Analysing Political Speech

In this essay, I begin by outlining general features of rhetoric as well as the crucially vital role rhetoric plays within the cultural and political sphere. The essay then looks at the application of rhetoric in praxis through assessing the rhetoric embraced by

New York licensing court that has suspended - without a hearing and before formal charges were filed - the law license of President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani - has misstated contents and rulings of two U.S. Supreme Court precedents to improperly gain jurisdiction to control political speech of Giuliani, or, rather, of Donald J. Trump: the court admitted in its decision that Giuliani was acting in his representative capacity making all of statements that the court punished Giuliani for making.

A pesar de la indudable trascendencia de los mensajes que el rey de España dirige a la población cada Nochebuena, la sociología apenas ha abordado su estudio sistemático. El presente artículo pretende paliar en parte esa carencia, explorando la manera en que dichos mensajes reflejan los principales problemas de España, recogidos regularmente por el Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas en sus barómetros. A tal fin, se recurre a la técnica del análisis de contenido, de marcado carácter cuantitativo. Los resultados revelan que las referencias a los problemas de España ocupan algo menos de la mitad de la extensión total de los mensajes, y que el dimensionamiento de los distintos problemas es bastante desigual. Esta desigualdad parece obedecer a una estrategia monárquica de legitimación institucional y mantenimiento del statu quo.

Despite the undeniable importance of the speeches that the King of Spain addresses to the citizenry every Christmas Eve, sociologists have barely dealt with its study in a systematic way. This paper aims to remedy this lack, exploring how these speeches reflect the main public concerns of Spain, regularly collected by the Center for Sociological Research in their barometers. To this end, a highly quantitative analysis content technique has been applied. The survey results reveal that references to the concerns occupy slightly less than half of the total length of the speeches, and the ratio of the various issues is quite uneven. This observed imbalance seems to respond to a monarchical strategy of institutional legitimation and maintenance of the status quo.