Wolfgang Mieder: “Yes we can”: Barack Obama’s proverbial rhetoric.

Fiedler, Sabine

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“…There is hidden artistry in these works and along many dimensions, just as, it is now increasingly being revealed, we can see creativity not just in overtly 'literary' texts but concealed in popular oratory, in the verbal genres and sayings we take for granted, in the gestures that, unnoticed, accompany and, inform our words, and in the 'ordinary' informal language of everyday speech (exemplified in, among others Duranti 2009;Finnegan 1992;Holmes 2008;Sims and Stephens 2005;Klassen 2004;McNeill 2000;Mieder 2008Mieder , 2009Morris 1999;Peek and Yankah 2004;Pope 2005;Pope and Swann 2011;Poyatos 1992;Sherzer 1983;Streeck 1994;Streeck and Mehus 2004 (a truly wonderful account) ;Yankah 1989). It is a stunning revelation of hitherto well-kept secrets that are indeed extraordinary and wonderful.…”

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Secrets of the Extraordinary Ordinary: The Revelations of Folklore and Anthropology

Finnegan

2018

Humanities

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Abstract:The basic principle of folklore is constant-unveiling the hidden riches within the ordinary things of everyday life: a fine contribution to, and coordination with, the humanities. Examples are the study of the oral/orality; life stories of the obscure; practices of 'hidden' amateur musicians, studied ethnographically rather than through written scores or the 'great' composers; research by scholars outside the formal institutions of higher learning. An important new topic now being embarked on, in a scattered way, by folklorists and anthropologists, is the area known by such terms as 'noetics', 'psychic studies', 'heightened/altered consciousness', 'the shared mind', and the like. With a long history (too often disregarded in conventional scholarship) in antiquity, the middle ages, and eastern philosophies, this concerns such topics as dreaming; contact with and from the dead; experiencing music; and new, popularly but not academically acclaimed, perspectives on consciousness within innovative scientific thinking. Taking such studies further and, in particular, as folklorists and anthropologist have the capacity and interest to do, consolidating them into a new and fully recognized field of study together with linking this with endeavors across the disciplines, scientific as well as humanistic, will be of the greatest benefit for the humanities as a whole.

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Secrets of the Extraordinary Ordinary: The Revelations of Folklore and Anthropology

Finnegan

2018

Humanities

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“…Scholars have agreed that metaphor is frequent and diverse (T. Carver, 2008;Honohan, 2008;Pikalo, 2008;Fridolfsson, 2008), ranging from election time to celebration speeches (Mieder, 2009;Vertessen & Landtsheer, 2008).…”

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Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: Metaphor and Values as Captivating Strategies to Celebrate a Presidency

Escudero¹

2011

Pragmalinguistica

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“…Figure 2), although the absolute number of ads run by financial companies in this magazine is relatively low (23 for the period 2000/01 and 18 for 2008/09). An expression that has become popular in the crisis and the Presidential election campaign 2008 is Main Street (Mieder 2009 Time will tell if expressions like these will stay in the language or soon fade out.…”

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Phraseology in a time of crisis: The language of bank advertisements before and during the financial crisis of 2008–2010

Fiedler¹

2010

Yearbook of Phraseology

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This paper compares the phraseology of bank advertisements before and during the financial crisis of 2008-2010. A statistical analysis of the content of bank ads in newspapers from 2000 and 2009 shows how the banks' use of phraseology mirrors changes in people's attitudes in a time of economic turbulence. It seems that banks and their subsidiaries are reviewing their strategies and adapting their advertising campaigns to meet the requirements of the current climate. Rather than positioning themselves as sources of easy money, banks are reverting to images of honesty and sobriety. At a time when people's houses are being repossessed, slogans such as "If your bank can't keep up, leave them behind" (Abbey International) are being replaced with no-nonsense slogans such as "Your savings bank. Come rain or shine" (HSBC).

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Wolfgang Mieder: “Yes we can”: Barack Obama’s proverbial rhetoric.

Cited by 8 publications

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Secrets of the Extraordinary Ordinary: The Revelations of Folklore and Anthropology

Secrets of the Extraordinary Ordinary: The Revelations of Folklore and Anthropology

Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: Metaphor and Values as Captivating Strategies to Celebrate a Presidency

Phraseology in a time of crisis: The language of bank advertisements before and during the financial crisis of 2008–2010

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