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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Political speech"”.
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Political Speech on Twitter: A Sentiment Analysis of Tweets and News Coverage of Local Gun Policy
… the gun debate has been one of America’s most politically contentious issues, Twitter has become, in recent years a popular venue for politicians to carry out the debate. The present thesis is aimed at better understanding of political speech on Twitter, as well as the ways in which political …
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Tangled up in red: The Smith Act, Cold War repression, and the trials of Communists in New York and Detroit
… was not uniform; instead, it was shaped by local political contexts. While some New York communist leaders had ties to Soviet intelligence, they were ultimately prosecuted for their political speech which, under the Smith Act, rose to a crime. Conversely, the Detroit defendants had no clear ties …
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ON SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIABLES IN CURATED SPEECH: A STUDY OF STYLISTIC VARIATION OF LIAISON, SCHWA AND NE AMONG CONTEMPORARY FRENCH POLITICIANS
… dissertation examines stylistic variation in the speech of French politicians. Using a variationist approach inspired by the Phonologie du Français Contemporain project (PFC), I provide a quantitative analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic factors influencing the production of three …
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Muhammad as Representative Form: A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of the Danish Cartoon Controversy
… case for communication scholars to examine how political speech acts and social debate flourish in a world with globalized media. Working from Edwards and Winkler’s theory of the representative form, I argue that the central Muhammad character in the cartoons functions ideographically, creating …
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"The Day Beyoncé Turned Black": An Analysis of Media Responses to Beyoncé's Super Bowl 50 Halftime Performance
… Black liberation movements and her insertion of political speech into American football. The second method is a rhetorical analysis via the concept of the rhetorical enthymeme. I argue that the conservative framings of themes within the media’s response utilize unstated assumptions that are …
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Political Disaffection and the Decline of the Centre: Quantitative Text Analysis Approaches
… and frequently; they are simple and short in speech; they break politeness norms. Such claims are often taken as commonplace wisdom. Yet, systematic measurement of whether these descriptions are true for fringe politicians, more than for their conventional counterparts, is surprisingly sparse. …
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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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Language technologies for understanding law, politics, and public policy
… insights by inferring the origins of legal and political texts, with a particular emphasis on identifying text reuse and text similarity in these document collections. First, we present an authorship attribution model on unsigned U.S. Supreme Court opinions, offering insights into the authorship …
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The Rhetorical Rise and Fall of Tennessee Governor Frank G. Clement, 1952-1967
… of entertaining and informing people with political speech has disappeared, replaced by sound bite posturing and ineffective delivery of questionable content. Technology has forced a wedge between politicians and the public by eliminating the excitement and challenge of compelling, …
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Lèse-majesté: the implications of the example of Turkey in a European context
… liberal democracy for the purpose of suppressing political speech. Before the Justice and Development Party’s rise to power and the presidential election which saw the ascent of Tayyip Erdoğan to presidency, Turkish lawyers and legal scholars paid little attention to the phenomenon of lèse-majesté …
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Bodies at their Limits: Rethinking Political Violence Through Women’s Hunger Strikes
… operate in a liminal space between the active political subject and the passive object of violence that underpin many theories of political violence. Through a feminist and anti-racist analysis of two women’s hunger strikes in the United Kingdom – the hunger strikes conducted by members of the …
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How do politicians understand and respond to climate change?
… climate change and its implications for political and social life, and their deliberations about whether or how to act on the issue. The work is informed by an interdisciplinary literature including science and technology studies, sociology, political science and environmental governance. …
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A rhetorical analysis of SABC3's flagship Bulletin : In what ways does the SABC succeed and/or fail in persuading viewers that its version of the news is credible?
… techniques that one would use when analysing a political speech or any other rhetorical text. This dissertation is broken up into two major sections. Part one will discuss the theories and research around the notion of television news as rhetorical texts, setting the stage for part two of the …
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Arendt and Spivak: a feminist approach to political worlding and appearing
<p>“Arendt and Spivak: A Feminist Approach to Political Worlding and Appearing” offers the first systematic and comparative reading of Hannah Arendt and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Beginning with their mutual interests in political speech and appearance (the ability for individuals to represent …