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The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration: How the Portuguese Parliament Celebrates the 1974 Revolution by Professor Michael Billig, Dr Cristina Marinho (Hardcover, 2017)

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In recent years there has been much interest in collective memory and commemoration. It is often assumed that when nations celebrate a historic day, they put aside the divisions of the present to recall the past in a spirit of unity. As Billig and Marinho show, this does not apply to the Portuguese parliament's annual celebration of 25 April 1974, the day when the dictatorship, established by Salazar and continued by Caetano, was finally overthrown. Most speakers at the ceremony say little about the actual events of the day itself; and in their speeches they continue with the partisan politics of the present as combatively as ever. To understand this, the authors examine in detail how the members of parliament do politics within the ceremony of remembrance; how they engage in remembering and forgetting the great day; how they use the low rhetoric of manipulation and point-scoring, as well as high-minded political rhetoric. The book stresses that the members of the audience contribute to the meaning of the ceremony by their partisan displays of approval and disapproval. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that, to uncover the deeper meanings of political rhetoric, it is necessary to take note of significant absences. The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration illustrates how an in-depth case-study can be invaluable for understanding wider processes. The authors are not content just to uncover unnoticed features of the Portuguese celebration. They use the particular example to provide original insights about the rhetoric of celebrating and the politics of remembering, as well as throwing new light onto the nature of party political discourse.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781474297738
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14046423637

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Subject Area
Data Analysis
Author
Professor Michael Billig, Dr Cristina Marinho
Publication Name
The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration: How the Portuguese Parliament Celebrates the 1974 Revolution
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2017
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
232 Pages

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234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
488g

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Dr Cristina Marinho, Professor Michael Billig
Series Title
Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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