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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"political debates"”.
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The effects of debater styles on audiences during televised political debates
… The study used three separate gubernatorial debates with identical questionnaires attached to determine the behavioral traits viewers found most appealing in state level political candidates during organized, televised events. The author acknowledges that many studies of this nature are …
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Globalisation and the rise of multinationals - the divergence of responsibility and accountability
… a contribution to the current social and political debates in Switzerland by issuing five recommendations on how to reform and adapt the (legal) framework in order to curtail and remediate the negative impacts globally active companies potentially have in terms of social, economical and …
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Demarcating political frontiers in Turkey: "Europe-as-hegemony" and discourses after 1999
… a more general concern with understanding how political frontiers are demarcated in Turkish politics, I aim to show how ‘Europe’ contributed to such a process of constructing political frontiers during the 1999-2008 period. Rather than looking at the debates on ‘Europe’ within the Turkish …
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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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The relationship between representational, beat, and cohesive gestures and speech disfluency in the 2012 presidential debate
… been show to influence audience reaction during political debates (e.g., Pennebaker, Mehl, & Niederhoffer, 2003). This study examined the relation between speech disfluency and hand gesture in the First 2012 Presidential Debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. …
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Uniting a Broken Nation: A Study of the Unification Devices Employed by Antebellum Baptist Ministers in the American Slavery Debate
… antebellum arguments and contemporary religious-political debates which continually beget national and religious dissonance.
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Consumer Attachment and Corporate Social Advocacy: Leveraging Political Behaviors to Bolster Organization-Public Relationships
… for one side or the other in cultural and political debates. As these types of corporate social advocacy become increasingly common, much is still unknown as to how they affect consumer perceptions of the organization, attitudes regarding their relationship with the organization, and their …
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Essays on networks and social interaction
… rhetorical style and other modes of speech in political deliberation. The model is validated in a benchmark test of conflictual speech in political debates.
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Constructing the "Other": Discursive Mechanisms at Play in the Sentencing of Post 9/11 Canadian Terrorism Cases
… with media campaigns, popular culture, or political debates, exclusionary discourses operating within the Canadian judiciary have been largely overlooked. Inspired by the work of Giorgio Agamben and Richard Ericson, this study is a critical discourse analysis of sentencing decisions within …
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The security imaginaries of an unarmed people: popular and elite security discourses in Iceland
… Iceland, drawing on focus group interviews and political debates to develop an understanding of what serves as the foundation of security and insecurity at the societal, environmental, and political levels. The thesis uses discourse analysis to approach the data (collected from 2012 to 2016) and …
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Las novelas de la Violencia y la Revolución en la formación del Frente Nacional en Colombia y el Estado revolucionario mexicano
<p>In the face of the social and political crises that were both cause and consequence of the Mexican Revolution and the period in Colombia known as “la Violencia”, two state projects were consolidated and dominated the field of power throughout the 20th century. The Institutional Revolutionary …
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Kalbinis nemandagumas politiniuose TV debatuose /
… is linguistic impoliteness in Lithuanian political debates. The aim is to reveal the manifestations of impoliteness, analyze face-threatening acts, ascertain what is characteristic of impoliteness during the debates. In order to achieve the goal, quantitative and qualitative content …
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Educational Encounters: (Re)Writing Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil and the U.S.
… inherited from French philosophical and political traditions—persist and transform within Brazilian and U.S. literary contexts. By placing these authors in dialogue across national and linguistic boundaries, I illustrate how their work sheds light on ongoing philosophical and political …
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The good, the bad, and the facts : multimodal representation of medical conversations for patient understanding
… in any setting such as sportscasting, political debates and more.
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"Basically Intelligent:" The Blind, Intelligence, and Gender in Argentina, 1880-1939
… same arguments that aided organizations drove debates over the definition of independence for the blind. Sighted activists believed education would diminish the dependency of the blind on their families and social services through the sale of small crafts. Blind leaders believed that education …
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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
… the differences between abolitionists and the political debates about slavery. This project examines their writing and the ways their literary efforts brought to light the complexity of the slavery issue and the relationship between individual rights and the law in the turbulent decades leading …
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Us Versus Them and the Role of the Media. The Influence of Media on Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe
… to have consolidated a central position in political debates and on media agendas across European countries. At the same time, there are sharp differences within as well as between European countries, in attitudes toward migration and perceptions of migration. This makes it important to …
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German Politics and the 'Jewish Question', 1914-1919
… In a period of acute and almost constant political crisis, the German government faced issues concerning citizenship, minority rights, religious identity, nationhood and statehood. My dissertation analyses these issues through the prism of the so-called 'Jewish Question'. The Jewish …
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Legacy of one party dictatorship : collective memory and contestation in Malawi 1994-2004
… on numerous occasions to address contemporary political challenges. Focusing on the period during the second term of the first democratic government when there was a debate on whether or not to extend the terms of office of the president, the thesis investigates how people, individually or as …
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