Publications

Publication details [#55132]

Bull, Peter and Ofer Feldman. 2011. Invitations to Affiliative Audience Responses in Japanese Political Speeches. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 30 (2) : 158–176.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

applause | audience approval | discursive practice | language and culture | political speech

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explores implicit and explicit rhetorical devices, used to invite audience applause and affiliative responses, in Japanese political speech leading up to the 2005 Japanese general election, and compares the results with UK political speech inviting affiliative audience responses.