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Considers how traditional approaches such as cohesion and classical rhetoric may be integrated with 'critical' approaches to discourse analysis such as critical metaphor analysis. Presents a range of critical and discourse theories and considers the relationships between linguistic features of speeches and their social and cultural contexts.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO RHETORIC, ORATORY AND DISCOURSE
• 1. Classical Rhetoric: Artistic Proofs and Arrangement
• 1.1. Introduction: rhetoric, oratory and persuasion
• 1.2. Branches of oratory
• 1.3. proofs
• 1.3.1. Ethos: character
• 1.3.2. Logos: reason
• 1.3.3. Pathos: emotion
• 1.4. Arrangement in classical rhetoric
• 1.5. Summary
• Core text: Barack Obama, inaugural speech, 20 January 2009
• Essential reading
• 2. Classical Rhetoric: Style and Figures
• 2.1. Introduction: what is style?
• 2.2. Style in classical rhetoric
• Core text 2.1 Lt. Col. Tim Collins' Ève of Battle' speech
• 2.3. Figures of speech
• 2.3.1. Schemes
• 2.3.2. Tropes
• Core text 2.2 Speech from Shakespeare's Henry V

• 2.3.3. Interaction between schemes and tropes
• 2.4. Summary
• Essential reading
• 3. Coherence and Cohesion in Discourse
• 3.1. Introduction: what is coherence?
• 3.1.1. Coherence and speech circumstances
• 3.2. What is cohesion?
• 3.3. Grammatical cohesion
• 3.3.1. Reference
• 3.3.2. Deixis
• 3.3.3. Anaphoric reference
• 3.3.4. Cataphoric reference
• 3.3.5. Other reference categories
• 3.4. Lexical cohesion
• 3.4.1. Repetition and reiteration
• 3.4.2. Semantic relations: antonyms and synonyms
• 3.4.3. Collocation
• 3.5. Summary
• Core text: John F. Kennedy inaugural speech, 20 January 1961
• Essential reading
• pt. II CRITICAL APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE
• 4. Critical Analysis: Context and Persuasion
• 4.1. What is power?
• 4.2. Critical discourse analysis, context and circumstances
• 4.2.1. Stage 1: analysis of speech ̀circumstances'
• 4.2.2. Stage 2: identification and analysis of features
• 4.2.3. Stage 3: interpretation and explanation
• 4.3. Persuasion
• 4.4. Summary
• Essential reading
• 5. Social Agency and Modality
• 5.1. Agency
• 5.1.1. What is Agency?
• 5.1.2. Nominal forms and names
• 5.1.3. Verbal processes
• 5.2. Modality
• 5.2.1. What is modality?
• 5.2.2. Levels of modality
• 5.2.3. Types of modality
• 5.3. Summary
• Essential reading
• 6. Discourse-Historical Approach
• 6.1. Introduction
• 6.2. Discursive strategies and intention
• 6.3. Discursive strategies and discrimination
• 6.4. Topoi, warrants and arguments
• 6.4.1. Example 1: traffic congestion
• 6.4.2. Example 2: the case for war
• 6.5. Sample text analysis using DHA
• Core text: Michael Howard, immigration speech, 22 September 2004
• 6.6. Fallacious arguments
• 6.7. critique of DHA
• 6.8. Summary
• Essential reading
• pt. III CRITICAL METAPHOR ANALYSIS
• 7. Researching Metaphor in Public Communication
• 7.1. Introduction: Blair and the ̀beacon' metaphor
• 7.2. Metaphor: definition and appeal
• 7.3. Research design for metaphor in political discourse: an overview
• 7.4. Metaphor identification and classification
• 7.5. Summary
• Essential reading
• 8. Critical Metaphor Methodology
• 8.1. Introduction
• 8.2. Metaphor identification in critical metaphor analysis
• 8.3. Case Study 1: identification of metaphor in Obama's first inaugural address
• 8.4. Interpretation: approaches to the classification of metaphors
• 8.5. Classification and conceptual metaphors
• 8.6. Case Study 2: interpretation of metaphor in Obama's first inaugural address
• 8.7. Evaluating conceptual metaphors
• 8.8. Summary
• 8.8.1. Framework for critical metaphor analysis
• Essential reading
• 9. Purposeful Metaphor and Social Cognition
• 9.1. Introduction
• 9.2. purposes of metaphor
• 9.2.1. General rhetorical purpose: gaining the audience's attention and establishing trust
• 9.2.2. Heuristic purpose: framing issues so that they are intelligible in a way that is favourable to an argument
• 9.2.3. Predicative purpose: implying an evaluation of political actors and their policies
• 9.2.4. Empathetic purpose: to arouse the audience's feelings in such a way that they will be favourable to the speaker
• 9.2.5. Aesthetic purpose: creating textual coherence
• 9.2.6. Ideological purpose: to offer a ẁorld view'
• 9.2.7. Mythic purpose
• 9.3. Case Study 3: explanation of metaphor in Obama' first inaugural address
• Essential reading
• 10. Rounding Up: David Cameron's European Union Speech
• 10.1. Introduction
• 10.2. Classical rhetoric: style
• 10.3. Classical rhetoric: schemes and tropes
• 10.4. Social agency and modality
• 10.5. Discourse-historical approach
• 10.6. Conclusion
• Core text: prologue, David Cameron's European Union Speech, 23 January 2013.

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Author/Creator:

Charteris-Black, Jonathan, 1955- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Analysing political speeches: rhetoric, discourse and metaphor [by Charteris-Black, J.]

Subjects:

Discourse analysis — Political aspects

Speeches, addresses, etc. — History and criticism

Discourse analysis

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-264) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

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1 online resource.

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text file

Call Numbers:

P302.77 .C47 2014eb

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9781137368331 (electronic bk.)
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OCLC Numbers:

915155014

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