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Showing 1 to 20 of 232 for “"political discourse"”.
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Second Screens for Engagement with Political Discourse
… limited opportunities to engage directly with political campaigns, today these new channels offer a wide variety of ways to interact with the public, media and politicians. Televised debates in particular are accompanied by vast amounts of online content, much of it conducted through the use of …
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Toppling the ivory tower: Coded communication in American political discourse
… how anti-intellectualism is communicated in the political arena, and why it matters. Specifically, this study conducted both content analysis and rhetorical analysis to examine discourse emphasizing intellectualism in four U.S. Senate races in 2012 in Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Dakota, and …
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Modality and evidentiality in political discourse : a cognitive-functional account
… theoretical framework for analyzing modality in political discourse from a cognitive-functional perspective. The second is to explore the types, forms, values and functions of modality in English political speeches both quantitatively and qualitatively. The third is to identify and demonstrate …
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Narratives of Exclusion: Gender, Sex, Islamophobia, and Violence in American Political Discourse
… deployment of Islamophobic rhetoric within U.S. political, cultural, and media discourses, especially when those discourses concern issues related to gender, sex, and sexuality. I ask why anxieties around gender, sex, and sexuality are negotiated through denigrations of Islam. I argue that the …
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Migration and Political Discourse: Comparing the Visegrad Group and European Union Institutional Narratives
… topic of debate among European politicians, political parties, academics and journalists. With the mass arrival of third-country nationals to the European Union, many different arguments, proposals, and approaches to managing migration have emerged. The complex nature of the issue, coupled …
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The political discourse of globalisation: globalising tendencies as self-induced external enforcement mechanisms
… international economic conditions of domestic political change, a more comprehensive understanding of the globalisation experience emerges if we also examine the domestic political conditions of international economic change. Viewed through such a perspective, New Labour’s appropriation of the …
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
… of the pre-conquest Aztecs as strategies of political resistance. Claiming themselves la Raza de Bronce the Bronze race) in their art, literature, and political discourse, Chicano activists and intellectuals distinguished themselves racially from white America and worked toward reunifying an …
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Perceptions of the Soviet Union in Australian political discourse between 1943 and 1950.
… of this dissertation is to assess the role of discourse about the USSR in Australian politics between 1943 and 1950. During these years, Australia experienced a period of political volatility. Despite the fact that almost every political debate in Australia at this time involved some reference …
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What’s at Steak? The Political Discourse of Emissions Intensity and Implications of Animal Agriculture
<p>This thesis analyzes the international discourse of greenhouse gas emissions in relation to livestock production. Specific government ministries, research institutes, and multilateral organizations are framing a new strategy to mitigate emissions by using emissions intensity metrics. Emissions …
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ON THE NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: A THEORY, A METHOD, AND EMPIRICAL STUDY
… and quantitatively analyzing narratives in mass political discourse. First, “open narratives” are defined as distinct from the traditional “closed” sense of a narrative, which has a beginning, middle, and end. Open narratives are co-constructed, rhythmic processes of selecting events and …
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Ill fares the Land? The concept of national food self sufficiency in political discourse 1880-1939.
… 30% of the British diet. This study looks at the political discourse from 1880 to 1939 when the ¿empty countryside¿ became a symbol of agricultural decline. Emerging radical and socialist narratives put forward approaches for rural regeneration and increased food production. Other narratives …
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Post-September 11<sup>th</sup> representations of Latin American immigrants in political discourse: An analysis of metaphor
… between metaphorical labels and social and political attitudes toward Latin American immigration in contemporary discourse.</p>
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The politics of speaking for : theorizing the limits of liberation and equality in gay and lesbian political discourse
This thesis offers a critical examination of discourses of liberation and equality in contemporary North American gay and lesbian politics. Informed by work in cultural studies and political theory, it has as its principal theoretical objective a desire to refuse an oppositional political …
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Shifts, Voices and Positionings in Political Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of Creating Allies and Enemies Through Linguistic Choices
… power to manipulate audiences through the political message.
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