Originally presented as the author's D. Phil thesis, Corpus Christi College Oxford, 1995-1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-245) and indexes.

This study asks whether and how the presidential inaugural address influences American audiences. The current study explores how the 2017 Presidential Inaugural Address of Donald Trump influences audiences. Two areas were studied: Candidate image and the state of the nation. I hypothesized that participants who watched the address would have different attitudes regarding candidate image and the state of the nation compared to non-viewers. I also hypothesized that viewers of the address who voted for Donald Trump would respond differently to candidate image and the state of the nation when compared with those who did not vote for Trump. With one exception, none of the findings was significant. That is, attitudes of inaugural address viewers and non-viewers were similar, and attitudes of those who voted for the president and those who did not vote for the president were also similar. The exception was noted between those who voted for the candidate and oppositional voters: Those who voted for Donald Trump reported the nation is headed "in the right direction" while dissenters disagreed.

Originally presented as the author's D.Phil thesis, Corpus Christi College Oxford, 1995-1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-245) and indexes.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170).

This thesis aims to investigate the functioning of talking about the woman , in a speech by the President of Brazil , Dilma Rousseff , representative of the Workers Party ( PT) , at the opening of the debate of the 66th General Assembly of the United Nations ( UN) , held in New York in the United States in September 2011. Whereas important elements of discourse , we find the conditions of production in which the speech was made , the position and social position occupied by the subject -speaker as well as the political- ideological and discursive memory brands in verified statement and that made said ( or not said ) made sense. In support of our study , support us on a theoretical and methodological apparatus of Discourse Analysis of the French line , made from a link between theories of language , from a pragmatic- discursive perspective sustained by authors like Pêcheux Orlandi and Charaudeau. During the research, we note that President Dilma Rousseff as the subject which was constituted authority , transformed his own social and historical condition , built positive images of themselves and at the same time , deconstructed and shifted linguistic- discursive contexts derived senses patriarchal domination. / A presente dissertação tem por objetivo averiguar o funcionamento da fala sobre a mulher, no discurso proferido pela presidente do Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, representante do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), por ocasião da abertura do debate da 66ª Assembleia Geral da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), ocorrida em Nova Iorque, nos Estados Unidos, em setembro de 2011. Considerando elementos importantes da discursividade, verificamos as condições de produção em que o discurso foi produzido, a posição e o lugar social ocupados pelo sujeito-orador, bem como as marcas político-ideológicas e a memória discursiva verificadas no pronunciamento que fizeram com que o dito (não-dito) fizesse sentido. Para fundamentar o nosso estudo, apoiamos-nos num aparato teórico-metodológico da Análise do Discurso da linha francesa, constituído a partir de uma articulação entre as teorias da linguagem, sob uma perspectiva pragmático-discursiva, sustentada por autores como Pêcheux, Orlandi e Charaudeau. No decorrer da pesquisa, pudemos constatar que a presidente Dilma Rousseff, enquanto sujeito que foi constituído como autoridade, transformou sua própria condição social e histórica, construiu imagens positivas de si e, ao mesmo tempo, deslocou-se e desconstruiu sentidos linguístico-discursivos, oriundos de contextos patriarcais de dominação.

Dans le cadre d’une approche philosophique et épistémologique, qui privilège le point de vue rhétorique sur l’argumentation et la ligne de pensée Aristote-Vico-Perelman, la thèse essaye d’analyser la construction de la subjectivité dans le discours argumentatif. Je cherche à montrer qu’il est possible de tracer une théorie de l’argumentation dans laquelle subjective n’est pas synonyme de fallacieuse.<p>En général, la thèse analyse le rôle de celui qui parle et de celui qui écoute dans l’argumentation et dans tous les discours. Je vais soutenir est que la dimension personnelle n’est pas un élément qu’il faut supprimer mais, au contraire, un élément essentiel du discours argumentatif.<p><p>Une approche rhétorique au problème du sujet se base sur une intuition fondamentale de la rhétorique d’Aristote .Comme nous le savons, dans le premier livre de la Rhétorique, Aristote affirme que le discours (logos) est composé (synkeimai) de trois éléments :l’orateur, le sujet traité et l’auditoire .Au même temps la rhétorique est composée des trois éléments :Logos, Pathos et Ethos. La pratique linguistique inclut la dimension émotive, l’orateur et l’auditoire, qui sont des éléments discursifs. De même, l’ethos et le pathos ne sont pas des moyens de preuves irrationnelles ou des fallacies. On verra que cette idée implique un système philosophique et épistémologique assez différent du système normativiste des théories contemporaines :cela implique de revenir sur le concept de rationalité et sur le rapport entre la rationalité, la praxis et son incertitude essentielle.<p><p>Pour question de temps, la thèse ne parle pas de pathos. Elle s’occupe de l’ethos soit du point de vue de celui qui parle (Partie I) soit du point de vue de l’auditoire (Partie II).<p><p>Dans la première partie, on analyse la question de la rationalité rhétorique et des paralogismes et les définitions historiques de la dimension personnelle de l’argumentation (ethos, personne, ad hominem).<p><p>Dans la deuxième, on analyse le rapport entre la dimension personnelle, le sens commun, la vérité, la certitude et la fides.<p>En conclusion, on soutiendra que l’ethos est soit une pistis technique de la rhétorique, soit une des conditions préalables du discours même.<p> / Doctorat en Langues et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

In this thesis, I examine the nature and role of persuasion in Roman politics in the period immediately following the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 B.C. until the capture of the city of Rome by his heir Octavianus in August 43 B.C. The purpose of my thesis is to assess the extent to which persuasion played a critical role in political interactions and in the decision-making processes of those involved during this crucial period in Roman history. I do this by means of a careful discussion and analysis of a variety of different types of political interactions, both public and private. As regards the means of persuasion, I concentrate on the role and use of oratory in these political interactions. Consequently, my thesis owes much in terms of approach to the work of Millar (1998) and, more recently, Morstein-Marx (2004) on placing oratory at the centre of our understanding of how politics functioned in practice in the late Roman republic. Their studies, however, focus on the potential extent and significance of mass participation in the late Roman republican political system, and on the contio as the key locus of political interaction. In my thesis, I contribute to improving our new way of understanding late Roman republican politics by taking a broader approach that incorporates other types of political interactions in which oratory played a significant role. I also examine oratory as but one of a variety of means of persuasion in Roman political interactions. Finally, in analyzing politics and persuasion in the period immediately after Caesar’s assassination, I am examining not only a crucial period in Roman history, but one which is perhaps the best documented from the ancient world. The relative richness of contemporary evidence for this period calls out for the sort of close reading of sources and detailed analysis that I provide in my thesis that enables a better understanding of how politics actually played out in the late Roman republic.

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