Creatures of Politics Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency Media, Message, and the American Presidency

Author:   Michael Lempert (University of Michigan) ,  Professor of Anthropology Linguistics and Psychology Michael Silverstein, M.a (University of Chicago)
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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Pages:   284
Publication Date:   12 September 2012
Format:   Electronic book text
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It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate's every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what political insiders call message. Message, Michael Lempert and Michael Silverstein argue, is not simply an individual's positions on the issues but the craft used to fashion the creature the public sees as the candidate. Lempert and Silverstein examine some of the revelatory moments in debates, political ads, interviews, speeches, and talk shows to explain how these political creations come to have a life of their own. From the pandering Flip-Flopper to the self-reliant Maverick, the authors demonstrate how these figures are fashioned out of the verbal, gestural, sartorial, behavioral-as well as linguistic-matter that comprises political communication.

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Author:   Michael Lempert (University of Michigan) ,  Professor of Anthropology Linguistics and Psychology Michael Silverstein, M.a (University of Chicago)
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
ISBN:  

9780253007568


ISBN 10:   0253007569
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   12 September 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Speaks directly to interests and concerns of linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, and discourse analysts, [and] the insights into American political discourse that the book provides will be of interest to a broader audience.... Accessible enough that it should appeal to popular audiences interested in language and politics. --Adam Hodges, author of The War on Terror Narrative: Discourse and Intertexuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality--Adam Hodges, author of The War on Terror Narrative: Discourse and Intertexuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality


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Michael Silverstein is Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology and in the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. His published works include Talking Politics: The substance of style from Abe to W.

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