The affinity between the rally and representative claim-making: evidence from Tanzania

Studies analyse what politicians communicate at rallies. Yet most do so to determine large. Therefore, they implicitly assume that rallies is across media. I ask: particular the meanings politicians, and indeed audience members, make rallies? theorise rally as a media genre, in which those present are simplified into two entities (“speakers”; “audience”) engage an asymmetric, interactive dialogue. argue these features of genre facilitate, but not necessitate, making representative claims. “speaker”-“audience” discourse Tanzania. find use their speech claims craft dialogues with “audience” induce them co-declare there affinity between claim-making.