Order in disorder
Audience responses and political rhetoric in speeches from the second round of the 2012 French presidential election
Recent research has established that Japanese political oratory and audience behaviour (Bull & Feldman 2011; Feldman & Bull 2012) are fundamentally different to those found in British political speeches (Heritage & Greatbatch 1986). To further develop these cross-cultural analyses of political rhetoric, speaker-audience interaction was analysed in ten speeches by the two second-round candidates in the 2012 French presidential elections (François Hollande; Nicolas Sarkozy). Analogous to British speeches, French speeches were characterised by “implicit” affiliative response invitations and asynchronous speaker-audience interaction, in contrast to Japanese “explicit” invitations and synchrony. These results were interpreted in terms of Hofstede’s (2001) individualism-collectivism cultural dimensions. Dissimilarities in audience responses between the two candidates were also identified and discussed. The analysis of cross-cultural differences continues to reveal the intricate differences between societies, and ensures academic understanding on rhetoric is not boxed into crude universal rules.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Method
- Participants
- Materials
- Procedure
- Results
- Cross-cultural Analysis
- Analysis of rhetoric
- Speaker-audience synchrony
- Synchrony
- Isolated responses
- Inter-speaker analysis
- Audience responses
- Collective and composite responses
- Isolated responses and synchrony
- Verbal responses
- Cross-cultural Analysis
- Discussion
- Conclusions and wider implications
- Note
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.8.4.03led
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