Naslov
In search of populist symbols of the Croatian presidential rhetoric

Autori
Poropat Darrer, Jagoda ; Pletikos Olof, Elenmari

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Rhetoric in Society 7: Rhetoric as Equipment for Living

Mjesto i datum
Gent, Belgija, 11.09.2019. - 13.09.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
presidential rhetoric, populism

Sažetak
As Cambridge dictionary suggests populism means „trying to be close to ordinary people and to represent their ideas and opinions. “ It is a duty of presidency to exercise similar actions within the nation it represents. Due to the semi-presidential political system, the role of the president in the Republic of Croatia encompasses some executive functions such as calling elections to the Croatian Parliament, calling referenda, confiding the mandate to form the Government, cooperating with the Government in forming and implementing foreign policy ; furthermore the president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, grants pardons, confers decorations and awards, and represents the country in the world. The purpose of the paper is to explore the populist symbolism behind the political activities mirrored in presidential addresses in the range of twenty six years of four Croatian presidents: actual president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, former presidents dr. Ivo Josipović, Stjepan Mesić and dr. Franjo Tuđman. The research is a part of the vaster research within the one of the author’s prospect doctoral thesis Croatian presidential rhetoric. The corpus consists in forty public addresses performed by mentioned four Croatian presidents in various rhetorical situations. Both, textual analysis and the analysis of visual elements are performed in order to investigate the symbols that derive from the people and that presidents use to persuade the people to gain the public approval. The method applied is ethnographic content analysis (ECA), used over thirty years after David Altheide in 1987 first used it as a method for examinations of television newscasts. ECA can be applied to all forms of recorded social expressions ; it is defined as non-rigid as quantitative content analysis but still its systematic and analytic inductive approach where descriptions and topics of rhetorical situations and meaning are allowed to emerge from a text without the researcher’s influence guarantee objectivity.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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