Advances in the History of Rhetoric Apr 2015

Playing It Again in Post-Communism: The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Viktor Orbán in Hungary

Anna Szilágyi ; András Bozóki

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis longitudinal case study about the political rhetoric of Viktor Orbán—prime minister of Hungary between 1998 and 2002, and since 2010, respectively—demonstrates that the first, remarkable personal experiences in public communication may have a major impact (“imprinting”) on the future behavior of political actors. Orbán gave a memorably radical talk on June 16, 1989, urging Hungary’s democratic transition from Communism. The study uses critical discourse analysis and links it to media scholarship on live media events to show that Orbán became hostage of his own rhetoric and speech situation for the two decades that followed his 1989 entry.

Journal
Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Published
2015-04-13
DOI
10.1080/15362426.2015.1010872
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discourse analysis qualitative research public rhetoric

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Also cites 7 works outside this index ↓
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    Media Events. The Live Broadcasting of History
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  2. Dryzek (2002)
    Post-Communist Democratization. Political Discourses Across Thirteen Countries
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  3. Fairclough (2007)
    Discursive Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
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  4. Kovačević (2008)
    Narrating Post-Communism. Colonial Discourse and Europe’s Borderline Civilization
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  5. Krzyżanowski (2009)
    “On the ‘Europeanisation’ of Identity Constructions in Polish Political Discourse after 1989.”
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  6. Lakoff (2003)
    Metaphors We Live By
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  7. Zagacki (1996)
    Vaclav Havel and the Rhetoric of Folly
    Southern Communication Journal  ↗
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