28.3060, Books: The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration: Billig, Marinho

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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:50:25
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration: Billig, Marinho

Title: The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration 
Subtitle: How the Portuguese Parliament Celebrates the 1974 Revolution 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/the-politics-and-rhetoric-of-commemoration-9781474297738/ 

Author: Michael Billig
Author: Cristina Marinho

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474297745 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 94.99 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781474297752 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 94.99 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781474297738 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 95.00

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Written In: English  (eng)

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