Value-framing of issues in the 2004 presidential campaign by American newspapers in Russian

Medvedeva, Yulia

doi:10.32469/10355/5740

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“…Some research has been devoted to the rhetorical strategies deployed by aspirants in their campaign discourse in presidential or parliamentary elections in democratic settings in countries such as America, Canada, Taiwan, Belgium and Nigeria (Jerit 2004;Druckman et al 2004;Damore 2005;Wei 2005;Barker 2005;Roberts 2005;Medvedeva 2008;Boyd 2009;Bouckaert 2009;and Omozuwa & Ezejideaku 2010). Given the fact that candidates in this context seek votes in elections, there is the compelling need for other studies to be carried out on other forms of campaign discourse produced in political situations where aspirants are not elected by popular votes but selected on the basis of merit by a constituted panel.…”

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2 - Aspiring Vice-Chancellors’ Rhetoric and the Challenges of Building a Twenty-First Century Nigerian University

Adegoju¹,

Akinwale²

2012

JHEA

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This study analyses the manifestos prepared by some candidates aspiring to the post of Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, between 1999 and 2000. It examines the appropriation of rhetorical tactics by the aspirants to impress upon the target audience that they possess the ability to decipher clearly the problems of the university and the required antidote. The study focuses on two major issues that are recurrent in the discourse: the challenges facing the university at the turn of the twenty-first century and the kind of leadership that the university would desire to stem the tide. It adopts Aristotle’s model of rhetoric and Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive criticism to analyse and discuss the discursive practices of the respective candidates, relative to these key issues. It reveals that although the candidates address subjects that dwell on the university system in time and space, the discourse is characterised by a schematic rhetorical style that political actors deploy for expediency in wider political contexts.

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