scholarly journals The Power of Words in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: An Insight into Analyzing Julius Caesar from the Perspective of the Logical Fallacies

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Abdullah K. Shehabat ◽  
Baker Bany-Khair ◽  
Mohammad Qararah ◽  
Zaydun Al-Shara
Keyword(s):  
Julius Caesar ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Subliminal Messages ◽  
Logical Fallacies ◽  
Power Of Words ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Presidential Debate

This research aims at utilizing the knowledge of logical fallacies in analyzing Shakespeare’s masterpiece Julius Caesar. Spotting these fallacies in the characters’ actions and speeches is more likely to expand our horizon by grasping what is hidden between the lines and beyond the surface dialogue, thus revealing the true intentions of the characters and the subliminal messages beyond what they say. To achieve this goal, an explanation for each fallacy is provided. Also, various examples of fallacies committed by Donald Trump in the American presidential debate in addition to some of his fallacious tweets and other examples are thoroughly analyzed. It is found that by providing meticulous analysis for the fallacies under question readers would be protected from being victimized to any ambiguous and/or language literary interpretation.

Closing the Knowledge Gap: How Issue Priming Before Presidential Debate Viewing Encourages Learning and Opinion Articulation

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110003
Author(s):  
Freddie J. Jennings ◽  
Robert H. Wicks ◽  
Mitchell S. McKinney ◽  
Kate Kenski
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Presidential Debates ◽  
Cognitive Elaboration ◽  
Priming Condition ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Presidential Debate

One mechanism by which citizens learn about candidates and issues is through watching presidential debates. Some scholars have raised concerns that these events, however, disproportionately benefit those already high in political knowledge more so than others with lesser knowledge levels. We hypothesize that knowledge begets knowledge because it prompts a constructive cognitive process that results from elaboration and reflection. We test this hypothesis in an experiment that also considers whether issue priming could help mitigate the deficit that those lower in political sophistication have when viewing campaign events. Participants ( N = 543) watched a 9-minute segment focusing on economic issues drawn from the first 2020 presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joseph Biden. Half of the participants were randomly assigned to an issue priming condition and viewed the debate segment after reading a narrative text on economic policy, and the other half read an unrelated text. The study presents a model that reveals the following: (a) cognitive elaboration mediates the relationship between prior political knowledge and learning from a campaign event, (b) providing citizens with background issue–related knowledge produces a similar elaborative effect as did preexisting political knowledge, and (c) participants demonstrate greater political opinion articulation following this enhanced elaboration leading to more learning. The implications for cultivating a knowledgeable democratic electorate are discussed.

Visual Presentation Style 2: Influences on Perceptions of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Based on Visual Presentation Style During the Third 2016 Presidential Debate

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 545-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick A. Stewart ◽  
Austin D. Eubanks ◽  
Reagan G. Dye ◽  
Scott Eidelman ◽  
Robert H. Wicks
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Presentation Style ◽  
The Third ◽  
Presidential Debate ◽  
Trait Ratings

A field experiment was conducted to analyze the third and final 2016 presidential debate. Randomly assigned participants watched the debate in the format of mainly solo camera shots that alternate between the candidates (i.e., switched feed), or with both candidates framed side-by-side on screen (i.e., split screen feed). Though viewer feelings of positivity toward the candidates did not differ, visual presentation style had a significant effect on trait judgments for Donald Trump overall. Participants watching Trump on the switched camera feed perceived him as significantly more Sophisticated, Honest, Attractive, Sincere, Strong, Active, Intelligent, Trustworthy, and Generous. There was not an effect for Hillary Clinton’s trait ratings overall, though she was perceived as significantly more Strong, Competent, and Intelligent by those watching the switched feed. This suggests that visual presentation style significantly influenced viewer perceptions. Political ideology was a significant predictor of all but one of the traits for each candidate.

scholarly journals Dialektika Komunikasi pada Debat Pilpres 2019 dalam Perspektif Al-Qur’an

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Wahab Nur Kadri
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Study Methods ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Presidential Debate

