Aggressive rhetoric in Croatian post-election political discourse

Rhetoric And Intentions In Discourse

On the face of it these theories are rather similar: both provide hierarchical characterisations of texts, and both seem concerned with the purpose of the text for GSDT, the text realizes the intentional structure that underlies it; and for R.ST, the text is structured in terms of the rhetorical relations that hold between its parts. But these similarities are only skin deep. The kinds of trees...

Religious and Political Discourse in Iran: Moving Toward Post-Fundamentalism

Off the wall political discourse: Facebook use in the 2008 U.S. presidential election

Both candidates and voters have increased their use of the Internet for political campaigns. Candidates have adopted many internet tools, including social networking websites, for the purposes of communicating with constituents and voters, collecting donations, fostering community, and organizing events. On the other side, voters have adopted Internet tools such as blogs and social networking s...

Vagueness in Political Discourse

The paper presents two studies on vagueness in political discourse. The first is a qualitative analysis of the commonsense definition of vagueness and related notions in political discourse. Participants were submitted two fragments of real political argumentations and a questionnaire asking to rate them as to vagueness, sincerity, persuasiveness and other criteria. They showed that two aspects...

The Idea of Politics in “political” Rhetoric

Th e author claims that analyses of “political discourse” or “political rhetoric” should be grounded in what it is that participants try to do politically with language. Words, actions, and events work together; words interpret events or actions, as well as constitute political facts, while actions in various ways help words gain their political effi cacy. Analyses of political rhetoric (or dis...