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Presidential Rhetoric and News Rhetoric

Presidential Rhetoric and News Rhetoric

Ying Roselyn Du
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781466650039|ISBN10: 1466650036|EISBN13: 9781466650046
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5003-9.ch015
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Du, Ying Roselyn. "Presidential Rhetoric and News Rhetoric." Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere, edited by Roderick P. Hart, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 262-274. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5003-9.ch015

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Du, Y. R. (2014). Presidential Rhetoric and News Rhetoric. In R. Hart (Ed.), Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere (pp. 262-274). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5003-9.ch015

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Du, Ying Roselyn. "Presidential Rhetoric and News Rhetoric." In Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere, edited by Roderick P. Hart, 262-274. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5003-9.ch015

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Abstract

This study examines the role of U.S. presidents as a news source in the media agenda shaping process. DICTION text-analysis software was used to analyze transcripts of U.S. presidents’ state of the union addresses and related news coverage from 1981 to 2007. DICTION software calculated scores for five major dimensions of content in the addresses and related news stories. Results revealed that the addresses and related news coverage contained dissimilar rhetoric, suggesting that, overall, the presidents had little influence on independent media outlets in that regard.

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