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The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration - How the Portuguese Parliament Celebrates the 1974 Revolution (Paperback)
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The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration - How the Portuguese Parliament Celebrates the 1974 Revolution (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies
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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.
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