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- Title
The rhetorical construction of peace in Nobel Peace Prize lectures.
- Authors
Garzone, Giuliana Elena
- Abstract
This article focuses on the addresses delivered by Nobel peace prize laureates during the award ceremony in Oslo or, in cases where the prize was awarded to a collective subject or to a person unable to attend the event, read by someone speaking on their behalf. The study presented has its starting point in the analysis of a corpus of Nobel peace prize lectures collected ad hoc, comprising all such speeches delivered since 1964, the year when Martin Luther King received the prize, until 2022. Its preliminary purpose is to describe the Nobel peace prize address as a well-defined genre with a view to identifying the distinctive characteristics of this communicative event and its generic structure. This is followed by a discussion of how the notion of peace is constructed linguistically and discursively in the lectures. This aspect is important, in two different ways. First, there are reasons to believe that the official recognition of certain conceptualizations of peace can help understand the prevailing view of this important value in society in the relevant period. Secondly, the event is covered (often amply) by the media, and for this it may exert a potential influence on current views of peace, sometimes also raising controversy.
- Subjects
OSLO (Norway); KING, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; NOBEL Peace Prize; MARTIN Luther King, Jr., Day; AWARD presentations; LECTURES &; lecturing
- Publication
Poli-Femo, 2023, Issue 26, p15
- ISSN
2037-6847
- Publication type
Article