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Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical, rhetorical, content analyses and social science methodologies as well as a variety of foci on the practice of political campaign communication with studies on the communication dimensions and elements of political campaigns. It reflects the growing depth, breadth, and maturity of the discipline and provides insight into a variety of topics related to political campaign communication.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Political Campaign Communication—Theory, Method and Practice and the Emergence of a Discipline of Study
Robert E. Denton, Jr.
Section I: Theory
Chapter 1: The Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse
William L. Benoit
Chapter 2: "What a Snob": The Reconciliation of Higher Education and Neoliberalism in the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary
Luke Winslow and Carly de Anda
Chapter 3: What is Happening There?: Norwegian Newspaper Coverage of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Michael Nitz
Chapter 4: Intensity of Face Threats in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 US Presidential Debates William O. Dailey, Shelly S. Hinck, Robert S. Hinck, and Edward A. Hinck
Chapter 5: Too Early to be Funny? An Analysis of Late Night Comedy During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Primaries
Michael Nitz, Allison Koehn, and Hayley McCarron
Section II: Method
Chapter 6: Presidential Debate and Conflict Bias
Joan L. Conners
Chapter 7: Main Stream Press Fr
