Item – Theses Canada

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OCLC number
935107832
Author
Monti, Andrew Alexander,
Title
Comparative electoral hortatory language 1993-1994 : jean Chretien and Silvo Berlusconi.
Degree
M.A. -- York University, 2013
Publisher
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, [2014]
Description
2 microfiches
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
<?Pub Inc> The thesis is a comparative analysis of the political languages endorsed and utilized by Jean Chretien in the 1993 Canadian Federal Election electoral campaign, and by Silvio Berlusconi in the 1994 Italian Political Election electoral campaign. The research collects all the subjects' utterances of political language in a period of 90 days before their respective election dates, in selected print and television media. Once the sample is freed of its redundant parts, two content analyses are carried out on the two ' corpi' of material: a de-contextualized content analysis (single word count) and a contextualized content analysis (categorized sentence/phrase count). The contextualized content analysis produces categories of EHL, and three categories per subject are examined to test published generalizations about their "main messages" present in the scholarly literature. A comparative analysis underlines the similarities and differences in the subjects' respective electoral hortatory languages. Finally, the significant theoretical notions pertaining to the field of political language are applied to the quantitative and qualitative findings, and the conclusion presents suggestions for further research.
ISBN
9780499000316
0499000315