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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Political Rhetoric"”.
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The Nature and Dynamics of Political Rhetoric
… related to features of the competitive political environment, such as opponent strategy, movements in the unaligned, and levels of media attention. Elites do not compete with one another for the support of their leaners. Thus, the only factor that should be related to the timing of …
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The political rhetoric of James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr.
This thesis analyzes the political rhetoric of President James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr. from the standpoint of the relationship between the individual and his speaking. It emphasizes Carter's political image as revealed by his speaking on foreign policy, domestic issues, and crisis problems. …
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Thomas F. Eagleton: A study of his 1972 political rhetoric
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Speech and Drama, 1973.
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Moral Panic and Political Rhetoric in the Early American Republic
… to the effects of time and space, personal and political bias, and incendiary historical rhetoric on reporting of and reactions to Genêt's actions. In doing so, this study highlights possible flaws or blind spots in both moral panic theory and historiography, and brings new understanding to the …
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Be-coming subjects: reclaiming a politics of location as radical political rhetoric
… this dissertation I theorize and analyze the rhetorical deployment of a "politics of location" within the context of poststructural theories of discourse, subjectivity, and agency. In her book, Blood Bread and Poetry, Adrienne Rich coins the phrase "a politics of location," which marks an …
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Progressive Paradox in Political Rhetoric: The Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965
… role of religion within these norms, and how political rhetoric challenges or sustains them. Using a historical lens, I outline key moments in U.S. history, unravel central ideologies entrenched in U.S. narratives, and illuminate the ideographic function of the key concepts <em>land</em>, …
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The political rhetoric of Bishop Kleopas Dumeni in the pre-independence era in Namibia
This dissertation is a rhetorical study of the speeches of Bishop Kleopas Dumeni of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia. The main purpose of the study was to analyse Bishop Dumeni’s selected speeches based on the five canons of Aristotle, namely, invention, arrangement, style, delivery and …
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Public Politics, Private God: Political Rhetoric of Religious Morality in Selected American Social Novels
… and ‘ideological’ in the writings of ethical and political critics such as Wayne Booth, Martha C. Nussbaum, Irving Howe, and Frederic Jameson.</p><p>In this study, I present textual analyses of four American social novels—Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Rebecca Harding Davis' “Life in …
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Agency, Identity, and Authority in Rwanda: 1950s Political Rhetoric as a Bridge to Post-Colonial Genocide
… central Rwanda in 1957 improves understanding of political and social context preceding the genocide. This study rejects that the genocide occurred as an inevitable event. Instead, it layers domestic actors with international groups: the White Fathers missionaries; the United Nations; Belgium; and …
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An analysis of the political rhetoric of South African President Jacob Zuma's speeches on climate change
… and media. There are stark contrasts in the political and scientific debates on climate change. The economic impacts have already gripped the attention of both the political elite and science community, who also recognise the threats on the survival of the human population. Recent global …
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Corporate Media Framing of Political Rhetoric: The Creation of a Moral Panic in the wake of September 11th 2001
The purpose of this study is to examine the rhetoric and subsequent media framing of President George W. Bush during the years following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and how such frames have been able to generate and sustain a national moral panic. While a number of scholars have …
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Living The Crisis: Identities And Materialities In A Transnational Greek Setting
… investigates the intersection between political rhetoric and popular ideas about the Greek debt crisis and processes of identification and differentiation within a Greek diasporic community. It documents the significant role the economic crisis has assumed in local political rhetoric …
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Memory and Neoliberal Discourses in Chile
… it examines ideological formations in Chilean political rhetoric that serve to conceal and transform political memory through discursive structures. Second, it investigates how political rhetoric transformed state violence through a re-narrativization of neoliberalism, which effectively …
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Discourses of motherhood in women's magazines in contemporary Britain
… magazines and these changes, as illustrated by political rhetoric and empirical evidence of social trends. There are two main findings. The first points to the relative absence of motherhood as denoted in the magazines of the late 1980s. Motherhood is subsumed into discourses of femininity, but …
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Art & Agency: Transforming Relationships of Power Through Art in Iraqi Kurdistan
… context of the Kurds that impacts the socio-political factors inside Iraqi Kurdistan.</p> <p>The deeply entrenched political rhetoric of the hegemonic Kurdish nationalist narrative in Iraqi Kurdistan has served to homogenize the idea of what the Kurdish “nation” is, to whitewash deep social, …
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