Beyond Public Speech and Symbols: Explorations in the Rhetoric of Politicians and the Media

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De Landtsheer and Feldman draw together a collection of research essays examining the nature, characteristics, content, and reception of public rhetoric in various cultures and social settings. The volume focuses on three concerns. First, it examines public speech and symbols in various countries in both the East and the West. Second, it details various methods to study political discourse. Third, it reviews publis speech and symbols in relationship to citizenship. As a unique study of the ways in which public speech works in a variety of nations to liberate and educate when it bridges the gaps between political elites and regular citizens, this volume should appeal to anyone, including sholars and researchers, with an interest in better understanding the burgeoning world of political communication.

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.,."respresents a significant undertaking in its efforts to make connections among the scholarly interests of a range of disciplines--speech communication and mass communication, political science and psychology, as well as linguistics--and among the messages of political figures and media from both Western and Eastern countries."-Journal of Government Information
...respresents a significant undertaking in its efforts to make connections among the scholarly interests of a range of disciplines--speech communication and mass communication, political science and psychology, as well as linguistics--and among the messages of political figures and media from both Western and Eastern countries.-Journal of Government Information
..."respresents a significant undertaking in its efforts to make connections among the scholarly interests of a range of disciplines--speech communication and mass communication, political science and psychology, as well as linguistics--and among the messages of political figures and media from both Western and Eastern countries."-Journal of Government Information

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CHRIST'L DE LANDTSHEER is Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research of the University of Amsterdam. - OFER FELMAN is Associate Professor at Naruto University of Education, Japan.