“Miss Romania” in the USA (1929): The Interplay between Beauty and Politics

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlad Mihăilă
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Beauty Pageants ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Feminine Beauty ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Popular Magazine

This article focuses on the links between political discourse and feminine beauty in one of Romania’s first national beauty pageants. By selecting its “Miss Romania” in March 1929 and sending her to compete in the international “Miss Universe” pageant in Galveston, Texas, the popular magazine Realitatea Ilustrată sought to affirm its role in creating a visible symbol of the Romanian nation. “Miss Romania” was promoted and legitimized as an incarnation of national unity capable of assuring internal cohesion and external renown. In this way, the idealization of the national beauty winner and her transformation into a symbol of collective virtue translated political and propagandistic ambitions in terms of feminine identity.

Rhetorical moves in political discourse: closing statements by presidential candidates in US primary election debates

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Sample Analysis ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Primary Election ◽  
Presidential Primary ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Political Persuasion

Abstract Presidential primary debates in the USA are commonly concluded by brief closing statements, in which the competitors outline the central messages of their election campaigns. These statements constitute a subgenre characterized by a set of recurring rhetorical moves, which are defined as functional units geared towards the respective communicative objective, in this case political persuasion. Located at the interface of rhetorical move analysis and political discourse studies, this paper demonstrates that moves and embedded steps in closing statements fulfill the persuasive function of legitimizing the respective candidate as the most preferable presidential successor. The study is based on the transcripts of 98 closing statements, which were extracted from eight Democratic and eleven Republican primary debates held between August 2015 and April 2016. Typical moves, such as projecting the speaker’s future political agenda or diagnosing the current situation in America, are presented with the help of illustrative examples, frequencies of occurrence, and a sample analysis of a complete closing statement.

The Israeli–Lebanese war of 2006: consequences for Lebanon

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-210
Author(s):  
Ziad Hafez
Keyword(s):  
Arab Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Major Consequence ◽  
Political Narrative ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

This article focuses on the political narrative in Lebanon before and after the Israeli war against Lebanon in 2006. It revolves around the subject of national unity as a sine qua non condition for success for the Lebanese resistance led by Hezbollah. A major consequence of the narrative on national unity is the need to build a modern state and establish a cohesive defence policy. The paper also examines the impact of the war on Lebanon's economy and on its relations with the rest of the world (the USA, France, Syria, Arab countries, and Iran).

Introduction to the Special Issue on Faith-Based Organizing in the USA

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-397
Author(s):  
Katie Day
Keyword(s):  
Community Organizing ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Community Organizer ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This article serves as an introduction to faith-based community organizing and to this special issue of IJPT. First, an overview of the history of community organizing in the US includes introductions to the key figures (Saul Alinsky and Ed Chambers), organizing networks and methods currently employed. Then current challenges to community organizing are explored, such as technology, gender and race. Further, the rigid distinction between broad-based and issue organizing is challenged. Finally, the article notes that the impact of Barack Obama’s background as a community organizer on political discourse has raised the profile of this form of social mobilization, and it is reframing the questions raised for public theologians as community organizing moves into the future.

scholarly journals IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT FORMS OF VERBAL AGGRESSION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

2021 ◽  
pp. 247-253
Author(s):  
Ольга Дмитриевна Цветкова
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
The Political ◽  
Presidential Debates ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

В статье рассматриваются различные языковые формы проявления скрытой и явной агрессии в политическом дискурсе на материале дебатов кандидатов в президенты США. The article surveys different forms of implicit and explicit aggression in the political discourse on the material of presidential debates in the USA.

scholarly journals Czynnik rosyjski jako zagrożenie dla bezpieczeństwa narodowego Ukrainy i Polski

2015 ◽  
pp. 323-337
Author(s):  
Orest Krasiwski
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
National Security ◽  
Social System ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
National Unity ◽  
The Usa

The Russian factor poses a real threat to the national security of Ukraine and Poland. The Russian expansion includes the dismemberment of the Ukrainian and Polish territories and formation of weak, non-viable and quasi-public entities there which would be dependent on Moscow. One of the important features of Russian strategy is to undermine national unity of Ukrainian and Polish societies within the countries, neutralize strategic partnership between our countries and to provoke a new Ukrainian-Polish conflict. Russia’s neo-imperialist policy is substantiated by A. Dugin's neo-Eurasian geopolitical doctrine. The analysis of the doctrine makes it possible to forecast the Russian policy towards Ukraine, Poland, European Union and the USA and to work out an effective counterstrategy. Deepening the Ukrainian-Polish equal partnership and joint efforts to neutralize and dismantle Russian imperial social system should become the response to common threat to the national security of Ukraine and Poland. Without taking such drastic measures the national security of Ukraine, Poland and other countries will always be at constant threat.

1915թ. ԻՐԱԴԱՐՁՈՒԹՅՈՒՆՆԵՐԻ ՎԵՐԱԲԵՐՅԱԼ ԱՄԵՐԻԿՅԱՆ ՊԱՇՏՈՆԱԿԱՆ ՀԱՅՏԱՐԱՐՈՒԹՅՈՒՆՆԵՐԻ ԻՐԱԴՐԱՅԻՆ ՎԵՐԼՈՒԾՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ/EVENT-SEMANTICS ANALYSIS OF THE USA OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ON 1915 EVENTS/ СОБЫТИЙНО-СЕМАНТИЧЕСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ ОФИЦИАЛЬНЫХ ЗАЯВЛЕНИЙ США О СОБЫТИЯХ 1915 ГОДА

2019 ◽  
pp. 104-120
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Event Semantics ◽  
Event Modeling ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Event Decomposition ◽  
Causative Verbs

Having the greatest power on nearly all states’ political standpoints the USA has touched upon the events of 1915 through myriad of political and official documents. The suppositional and subcontextual meaning of the USA political discourse and its semantical representation is initially studied in the scope of the theory of event semantics. The present article attempts to represent the events of 1915 in political discourse within the context of event analysis. The article examines the concept of complex event as an analytical tool, introducing a deep event modeling and event decomposition of causative verbs. Supposedly, the article intends to strucet the USA political discourse within the framework of official announcements and annual presidential statements.

SEMIOTICS PECULIARITIES OF INTERNET MEMES IN ENGLISH POLITICAL DISCOURSE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (15) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Myroslava Zabotnova
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Selection Of

The article is devoted to semiotic specificity of Internet memes in the English political discourse. The aim of the work is to figure out the core semiotic peculiarities of Internet memes in semiotic field. The article highlights the role of Internet memes in political discourse classifying them according to their textuality; thus, revealing the value of signs in memes’ formation, and specifying types and peculiarities of signs in Internet memes in political discourse. The research unitizes the units based on the presidential election in the USA 2020. The intention of memes’ creation depends on the verbalization circumstances – in 2020 this factor is determined by the pandemic. So, this selection of Internet me

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