Political Tone How Leaders Talk and Why

Name: Political Tone How Leaders Talk and Why
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ISBN: 9780226023151

ISBN-10: 022602315X

ISBN-13: 9780226023151

Edition: 2013

Authors: Roderick P. Hart, Jay P. Childers, Colene J. Lind

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It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician’s career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusive element of tone.InPolitical Tone, Roderick P. Hart, Jay P. Childers, and Colene J. Lind analyze a range of texts—from speeches and debates to advertising and print and broadcast campaign coverage— using a sophisticated computer program, DICTION, that parses their content for semantic features like realism, commonality, and certainty, as well as references to religion, party, or patriotic terms. Beginning with a look at how societal forces like…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Colene J. Lindis a PhD candidate in communication studies at the University of Texas at Austin.




Understanding Language



The Mysteries of Political Tone



Societal Forces



Diversity and the Accommodating Tone



Partisanship and the Balanced Tone



Modernity and the Urgent Tone



Institutions and the Assertive Tone



Personal Forces



Scandal and the Resilient Tone



Complexity and the Measured Tone



Inexperience and the Neighborly Tone



Ambition and the Wandering Tone



Beyond Language



The Possibilities of Political Tone


Notes


References


Index