scholarly journals An analysis of media-generated and party-generated news in presidential primary election coverage

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Primary Election ◽  
Presidential Primary ◽  
Election Coverage

Rhetorical moves in political discourse: closing statements by presidential candidates in US primary election debates

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Sample Analysis ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Primary Election ◽  
Presidential Primary ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Political Persuasion

Abstract Presidential primary debates in the USA are commonly concluded by brief closing statements, in which the competitors outline the central messages of their election campaigns. These statements constitute a subgenre characterized by a set of recurring rhetorical moves, which are defined as functional units geared towards the respective communicative objective, in this case political persuasion. Located at the interface of rhetorical move analysis and political discourse studies, this paper demonstrates that moves and embedded steps in closing statements fulfill the persuasive function of legitimizing the respective candidate as the most preferable presidential successor. The study is based on the transcripts of 98 closing statements, which were extracted from eight Democratic and eleven Republican primary debates held between August 2015 and April 2016. Typical moves, such as projecting the speaker’s future political agenda or diagnosing the current situation in America, are presented with the help of illustrative examples, frequencies of occurrence, and a sample analysis of a complete closing statement.

Differing Uses of YouTube During the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primary Election

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary L. Hanson ◽  
Paul M. Haridakis ◽  
Rekha Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Primary Election ◽  
Presidential Primary

Strategic functions of linguistic impoliteness in US primary election debates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Primary Election ◽  
Presidential Primary ◽  
Political Discourse Analysis ◽  
Negative Face ◽  
Political Persuasion ◽  
Self Defence

Abstract Since presidential primary debates in US election campaigns serve the function of identifying the most promising nominee for the subsequent presidency, they constitute a highly adversarial multilogue. Debaters do not only exchange factual arguments but also use diverse forms of impoliteness geared towards damaging the public image of political opponents and persuading audiences to vote accordingly. Combining political discourse analysis with pragmatic approaches to impoliteness, this paper examines the ways in which verbal aggression in debates inflicts damage on the addressee’s positive and negative face. On the basis of five Democratic and five Republican debates from 2016, it is shown that impolite utterances fulfil the four central strategic functions of (a) delegitimization, (b) coercion, (c) entertainment, and (d) (self-)defence, all of which support the macro-function of political persuasion through the construction of personal preferability.

scholarly journals MODELING VOTING DYNAMICS IN A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-219
Author(s):  
TIN PHAN ◽  
M. GABRIELA NAVAS-ZULOAGA ◽  
CALEB IGNACE ◽  
CARLOS W. CASTILLO-GARSOW ◽  
VICTOR M. MORENO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Markov Chain ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Transition Matrix ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Party System ◽  
Discrete Time Markov Chain ◽  
Primary Election ◽  
Presidential Primary ◽  
The Social ◽  
Poll Data

The 2016 U.S. presidential primary election, characterized by unexpected results, provides an interesting context to study how citizens are influenced in deciding whether to vote and whom to support. Our aim is to determine which of those changes in voting behavior have the largest impact on the election outcome. We address this question by developing a class of models driven either by the effect of mass media or by social interaction among voters and non-voting members of two parties. The dynamics are modeled using four compartments with a transition matrix describing the evolution of a discrete-time Markov chain. Each model is studied and fit to poll data from the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential elections using numerical methods. A comparison across elections indicates that the social influence of each group changes from one election to another, but response to media is similar in both cases.

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