The 2019 Presidential Debate contained in the Qur'an about the Jadal verses through the Dialectic Communication perspective also by studying more deeply and philosophically. This discussion leads the author to discuss the science of communication and the Qur'an with stories and history in a special discussion: about the schedule that arises due to the "message" that comes after there is news of a saliha woman opened by Khaulah bint Tsa'labah; about the Qur'an quoting itself in discussions with the dialectic of the Jadal concept through forms of communication (guidance and revelation) conveyed to the Apostles and humans on earth; The Muslim Ummah needs the Qur'an from an oral tradition that is moving towards the written tradition (the tabi'in, Islamic scholars and thinkers and so on) in analyzing Jadal, where the classical tradition would never be expected. Next schedule; about the form of Jadal in the Al-Qur'an needs to be reviewed transmitted and transformed in the present and future context, such as in the contestation of the Presidential Debate, Pilgub, Pilkada, even in social, cultural, ideological, and religious (Islamic) discourses. Through literature study methods with thematic analysis understanding Jadal in the Qur'an can be analyzed in a complete and objective manner. The implication, as part of the science of communication in the frame of the Qur'an, Jadal understanding has a strong significance because it can enlighten human insight into morality morals.

scholarly journals GRICE’S COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE VIOLATION IN THE SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD TRUMP

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Yoan Lodari ◽  
Kasmaini . ◽  
Syafrizal Sabarudin
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Presidential Debate

The aims of this research were to investigate kinds of maxims violated by the speakers and to investigate possible purposes of violations applied by the speakers. This research was conducted as qualitative descriptive study. The corpus of this research was Second Presidential transcript debate. The transcript was put into a checklist table and analyzed by Grice’s theory of Cooperative Principle. The results of this study showed that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump violated all maxims, with 75 violations by Hillary Clinton and 174 violations by Donald Trump. The most violated maxim by both speakers was maxim of quantity and the less violated maxim was maxim of manner. Moreover, the result showed the least possible purposes of violation by the speakers was to build positive political image towards hearer

ETHNOGRAPHY IN CAESAR'S GALLIC WAR AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR COMPOSITION

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Creer
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Julius Caesar ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Serial Composition

After long neglect, in English-language scholarship at least, the question of how Julius Caesar wrote and disseminated his Gallic War—as a single work? in multi-year chunks? year by year?—was revived by T.P. Wiseman in 1998, who argued anew for serial composition. This paper endeavours to provide further evidence for that conclusion by examining how Caesar depicts the non-Roman peoples he fights. Caesar's ethnographic passages, and their authorship, have been a point of contention among German scholars for over a century, but reading them and the rest of the text with eyes unclouded by the exhausted debate about possible interpolation reveals details that bear upon wider questions of composition. In these passages Caesar devised an ethnographic framework in order to rank against one another the levels of threat posed by different barbarian peoples, downplaying the relative ferocity of the Gauls in contrast to other groups in an effort to magnify the peril the others posed to Rome and the glory to be obtained from their defeat. This ethnographic framework is significant for understanding Caesar's method both because it provides insight into Caesar's reasons for including the ethnographic passages and because it implies that the Gallic War was composed in, at a minimum, four stages: Books 1–2, where the framework is first developed and used, by 56 b.c.; Books 3–4 and 5–6, where it is elaborated and extended, by 54 and 52 b.c. respectively; and finally Book 7, after 52 b.c., when Caesar, in recounting the campaign against Vercingetorix, was forced to abandon and contradict the ethnographic framework in a fashion that suggests that the earlier books were already in circulation, preventing him from adjusting them to the new circumstances of the campaign of that year.

scholarly journals “Real Men Stand for Our Nation”: Constructions of an American Nation and Anti-Kaepernick Memes

2020 ◽  
pp. 019372352095053
Author(s):  
Nik Dickerson ◽  
Matt Hodler
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
White Backlash ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
American Nation

On September 1, 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeled for the playing of the national anthem arguing that he was “not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” noting that “this is bigger than football and it would be selfish . . . to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.” Kaepernick received a tremendous amount of backlash for this action, and many White fans/media pundits accused him of disrespecting the flag and U.S. military. This act took place during the very contentious presidential election in the United States between eventual winner Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. During this election, the Trump campaign mobilized discourses of White nationalism, and even employed alt-right member Steve Bannon as Trump’s chief advisor for a period. The Trump campaign capitalized on a set of White backlash politics that had been growing since the 1990s, and the reactions to Kaepernick’s protest cannot be separated from this larger context. In this article, we critically read internet memes of Colin Kaepernick to gain insight into the relationship between race, gender, and the nation during the rise of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency.

