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Comment, pendant plus de cinq siècles, les dirigeants de Rome ont-ils pu assurer l'unité d'un vaste empire s'étendant de l'Écosse actuelle aux confins du désert arabique ? Une réponse à ce questionnement est apportée par des orateurs de la fin du iiie siècle de notre ère, originaires d'Autun en Gaule, auteurs de discours rassemblés dans le recueil des Panégyriques latins. Ce livre propose une relecture inédite des Panégyriques latins V(9) et VIII(5), témoins uniques des modes de communication qui pouvaient s'établir entre les représentants d'une communauté civique et les autorités impériales. Dans cet échange mélangeant enjeux administratifs et rituels de cour, convaincre le prince passait par une utilisation habile de la rhétorique de l'éloge. Héritiers de traditions élaborées en Orient à l'orée du Principat, les panégyristes éduens montrent leur maîtrise du genre appelé « discours d'ambassade », mobilisé pour formuler des requêtes officielles ou défendre les intérêts locaux. Dans la stratégie persuasive à l'œuvre, les fleurs de rhétorique, loin de n'être que de vaines paroles, révèlent une multitude d'informations sur la vie municipale, l'évergétisme, la culture des notables, les rituels du pouvoir et bien d'autres choses encore. Par cette réhabilitation d'une documentation longtemps négligée, l'analyse apporte des éclairages nouveaux sur la survie des institutions et des idéaux civiques en Gaule au lendemain de la crise du iiie siècle et, chemin faisant, sur la phase ultime du processus de romanisation. En dernier lieu, ces discours révèlent l'existence, au sein de l'Empire, d'un phénomène unique dans l'histoire, produit d'un mélange subtil de pratiques administratives et de tractations diplomatiques entre les cités et le pouvoir central. Le dialogue noué dans le cadre de la « diplomatie intérieure », source de compromis et d'équilibre entre ces deux échelons de gouvernement, a joué un rôle essentiel dans la cohésion de l'imperium Romanum.

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This book utilizes a theoretically informed framework for analyzing the effectiveness of the president's economic rhetoric and employs an empirical assessment that measures rhetoric's effect on economic actors. The analysis suggests that the rhetoric presidents use has little influence in shaping the behaviors of these economic actors.

Communication in politics --- Political leadership --- Political oratory

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The first edition of Silencing the Opposition examined major challenges to the First Amendment using illustrative case studies of the various forms of governmental suppression in our history. The essays showed that governmental forces have used rhetorical strategies in simple and sophisticated ways to silence opponents. By studying which strategies are effective, how they evolve, and how they are unmasked, the authors offered a better understanding to combat the strategies in the future. This second edition of Silencing the Opposition includes: a revised introduction and conclusion, updated chapters, and two new chapters, one on the Patriot Act and one on habeas corpus of 'enemy combatants.' In these revisions and additions, Smith has arranged a valuable, timely collection appropriate for its focus on the last eight years of civil liberty reforms in the United States.

Freedom of speech --- Political oratory --- History.

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Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters. He also believes that campaigns work. Even as television coverage, political ads, and opinion polls turn elections into field days for marketing professionals, Hart argues convincingly that campaigns do play their role in sustaining democracy, mainly because they bring about a dialogue among candidates, the press, and the people. Here he takes a close look at the exchange of ideas through language used in campaign speeches, political advertising, public debates, print and broadcast news, and a wide variety of letters to the editor. In each case, the participants choose their words differently, and this, according to Hart, can be a frustrating challenge to anyone trying to make sense of the issues. Yet he finds that the process is good for Americans: campaigns inform us about issues, sensitize us to the concerns of others, and either encourage us to vote or at least heighten our sense of the political world. Hart comes to his conclusions by using DICTION, a computer program that has enabled him to unearth substantive data, such as the many subtle shifts found in political language, over the past fifty years. This approach yields a rich variety of insights, including empirically based explanations of impressions created by political candidates. For example, in 1996 Bill Clinton successfully connected with voters by using many human-interest words--"you," "us," "people," "family." Bob Dole, however, alienated the public and even undermined his own claims of optimism by using an abundance of denial words--"can't," "shouldn't," "couldn't." Hart also tracks issue buzzwords such as "Medicare" to show how candidates and voters define and readjust their positions throughout the campaign dialogue. In the midst of today's increased media hype surrounding elections, Americans and the candidates they elect do seem to be listening to each other--as much as they did in years gone by. Hart's wide-ranging, objective investigation upends many of our stereotypes about political life and presents a new, more bracing, understanding of contemporary electoral behavior.

Pragmatics --- Stilistics --- Political sociology --- United States --- Political oratory --- Political campaigns --- Elections --- United States of America

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"Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major schools of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual vocabulary that was entirely new. But for all the sophistication of his thinking, it is perhaps for his political and oratorical career that Cicero is best remembered. He was the nemisis of Catiline, whose plot to overthrow the Republic he famously denounced to the Senate. He was the selfless politician who turned down the opportunity to join Julius Caesar and Pompey in their ruling triumvirate with Crassus. He was briefly Rome's leading man after Caesar's assassination in 44 BCE.And he was the great political orator whose bitter coflict with Mark Antony led to his own violent death in 43 BCE. In her authoritative survey, Gesine Manuwald evokes the many faces of Cicero as well as his complexities and seeming contradictions. She focuses on his major works, allowing the great writer to speak for himself. Cicero's rich legacy is seen to endure in the works of Quintilian and the Church Fathers as well as in the speeches of Harry S. Truman and Barack Obama."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Political oratory --- Statesmen --- Cicero, Marcus Tullius --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rome --- History