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1 Introduction: persuasive speaking and evoking political behavior / Ofer Feldman -- Part I Persuasive leadership: emotion, style, and identity in national and international arenas -- 2 Gender, emotion and political discourse: masculinity, femininity and populism / Carol Johnson -- 3 What makes a speech effective? Netanyahu's and Obama's SPECtrum of Rhetoric Intelligences (SPEC/RI) in United Nations speeches 2009-2012 / Michelle Stein Teer -- 4 Xi Jinping's governance philosophy and language style: analysis of the Chinese leader's speeches / Jianxin Wang -- 5 The French state of emergency: marginalization of the Muslim minority as a consequence of state self-legitimation / Bruno Mendelski -- Part II Evoking behavior: the rhetoric of presidential inauguration, televised interview, and election campaign -- 6 Battling for America's soul: Donald Trump, invited behavior, and the midterm elections of 2018 / Michael Alan Krasner --

Humor and Politics: A Conceptual Introduction -- Founding Contradictions, Contemporary Expressions: Political Humor in American Culture -- Humorous Genres and Modes in Greek Political Discourse -- British Phlegm and Individualism in Humorous Political Advertising -- 'Kapwa' and Filipinos' Fixation with Presidential Jokes. .

This edited book is an innovative collection of studiespioneering scholarship systematically exploring the various features of debasement language used by political leaders in their speeches, statements, and remarks during parliamentary and other official as well as unofficial, private activities. The book examines in particular the forms, functions, and effects of political debasement in Western and non-Western countries, including Spain, Malaysia, the UK, Japan, China, India, Montenegro, Greece, Poland, and Israel. It addresses the growing interest in recent years in issues related to the increase of debasement in the public sphere. These include high-echelon politicians invective and vulgarity toward their colleagues in houses of parliament; their abusive and cynical language toward sections of the public, including women and minorities; and their crude sarcasm and irony expressed toward media representatives. The book focuses on those instances where political leaders at the very highest-level employ debasement discourse; it identifies the specific language they use in different political cultures and under different situations; the reasons for using this type of language; and its consequences. The book brings together a team of distinguished political scientists, communication and linguistics researchers, and social and political psychologists, with expert backgrounds and experience in understanding the reciprocal interaction between language and politics, in this case: debasement. They discuss and provide a number of novel insights of theoretical and practical importance regarding debasing discourse, as well as potential avenues for future research on the nature and effect of this type of language.

This book is a companion to Political Debasement: Incivility, Contempt, and Humiliation in Parliamentary and Public Discourse. It brings together interdisciplinary contributions to provide a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the nature, function, and effect of debasement language used by selected political leaders in Western and non-Western countries. Among them are Donald Trump (in the USA), Recep Tayyip Erdoan (Turkey), Rodrigo Roa Duterte (Philippines), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Abe Shinz (Japan), Pauline Hanson (Australia), Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Greece), Geert Wilders (the Netherlands), Beppe Grillo (Italy), and Santiago Abascal (Spain). Chapters focus specifically on the language of these leaders while examining debasement discourse from narrow and broad perspectives. The former includes the use of crude or abusive language (e.g., curses, obscenity, and swearing) to demean, humiliate, mock, insult, or belittle, based on the actual or perceived object or entity (e.g., race, religion, national, gender identity, or sexual orientation); the latter includes the use of devious or indirect irony, sarcasm, cynicism, ridicule, subtlety, and understatement to degrade and discredit other individuals or groups. The book represents the collective wisdom of scholars and researchers, experts in fields such as communication, political science, international relations, and social and political psychology. Cumulatively, the authors develop a global analysis of debasement discourse in societies from West to East and offer a cutting-edge approach to expand a framework assessing the role and effect of such rhetoric in contemporary politics.

Introduction: Political Interviews – An Analytical Model -- Reciprocal Interactions between Interviewers and Interviewees -- Neutrality, Non-Neutrality, and Hybridity in Political Interviews -- Manifestations of Integrated Hybridity in Journalistic Questioning During the 2012 Elections in Greece -- Interviewing Styles: Reciprocal Positioning and Power in the Israeli Context -- Threat to Face and Equivocation in Televised Interviews of Italy's Politicians For and Against the 2016 Constitutional Referendum -- Aristotelian Framing in Political Discourse: A Case Study of Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's Exclusive Interview with Radio Televisyen Malaysia and the News Agency Bernama -- Beyond the Question-Answer Format: How Montenegrin Interviewers Depart from the "Normative" Political Interview Structure -- Argumentative and Persuasive Strategies During Political Interviews -- A Metafunctional Analysis of Two Televised U.K. Political Interviews with Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer -- Argumentative Strategies and Self-Image Projection in Spanish Political Interviews -- Crisis Response Strategies in Political Interviews: A European Union Perspective -- The Finnish "Famous Five" in Television Interviews: Cultural Characteristics of Party Leaders' Response Style -- A Linguistic Analysis of Interviewing Discourse During a Talk Show in the U.K. -- Reference Statements and Quotes as Communication Strategy: Effects of Source Use During Japanese Televised Political Interviews -- Creating and Shaping Images in Interviews with Populist Politicians -- Adversarial Rhetoric or Lapdog Journalism? Political Interviews During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Elections -- Pejoration in Political Interviews: Contrasting U.S. President Donald J. Trump with Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro -- Sustaining a Populist Persona: CNN Philippines' Political Interview with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte as Image Restoration -- Understanding Turkish Political Culture through Televised Interviews: The Case of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan -- The Role of Political Interviews in Mainstreaming and Normalizing the Far-Right: A View from Australia -- Coda: The Past, Present, and Future of Television Interview Studies -- Political Interviewing Research: Commonalities, Contrasts, Conclusions & Critiques.

Introduction: Assessing Cultural Influences on Political Leaders' Discourse -- Deep Culture: The Hebrew Bible and Israeli Political Speech -- Qur'anifying Public Political Discourse: Islamic Culture and Religious Rhetoric -- The Role of Culture in Turkish Political Discourse: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party -- The Symbolic Construction of a Messiah: Jair Bolsonaro's Public, Christian Discourse -- Rationality and Moderation: German Chancellors' Post-War Rhetoric -- Talking Politics: The Influence of Historical and Cultural Transformations on Polish Political Rhetoric -- A Tale of Two Prime Ministers: The Influence of Greek Culture in Post-Crises Political Speech -- Rhetoric, Culture, and Climate Wars: A Discursive Analysis of Australian Political Leaders' Responses to the Black Summer Bushfire Crisis -- The Core Socio-Cultural Building Blocks Underlying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Speeches to the United Nations General Assembly -- The President as Macho: Machismo, Misogyny, and the Language of Toxic Masculinity in Philippine Presidential Discourse.