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- Title
New visions and vintage values: Shifting discourses of Australian national identity in 21<sup>st</sup> century prime ministerial rhetoric.
- Authors
Gizzi-Stewart, Brooke
- Abstract
This article examines the relationship between prime ministerial rhetoric and the framing of national identity in contemporary election campaign speeches. Through a hybrid quantitative and qualitative textual analysis, it finds the dominant narrative of Australian national identity in the 2001 prime minister's campaign launch speech was defined by themes of endurance and stoicism. In 2007, and then in 2013, the narrative conveyed a more optimistic image of the nation, despite increasing global complexities. As such, the analysis reveals distinctive elements in the three speech acts which account for shifting ways of speaking of the nation and invoking nationhood in 21st century.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIAN national character; PRIME ministers; CAMPAIGN speeches
- Publication
Communication, Politics & Culture, 2016, Vol 49, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
1836-0645
- Publication type
Article