The Rhetoric of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
Author : Donald C. Smith
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Presidents
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Author : Donald C. Smith
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Presidents
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Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Government publications
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Federal Register
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Release : 2004
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Author : United States. President
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File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : United States. Federal Register Division
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Release : 1965
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Release : 1986
Category : United States
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Release : 1966
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Author : Brian T. Kaylor
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 073914880X
When a Bible-quoting Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter, won the 1976 presidential election, it marked the start of a new era of presidential campaign discourse. The successful candidates since then have followed Carter's lead in publicly testifying about their personal religious beliefs and invoking God to justify their public policy positions and their political visions. With this new confessional political style, the candidates have repudiated the former perspective of a civil-religious contract that kept political leaders from being too religious and religious leaders from being too political. Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in the Age of Confessional Politics analyzes the religious-political discourse used by presidential nominees from 1976-2008, and then describes key characteristics of their confessional rhetoric that represent a substantial shift from the tenets of the civil-religious contract. This new confessional political style is characterized by religious-political rhetoric that is testimonial, partisan, sectarian, and liturgical in nature. In order to understand why candidates have radically adjusted their God talk on the campaign trail, important religious-political shifts in American society since the 1950s are examined, which demonstrate the rhetorical demands evangelical religious leaders have placed upon our would-be national leaders. Brian T. Kaylor utilizes Michel Foucault's work on the confession_with theoretical adjustments_to critique the significant problems of the confessional political era. With clear analyses and unsettling relevance, Kaylor's critique of contemporary political discourse will rouse the interest and concern of engaged citizens everywhere.
Author : Arnaud Vincent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0429638450
Drawing on corpus linguistic methods of analysis, this book critically examines the "rhetorical God gap" in American political discourse between the Democratic and Republican parties. The volume investigates the claims (which have often not been substantiated by quantitative data in the literature and have tended to focus on particular genres of political discourse) that there is a correlation between a higher degree of religiosity in Republican political discourse and voting preferences for the party and that Democratic politicians should engage in similar discourse toward "closing" the gap. The book adopts a keyword approach, using such techniques as collocation analyses, concordance reading, and Bible-specific N-gram identification, toward the study of a corpus of general campaign speeches over a 50-year period, and links findings from this data with social and cultural contextual factors to provide a more informed understanding of rhetorical patterns in religiously laden political language. The volume showcases the value of corpus linguistic methods in interrogating claims around political language and their broader applicability in linguistic research, making this key reading for students and scholars in corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, American politics, and religious studies.