Populist rhetorics : case studies and a minimalist definition / Christian Kock, Lisa Villadsen, editors.
Kock, Christian, editor.; Villadsen, Lisa S., 1968- editor.
2022
JC423 .P66 2022
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Title Populist rhetorics : case studies and a minimalist definition / Christian Kock, Lisa Villadsen, editors.
ISBN 9783030873516 (electronic bk.)
303087351X (electronic bk.)
9783030873509
3030873501
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87351-6
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-87351-6 doi
Call Number JC423 .P66 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.56/62
Summary This book proposes a unified approach to populism that sees it as a primarily rhetorical concept. Populism is on the rise worldwide with both populist leaders and movements gaining power, and the term "populism" resounds in political debate, journalism, and scholarship. Populism as a phenomenon seems to instantiate perennial issues besetting rhetoric (e.g., the charges of manipulation, exclusive reliance on opinion over knowledge, and abuse of emotional appeals), yet relatively little research on populism has emerged from the discipline of rhetoric. This volume investigates the theory and practice of populism under the heading of rhetoric but as an interdisciplinary effort involving scholars in rhetoric as well as neighbouring disciplines such as political science and sociology. Seven case studies covering Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, UK, USA, and Venezuela offer conceptual discussions as well as close analyses applying both historical and theoretical approaches. In the introduction, the editors outline the problem of populism and their project, presenting the books wide-spanning case-based explorations. In an afterword they seek to distil a "minimal" rhetorical definition of populism. The claim or pretense to speak for "the people" emerges as the feature that connects the highly diverse instances studied in the bookand populisms in general, the editors hypothesize. They argue that this prevalent rhetorical move, often glossed over as unremarkable and banal, is in principle more debatable and deserving of more vigilant scrutiny than usually assumed. Christian Kock is Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published in Philosophy and Rhetoric, Argumentation, Political Communication, Rhetorica, Rhetorica Scandinavica, Paradigmi, Informal Logic, Controversia and many other journals and has authored and edited several books in Danish and English on political rhetoric, argumentation, and public debate, most recently his Deliberative Rhetoric: Arguing about Doing (2017). Lisa Villadsen is Professor and Head of the Section of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Javnost, Rhetorica Scandinavica, and other journals on official apologies, political rhetoric, dissent, and populism, most recently "Low Style the High Way: Rhetorical Mainstreaming of Populism" in the edited volume Vox Populi: Populism as a Rhetorical and Democratic Challenge (2020).
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Villadsen, Lisa S., 1968- editor.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Populist Melancholy
Chapter 3: Voltagabbana Rhetorics. Salvini Unmasked: Turncoating as a Populist Strategy in Pandemic Times
Chapter 4: Populist Rhetoric and Digital Communication: The Case of Brexit
Chapter 5: Populism and the Rise of the AfD in Germany
Chapter 6: The Rhetorical Strategy of Moralisation: A Lesson from Greece
Chapter 7: Victorious Victimization. Viktor Orban the Orator: Deep Securitization in Hungarys Propaganda State
Chapter 8: The Voice and Message of Hugo Chavez: A Rhetorical Analysis
Chapter 9: Afterword: Afterword: A Definition Sought and Tested
Index.

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