- Title
- New visions and vintage values: shifting discourses of Australian national identity in 21st century prime ministerial rhetoric
- Creator
- Gizzi-Stewart, Brooke
- Relation
- Communication, Politics and Culture Vol. 49, Issue 1, p. 62-85
- Relation
- http://www.rmit.edu.au/about/our-education/academic-schools/media-and-communication/research/publications/communication-politics--culture-journal/archive/volume-49-2016-part-1
- Publisher
- RMIT, School of Media & Communication
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- This paper examines the relationship between prime ministerial rhetoric and the framing of national identity in contemporary election campaign speeches. Through a hybrid quantitative and qualitative textual analysis, the paper finds that the dominant narrative of Australian national identity in the Prime Minister's 2001 campaign launch speech was defined by themes of endurance and stoicism. In 2007, and later in 2013, this narrative conveyed a more optimistic and steadfast image of the nation despite increasing global complexities. As such, the analysis reveals distinctive elements in the three speech acts which account for shifting ways of speaking of the nation and invoking nationhood in the twenty-first century. However, a certain continuity in the articulation of national themes is evident across the thirteen-year period, demonstrating the salience of quintessential commonplaces and audience appeals in prime ministerial campaign rhetoric.
- Subject
- election campaign launch speech; rhetoric; national identity; Australian national elections
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1328316
- Identifier
- uon:25877
- Identifier
- ISSN:1836-0645
- Language
- eng
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