Browsing by Subject "political speech"

In this paper I address speeches held by the city councilors of Helsinki at the meeting held in February 2010. In the meeting it was taken a vote on the weekly vegetarian lunch day which was about to be carried out at schools and in the educational institutions. I identify the rhetorical methods and categories used by the councilors. Furthermore, I study the relation of public, in other words I examine to whom the delegates directed their speech to and what role that had to the progress of the discussion. The discussion in question woke plenty of stir and the discussion itself as well as the discussion on the Internet from the subject has been dealt with also in other dissertations. The material of the paper is a public recording transcribed by a city official. The discussion consisted of 56 speeches held by 36 councilors and it lasted altogether over two and half an hour. I established my report to the text classified by me with the help of the ATLAS.ti program. The research methods I used have a discourse analytic approach, which are a part of the field of the qualitative study. The examination of the public of the delegates' speech was based on the theory of Perelman (1996). I dealt with rhetorical methods based on Jokinen's (1999) theory. Pälli's (2003) constructionist theory of groups of people served as the base of the category analysis. The public the delegates spoke to were mostly other delegates on the hall and the residents of Helsinki. The audience councilors aimed their speech was thus very local. The use of rhetorical methods was extremely abundant and versatile. The categories used by the delegates from the people were distinctly purposeful. Delegates who have resisted the initiative genderized the question of nourishment presenting the boys' and men's nourishment which deviates from the opposite sex of the one needing. The differences between generations stood out clearly on the speeches. The delegates who had represented the opposite opinions dealt with different matters in their addresses when the supporters of the initiative paid plenty of attention to ecological points when the opponents concentrate on the individual freedom.