Highly controversial at the time that it was delivered, lay and scholarly critics have treated Martin Luther King, Jr.'s April 4, 1967 "Speech at Riverside Church," ("A Time to Break Silence") as ...rhetorically eloquent but pragmatically problematic. This essay argues that King's speech marked an important discursive turning point, as he crafted a signal message using a Social Gospel frame as he adapted previous antiwar discourse to his own purpose. In doing so, King blended a call to individual and collective conscience in a manner that seems to have resonated throughout the antiwar discourse and subsequent reactions to his speech during the last year of his life. While the speech was uniquely King's, an analysis of its Social Gospel framework suggests that this landmark speech provided a rhetorical vocabulary that helped call forth an important discursive community.
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Frederick Douglass was unquestionably an orator of the first magnitude whose rhetorical eloquence has been widely recognized. This article argues that one important measure of Douglass's eloquence ...was his inventive application of double-consciousness. Beyond simply asking his White audience to understand the doubled perspective that African Americans experience, Douglass rhetorically invited his White audience to participate in a double-consciousness of their own. Through antithetical framing, sylleptical framing, and the ironic use of humor, Douglass confronted his White audience with being American citizens and not American citizens, consubstantial with groups they usually thought of as "other." For audiences of all races, through its doubled perspective, ironic humor inverted the accepted social order. Through these many-layered perspectives, Douglass, like many talented African American rhetors, challenged his White audiences' hegemonic, standard point of view, and thereby invited them to undertake significant social change.
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Social media use has complicated the conduct of foreign affairs by producing unintended audiences and opinions. This study examines Chinese Sina Weibo users' framing of the political discourse of the ...2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC). We found influential independent users and alternative commercial media, rather than official media, dominate the framing of the DNC political discourse on Sina Weibo. Elite Chinese microbloggers have a good understanding of U.S. electoral politics, with the "social media contest" frame and issues related to China and Asia receiving particular attention. Our exploration suggests traditional framing research needs to consider a new form of "networked framing" that relies on the interactions between elite and nonelite users and algorithmic aggregations afforded by new digital platforms.
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The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama, by Richard Leeman, provides an in-depth analysis of President Barack Obama’s speeches and writings to explain the power of the 44th president's speaking. ...This book argues that, from his earliest writings through his latest presidential speeches, Obama has described the world through a teleological lens. Teleology is the philosophy of discovering in the essential nature of humans or countries the telos, or ideal, towards which one should progress. Obama consistently portrays freedom and equality as essential to human nature and the American spirit. Understanding his discourse as teleological helps explain the inspirational and philosophical nature of his rhetoric, as well as his famous patience, perceiving progress where others become frustrated. Teleological discourse is ancient, with its roots in philosophies such as Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Christian theology, and its handprints evident in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. In order to discover the roots of Obama's teleological perspective, Leeman also examines the speeches of presidents Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan, as well as the civil rights discourse of Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Although the roots of his teleological discourse run deep, President Obama's particular use of the philosophy is very modern. The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama is an essential contribution to the study of American politics and political rhetoric.
Drawing upon nearly two hundred years of recorded African American oratory, The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches , edited by Richard W. Leeman and Bernard K. ...Duffy, brings together in one unique volume some of this tradition’s most noteworthy speeches, each paired with an astute introduction designed to highlight its most significant elements. Arranged chronologically, from Maria Miller Stewart’s 1832 speech “Why Sit Ye Here and Die?” to President Barack Obama’s 2009 inaugural address, these orations are tied to many of the key themes and events of American history, as well as the many issues and developments in American race relations. These themes, events, and issues include the changing roles of women, Native American relations, American “manifest destiny,” abolitionism, the industrial revolution, Jim Crow, lynching, World War I and American self-determination, the rise of the New Deal and government social programs, the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation, the Vietnam War, Nixon and Watergate, gay and lesbian rights, immigration, and the rise of a mediated culture. Leeman and Duffy have carefully selected the most eloquent and relevant speeches by African Americans, including those by Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Booker T. Washington, Mary Church Terrell, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Barbara Jordan, Jesse Jackson, and Marian Wright Edelman, many of which have never received significant scholarly attention. The Will of a People is the first book to pair the full texts of the most important African American orations with substantial introductory essays intended to guide the reader’s understanding of the speaker, the speech, its rhetorical interpretation, and the historical context in which it occurred. Broadly representative of the African American experience, as well as what it means to be American, this valuable collection will serve as an essential guide to the African American oratory tradition.
In 1868, recently elected African American legislators faced imminent expulsion from the Georgia state legislature because of race. Speaking last, 34-year-old Bishop Henry McNeal Turner delivered a ...scathing denunciation of his opponents. His speech, entitled "I Claim the Rights of a Man," is analyzed as an example of a jeremiad that did not fully use the rhetorical forms typical of the genre. Extending on the work of W. J. Moses (
1982
) and D. Howard-Pitney (
1990
), the author argues that Turner used many jeremiadic elements, including the categorical denunciation of the audience for morally abandoning God and the speaker's use of the prophetic voice. Other elements of the jeremiad were strategically omitted, including an explicit identification of the audience as a chosen people and an expression of optimism for a better future. The author concludes that Turner used the jeremiadic form effectively to convey his moral outrage and condemnation, while avoiding those generic elements that ran counter to his rhetorical purpose.
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This long-needed sourcebook assesses the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators from the mid-19th century to the present-of 43 representative public speakers, from W.E.B. Du ...Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson to Barbara Jordan and Thurgood Marshall. The critical analyses of the oratory of a broad segment of different types of public speakers demonstrate how they have stressed the historical search for freedom, upheld American ideals while condemning discriminatory practices against African-Americans, and have spoken in behalf of black pride. This biographical dictionary with its evaluative essays, sources for further reading, and speech chronologies is designed for broad interdisciplinary use by students, teachers, activists, and general readers in college, university, institutional, and public libraries.
Né en 1966, Philippe Brosse vit et travaille en Normandie. "Je n’ai jamais pu faire autrement que de peindre tout les jours depuis que j’ai 13 ans. Je peins des chaises, des fauteuils, des natures ...mortes, des paysages, des arbres pour trouver la lumière que produit l’alchimie de la couleur et de la peinture. Je peins pour compenser, pour travailler, pour comprendre, pour célébrer la vie, par urgence, pour être à contretemps, pour ne pas narrer, pour ne pas écrire, pour échapper à l’image, pou...
