Beyond public speech and symbols : explorations in the rhetoric of politicians and the media / edited by Christ'l De Landtsheer and Ofer Feldman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ofer Feldman -- I. The Rhetoric of Public Personalities. 1. New Labour, New Rhetoric? An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Tony Blair / Peter Bull. 2. Domain-Related Variation in Integrative Complexity: A Measure of Political Importance and Responsiveness? Clinton, Gingrich, Gorbachev, and Various Canadian Political Leaders / Peter Suedfeld. 3. Political Language and the Search for an Honorable Peace: Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Their Advisers, and Vietnam Decision Making / Moya Ann Ball. 4. The Eyesore of the Beholder: Beauty as Political Discourse in the 1998 Venezuelan Presidential Elections / Maritza Montero -- II. Speech Structures in Deliberative Bodies. 5. Linguistic Strategy of Involvement: An Emergence of New Political Speech in Japan / Shoji Azuma. 6. A Psycholinguistic Analysis of the European Union's Political Discourse Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1980-1995) / Christ'l De Landtsheer and Lise van Oortmerssen. Note50580 7. National versus Global Public Discourse in the Era of Multi-channelism: The Introduction of Commercial and Cable Television in Israeli as an Empirical Test of Habermas' Theory / Mira Moshe and Sam Lehman-Wilzig. 8. Mythical Thinking, Aristotelian Logic, and Metaphors in the Parliament of Ukraine / Sergiy Taran -- III. Speech Aimed at Encouraging Citizen Participation. 9. Raising the Social Status of Intellectuals and Prescribing Ideal Behavior for Chinese Citizens: Press Images of Model Intellectuals under Economic Reform / Mei Zhang. 10. Non-oratorical Discourse and Political Humor in Japan: Editorial Cartoons, Satire, and Attitudes Toward Authority / Ofer Feldman. 11. Using the Internet in Political Campaigns: Campaign Evidence from Interactive Interviews with Novice Users / Montague Kern, Marion Just and Ann Crigler / [and others]. 12. Visions of a Tragedy: Symbolic Convergence in the Print Media Coverage of the Murrah Building Bombing in Oklahoma City / Tracey L. Mitchell. 13. Symbolism and Social Movements: How U.S. Political Debates Are Shaped and Citizens' Attitudes Influenced by Symbolic Communiques / Frauke Schnell, Nadya Terkildsen and Karen Callagan -- IV. Conclusion. 14. Public Speech, Symbols, and Democratic Citizenship East and West / Christ'l De Landtsheer.