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Volume 6
Let’s talk politics. New essays on deliberative rhetoric
Edited by Hilde Van Belle, Kris Rutten, Paul Gillaerts, Dorien Van De Mieroop
and Baldwin Van Gorp
Let’s talk politics
New essays on deliberative rhetoric
Edited by
Hilde Van Belle
KU Leuven | Campus Antwerpen
Kris Rutten
Ghent University
Paul Gillaerts
KU Leuven | Campus Antwerpen
Dorien Van De Mieroop
KU Leuven
Baldwin Van Gorp
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Let’s talk politics : New essays on deliberative rhetoric / Edited by Hilde Van Belle, Kris
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Table of contents
List of authors vii
Introduction
Let’s talk politics: Introduction 3
Kris Rutten, Hilde Van Belle, and Paul Gillaerts
Part I. Theory
1. Aristotle on deliberation: Its place in ethics, politics and rhetoric 13
Christian Kock
2. More than a nice ritual: Official apologies as a rhetorical act
in need of theoretical re-conceptualization 27
Lisa Storm Villadsen
3. Cultural diversity, globalization, and political correctness:
Rhetorical argumentation in multicultural societies 45
Manfred Kraus
Part II. Cases
4. Dialogic voices: A pragma-dialectical approach
to R. G. Mugabe’s ceremonial speeches 63
Ernest Jakaza and Marianna W. Visser
5. Prosodic enhancers of humorous effect in political speeches 81
Tetyana Sayenko
6. Correlative markers in EU-parliamentary French debate:
The case of non seulement… mais in comparison with et même 99
Maria Svensson
vi Let’s Talk Politics. New Essays on Deliberative Rhetoric
7. British Prime Minister David Cameron’s apology for Bloody Sunday 115
Jason A. Edwards and Amber Luckie
8. Entropa: Rhetoric of parody and provocation 131
Sine Nørholm Just and Kristine Marie Berg
9. US National Security Strategy: Different presidencies,
different rhetoric? 149
Chiara Degano
10. The Bridge: The rhetorical construction of Barack Obama’s
biography by David Remnick 171
Hilde Van Belle
11. Learning to differ: Transforming parliament through argument
and debate in Poland post-1989 185
Cezar M. Ornatowski
Name index 205
Subject index 207
List of authors
Kris Rutten Lisa S. Villadsen
Department of Educational Studies Dept. of Media, Cognition
Ghent University and Communication
Henri Dunantlaan 2 University of Copenhagen
9000 Ghent – Belgium Karen Blixens Vej 4
[email protected] 2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Hilde van Belle [email protected]
Faculteit Letteren
Taal en Communicatie Manfred Kraus
KU Leuven Campus Antwerpen Philologisches Seminar
Sint Andriesstraat 2 Universität Tübingen
B-2000 Antwerpen Wilhelmstraße 36
Belgium 72074 Tübingen
[email protected] Germany
[email protected]
Paul Gillaerts
Faculteit Letteren Ernest Jakaza
Taal en Communicatie Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
KU Leuven Campus Antwerpen Stellenbosch University
Sint Andriesstraat 2 Private Bag X1
B-2000 Antwerpen Matieland 7600
Belgium South Africa
[email protected] [email protected]
Christian Kock Tetyana Sayenko
Dept. of Media, Cognition Apt. 809, Leopalace Flat Shinsakae
and Communication Shinsakae 1-5-31
University of Copenhagen Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi
Karen Blixens Vej 4 Aichi
2300 Copenhagen S Japan 460-0007
Denmark [email protected]
[email protected]
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Maria Svensson Kristine Marie Berg
Institutionen för moderna språk Department of Media, Cognition
Box 636 and Communication
S-751 26 Uppsala University of Copenhagen
Sweden Karen Blixens Vej 4
[email protected] 2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Jason A. Edwards, Ph.D. [email protected]
Department of Communication Studies
Bridgewater State University Chiara Degano
Bridgewater, MA 02325 Department of Foreign Languages
U.S.A. and Cultures
[email protected] University of Milan
(Università degli Studi di Milano)
Amber Luckie Piazza Indro Montanelli 1
Department of Education 20099 Sesto San Giovanni (MI)
St. Mary’s University of Minnesota Italia
Minneapolis, MN 55104 [email protected]
U.S.A.
[email protected] Cezar Ornatowski
Department of Rhetoric
Sine Nørholm Just and Writing Studies and
Department of Business and Politics Master of Science Program
Copenhagen Business School in Homeland Security
Porcelænshaven 24 Academic Senator, The California State
2000 Frederiksberg University
Denmark San Diego State University
[email protected] San Diego, California 92182-4452
U.S.A.
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