scholarly journals Leadership legitimacy and the mobilization of capital(s): Disrupting politics and reproducing heteronormativity

Leadership ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 174271502110183
Author(s):  
Valerie Stead ◽  
Carole Elliott ◽  
Rita A Gardiner
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Implicit Leadership ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Leadership Values ◽  
Insight Into

The rise of populist leaders in the political sphere mounts a challenge to normative understandings of leadership. To better understand this challenge, we examine how political leaders mobilize different forms of social capital in pursuit of leadership legitimacy, providing insight into the dynamics of how leadership norms are maintained. While research has tended to focus on specific forms of capital, this article considers capital as multidimensional and strategically mobilized. The article applies a multimodal analysis to examine interactions between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during peak ‘Twitter Moments’ of the three 2016 presidential election debates. We theorize the paradoxical dynamics of the mobilization of multiple capitals and their intersection as a simultaneously disruptive and reproductive resource. While the mobilization of multiple capitals operates to disrupt traditional notions of who can claim legitimacy as a leader in the political field, their disruptive mobilization serves to reproduce implicit heteronormative leadership values. Hence, our theorization illuminates the resilience of implicit leadership values, and their intimate connection with heteronormativity, calling for the need to interrogate leadership legitimacy claims that promise ‘new’ approaches.

scholarly journals THE FUNCTION OF SWEARING IN DONALD TRUMP’S UTTERANCES DURING PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN 2016

LINGUISTICA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dedek Mahiroh ◽  
Meisuri Meisuri ◽  
Lidiman Sahat Martua Sinaga
Keyword(s):  
Donald Trump ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Taboo Words ◽  
Presidential Debate ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The study deals with the function of swearing in Donaldtrump’sutterances during the presidentialdebate. In this study, the researcher focuses onthe typesand the functionsof swearing inDonald Trump’s utterances during the presidential debate.The research used the descriptive qualitative method.The data were taken from video’s transcript ofAmerica presidential debate in 2016. There were three video’s transcript used as the sample, they were first presidential debate broadcasted on September 26th,2016, second presidential debate broadcasted on October 9th, 2016 and third presidential debate broadcasted on October 19th, 2016.Based on the analysis of data, the findings said that there were five types of swearing in Donald Trump’s utterances during a presidential debate in 2016 namely politic term, religious matter, death term, animal term, and sex or copulative term.However, there were three functions of swearing in Donald trump’s utterances during a presidential debate in 2016 namely descriptive swearing, abusive swearing, and idiomatic swearing. Keywords:Swearing, Taboo words, Sociological Approach, US presidential debate in 2016, Donald Trump

scholarly journals Strategies of Legitimisation and Delegitimisation in Selected American Presidential Speeches

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (40) ◽  
pp. 11-29
Author(s):  
Zorica Trajkova ◽  
Silvana Neshkovska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Pragmatic Aspect ◽  
Language Strategies ◽  
The Right ◽  
Pragmatic Strategies ◽  
Insight Into

[full article and abstract in English] Politicians invest a lot of time and effort to win elections and present themselves in the best possible manner. They use language strategies to present and legitimise themselves as the right choice. And if they are the right choice, then their opponent is obviously not, so while they are trying to acclaim themselves and their political party, they use strategies to delegitimise and attack their opponents and the policy they represent. This paper aims to conduct a critical discourse analysis of the speeches of the two main political opponents in the last elections in the USA, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The research gives an insight into the manipulative function of language and covers two aspects: the lexical-semantic and pragmatic aspect and is based on the supposition that the strategies politicians use while talking about themselves and describing their opponents differ. As expected, they use more positive terminology to talk about themselves and their policies, and negative terminology to criticise the opponent’s policy. They also employ different pragmatic strategies, such as intensifiers and inclusive pronouns, to involve the audience into the discourse and convince them in their arguments. Finally, although carried out on a relatively small corpus, the analysis gives an insight into the language techniques employed by politicians to legitimise themselves and delegitimise their opponent and thus win the elections.

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