Electioneering with a Big Shotgun

2021 ◽  
pp. 220-256
Author(s):  
Christopher Grasso
Keyword(s):  
Political Speeches

While still serving and fighting, Kelso challenged the sitting congressman for Missouri’s Fourth District, Sempronius Boyd, for his seat in the 1864 election. Both were Radical Republicans, so Kelso had to make the contrast about character. He also gave a few political speeches clarifying his positions on Reconstruction, especially concerning Black rights and the treatment of rebels and the rebellious states. He discovered documents related to the secret rebel society, Knights of the Golden Circle. As Election Day approached, he was in the field as Confederate General Sterling Price invaded Missouri with 12,000 soldiers. Price was beaten and Kelso was elected.

Nation-building and presidential rhetoric in Belarus

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 727-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Klymenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Presidential Rhetoric ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Community ◽  
Societal Consensus ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Presidential Speeches ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

Abstract This paper studies the Belarusian nation as envisioned by the president in his political speeches delivered on the country’s Independence Day. The theoretical framework of the paper rests upon an understanding of the discursive construction of national identity. This analysis of the presidential speeches utilizes principles of the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA). As a special genre of texts, political speeches aim to offer normative guidance and a sense of societal consensus to the public. The paper reveals that in the construction of a national community in Belarus, the presidential speeches ambiguously refer to historical memory, socio-economic development, the political system and the country’s foreign relations.

Has Germany “Fallen Out of Love” with Europe? The Eurozone Crisis and the “Normalization” of Germany's European Identity

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Galpin
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Northern European ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
Political Speeches

The European Union has been in its biggest ever crisis since the onset of the Greek sovereign debt crisis in 2010. Beyond the political and economic dimensions, the crisis has also sparked discussions about Germany's European identity. Some scholars have argued that Germany's behavior in the crisis signals a continuation of the process of “normalization” of its European identity toward a stronger articulation of national identity and interests, that it has “fallen out of love” with Europe. This article will seek to reassess these claims, drawing on detailed analysis of political and media discourse in Germany—from political speeches through to both broadsheet and tabloid newspapers. It will argue that the crisis is understood broadly as a European crisis in Germany, where the original values of European integration are at stake. Furthermore, the crisis is debated through the lens of European solidarity, albeit with a particular German flavor of solidarity that draws on the economic tradition of ordoliberalism. Rather than strengthening expressions of national identity, this has resulted in the emergence of a new northern European identity in contrast to Greece or “southern Europe.”

Prophesying War

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Quinn ◽  
Laurel Stone
Keyword(s):  
Causes Of War ◽  
Political Speeches

David Winter’s Roots of War: Wanting Power, Seeing Threat, Justifying Force is a new attempt to understand the causes of war and the factors that contribute to the escalation of conflicts. Jason Quinn and Laurel Stone scruple at Winter’s methodology, criteria for conflict, assessments of threats, and interpretation of the language embedded in diplomatic exchanges and political speeches.

Analyse discriminante et vocabulaire politique : Essai méthodologique

Res Publica ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Chapelle ◽  
Pierre Couvreur ◽  
Giuseppe Pagano
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limited Sample ◽  
Ideological Differences ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Lexical Items

This paper aims at testing the hypothesis of growing ideological uniformity of political speeches. If political speeches lack ideological differences, it should be difficult to re-classify them only by analyzing the presence or absence of lexical items. We first worked out a method to classify political speeches and then carried a test on two speeches by leading Belgian French-speaking politicians.  The method is based on discriminant analysis. It utilizes the words most encountered in one speech and not in the other as discriminant factors. Statistical softwares then assess a discriminant function used to re-classify short parts of each speech called blocks. The most discriminating 10 factors re-classify correctly 89% of the blocks. The percentage increases to 93% with 20 factors and to 98% with 30 factors.However the results should be taken with caution because of the limited sample, the test tends to question the growing uniformity of political speeches. The sampled ones had enough specific features for allowing a rather simpte method to re-classify most parts of them correctly, even if some typically ideological items are not to be found.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Presupposition Triggers in Hilary Clinton’s First Campaign Speech

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Ruiqing Liang ◽  
Yabin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Vital Role ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Presupposition Triggers

<p>Presupposition triggers play a vital role in verbal communication. Based on Hilary Clinton’s first campaign speech, this paper intends to analyze the presupposition triggers at both lexical and syntactic levels, for the purpose of figuring out how Hilary succeeds in achieving her political intentions through the use of presupposition triggers, hoping to contribute to the composition and understanding of political speeches.</p>

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