The Rhetoric of Pnoy: Image, Myth, and Rhetorical Citizenship in Philippine Presidential Speeches

ISBN-13: 9781433148293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 178 str.

Gene Segarra Navera

Opis

This volume analyzes selected speeches delivered by Benigno `Noynoy' Simeon C. Aquino III, President of the Republic of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Reading Philippine Presidential Rhetoric: Image, Myth, and Rhetorical Citizenship - Metaphorizing Good Governance: PNoy's Daang Matuwid - Presidential Talk and "Truth-telling" - Anti-wang-wang and National Rebirth - A National Frame That Sounds "More of the Same" - The Presidency as Style - PNoy and His Assertion of Legitimacy - The Limits of Candor: Presidential Oratory in a Time of Crisis - Still Metaphors: Daang Matuwid and the Enduring Political Myth - Speech Criticism as Rhetorical Citizenship - List of Selected Speeches by President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III (PNoy) - Index.

O autorze

Gene Segarra Navera is a lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he teaches ideas and exposition modules on Oratory and the Public Mind and Discourse, Citizenship and Society. He holds a PhD in English Language Studies from NUS as well.