Overview
- Shows how audience support is obtained through experiences, quotes & facial expressions as political rhetoric
- Shows how sad facial expressions indicate a style of communication that avoids answering questions
- Uses contrasting quotations by opposition members, showing differences from the ruling party’s members
Part of the book series: The Language of Politics (TLP)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
This book presents a new approach to the analysis of political psychology, political culture, and communication.
Using data from Japanese political interviews and parliamentary deliberations, it reveals how Japanese politicians address their audience. In addition to analyzing the use of verbal political rhetoric, the book shows that nonverbal communication is highly relevant as well. In a context where political leaders are becoming increasingly important, identifying the techniques used by Japanese politicians – especially facial expressions, hand gestures, and other forms of body language – to gain support from the audience, leads us to consider communication practices of political leaders around the world. Politicians adopt different communication styles based on their specific electoral system. The more single-seat constituency political candidates use rhetoric, the greater their chance of appealing to voters. In addition, the use of personal experiencesand others' speech quotations function as effective political rhetoric, further attracting the audience’s attention. In short, this book presents a more comprehensive and holistic picture of political “rhetoric” than usually offered by other studies of political communication.
Keywords
Table of contents (12 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ken Kinoshita (Ph. D., Doshisha University, Japan) is an associate professor at the Faculty of Socio-Environmental Studies, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan. His research focuses on the Japanese parliament, local councils, and political communication. He has published several articles and books related to the interface of parliament and political communication, including: Bicameral theory (in Japanese, 2015), Why politicians don’t answer questions? (in Japanese, 2018), How to advance regional legislative reform (in Japanese, 2020), and Rhetoric of politicians (in Japanese, 2022).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Japanese Politicians’ Rhetorical and Indirect Speech
Book Subtitle: Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Usage
Authors: Ken Kinoshita
Series Title: The Language of Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4295-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4294-7Published: 01 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4297-8Due: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-4295-4Published: 31 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-7617
Series E-ISSN: 2731-7625
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 205
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Communication, Psychology, general, Legislative and Executive Politics, Asian Politics, Media and Communication