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Claiming Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is clearly one of the most frequently cited figures in American political rhetoric, especially with regard to issues of equality. But given the ubiquity of Lincoln's legacy, many references to him, even on the presidential level, are often of questionable accuracy. In Claiming Lincoln, Jividen posits that in much twentieth-century presidential rhetoric, especially from progressive leaders, Lincoln's understanding of equality is slowly divorced from its grounding in the natural rights thinking of the American Founding and reinterpreted in light of progressive history. Claiming Lincoln examines the manner in which rhetoricians have appealed to Lincoln's legacy, only to distort that legacy in the process. Focusing on Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson and touching on Barack Obama, Jividen argues that presidential rhetorical use and abuse of Lincoln has profound consequences not only for how we understand Lincoln but also for how we understand American democracy. Jividen's original take on Lincoln and the Progressives will be of interest to scholars of American politics and all those invested in Lincoln's legacy.
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The Language of Legacies: The Politics of Evoking Dead Leaders
How can leaders recover public trust and approval when government performance is low? We argue politicians use speeches evoking images of deceased predecessors to reactivate support temporarily. This distracts supporters from the poor performance and arouses empathy and nostalgia among them, causing them to perceive the current leader more favorably. We test this argument by scraping for all speeches by Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. We identify all instances when she referenced Juan Perón—the charismatic founder of the Justice Party. We find that as Kirchner's approval rating decreases, the number of Perón references increases. To identify the causal mechanism and to ensure that endogeneity is not a concern, we employ text analysis and a natural experiment—courtesy of LAPOP. The results provide robust evidence that leaders reference their dead predecessors to evoke positive feelings. However, while doing so can improve public opinion, the effects manifest only in the short term and among supporters.
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Framing violence in presidential discourse
The paper discusses the characteristics of modern American presidential political rhetoric with special reference to Barack Obama’s speeches in which he addressed the highly publicized killings of black Americans. Three of the analysed speeches contain Obama’s rhetorical reaction to the judicial decisions not to indict the police officers responsible for the killings, while one speech gives his immediate reaction to the mass murder of black parishioners by a white supremacist. The study is based on the discourse-linguistic analysis of attitudinal meanings and their functions, which are conceptualized as evaluative frames. Evaluative frames are used to highlight different kinds of discourse participants through judgments of behaviour, attributions of emotions and evaluations of semiotic phenomena and objects. The theoretical framework for the different categories of evaluative frames is based on the theory of news framing and theory of evaluative language within systemic-functional linguistics. The findings of the analysis show that Obama uses an interplay of positive and negative evaluations of different kinds to transcend racial categorizations and avoid a direct attribution of blame. When he acknowledges the continuing relevance of the racial divide in US society, he often applies evaluative frames in such a way that they unify rather than divide the discourse participants on both sides of the divide.
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American media framing of Bush, Obama, and Trump speeches
Framing Theory is frequently used to understand the way individuals and agencies use word choice, connotation, and other factors to influence how others react to the information provided. For example, journalists use slant to influence the interpretation of their articles by the public. Through an examination of framing, individuals and agencies can gain insights into the reasons viewers or listeners react to communications in the way they do. The main goal of this article is to analyze how the American media frames presidents' Bush, Obama, and Trump speeches regarding the Middle East and Iraq in particular, during their presidency of the United States.
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Deplorable
Political campaigns in the United States, especially those for
the presidency, can be nasty-very nasty. And while we would like to
believe that the 2020 election was an aberration, insults,
invective, and yes, even violence have characterized US electoral
politics since the republic's early days. By examining the
political discourse around nine particularly deplorable elections,
Mary E. Stuckey seeks to explain why.
From the contest that pitted Thomas Jefferson against John Adams
in 1800 through 2020's vicious, chaotic matchup between Donald
Trump and Joe Biden, Stuckey documents the cycle of despicable
discourse in presidential campaigns. Looking beyond the character
and the ideology of the candidates, Stuckey explores the broader
political, economic, and cultural milieus in which each took place.
In doing so, she reveals the conditions that exacerbate and enable
our worst political instincts, producing discourses that incite
factions, target members of the polity, encourage undemocratic
policy, and actively work against the national democratic
project.
Keenly analytical and compulsively readable, Deplorable
provides context for the 2016 and 2020 elections, revealing them as
part of a cyclical-and perhaps downward-spiraling-pattern in
American politics. Deplorable offers more than a
comparison of the worst of our elections. It helps us understand
these shameful and disappointing moments in our political history,
leaving one important question: Can we avoid them in the
future?
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RHETORICAL ARGUMENTATION AS A PUBLIC ACTION: THE CASE OF VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY’S PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC
The article examines speeches delivered by Volodymyr Zelenskyy and focuses on analysis of rhetorical strategies implemented by the current Ukrainian President in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The authors drew attention to the usage of political correctness and political incorrectness as tools of rhetorical argumentation identified in speeches of Ukrainian President. To illuminate this area, they made an attempt to assess the efficiency of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s „going public” strategy in terms of the rhetoric efficiency in order to state and promote official position of Ukrainian authorities on the international arena.
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Political Linguistics: Public Speech of American and Kazakh Politicians
The relevance of the problems of ideology, patriotism, and national identity, the manipulation of consciousness is gaining a new reflection in the conceptual picture of the world and society. This scientific article is devoted to the study of concepts in the public speeches of American and Kazakh politicians. The issues of political linguistics are becoming an increasingly relevant research object for many linguists. The purpose of the scientific article is to identify and consider methods of language representation and implementation of the system of concepts in the speeches of the president of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the president of the United States of America. Using content analysis, we identified a system of concepts in the presidents inaugural speech. An analysis of the concepts of the political picture of the world revealed and understood the target orientation of speech influences, the motives, and the true meaning of the statements of political figures, shedding light on the nature and essence of political processes.
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s Concession Speech after the Capitol Riots
In today’s modern context, political tensions are especially high, and globalizing society is changing at a pace like never before. The use of critical discourse analysis could not be more appropriate for understanding how public addresses, such as Trump’s concession speech after the riots, influence public perceptions, and either detract for or perpetuate problematic social inequities. In this way, critical discourse analysis conceives language as both influenced by and influencing society in a two-way, dynamic relationship. The following article uses critical discourse analysis to highlight the impact of Trump’s concession speech on the forming and continued evolution of public attitudes (mainly unrest) and social inequities. This article provides an overview of the aim of this analysis, followed by an in-depth theoretical attempt to understand the relevance and application of critical discourse analysis. This article dives into a critical analysis and interpretation of Trump’s concession speech, according to its language characteristics.
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