Overview
- Explores the multiple ways culture affects public officials’ communication style and content in diversified societies
- Details political leaders’ rhetoric mode in selected countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
- Is relevant to students interested in innovative, conceptual, and methodological approaches to studying political communication
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Religion
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History, Economy, Climate/Geography, and Majority/Minority Relations
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Social Structure, Values, Popular and New-Culture Elements
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Cultural Convergence and Discourse Divergence
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About this book
This book details the relationship between culture and the language used by public figures, including politicians, political candidates, and government officials, in the broad context of political behavior and communication. Employing a variety of perspectives, theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and analytical approaches, chapters focus specifically on the question of HOW cultural factors (such as religion, history, economy, majority/minority relations, social structure, and values) shape the content, nature, and characteristics of the rhetoric that public figures utilize in selected countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East.
The chapters enable comparison of the cultural effects on the different structures, styles, and contents of public speaking in societies from West to East. That is, of WHAT leaders say, HOW they say it (e.g., degree of openness, directness, usage of metaphors and slogans, xenophobic and racial expressions), under WHICH specific circumstances (e.g., National Days addresses, national or local assemblies’ debates, during election campaigns appeals, press conferences’ briefings, and in international meetings’ speeches), and for WHAT specific audiences (e.g., supporters and voters, media representatives, or the global community).
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ofer Feldman is a professor of Political Psychology and Behavior at the Faculty of Policy Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. He is the author of more than 90 journal articles and book chapters, and more than 100 encyclopedia items, in the fields of political psychology/behavior, communication studies, and Japanese politics, and the sole author, co-author, sole editor, and co-editor of 16 books and monographs, including Talking Politics in Japan Today (2004), Seiji shinrigaku [Political Psychology] (in Japanese, 2006), The Psychology of Political Communicators (2019, with Sonja Zmerli), and The Rhetoric of Political Leadership (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: When Politicians Talk
Book Subtitle: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking
Editors: Ofer Feldman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3579-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3578-6Published: 02 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3581-6Published: 03 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3579-3Published: 01 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations