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"Nagon annan an oss sjelva ha vi inte att lita pa" : Malmo kvinnliga diskussionsklubb 1900-1904
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The Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the most devastating natural disasters of the modern age affecting hundreds of thousands of people from 40 countries. Some scholars saw the unprecedented “real t ...
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Rhetorical criticism refers primarily to studying and critically analyzing explicit expressions of actors in rhetorical situations: arguments, stylistic approaches, visual messages, etc. It can also refer to additionally mapping a more... more
Rhetorical criticism refers primarily to studying and critically analyzing explicit expressions of actors in rhetorical situations: arguments, stylistic approaches, visual messages, etc. It can also refer to additionally mapping a more implicit, unspoken and elusive level of implications, for instance, as well as underlying values and premises. This article presents a discussion on yet another elusive but often decisive communication level that has received little attention within the study of rhetoric, namely communication attitudes and how they manifest themselves, verbally as well as non-verbally. Within a rhetoric context, Kenneth Burke discusses the concept of attitude in interesting but undeveloped lines of reasoning. He suggests that his own model of dramatism, the pentad (Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, Purpose), be complemented with attitude as a sixth element. Burke seems to even see attitudes as the core of rhetorical, symbolic action. In this article, in relation to Burke...
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"Utbilda hvarandra till mera tankande man och kvinnor" : kommunikativt handlande i Domnarfvets arbetareforbund 1890-91
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Denna bok beskriver mediernas rapportering och kriskommunikationen efter katastrofen i Fukushima 2011 och gor en jamforelse mellan svenska och tyska forhallningssatt. Analyserna visar att reaktione ...
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Artikeln tar sin utgangspunkt i hur ratten att tala alltid har varit en fraga om makt. Med sarskilt fokus pa genus undersoks olika satt att konceptualisera fragor om makt och retoriskt motstand, sa ...
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Right-wing populist movements and related political parties are gaining ground in many EU member states. This unique, interdisciplinary book provides an overall picture of the dynamics and development of these parties across Europe and... more
Right-wing populist movements and related political parties are gaining ground in many EU member states. This unique, interdisciplinary book provides an overall picture of the dynamics and development of these parties across Europe and beyond. Combining theory with in-depth case studies, it offers a comparative analysis of the policies and rhetoric of existing and emerging parties including the British BNP, the Hungarian Jobbik and the Danish Folkeparti. The case studies qualitatively and quantitatively analyse right-wing populist groups in the following countries: Austria, Germany, Britain, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Ukraine, Estonia, and Latvia, with one essay exclusively focused on the US. This timely and socially relevant collection will be essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners wanting to understand the recent rise of populist right wing parties at local, countrywide and regional levels in Europe, and beyond. This ...
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Initiating an attack on another country is always a questionable venture, whether one chooses to call it war or prefers euphemisms such as conflict, incident, action or peacecreating measures. This study examines how the arguments were... more
Initiating an attack on another country is always a questionable venture, whether one chooses to call it war or prefers euphemisms such as conflict, incident, action or peacecreating measures. This study examines how the arguments were developed prior to the military actions in Iraq 2003. The events have been presented in vague and often distorted value terms and metaphors where war becomes peace, attacks becomes ‘pre-emptive defence’, military invasion becomes ‘change of regime’, occupation becomes ‘humanitarian intervention’.This study provides a diachronic survey of the chain of events from rhetorical perspectives, as well as a synchronic analysis of recurring rhetorical themes - especially of vague concepts and metaphors.Manipulation and lies has of course always been a basic ingredient of warfare. The question is what approach democratic societies should take in relation to self-evidently deceptive influencing of public opinion; to manipulative rhetoric and destructive propaganda.
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The topic of this article is how women speaker's rhetorical preferences influence public language and the image of politicians. Int the case of contemporary women politicians in Sweden the emphasis lies more on a... more
The topic of this article is how women speaker's rhetorical preferences influence public language and the image of politicians. Int the case of contemporary women politicians in Sweden the emphasis lies more on a "womanization"of the public word rather than a "rhetoric of resistance". How women politicians speak and present themselves has set a pattern for public discourse. The framework of theoretical reflection is thereby opened to comprise issues of ethos, status and doxa more clearly, i.e. that the rhetorical practice is always dependent on the speaker's position in society's social and cultural power hierarchy, and answers to society's doxological preconceptions in relation to public discourse.
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The tsunami disaster of Christmas 2004 struck without warning and many countries were faced with totally unforeseen problems. One of theese was how the citizens in the tourists’ home countries should be informed and how the political... more
The tsunami disaster of Christmas 2004 struck without warning and many countries were faced with totally unforeseen problems. One of theese was how the citizens in the tourists’ home countries should be informed and how the political leaders should act in order to create as much trust as possible for the crisis management and for the actions taken in response to the catastrophe. This task was, as known, dealt with in different ways in the countries that were affected and among others Sweden received extensive critic for failure to act and for lacking in communicative ability. In this study one of the positive examples shall be in focus, more precisely the German government’s communicative actons taken the days after the catastrophe.
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Risk and crisis scenarios always create different kinds of rhetorical situations, ie situations that call for discursive action. The aim of this chapter is to discuss how classical and modern rhetorical theories and methods can contribute... more
Risk and crisis scenarios always create different kinds of rhetorical situations, ie situations that call for discursive action. The aim of this chapter is to discuss how classical and modern rhetorical theories and methods can contribute to research on threat images and risk-and ...
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