The politics and rhetoric of commemoration : how the Portuguese parliament celebrates the 1974 revolution /: how the Portuguese parliament celebrates the 1974 revolution. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Billig and Cristina Marinho.
• Authors: Billig, Michael; Marinho, Cristina
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloombury Publishing Plc
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 946.9043; Political ideologies; Collective memory -- Political aspects -- Portugal; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Portugal; HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Discourse analysis; Portugal -- History -- Revolution, 1974 -- Anniversaries, etc; Portugal -- Politics and government -- 1974-; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474297752; 1474297757; 9781474297745; 1474297749
• Related ISBNs: 9781474297738
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 1 2017).
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