigns to candidates’ rhetorical practices, describing their discourse as too polarizing, unconventional, and informal (Harold, 2001; Tonn & Endress, 2001; Zaller & Hunt, 1994, 1995). However, communication scholars’ observations about third parties leaves much to be desired, as most of the existing research has focused on a few campaigns and, with the exception of Neville-Shepard’s (2014a, 2014b, 2016) work on third-party speech genres, few researchers have described the larger patterns in third-party political communication.…”

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Constrained by Duality: Third-Party Master Narratives in the 2016 Presidential Election

Neville-Shepard

2017

American Behavioral Scientist

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The 2016 presidential election saw the rise and fall of third-party candidates Jill Stein and Gary Johnson. This essay proposes that such third-party candidates are challenged in navigating the dichotomous nature of the myth of the American Dream that serves as the basis of party master narratives. Suggesting that third-party candidates attempt to create alternative narratives through what Rushing and Frentz called dialectical transformation and dialectical synthesis, the essay examines how such strategies were put to use by Stein and Johnson, and how they demonstrate a significant disadvantage for third parties.

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“If indeed this is the will of the Ekiti people”

Adedara

2017

JLP

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Based on the idea that the quality of a democracy may be measured against the quality of its public communication, this paper deploys Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to investigate a Nigerian gubernatorial concession speech in discursive terms. It argues that as an uncommon genre in political discourse in an emerging democracy this hybridised speech both indexes a growing culture of ‘fair competition’ in Nigeria’s eighteen-year-old civilian rule and presents the incumbent as a deft political actor who strategically claims political capital. The paper examines the text’s generic structure, the political and other actors mentioned or implied in it, its manipulation of pronominal references for rhetorical effect, as well as the epistemic uncertainty implied by a query-concession sequence noticed in it. Drawing on the concession speech literature, the paper charts a course for studying the concession speech as an emerging genre in a neonatal democracy like Nigeria.

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Triumph in Defeat: The Genre of Third Party Presidential Concessions

Cited by 6 publications

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Loss rewritten: Olivia and Jack, the language of letters, and the rhetoric of the loser

Loss rewritten: Olivia and Jack, the language of letters, and the rhetoric of the loser

Constrained by Duality: Third-Party Master Narratives in the 2016 Presidential Election

“If indeed this is the will of the Ekiti people”

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