Analysing political speeches : rhetoric, discourse and metaphor / Jonathan Charteris-Black
- Author:
- Charteris-Black, Jonathan, 1955-
- Published:
- Basingstoke : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2014
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO RHETORIC, ORATORY AND DISCOURSE -- 1.Classical Rhetoric: Artistic Proofs and Arrangement -- 1.1.Introduction: rhetoric, oratory and persuasion -- 1.2.Branches of oratory -- 1.3.The proofs -- 1.3.1.Ethos: character -- 1.3.2.Logos: reason -- 1.3.3.Pathos: emotion -- 1.4.Arrangement in classical rhetoric -- 1.5.Summary -- Core text: Barack Obama, inaugural speech, 20 January 2009 -- Essential reading -- 2.Classical Rhetoric: Style and Figures -- 2.1.Introduction: what is style? -- 2.2.Style in classical rhetoric -- Core text 2.1 Lt. Col. Tim Collins' `Eve of Battle' speech -- 2.3.Figures of speech -- 2.3.1.Schemes -- 2.3.2.Tropes -- Core text 2.2 Speech from Shakespeare's Henry V -- 2.3.3.Interaction between schemes and tropes -- 2.4.Summary -- Essential reading -- 3.Coherence and Cohesion in Discourse -- 3.1.Introduction: what is coherence? -- 3.1.1.Coherence and speech circumstances -- 3.2.What is cohesion? -- 3.3.Grammatical cohesion -- 3.3.1.Reference -- 3.3.2.Deixis -- 3.3.3.Anaphoric reference -- 3.3.4.Cataphoric reference -- 3.3.5.Other reference categories -- 3.4.Lexical cohesion -- 3.4.1.Repetition and reiteration -- 3.4.2.Semantic relations: antonyms and synonyms -- 3.4.3.Collocation -- 3.5.Summary -- Core text: John F. Kennedy inaugural speech, 20 January 1961 -- Essential reading -- pt. II CRITICAL APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE -- 4.Critical Analysis: Context and Persuasion -- 4.1.What is power? -- 4.2.Critical discourse analysis, context and circumstances -- 4.2.1.Stage 1: analysis of speech `circumstances' -- 4.2.2.Stage 2: identification and analysis of features -- 4.2.3.Stage 3: interpretation and explanation -- 4.3.Persuasion -- 4.4.Summary -- Essential reading -- 5.Social Agency and Modality -- 5.1.Agency -- 5.1.1.What is Agency? -- 5.1.2.Nominal forms and names -- 5.1.3.Verbal processes -- 5.2.Modality -- 5.2.1.What is modality? -- 5.2.2.Levels of modality -- 5.2.3.Types of modality -- 5.3.Summary -- Essential reading -- 6.The Discourse-Historical Approach -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Discursive strategies and intention -- 6.3.Discursive strategies and discrimination -- 6.4.Topoi, warrants and arguments -- 6.4.1.Example 1: traffic congestion -- 6.4.2.Example 2: the case for war -- 6.5.Sample text analysis using DHA -- Core text: Michael Howard, immigration speech, 22 September 2004 -- 6.6.Fallacious arguments -- 6.7.A critique of DHA -- 6.8.Summary -- Essential reading -- pt. III CRITICAL METAPHOR ANALYSIS -- 7.Researching Metaphor in Public Communication -- 7.1.Introduction: Blair and the `beacon' metaphor -- 7.2.Metaphor: definition and appeal -- 7.3.Research design for metaphor in political discourse: an overview -- 7.4.Metaphor identification and classification -- 7.5.Summary -- Essential reading -- 8.Critical Metaphor Methodology -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Metaphor identification in critical metaphor analysis -- 8.3.Case Study 1: identification of metaphor in Obama's first inaugural address -- 8.4.Interpretation: approaches to the classification of metaphors -- 8.5.Classification and conceptual metaphors -- 8.6.Case Study 2: interpretation of metaphor in Obama's first inaugural address -- 8.7.Evaluating conceptual metaphors -- 8.8.Summary -- 8.8.1.Framework for critical metaphor analysis -- Essential reading -- 9.Purposeful Metaphor and Social Cognition -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.The purposes of metaphor -- 9.2.1.General rhetorical purpose: gaining the audience's attention and establishing trust -- 9.2.2.Heuristic purpose: framing issues so that they are intelligible in a way that is favourable to an argument -- 9.2.3.Predicative purpose: implying an evaluation of political actors and their policies -- 9.2.4.Empathetic purpose: to arouse the audience's feelings in such a way that they will be favourable to the speaker -- 9.2.5.Aesthetic purpose: creating textual coherence -- 9.2.6.Ideological purpose: to offer a `world view' -- 9.2.7.Mythic purpose -- 9.3.Case Study 3: explanation of metaphor in Obama' first inaugural address -- Essential reading -- 10.Rounding Up: David Cameron's European Union Speech -- 10.1.Introduction -- 10.2.Classical rhetoric: style -- 10.3.Classical rhetoric: schemes and tropes -- 10.4.Social agency and modality -- 10.5.Discourse-historical approach -- 10.6.Conclusion -- Core text: prologue, David Cameron's European Union Speech, 23 January 2013.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780230274389 (hardback)
0230274382 (hardback)
9780230274396 (paperback)
0230274390 (paperback) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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