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Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar's political cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and public oratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in the island nation. The first anthropological study of the role of language and rhetoric in reshaping democracy Maps the dynamic relationship between formalized oratory, satire, and political change in Madagascar A fascinating analysis of the extraordinary Ciceronian features of kabary, a style of formal public oratory long abandoned in the West Documents the management by United States Democrat campaign advisors of a foreign presidential bid, unprecedented in the post-colonial era.

A review essay on books by (1) Bryan Garsten, Saving Persuation: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgement (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006) & (2) Charles Hirschkind, The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).

Using a computer-assisted content analysis, this study analyzes a 32,000 word corpus drawn from mediated political statements made in response to the July 2005 London bombing. This grounded research led to a focus on the deontic nature of these statements, and also revealed a relative absence of condoling. Although condemnatory, statements did not specifically attribute the 'evil' to particular people. Particularly mindful of Widdowson's (2004) distinction between analysis (text) and interpretation (discourse), the paper first identifies the textual features, but then "hermeneutically" interprets their meaning within a wider context of international political discourse. The paper concludes that the statements performed a positive epideictic purpose, although it tended to occlude the compassionate element of public grieving.

Using a computer-assisted content analysis, this study analyzes a 32,000 word corpus drawn from mediated political statements made in response to the July 2005 London bombing. This grounded research led to a focus on the deontic nature of these statements, and also revealed a relative absence of condoling. Although condemnatory, statements did not specifically attribute the 'evil' to particular people. Particularly mindful of Widdowson's (2004) distinction between analysis (text) and interpretation (discourse), the paper first identifies the textual features, but then 'hermeneutically' interprets their meaning within a wider context of international political discourse. The paper concludes that the statements performed a positive epideictic purpose, although it tended to occlude the compassionate element of public grieving. Adapted from the source document.

Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries, charting the development of political oratory and its influence on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local vernacularization. What originally began as a format of religious speech became an essential political infrastructure used to galvanize support for new social imaginaries, from Indian independence to Tamil nationalism. Completed by a team of Bate's colleagues, this ethnography marries linguistic anthropology to performance studies and political history, illuminating new geographies of belonging in the modern era.

The paper explores Zoran Đinđić's political oratory by placing emphasis on the rhetorical and style analysis of certain speeches, as well as on the verbal and non-verbal aspects of communication. On the grounds of the theoretical model on the existence of dominant communication paradigms: authoritarian, democratic and liberal-democratic ones, his political speeches have been observed within the democratic paradigm of political communication. To a significant extent, our interest has been directed towards determining genre models and genre specificities of Đinđić's political speeches and also towards recognizing the most important political ideas in the context of general geopolitical, historical, cultural and social changes. By applying comparative rhetorical and style analysis to certain Đinđić's political speeches, we have singled out their common characteristics and described in more details the specificities of oratory procedures characteristic for this speaker. ; U radu se istražuje političko besedništvo Zorana Đinđića, uz stavljanje akcenta na retoričko-stilsku analizu pojedinih beseda, te na verbalne i neverbalne aspekte političke komunikacije. Njegove političke besede se, na osnovu teorijskog modela o postojanju dominantnih komunikacijskih paradigmi, posmatraju u okviru demokratske paradigme političkog komuniciranja. Naše interesovanje je jednim značajnim delom bilo usmereno i u pravcu određivanja žanrovskih modela i žanrovskih specifičnosti Đinđićevih političkih beseda, a potom i na uočavanje najvažnijih političkih ideja u kontekstu opštih geopolitičkih, istorijskih, kulturnih i socijalnih promena. Primenom komparativne stilsko-retoričke analize pojedinih političkih beseda Zorana Đinđića, izdvojili smo njihova zajednička obeležja i detaljnije opisali specifičnosti besedničkog postupka koje su karakteristične za ovog govornika.