Speaker’s verbal behavior and collective audience responses in Korean political oratory
An analysis was conducted of the discourse of South Korean political speakers in relation to collective audience
responses, based on three situational contexts. Results showed marked contextual differences in the formatting of messages used to
invite audience responses. In campaign speeches, explicit (dialogic) rhetorical devices (RDs) occurred most frequently, thereby
supporting Bull and Miskinis’ (2015) hypothesis that such RDs are characteristic of
political speech-making in collectivist far eastern societies. However, this hypothesis was substantively qualified by findings
that (1) in the acceptance and inauguration speeches, implicit RDs were utilized more frequently than explicit (dialogic) RDs, and
(2) in those two contexts, it was non-formatted messages that occurred more frequently than either explicit or implicit RDs
separately.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Speaker-audience interaction
- 1.2Review of the literature and previous findings
- 2.Method
- 2.1Data
- 2.2Analytic procedure
- 2.3Reliability
- 3.Results
- 3.1Overall results
- 3.2Non-formatted messages
- 3.3Complex
- 3.4Formatted and non-formatted messages
- 3.5Implicit and explicit invitations
- 3.6Summary
- 4.Discussion
- 5.Conclusion
- 5.1Implications
- 5.2Future research
- Acknowledgements
-
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