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The politics and rhetoric of commemoration : how the Portuguese parliament celebrates the 1974 revolution /
"In recent years there has been much interest in collective memory and commemoration. It is often assumed that when nations celebrate a historic day, they put aside the divisions of the present to recall the past in a spirit of unity. As Billig and Marinho show, this does not apply to the Portu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloombury Publishing Plc,
2017.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Parliamentary Quotations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Structure of the book; 2 Historical Background; Background to Salazar's new state; Salazar's dictatorship: Fascist or conservative?; 25 April 1974 and the unmentionable general; After 25 April; Left-.wing parties; Right-wing parties; 3 The Parliamentary Ceremony: Beginnings and Endings; The solemn beginnings; Called to speak; Opening addresses; Endings and political reactions; General sentiments and partisan applause; 4 Politics, Parties and Persuasion.
- The first words of the first speechSpeaking inclusively in order to exclude; Speaking about political issues; Being and not being political; Provoking and protesting; Power, politics and threat; 5 The Left: Remembering to Forget the Day; Moral language and epideictic rhetoric; Saluting the Captains: PCP; Saluting the Captains: PS; The personal narration of the president of the assembly; Telling a metaphorical story; Narrowing the gap; Widening the day; Revolution and change; Myth-.making and forgetting; Collective repression or motivated forgetting?
- 6 The Right: Forgetting to Remember the DayThe CDS and the skewed centre; CDS/CDS-PP: switching from April to November; PSD: similarities with the CDS/CDS-PP; PSD: neoliberal opposition to myth and history; PSD: wearing the red carnation in 2010; PSD: Testifying to the young in 2012; 7 Manipulating and Celebrating; Concepts of manipulation; Manipulating people and manipulating information; Present metaphors and past narratives; Manipulating quotations; PCP manipulating information: general features; Manipulating people: example of CDS-PP; Manipulating the situation to elicit applause.
- Manipulating people: observed features'Manipulating' as a critical concept; 8 Concluding Remarks; Portugal, its politics and its ceremony of celebration; Remembering the day; References; Index.