Iversen, Stine and Bull, Peter Edward orcid.org/0000-0002-9669-2413 (2018) Rhetorical devices and audience responses in Norwegian political speeches. Politics, Culture and Socialization. pp. 97-118.
Abstract
This article reports the first investigation in Norwegian political speeches of 16 different rhetorical devices used to invite collective audience responses. An analysis was conducted of 30 speeches delivered by 20 Norwegian parliamentary candidates during the 2013 Norwegian general election. Results were compared with pre-existing data from American, British and Japanese political speeches. The Norwegian audience responses showed striking similarities with those of the Japanese, although the use of rhetorical devices resembled American and British speeches, with a greater use of implicit over explicit devices. The results were considered in the context of Hofstede’s individualism (IDV) scale. The Norwegian speeches had one instance each of booing and a disgust response from the audience. A novel 17th rhetorical device was proposed, that of repetition/familiarity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | ©2016 Verlag Barbara Budrich. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. NB the formal publication date of the journal issue is 2016, but the paper was actually published in April 2018. |
Keywords: | political speeches, rhetorical devices, applause, booing, chanting, cheering, individualism, collectivism |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 22 May 2018 09:00 |
Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2024 01:30 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.3224/pcs.v7i1-2.06 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3224/pcs.v7i1-2.06 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:131166 |