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1 online resource |
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Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies |
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Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Parliamentary Quotations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Structure of the book; 2 Historical Background; Background to Salazar's new state; Salazar's dictatorship: Fascist or conservative?; 25 April 1974 and the unmentionable general; After 25 April; Left-.wing parties; Right-wing parties; 3 The Parliamentary Ceremony: Beginnings and Endings; The solemn beginnings; Called to speak; Opening addresses; Endings and political reactions; General sentiments and partisan applause; 4 Politics, Parties and Persuasion |
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The first words of the first speechSpeaking inclusively in order to exclude; Speaking about political issues; Being and not being political; Provoking and protesting; Power, politics and threat; 5 The Left: Remembering to Forget the Day; Moral language and epideictic rhetoric; Saluting the Captains: PCP; Saluting the Captains: PS; The personal narration of the president of the assembly; Telling a metaphorical story; Narrowing the gap; Widening the day; Revolution and change; Myth-.making and forgetting; Collective repression or motivated forgetting? |
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6 The Right: Forgetting to Remember the DayThe CDS and the skewed centre; CDS/CDS-PP: switching from April to November; PSD: similarities with the CDS/CDS-PP; PSD: neoliberal opposition to myth and history; PSD: wearing the red carnation in 2010; PSD: Testifying to the young in 2012; 7 Manipulating and Celebrating; Concepts of manipulation; Manipulating people and manipulating information; Present metaphors and past narratives; Manipulating quotations; PCP manipulating information: general features; Manipulating people: example of CDS-PP; Manipulating the situation to elicit applause |
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Manipulating people: observed features'Manipulating' as a critical concept; 8 Concluding Remarks; Portugal, its politics and its ceremony of celebration; Remembering the day; References; Index |
| Summary |
"In recent years there has been much interest in collective memory and commemoration. It is often assumed that when nations celebrate a historic day, they put aside the divisions of the present to recall the past in a spirit of unity. As Billig and Marinho show, this does not apply to the Portuguese parliament's annual celebration of 25 April 1974, the day when the dictatorship, established by Salazar and continued by Caetano, was finally overthrown. Most speakers at the ceremony say little about the actual events of the day itself; and in their speeches they continue with the partisan politics of the present as combatively as ever. To understand this, the authors examine in detail how the members of parliament do politics within the ceremony of remembrance; how they engage in remembering and forgetting the great day; how they use the low rhetoric of manipulation and point-scoring, as well as high-minded political rhetoric. The book stresses that the members of the audience contribute to the meaning of the ceremony by their partisan displays of approval and disapproval. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that, to uncover the deeper meanings of political rhetoric, it is necessary to take note of significant absences. The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration illustrates how an in-depth case-study can be invaluable for understanding wider processes. The authors are not content just to uncover unnoticed features of the Portuguese celebration. They use the particular example to provide original insights about the rhetoric of celebrating and the politics of remembering, as well as throwing new light onto the nature of party political discourse."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 1 2017) |
| Subject |
Portugal. Assembleia da República.
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| SUBJECT |
Portugal. Assembleia da República fast |
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Collective memory -- Political aspects -- Portugal
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Portugal
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Political ideologies.
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Discourse analysis.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
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Anniversaries
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Politics and government
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects
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Portugal -- History -- Revolution, 1974 -- Anniversaries, etc
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Portugal -- Politics and government -- 1974- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105323
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Portugal
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Marinho, Cristina, author.
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| ISBN |
9781474297752 |
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1474297757 |
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9781474297745 |
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1474297749 |
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9781474297769 |
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1474297765 |
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